He's nailed it. I knew I liked Paul Kelly. The glory, the diversity of our wildlife are disappearing. Think how much we would like to see a Thylacine ; well that's how we'll be about a koala or kangaroo in decades to come....
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SPIFFA Koala talk 7:30pm Seawinds Community Hub Rosebud West
Tomorrow evening (Monday) at our monthly meeting in Rosebud the Mornington Peninsula Koala Conservation Project people will be talking to us about ... local Koalas of course
To see where and when, go to this page. As usual, all are welcome
See the MPKCP website here...
Your loss is my gain I'm afraid!
Does this mean that for the majority of Melbourne City councillors there is at least one public park each in the City of Melbourne that would lose sunlight because of something that will bring that individual financial gain? I guess it does!
Law required Frankston Green Wedge Plan action without delay
A question people in Frankston would like answered:
Why wasn't the draft Frankston Green Wedge Management Plan adopted by Frankston Council on 14 October 2019 actioned without delay in accordance with the Local Government Act?
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1989 - SECT 94A Functions of the Chief Executive Officer
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1989 - SECT 94A
Functions of the Chief Executive Officer
(1) A Chief Executive Officer is responsible for—
S. 94A(1)(a) amended by No. 53/2015 s. 9(1)(a).
(a) establishing and maintaining an appropriate organisational structure for the Council; and
(b) ensuring that the decisions of the Council are implemented without undue delay
Save Arthur's Seat Community Meeting 7th MARCH 4pm Dromana Commu
Show your support by come along and bring two friends!
We will be presenting to the community information about the proposed quarry and what The Ross Trusts' Hillview Quarries is not telling you.
We are inviting politicians to make a statement and inviting media.
If you have any contacts that will help with this meeting please let them know.
The more people that turn up the more support we will have to show Daniel Andrews and Richard Wynne that this quarry is not needed and precious bushland should not be destroyed.
Please share this information with all your family and friends.
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Regards,
Michelle
PPG Secretary
https://www.SaveArthursSeat.com
Petition:
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Peninsula Preservation Group Inc acknowledges and pays respect to the Boon Wurrung/Bunurong people, the traditional custodians of these lands and waters.
Letter to Frankston Councilors re Green Wedge & Cr Hampton
Please stand up and be counted against Mr Hampton's adverse scheme for Frankston Green Wedges. We live at the top of a truly heavenly series of open landscapes with incomparable views and unique biodiversity (albeit struggling against human overpopulation - which councillors must also resist with all their courage). We would be insane to further jeopardise this incredible Pacific Island paradise just for a few developers and land-corporation-slash-political parties' short-term gain. God only knows what motivates Mr Hampton. There is nothing I care more about than preserving this area (and the rest of Australia) against overdevelopment and overpopulation. As a land-systems, enery resources and population sociologist, I have dedicated years to this.task. No financial gain, no 'jobs project' can possibly justify more urbanisation and industrialisation of Frankston or the Peninsular. If Cr Hampton likes overdevelopment so much, I suggest that Frankston hold a raffle to buy him a one-way ticket to China.
The murdered Soleimani "Tehran's intimidating political fixer"?
From Donald Trump Murdered Qasem Soleimani (10/1/20) by James Risen | The Intercept. (The emphases in the quoted text below, are my own. - JS) :
Donald Trump has dragged America into a moral abyss. And yet Congress, the press, and the public are unwilling to admit that we are now standing in blood. The nation is enabling a murderous demagogue, and we are all complicit.
The president of the United States has murdered a high-ranking official of a foreign government. The assassination last week of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani was a state-sponsored murder.
But no one in the Washington establishment seems prepared to come out and say the hard truth: Donald Trump is a murderer.
Yet, further below, James Risen writes:
Soleimani was the head of the Quds Force, the elite external operations arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which operated with impunity throughout Iraq under his leadership. He ran Iran’s ground campaign against ISIS in Iraq, in parallel to the American air campaign, and employed Shia militias and their ruthless tactics to defeat the cult-like group. The United States has been happy to take credit for the victory over ISIS in Iraq, without admitting that it relied heavily upon Soleimani’s horrific paramilitary actions and his strategic acumen.
But he was much more than a special forces commander or spymaster; he was Iran’s most important envoy, and he served as Tehran’s intimidating political fixer throughout the Middle East.
He dominated the political landscape in Baghdad. In November, The Intercept and the New York Times reported on leaked Iranian intelligence cables that publicly documented Iran’s deep influence in Iraq from Iran’s perspective for the first time. What jumped off the pages in the leaked cables was Soleimani’s personal political power in Iraq and his hold on many of Iraq’s top political, military, and security officials.
Last October, Soleimani intervened at the highest levels of Iraqi politics to keep Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi in office amid massive protests and calls for his resignation.
So, on the one hand, James Risen rightly states that President Donald Trump is guilty of murdering Iranian General Qasem Soleimani. This clear fact and the consequent need to at least have Donald Trump shown up for the murderer that he is at least before world public opinion, if not in a court of law, is, bizarrely, rarely stated, even in the Iranian PressTV, the Russian RT or other alternative newsmedia.
On the other hand, whilst acknowledging Qasem Soleimani's role in leading the fight against ISIS in Iraq, James Risen describes his tactics against ISIS as "horrific paramilitary actions". No specific examples are given, let alone the context in which those "horrific paramilitary actions" were used. He also labels Soleimani "Tehran's intimidating political fixer throughout the Middle East".
So, whilst condemning Donald Trump's murder of Qasem Soleimani and acknowledging his leading role in the fight against ISIS, James Risen still manages to depict Qasem Soleimani, who was mourned by many millions of Iraqis and Iranians before, and during, his funeral as a ruthless and unconscionable operator, feared by most Iraqis. So, in spite of his initial outcry against the murder of Qasem Soleimani, much of what James Risen has subsequently written, seems to provide some justification for that murder.
Kangaroo shooting discussed on the ABC
A rather aggressive sounding male rang ABC Melbourne radio yesterday about what the government's decision to stop roo shooting has "cost" him - about $2,000 a week. It's a bit like the logging - harvesting our common wealth for their gain. His main argument against this moratorium was that he wants to shoot where there have been no fires so kangaroo populations there are unaffected (even tho decimated elsewhere.)
A bit later the topic continued with Virginia Trioli who twice showed her ignorance of the treatment of pouch young by kangaroo shooters. One person referred to banging joeys on the tow bar and Trioli "corrected" this person saying that animals were shot and then cut the person off. (We know that dependent young are killed by flinging them against the the tow bar of vehicles.)
Later a woman rang to say that as far as the govt (presumably DELWP) is concerned pinkies /pouch young are considered "non sentient" and not able to feel pain but she assured the audience they do. Trioli then said "Oh I was unaware of this" and cut her off immediately. This woman also said was that kangaroos numbers in Victoria are only 1 point something million and that the numbers are only a fraction of the human population. Trioli replied that one would naturally expect there to be more humans To me it was as though humans are the main game and the animals are just a backdrop.
Trioli to me appeared biased in favour of kangaroo harvesting (shooting) - that's what came across to me.
Observation of Otways
In the 1950s and 1960s the Otways was a dense damp temperate rainforest.
Cool temperate rainforest in Victoria covers the Otways, Central Highlands, East Gippsland and South Gippsland. This rainforest type generally exists in high rainfall, higher altitude fertile environments.
In the 1970s large swathes of Otway temperate rainforest were cut down for pine plantations. The Otways has since dried out considerably which seems to have affected the rainfall of all surrounding areas, including Geelong and possibly Melbourne too.
Another opinion
Interesting to read another opinion other than reducing 'fuel loads', as if fallen trees and undergrowth were merely fuel and not ecological events. It would be interesting to do some research on areas that have had prescribed burning, compared to other similar areas, and get data on just how effective they are. Apart from hotter climate and more frequency of fires, we have burgeoning population growth, urban sprawl, and tree-changers, more and more living close to trees, country and native parks. Not to mention arson!
North East Victoria cloaked in smoke
I am in the north east of Victoria where I can smell and taste smoke all the time , even inside. We open windows only to let in smoke. The nearby hills and mountains, usually clear and dominant are faded behind a light grey smoke haze.
RT downplays Stalin's treachery which enabled Nazi invasion
#E8FFFF;">The following is a response to the latter part of CrossTalk Bullhorns on impeachment: Impasse, the 23 December edition of RT's CrossTalk discussion. You can view the 30 minute program at the above link or below, where it is embedded. In my comment, I strongly dispute the panel's assertion that it was the Western Allies - France and Britain - and not Stalin that did the most to facilitate Hitler's launching of the Second World War. Whilst those countries' betrayal of Czechoslovakia at the Munich conference of 1938 should be condemned, I consider Stalin's subsequent appeasement of, and collusion with, Hitler to have been even more unconscionable. I tried to post the comment below to that page, but it was deleted. I intend to find out from the RT site administrators whether or not this apparent censorship was intentional. - JS
The case against supposed 'historical revisionism' concerning the outbreak of the Second World War was abysmal. Whilst, of course, the policy of appeasement by Britain and France prior to 1 September 1939 cannot be excused, the following facts are ignored by the CrossTalk panel:
Whilst they (and Vladimir Putin) have acknowledged Stalin's murder of most of the Polish officer corps at Katyn wood, Stalin's Betrayal of Poland did not start and did not end there.
Until the Red Army invaded Poland from behind on 17 September, the Polish Army's resistance to the German invasion was stiffening. "Rising '44 - the Battle for Warsaw" (2003) by Norman Davies shows how the Red Army stood still on the East bank of the Vistula, whilst the German Army brutally suppressed the Warsaw uprising from August until October 1944. [1]
The fact remains, that from 1 September 1939 until 22 June, Britain and France [2] fought on alone against Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, whilst the Soviet Union shipped across the border much of the raw materials needed by the Third Reich to invade Denmark, the Benelux countries, Denmark, Norway and then France. Whilst, in the skies above Britain, from July until October 1940, 'the few' fought against German bombers and fighters, the Soviet Union continued to ship raw materials across to Germany.
The supply of raw materials continued as the Germans and Italians conquered the Balkans and attempted to conquer North Africa.
How does the panel think the Red Army would have fared, had Britain made a separate peace with Hitler? How does the panel think the Red Army would have fared had President Roosevelt (FDR) not (against previous promises to American voters) succeeded in bringing the United States into the war against Nazi Germany? Could any country have endured proportionately more losses than did the the Soviet Union and still survive?
In spite of Stalin's treachery, when the British and Americans learned of Hitler's plans to invade the Soviet Union they warned Stalin, but these warnings were ignored. Stalin also ignored warnings of the invasion from his agent, German Communist Richard Sorge who worked in the German Tokyo embassy. [3]
The Soviet Union contniued to send raw materials across the border into the Third Reich right up until the morning of 22 June 1941, when after all the time that Stalin had supposedly bought the Soviet Union, the Red Army was surprised and routed terribly. [4]
So much for Stalin's brilliant plans to use the Moltov-Ribbbentrop Pact of August 1938 to better prepare for war against Nazi Germany.
Appendix: Embedded copy of "CrossTalk Bullhorns on impeachment: Impasse" (23/12/19)
Footnotes
[1] Even the Greek Communist ELAS resistance fared little better than the Polish Home Army after October 1994 because of Churchill's infamous "percentages agreement" with Stalin, as documented in "The Kapetanios" (1972) by Dominique Eudes.
[2] After 22 June 1940, when Vichy France signed a truce and effectively sided with Nazi Germany from that point on, 'France' refers to the Resistance and the conventional Free French armed forces of Charles de Gaulle.
[3] Richard Sorge was to be subsequently uncovered and arrested by the Japanese. The Japanese, who were not then at war with the Soviet Union, offered to return Richard Sorge, but Stalin did not take up the offer. Sorge was executed on 7 November 1944. In 1964, Nikita Khruschev posthumously awarded Richard Sorge with the title of "Hero of the Soviet Union".
[4] Even when the war finally turned in favour of the Red Army on 2 February 1943 at the conclusion of the Battle of Stalingrad, the Red Army still had to pay a terrible cost to drive Nazi Germany and its allies all the way back to Berlin. This was largely thanks to Stalin murdering or imprisoning the Red Army's best officers in the purges of 1938. Had those officers still been alive, the cost paid by the Soviet Union would not have been nearly as high.
Syrian Security turns US invaders away from Qamishli Airport
The following comment was posted beneath Syrian Security Prevent Trump Forces Approach near Qamishli Airport (13/12/19) by Arabi Souri | Syria News :
Great to see Syrians stand their ground against the thieving American invaders. Still, I think our two canine friends, Oscar and Pepi would be offended to know that soldiers of the Syrian Arab Army referred to them as 'dogs'.
The following may be of interest: "Assad: Europe was the main player in creating chaos in Syria-video" (13/12/19) by Sheila Newman at /node/5920 (URL of this page). It includes the embedded Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPiffHouxvc
On past occasions my comments to Syria News have been published immediately, however I am not able able to find on their site my copy of the above comment right now.
Facebook post: RT Interviews Barnaby Joyce about Julian Assange
I tried to post the following to Facebook's Going Underground page. I can't find that post. If anyone else can find it, please post the link here.
Barnaby Joyce: Extradition of Julian Assange to the U.S. would be a violation of Australian sovereignty - RT's Going Underground interview /node/5918 Afshin Rattansi speaks to ex-Australian deputy PM Barnaby Joyce about the persecution of Julian Assange. https://www.rt.com/shows/going-underground/475352-persecution-of-julian-assange/ Other newspapers other published the same leaks for which Julian is being viciously persecuted by the U.S. regime.
My latest post to Twitter about the above article can be found here.
Residents protest against North East Link to Planning Minister
Concerned residents gather at Planning Minister Wynne’s office in reaction to North East Link announcement
#E8FFFF">by Claudia Gallois of the Friends of the Earth on 6/12/2019
Dozens of community members set to be impacted by the mega toll road gathered outside the planning Minister’s electoral office in Fitzroy this morning. This was in reaction to yesterday’s announcement by Minister Wynne to approve the North East Link.
The $16 billion North East Link is set to vastly expand the Eastern Freeway up to 24 lanes. This will add 95,000 more cars onto the road each day, many of which will end up at Hoddle St.
Locals from Banyule made the trip into the city, calling on Minister Wynne to rethink the North East Link, which will lock Melbourne into car dependency and rule out opportunity for a rail line to Doncaster.
The community members feel devastated about the extent of environmental and social damage and health impacts of the toll road. This includes 11 kindergartens, 12 schools, 5 aged care facilities and over 100 businesses which will be affected.
“The impact on parkland and sporting facilities in the area will be devastating for locals and Melbourne as a whole, robbing us of 175 hectares of open space during the 7 year construction period, with 18.2 hectares required permanently. Over 26,000 trees will be bulldozed for the project,” said Friends of Banuyle’s President, Michelle Giovas.
“We don’t accept this greedy, undemocratic, sham consultation. The Minister has failed to listen to reasonable advice from his own expert Planning Panel and over 870 submissions by the public,” she added.
Friends of the Earth’s Sustainable Cities campaigner Claudia Gallois said, “This will further entrench Melbourne’s reliance on cars for travel and have negative impacts on local communities and businesses, increase greenhouse gas emissions and lead to the loss of valuable amenity.”
“Mr. Wynne has ignored advice from the Environmental Effects Statement Planning Panel, leaving communities exposed to the major negative impacts of this toll road,” added Gallois.
Australia - Past The Point Of No Return?
Australia First
In The Australian newspaper (Nov 14, 2019), appear three separate articles which convey what a diabolical failure multiculturalism happens to be. And it’s all thanks to the insanity that open-door immigration intakes from an array of non-European cradles have inflicted upon Australia. Those articles are:
"Love thy neighbor: how to make newbies feel at home," by KPMGs, Simon Kuestenmacher;
"Age old hatred re-emerges right out of left field," by Peter Kurti, from the Centre for Independent Studies and, most significantly with,
"A constitution that distinguishes us by race: this way madness lies," by Greg Sheridan, the Foreign editor of The Australian.
The first of these can be seen as being pretty much nothing more than a rambling waffle. However, Kuestenmacher does say something that can only be described as decidedly fanciful. He says:
"Who is to do all the groundwork of inviting all the neighbours individually to a social gathering? On the road to, creating a socially cohesive street, town or nation isn’t an easy one-off task."
Well, Simon, I detect from those words - and your KPMG colleague, Bernard Salt - have now come to starkly realize that, the open-door intakes of immigrants from non-European and non-Christian sources over the past 20 years (but particularly so within less than the last decade) is that they’ve so inundated a total of 150 suburbs in Sydney and Melbourne which culminated with them usurping the previous dominant ethno-cultural entities. The results of these massive deluges of immigrants from non-European / non Christian sources has been so large they’ve now established enclaves which are culturally insular. Hence, Australia’s two most populated metropoli now have persons of non-European heritages who’ve become slight majorities of both.
This scenario actually occurred back in 2017.
With regards to Melbourne, Europeans became a minority of that city around the end of March to early April 2019, whilst this happened in Sydney some months later around September-October.
Now, over 2 years from then, the non-European components of Melbourne will be about 48% and Sydney at 48.2%. With that said, it is necessary to convey certain nuances as to how it came to this. Obviously, open-door immigration brought it to fruition. But there is more to it than this patently observable empirical circumstance. For instance, each city has at least 900,000 people residing who are here on temporary visas. That is, of the 930,000 international students in Australia there are in the vicinity of 390,000 International Student's in both Sydney and Melbourne. This means that the percentage of International Students living in those cities is 7.3% and 7.7% respectively.
But what has also been inherent with bringing this situation about of Europeans becoming minorities in Sydney and Melbourne is white-flight. To substantiate this can be ascertained with the ABS figures which say that, near on one million people have left Sydney since 2010, to move to move to the regions. [See candobetter editor's comment on 'white flight' at end of this comment.]
With regards to the views of Peter Kurti in the second piece which deals with the supposed rise of “anti-Semitism”, the specific part of his discourse for your attention is this:
"But many Labor-held seats contain seriously conservative Muslim populations [who are] hostile to Israel and sympathetic to the Palestinian cause."
He says no more about that and leaves anti-Semitism generally confused with criticism of Israel. However, it is abundantly clear what he is alluding to is the glaring example of the incontrovertible and the irreconcilable state of affairs between Islam and Judaism. And, of course, with Islam and Christianity.
But it is with the third article by Greg Sheridan, which irrefutably exposes just how totally fractured and, indeed, how irretrievable Australia’s sociological infrastructures have become. Effectively, Sheridan’s analysis spells out to the reader as to just how hopeless Australia’s future is! He sums up how parlous this sociological cataclysm happens to be with identity politics undermining our social cohesion. He states:
"First, the demands of identity politics are endless and can never be satisfied. Second, the views that someone expresses are assessed not on their merits but on a basis of racial identity, or the absolute conformity to [the] orthodoxy [of] identity politics. Third, disagreement, no matter how measured and mild is regarded as a sign of malevolence and racism." [See candobetter editorial comment no.2 at end of this comment]
In point of fact, what Sheridan has stated in those words equates to what I say bleeding hearts are afflicted with - and which I call Liberalinitis. So what is Liberalinitis? Quite simply, it is a severe psychological disorder that only afflicts Caucasians. [See candobetter editor comment no.3 at end of this comment.] And it all stems directly from the intense sense of guilt they have with construing that all of the evils in the world today emanate directly from European colonialism. Eventually, the intense sense of guilt that initially afflicts them morphs into becoming intense degrees of self-hatred, which then manifests into becoming having extreme hatred for those who disagree with their perspectives.
For them, the only way that they can receive total redemption/absolution for the sins-of-their-forebears due to colonialism, is to have every ‘racial variety’ on the planet move into every society which is ostensibly Caucasian and eliminate them from existence. And it really is that simple!
As it happens, Sheridan suggests something in his discourse, which expressly validates what I’ve just outlined:
“Finally, given that the existence of contemporary society allegedly involves the ongoing racist oppression of minorities, which can only be remedied by comprehensive revolution in social and racial structures, then the need to continually apologize, and forever offer reparations on a racial basis, means that, nothing, no set of measures that any democratic society can reasonably offer, is ever enough. "
Tragically, because Europeans are now the minorities of our largest two cities, at approx 48% and, due to the fact that all governments in Australia are hell-bent upon continuing mass-immigration, it means that, within a decade's time, Europeans will be lucky to be 42% of either Sydney or Melbourne's populations.
However, what’s worse still, is that those under the ages of 35 in either city will account for 50% of the ethno-cultural demographics.
Well, when that transpires it means they will have inundated our parliaments and bureaucracies. And when that occurs I can state categorically that, they won’t be ceding us any of the concessions that we lavished them with!
Candobetter Editorial comments on above content:
1. Re 'white flight': The editor would like to point out that the flight from big cities could be ascribed to the cost of living in the big cities, given Australia has the highest housing prices in the world, caused by population demand for shelter.
2. With regard to allegations of racism arising from any objections to the problems of high immigration: Often when we get comments from Mary, we find we have to edit out references to ethnicity, colour, and religion. Indeed it is difficult to decide what might be construed as incitement to racism or hate. In the case of this comment, which we are leaving without major edits of those allusions, apart from these editorial comments, it is obvious that there are considerable objections to the impact of numbers and enclaves via immigration in Australia.
Large diasporas forming large enclaves that are identifyable by predominance of religion or ethnicity are obviously noticeable to people not belonging to those diasporas and already living in those areas, and they feel a loss of control over their social and physical environments. It therefore seems valid to publish objections like Mary's,
without their being inciteful of hatred or racism.
No 3 - re 'caucasian'. You can be 'caucasian' and non-white. Many Indians fit this category.
Many Indians also have a colonial history and culture that has similarities with Australia's.
In conclusion, at https://candobetter.net,
we would say that the problem with Australia's immigration levels is the numbers. The problem is of incumbent socially networked and empowered populations being suddenly overwhelmed by new incoming networks where they have no power. Mary tells us the numbers, and they are telling. These numbers are also being milked and controlled and manipulated by people who derive power and wealth from supplying their demands for housing and other infrastructure. It is those forces that are causing this problem.
Please let us know if you have found any of Mary's published comment offensive.
Candobetter Editor.
Great Australian dream is fading says planner Joel Kotkin
"Great Australian dream is fading says planner Joel Kotkin." Just the usual growthist hogwash, sort of like what one would expect from self-interested groups like the Committee for (a Growing) Sydney or any other of the plethora of vested interests. What about the destruction of rare peri-urban farmland, or the worn out and overcrowded open spaces? I see ‘vibrancy’ got the requisite mention (tick), as did a ‘panel of experts’ (tick) – but of course experts on sustainability, agriculture or ecology were thin on the ground. And, of course, ‘red tape’ got a guernsey (tick), completely ignoring that so much relevant red tape is actually the suite of protections that limits the damage wrought by some unthinking or greedy people on the quality of life of their fellow citizens. Finally, ‘vision’ got a mention (tick), so perhaps we can see Mr Kotkin engaged by the ABC for the next series of Utopia.
All in all what we have come to expect. But who needs another US expert? Who decided that this chap had anything worthwhile to say?
Above comment in response to a Daily Telegraph article where a so-called "leading" urban planner [imported from America] has accused planners of destroying the great Australian dream and [has unoriginally and problematically] urged the government to drive a renewed focus on middle Australia by targeting development on the outskirts of Sydney [although every state government has been trotting this out for ages too]. Read more at "Great Australian dream is fading says planner Joel Kotkin."
7m more people will make electricity cheaper??
Energy Minister Angus Taylor chooses to ignore the population explosion when he flogs cheaper power prices through to 2030 (State deals to drive down power prices, Canberra Times 18/11).
In 10 years to 2030, Australia's permanent population will grow by 4-million. The temporary visa population, now over 2-million, will likely grow to 3-million. Seven million more people need a lot more than more power stations, solar farms and expensive batteries. They need lots more high tension power lines, suburban transformers and housing estate poles and wires. Dozens of new suburbs will need to be built into bushfire fringes. Seven million new people also need water, and in drought stricken eastern Australia, that will mean more desalination powered by ever more heavy electricity.
In a lifetime of paying taxes and utility bills, new migrants will pay their share of all this new electricity grid construction. Our problem, Minister Taylor's problem, is having all the work done and ready to switch on the day the new migrants step off the plane.
David Z Hughes
Plans for Ricketts Point Tea House terrible for local fauna
The proposed liquor licence til late 7 days per week would completely change the surrounding environment and subtract useable habitat for local birds and animals especially those that need dark and quiet at night. There is very little and diminishing wildlife habitat all over Melbourne. You would think that the Bayside Council could consider this and leave something alone that is popular and with low environmental impact. Furthermore,the area is a marine sanctuary which you would think would command some respect.
Who voted against Clifford's Bill to help people vs developers
There was a good crowd of people who came to show they supported Clifford Hayes' bill. David Davis made a good speech and was applauded by the crowd of supporters.
There were other speeches and finally the vote. Spectators were furious. Clifford's bill was lost because 4 crossbenchers voted against it. "They don’t know what democracy means - the voice of the people - well the voice of the people was loud and clear today. And this bill was great for the people- it gave us back a voice in planning issues, " said Mary Drost of Planning Backlash.
The Crossbenchers were Jeff Bourman, Shooters party, Fiona Patten , Reason Party, Tania Maxwell, Derryn Hinch Party, Stuart Grimley, Derryn Hinch Party.
They were not representing the people - please remember that at the next election.
There are 12 Crossbenchers so 8 voted for the bill and 4 against but that was enough to lose the vote.
So the battle to protect Melbourne goes on. Developers must be celebrating tonight.
Trioli not a high-rise denizen after all, just an ABC mouthpiece
Thanks for that, Olaf. Seems I was wrong in thinking that Trioli must have been raised in high-rises. Furthermore, that she does not care about heights and density. Pity she does not say so in public, because she has a lot of power as a talk-show host on the ABC, which should not be used to slap down people who, after waiting for hours on the phone, dare to publicly criticise the dictatorship of undemocratic development and growthism in the split second or two allowed them before they are cut off.
The hypocrisy of Virginia Trioli disrespecting Mary Drost
In 2015 Virginia Trioli and her husband, Russell Skelton, who also works at the ABC, tried to stop a 4-storey development near their home on the grounds of density and height. Yet when Mary Drost, Convenor of Planning Backlash, spoke up against towers, Ms Trioli treated her opinion with contempt. Victorians, Australians, have had a gut-full of this kind of behaviour by our public radio, which is supposed to reflect our democratic wishes, not the commercial demands of the developers.
"Virginia Trioli’s battles development (MARC PALLISCO FEB 20, 2015)
Married ABC journalists Virginia Trioli and Russell Skelton, who last year opposed a proposed apartment building adjacent to their North Melbourne home, appear to have won only part of the battle. The couple have had a victory against the development’s density, but lost the crusade against height.[…]" Read more here.
Trioli and ABC facism
As a career mainstream newsmedia presenter, Virginia Trioli probably lives in a bubble that easily allows her to consider massive population growth with its accompanying overdevelopment as public good, and thus to endorse the fascism of our times, where the bulldozer does the job that tanks do in other countries. Perhaps she has lived in upmarket highrises for years and never had the time or need to interact with local wildlife or her neighbours - thus utterly discounts what many of us are fighting to preserve. She would rub shoulders with the people we consider our oppressors on a daily basis, and look up to them as authorities and benefactors. She is married to Russell Skelton, a contributing editor of The Age, and, furthermore, head of the ABC's so-called 'fact checking' unit. She probably thinks she leads a very exciting life, whereas I feel sorry for anyone living in such a state of unreality.
Mary Drost, who heads probably the most substantial set of citizens' action groups in Victoria, possibly in Australia, criticised high rises because, "We don't like them." Mary is a communicator, a plain speaker. Virginia failed to engage, simply dismissing this democratic voice as out of step with policy dispensed by the growthist plutocracy that dominates us all. In fact (were Trioli to 'fact check') Mary's voice is far more representative than Trioli's or her masters'. It is a pity for Australia that this is what our media has come to, with the ABC acting more or less like the old Soviet Pravda, although in this case it promotes a less-than-zero capitalist outcome.
Clifford shows great courage with his bill in parliament. Belying Virginia Trioli's certainty that we are all going in the right direction is the fact that both houses have so far supported Clifford's bill.
Virginia Trioli appears unsympathetic
Heard a caller on the ABC Melbourne radio on Thursday , in fact it was Convenor of Planning Backlash, Mary Drost, applauding Clifford Hayes' bill in the interests of local democracy and better planning outcomes. I felt Ms. Trioli took a patronising stance, saying that just because residents don't like something is no reason for it not to happen. Trioli said that Melbourne was growing and this growth must be accommodated whether you like it or not. I would have to take it from Ms. Trioli's response that residents' rights would be low priority. My impression from Trioli's reaction to her caller that she was unsympathetic to residents with respect to changes in the built environment and that there was a greater good which trumps all - accommodating growth. Trioli is Jon Faine's replacement weekday mornings on the ABC. Faine would often play devil's advocate and Trioli may have been doing this but it came across as pro- growth bias.
Electricity myths - invest $1bn in mixed capitalist economy
I believe in the tooth fairy.
I believe there are no vultures in the electricity food chain.
I believe if the Prime Minister spends one billion dollars of our money on power line interconnectors, no vulture will try and recover some or all of it in higher charges.
When Morrison says it will make electricity cheaper, I believe him.
(Morrison makes $1bn clean energy bet, 30/10).
High fat, low carb
I agree with you, Paul Fassa. We should probably remove this article. High fat low carb diets are the way to go. I cannot remember who put the article up that said that milk and butter were bad for people. We would remove it but like to keep it here for the record, since this site is a bit like a newspaper with archives.
Their profit from our loss
"...they are foreshadowing and consolidating real and basic losses and privations," from which "they" will profit - which is what is driving all this.
Definitely a coup d'état
This is a great run down of events that those who were alive the 50s have witnessed. But when you think of it, people had very little time, really to languish in complacency before being taken over. They had just enough time to grow up, establish a career and start a family. Maybe the previous generation needed to be more vigilant but had they already done their bit in WW2? Unfortunately we are now doomed as is the beauty and variety of this continent, held by this "civilisation" for a mere 230 years. What we face is ruin. We are even being told at this point to expect less than we have had in the past; less land, less open space, longer working hours, less secure work, housing stress. I even heard Economist John Hewson on the ABC program on Monday telling the audience that we cannot expect to eat as well as we have hitherto! They are not just telling us we can't have ice cream every day, they are foreshadowing and consolidating real and basic losses and privations.
Final ending for racehorses
It's acceptable practise to send off to abbatoirs for slaughter, maybe that's a shift that needs to be looked at.
My past 17 years has been advocating for horse welfare . My suggestion for the racehorses is:
If the owner /trainer/syndicate can not guarantee the future of any horse that in their eyes fails the winning post then that horse MUST be pts at the yard, stable ,paddock where it knows. Not to be transported and subjected to a knackery death as was shown on the ABC report. Then maybe the trainer, track rider, stable hand or owner may have to be a witness to its death rather than be palmed off as trash maybe then more will get the true end of a horses life.
Just a thought and a way to minimize the horrendous practice rhat goes on behind closed doors. I'm sure a horse would be handled entirely differently if done with other eyes watching. You bring the horse into this world you be responsible for its exit.
Agree on the traceability and registering of all horses . How safe yards process them differently to other animals is wrong.
Border protection evidently not a symptom of a rogue nation?
In the most recent edition of Redacted Tonight (19/10/19 - still not published, so far only broadcast live), Lee Camp correctly labels the United States a "rogue nation" for all of its wars of aggression, proxy wars, sanctions and other criminal meddling in the affairs other countries around the world in recent years - Libya, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Palestine, Lebanon, Cuba, Nicaragua, Yemen, etc. [1]
Unlike in his guest appearance in the 11 October episode of "The News With Rick Sanchez", referred to just above, Lee Camp did not include efforts by the United States' Immigration Control and Enforcement (ICE) agency to enforce immigration laws as an example of rogue behaviour by the United States. Just possibly the comment I made on YouTube last Sunday 13 October may have influenced Lee Camp to desist from this misreporting. However that comment has since disappeared from that page. That is also a concern.
Footnote[s]
[1] In fact, the U.S. has been meddling destructively in other countries' affairs since 1945 after Harry S. Truman, previously installed, by Democratic Party apparatchiks, into the office of Vice President instead of the vastly more popular Henry Wallace, succeeded the deceased President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) as President of the United States. (This is described by Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick in their Untold History of The United States.) Prior to that the United States had been waging war against Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and the Japanese Empire on the same side as a number of large popular liberation movements. President Truman later turned the United States' guns on these same liberation movements, starting with Korea in August 1945. Already, prior to that, in October 1944, Churchill had, turned the guns of the British Army onto the Greek ELAS Resistance movement From 1948 the U.S., instead of Britain, helped reactionary forces in Greece.
Horses' names lost
Interestingly one of the points of the ABC program (7.30) was that horses who had had a name were ending up at the slaughter yards. They showed the races they had been in and we heard their names called; the point being that the horses had an identity which was so easily discarded and lost.
Farmers Thoughts. Poem By Joanna Collett . NSW
Farmers Thoughts. Poem By Joanna Collett . NSW
G’day Mr Morrison, I trust that you are fine,
Sorry to be bothering you, but there’s something on my mind
I listened to a bloke last week; he had a bit to say
You lot may have heard of him? He delivers all that hay?
He spoke of countless hours and the distances they drive
Feeding starving stock, to keep bush hopes alive
They do not get assistance from your tax funded hat
They do it on their own, all off their own bat
I’m not politically minded and I don’t have any clout
And I know you’ve done a tour, to learn about the drought
But there’s just some burning questions, that have left us feeling beat
Why did we fund a foreign land, to learn to cut up meat?
And what about those soccer boys, who went and got all lost
You pulled out all the bloody stops, plain just showing off
You’ve bigger problems here at home, there’s drought up to our necks
So what does your mob go and do ? Give them big fat cheques!
Don’t they have a government to deal with all this stuff?
Why should it be up to us, what’s with all your fuss?
Should we not be reigning in and look after our own
Have you never heard the phrase charity starts at home?
I realise there’s many things, that need an allocation
And I also can appreciate, complex trade relations
II’m not sure if you realise, but if our stock all die,
There won’t be any trade you see, your deals will all run dry.
As a rule we’re not a whinging lot, our requests are but a few
Most of us who work the land, are tested, tried and true
We respect that we are guardians, and sustain it for the kids
But I often have to wonder, what future will it bring?
I guess all that I’m wondering, is where’s the Aussie aid?
Wrapped up in a swag of tape, only then to be repaid !
There’s Aussie blokes and chicks out there, putting you to shame
Helping fellow Australians, in their time of pain
I’m just a simple farmer, grazier, wife and mum
And even though we’re feeding stock, we’re better off than some
have never had to shoot a cow, who could no longer stand
But many have before me, and I pray, I’m not dealt that hand
So will you take another look; admit that we’re in strife ?
And do more than bloody empathise, before another farmer takes their life ?
I’d like to think you’ll do what’s right and put Australia first
And help your own damn country, before this drought gets any worse.
Churchill's betrayal of the Greek ELAS resistance in Oct 1944
The following has been posted as a comment beneath #comment-111447">The conservative case against Churchill (15/101/9) | The Duran by George Callaghan:
Thank you for this account of Winston Churchill's role in history. It is more comprehensive than anything else I can recall having read.
Churchill apparently led Britain alone in its defiance of Nazi Germany after it had conquered Norway, Denmark and all of Britain's allies in Western Europe after June 1940.
However, paradoxically, four and a half years later, in October 1944, as a consequence of Churchill's infamous "percentages agreement" with Stalin, British 'liberators', with the help of the Greek Communist Party (KKE), which unquestioningly took orders from Stalin, tricked or coerced Greek ELAS resistance fighters into surrendering their weapons. At the same as ELAS fighters were being disarmed, British soldiers secretly rearmed former collaborators whom they had supposedly placed under arrest after having rescued them from vengeful Greek crowds.
The former collaborators were subsequently unleashed by the British on ELAS and the rest of the Greek population. As a consequence ELAS was smashed in a series of clashes lasting until 1949. The former collaborators became the government of 'liberated' Greece.
Loading in infrastructure
I quote the late, great Julianne Bell who used to despair of councils "loading infrastructure into parks". This is loading it onto the foreshore.
The foreshore is already being used by birds, insects and possibly small animals, not to mention the vegetation itself as living organisms. The vegetation has a cooling effect which is most important given the increasing urban heat island effect with ever denser development in all areas of Melbourne. The foreshore provides a permeable surface to absorb water. The foreshore is, in its natural state already " sympathetic to the coastal location and colours". This proposal sounds like "make work" , and jobs for buddies. Not needed and a degradation of the natural area. Any intrusion with infrastructure, tiling, or whatever will affect an area much larger than the actual area where the clutter is put. This is obviously not wanted by locals. Who does it benefit?
US Democrats even more warlike than US Republicans
On 16 October, how did the US House of Representatives vote on withdrawing US invasion troops from north Syria?
House Democrats voted 225-0 to condemn it. Every single Democrat in the House, including the ones said to be progressive, voted to condemn ending the illegal occupation.
Republicans voted 129-60 to condemn it.
Socialist Equity Party reports Barnaby's support for Julian
From Prominent Australian parliamentarian declares extradition of Julian Assange to US "totally unreasonable" (14/10/19) | WSWS by James Cogan:
In comments to reporters over the past 24-hours, Australian parliamentarian Barnaby Joyce, the former leader of the rural-based National Party and one-time deputy prime minister, opposed the extradition of Australian citizen and WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange to the United States to face charges of espionage.
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Joyce’s statements on the case of Julian Assange have a significance that goes far beyond his past or current status within the Australian establishment. They reflect anxiety in both political and media circles that the widespread disquiet over their collaboration in the US-led persecution of an Australian citizen is going to burgeon into public anger over the coming weeks and months.
Assange, an internationally recognised and awarded journalist and publisher, is being held in solitary confinement and harsh conditions in the maximum-security Belmarsh prison in London. His family members and high-profile supporters who have been able to visit him are making strident warnings that his psychological and physical state is deteriorating. His father John Shipton stated this month: "His health has been declining and has reached a point where he may die."
Millions of people in Australia and around the world know that the only reason Julian Assange is being persecuted is because WikiLeaks published information that exposed war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as sordid diplomatic intrigues and shameless political corruption.
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There will be escalating protests and other political action in defence of Assange in the UK, the US, and internationally, and especially in Australia.
The issues raised by Barnaby Joyce go to the heart of the undeniable responsibility of the government in Canberra to use all possible diplomatic and legal means to protect Assange from the US vendetta, secure his immediate release from imprisonment in the UK and arrange his return to his home country.
Barnaby responds to message of support
Gosh! Almost as soon as I sent Barnaby Joyce a message of support about Julian Assange, he responded:
Dear Shelia
Joyce, Barnaby (MP)
22:04
Yes it makes us:me feel unnervingly concerned. And I am a little old hillbilly but I believe this nation runs itself and is not a puppy for another master.
Sent from my iPhone"
Tell Barnaby & Wilkie you approve their suppport for Assange!
If you want to encourage Andrew Wilkie and Barnaby Joyce to keep up their attempts to get people to support Julian Assange, perhaps you could send them a message. Here are the contact details:
Andrew Wilkie: http://andrewwilkie.org/contact/
Barnaby Joyce: http://www.barnabyjoyce.com.au/Contact-Our-Office/
and [email protected]
Sanchez challenged: put your open borders views to ICE spokesman
The following was posted to YouTube beneath a copy of the broadcast of RT America's "News With Rick Sanchez" edition of 11 October [1]:
The otherwise informative and insightful "News With Rick Sanchez" bulletin of 11 October trivialised attempts by the the U.S government to enforce its immigration laws. This is in contrast with the treatment of illegal immigration by Mike Papontonio, presenter of RT's America's Lawyer in Corporations defend DACA: Don’t deport our cheap labor! (10/10/19) - its most recent weekly episode.
I challenge Rick Sanchez, Lee Camp or both to interview Secretary for Homeland Security Kevin MacAleenan whom you mocked on that program, or anyone from the United States ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agency and put to him what you said in your discussion.
Stalin left with no alternative to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
The following was posted as a comment in responst to #comment-4640004020">Debunking Lies and Myths About the So-called ‘Soviet-German Pact’ (VIDEO) (28/9/19) by Drago Bosnic | Fort Russ
Much of the broader context is missing.
Whilst Neville Chamberlain, and indeed, the Polish regime did betray Czechoslovakia in 1938, after Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1 September 1939, Britain, the British Commonwealth and France, for all their serious faults, did oppose Germany's aggression against Poland. At the same time, the Soviet Union under Stalin, sided with Hitler against Poland. Prior to 17 September 1939, when the Red Army invaded Poland from the east, fierce Polish resistance had caused significant problems for the German invasion. The Polish Army stopped the German army outside of Warsaw and it would have required a much more costly fight on the part of the Wehrmacht to subdue Warsaw. It is conceivable that the cost might have been too high for Germany to bear.
Hitler could well have been removed from power, the war would have been over and only a miniscule fraction of 60 million lives need have been lost.
After the subjugation of Poland, Stalin supplied the Third Reich with vast quantities of raw materials that it needed to conquer Western Europe, including France, and then bombard Britain. As Britain heroically resisted the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain, Stalin continued to send raw materials to Germany. After the Luftwaffe was defeated by the RAF, no thanks to Stalin, Hitler began preparations to invade the Soviet Union. In the ensuing months, Stalin ignored warnings of Hitler's invasion plans from Britain, the U.S. and even from his own spy, German communist Richard Sorge in the German Tokyo embassy.
Poland was eventually liberated by the Red Army, but not until after the Red Army stood still on the East Bank of the Vistula, for 63 days from August until October 1944, whilst the German army suppressed the Warsaw Uprising and then thence razed Warsaw to the ground. It seems that for all of Nazi Germany's monstrous crimes against the Soviet Union in the three years prior to the Warsaw Uprising, Stalin was still willing to shamefully collaborate with Hitler against Poland as he had in 1939. This furher betrayal effectively devalues the worth of the terrible sacrifice that Soviet citizens had to make to defeat the Third Reich. No doubt, this also causes some Poles in, 2019, to feel justified, in siding with NATO against Russia and the rest of humanity.
Video: Russian intellectuals say they are proud of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact!?
This 7 minute video with English subtitles, entitled "The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact 80 Years Later: Russia Forced to Shoulder Blame For WWII in Poland!" , is embedded in the abovementioned article. It is . It shows a number of Russian academics attempting to justify the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Near the end, one of the academics states "Actually. I think that the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact is an achievement is an achievement of Soviet Democracy. An achievement. We should be proud of it."
Update: 24 Aug 2021
MFA Russia (@mfa_russia), which published the above video, has disallowed the viewing of the above embedded video on this site. It can be viewed only on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/embed/4JmIp9kTCS8. They have similarly disallowed the viewing of that same video within the article #comment-4640004020">Debunking Lies and Myths About the So-called ‘Soviet-German Pact’ (VIDEO) (28/8/2019) | Fort Russ. The Fort Russ article similarly attempts to justify the September 1939 Motolov-Ribbentrop Pact and the subsequent collaboration between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union right up until the launching of Operation Barbaraossa on 22 June 1941. I can only assume that @mfa_russia objects to my debunking of the attempted justification which that video also tries to support.
Boris Johnson and the Nigel Farage show
The remain lot are prepared to do anything to stay in the EU, except go to election. Yes, it is obvious that they fear an election and that Boris does not. Fascinating how the British corporate newsmedia carried massive criticisms of Boris's language and totally ignored the language used by the Remainers to attack him. Nigel Farage's radio program provides really interesting analysis of the state of play in Britain. Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhvV-Uq0gHM Actually, I found Boris's speech quite courageous and impressive. I don't like his scabrous foreign policies, but Theresa May and all the remainers would have the same ones.
Corbyn stumbles, ..., Boris Johnson rises to the occasion
Corbyn stumbles, Remainers confused & Boris rises to the occasion (Video) (26/9/2019) | The Duran
The Duran Quick Take: Episode 316
The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss Prime Minister Boris Johnson fiery speech in Parliament where cries of “Resign!” were ignored as Boris dared Remainers to try to remove him.
Johnson defended his plan to withdraw Britain from the European Union on Oct. 31, with or without a separation agreement with the EU. “I say it is time to get Brexit done,” Boris declared, accusing his opponents of trying to frustrate the will of the people, who in 2016 voted 52% to 48% to leave the EU.
For more, read the full article and watch the videos on The Duran.
Editor's note: Much of the alternative newsmedia has evidently swallowed the hysterical denunciation of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's supposed trampling of Britain's Democratic institutions by proroguing the UK Parliament. They ignore the fact that the anti-Brexit pro-Remain UK Parliament has voted down PM Boris Johnson's motion to dissolve the British Parliament and call a general election! Evidently the Remain majority of the UK parliament, who are posturing as defenders of democracy fear the verdict of the British people.
Population Summit – Organized Lunacy
On Sept 23, 2019 the SMH sponsored a Population Summit in Sydney. And for a lazy $990, you, as an individual citizen, could attend this gab-fest. However, you won’t have the opportunity to argue points of dissent with these lunatics who want to increase immigration intakes to spawn their economic fantasies.
For $990 (inc GST), as an individual on Sept 23, 2019, you can attend the Population-Summit, in Sydney sponsored by the SMH. However, in spite of forking out just ten-bucks-shy of a gorilla doesn't mean that if you want to express dissenting perspectives - to what the ring-leaders will be parlaying - will be of any concern to what they've already designated. By googling up (sic) info on the SMH’s, Population Summit, [1] you will encounter 31 people designated to purport their cases.
Tragically, this summit on population will, effectively, be nothing more than a highly-choreographed mantra, comprised of an ardent band of fully committed Big-Australia advocates; who will utilise the get-together to assert their preordained agendas. Palpably, what will be advanced at this sojourn to sustain their agendas, will be akin to the evidences which were supplied by prosecutors at those show-trails under Stalin and Mao. Quite simply, this Summit will be nothing more than them reiterating their cases with sustaining large immigration intakes; as the means to guarantee Australia's future prosperity; even though this 'formula' has proven to be a dismal failure over the past years.
The primary aspect that this coterie will base with continuing their schedules upon, will innately entail the huge "economic benefits" to ensue from large immigration programmes. Well, once more, when taking into pertinent account that Australia [well, at least with its two biggest cities] over the past 10 and, more so, over the last 5 years, has already been inundated with immigrants, but it hasn't generated the 'predicted great economic benefits' that were purported, raises the valid question of: why continue with a failed programme?
Alas, this formula [with wanting to perpetuate mass-immigration into Australia] is precisely what the lobbyists to speak at this Summit will demand has to be continued. But, in spite of their arguments of mass-immigration being indisputably debunked, they will push on with their grossly flawed rationales to rehash situations. Of course, it merely requires examining official data that designates weakening economic circumstances for Australia.
Essentially, within 12 months of the LNP winning office in Sept 2013, Oz’s immigration numbers have been - proportionally speaking - 2.5 times 'more' than what the US has taken in. As indicated, the great bulk of immigrants have swarmed into Sydney and Melbourne. In that time the populations of each city have numerically increased by about 1 million residents; that's 2 million in total. However, in confluence with that occurring statistics from the ABS also designate that over "a combined 1.2 million people have left those cities."
For bean-counting economists all of this represents dollars & cents accruing to growing economies/GDP's. However, what they ignore from this is that the culmination of these swarms of new-faces inundating in from just about anywhere ostensibly into our two largest cities - in the past decade has generated immense problems. To sustain that I will quoting EXACTLY what appears in the very first paragraph of the intro to the SMH’s Population Summit:
"Increasingly affected by growing congestion, interminable commutes to work, overcrowded buses and trains and overflowing schools and hospitals. The challenge is how various levels of government, the bureaucracies and industry can plan for these changes in a way that can accommodate the Australian population [and laughably] improves the average standard of living and boosts [here it is again] economic growth."Unfortunately, the illusory Golden-Fleece of economic growth, which was supposed to have been spawned due to mass immigration intakes hasn’t eventuated. Alas, what has disturbingly come to fruition from this insanity has been: Exorbitant increases in real estate prices, due to billions and billions arriving from China; the federal debt has doubled to over $360bn and energy prices have also doubled. So, if mass immigration was supposed to be the catalyst to engender economic growth then how come Australia is mired in those calamities currently burdening us? Clearly, the formula that virtually all of these 31 apparently imaginatively challenged people who are designated to speak at the Population Summit, will fervently demand is that Australia must continue with its programme of mass immigration to engender economic growth. Even though it hasn’t been remotely beneficial to the broad populations. [Little commented, but numerically noticable] what has come to pass from open door immigration into Australia’s major cities over the past decade is that, peoples of Anglo/European extractions are now the ethnic minorities. And this has happened for two main reasons: First, because the 1.2 million people who’ve fled Sydney and Melbourne, look to me as if they may have done it to escape being, in many suburbs, absolute minorities. And, secondly, because each of Australia’s two biggest cities have been inundated with close on 900,000 people residing in them who've arrived on temporary-visas i.e. with international students comprising a big shaft of them. Thus, Australia's two largest cities now contain ethno-cultural groups so large that they seem like insular cultural enclaves [by virtue of different languages and networks]. And it is with those attributes [that] Australia’s future stability has been totally destroyed. Open door immigration from non-European sources has been so huge that it has transmogrified Australia’s largest cities into new ethno-cultural tribes who I fear will have no first-hand allegiances to Australia. How can there possibly be a stable future for this land, when its two largest cities are divided on ethno-cultural structures? Obviously, this is a pending and, moreover, [to my mind] inevitable sociological catastrophe that is way past ever averting. To clearly ascertain how our society is breaking-down into separate tribes in our largest cities, we should consider the ICAC investigation into corrupt payments to the NSW Labor party's branch from members of the Chinese community in Sydney (estimated to be in the vicinity of 900,000, including permanent residents - either immigrants or those born here and those on temp-visas i.e. international students, in excess of 100,000). See also NSW Labor boss suspended after Icac revelation about illegal donation So to all those who will gloat about the great future for Australia from more immigration, the reality is that you are totally insane. Regrettably, now that our two largest cities are divided into such factions , I fear that they will soon move to organise politically against Australia. Obviously, that situation must conclude with the separate groups asserting their agendas, which I fear will result in the extinction of this country as we know it. The above was partly edited by a Candobetter editor for legal reasons. Footnote[s] Added by Candobetter editor. [1] Link to https://www.smhpopulation.com.au added. A search using the terms "SMH Population Summit" (quotes omitted) found these critical articles: COMMENT IN REPLY TO ‘SMH Population Summit … A WHO’s WHO OF BIG AUSTRAYA Proponents’ (3/9/19), SMH Population Summit hijacked by ‘Big Australia’ mafia (3/9/19), - Ed
Submissions to POCTA review 2019
Consultation on draft Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (POCTA) Regulations 2019
Barrie Tapp of Animal Cruelty Hotline suggests these changes:
- Mandatory pain relief before and after mulesing;
- using netting that is so small no bats/flying foxes can get caught causing suffering and death ;
- no electronic devices should be used on any animal, nor battery devices ei; cattle prods should be banned at rodeos no exemptions;
- traps steel jaw should be banned no exemptions.
- Other traps that meet the CoP’s (Code Of Practices) should be monitored every 8 hour period.
- Glue traps should be banned no exemptions and selling them also to be an offence.
- Any animal which is tethered or on a chain within in 24 hour period and is not exercised for a reasonable amount of time within 24 hour period. Person allowing this should be guilty of an offence.
- Animals transported for periods of more than 8 hours should be planned for offloading for rest/feed/water and must be fit for transport.
Animal Cruelty Hotline
Reporting service Freecall 1800751770
Return Quality of life
Australia First
RETURNING QUALITY AND ENJOYMENT OF LIFE TO WORKING PEOPLE AND FAMILIES
Programme for Return of the Vision Splendid Ideal for Working Families:- Producerism - Prosperity - Independence
i] Replace the enslaving, unsustainable neo-liberal economics of Big Business, with Australianist National Self-Sufficiency economics. AUSTRALIANS to own - create -grow - manufacture - build- service all requirements via Public Enterprises, Private business/ Companies, Co-operatives, Mutual Enterprises, with Steady State outcomes securing Producerism and Integrity. Minimum/maximum wage to be established.
ii] Discard New Start/Unemployment pittance schemes, and avail work seeking people with employment opportunity for income stability in a Public Work Job Guarantee Programme.
iii] Reinstate a Commonwealth Volunteer Force for skills development, focusing on youth through paid work training in Manufacturing, Public Services/ Administrations, Agriculture, Public Lands Management.
iv] Return to Free Tertiary Education, including Trade Schools, available for all Australian Youth, to secure wealth creating skills. ALL overseas student intakes to end.
v] Take back Public Ownership of the Essential Services of Gas and Electricity, sold without authority by the Lib/Lab political caste, and enable profits to keep bills low. Unconstitutional foreign agreements to be terminated.
vi] Cheap immigrant labour, and politicians destructive multicultism to end. Repatriation of migrant sourced unsustainable excess population. Australian Culture and Heritage to be reinstated for a purposeful, bonded and inclusive community with a future! Australia First
BRINGING REDEMPTION TO AUSTRALIANS
Australia First Party email: [email protected] - www.australiafirstparty.net.
National Contact Line 02 8587 0014
P O Box 223 Croydon 3136
IF YOU DON’T FIGHT - YOU LOSE
Theft of our quality of life
They say " Golf is one of Australia’s most popular organised recreational activities. The sport is experiencing big changes in demand. Overall, traditional golf club membership is in decline and clubs are facingchanging leisure patterns and increasing operating costs. Some golf clubs havebeen forced to merge or close. This trend has drawn developer interest in golf
course land. " Changes in demand are likely to be, in my view because people who work (and would be able to pay golf course or club fees and buy or hire golf clubs) do not have the amount of leisure time that working people had a couple of decades ago.This does not mean they would not like to play golf if they had the time. It is a time consuming game. A city like Melbourne which is growing much too fast and is already way over populated needs all the green space it has now and more! Developing on golf courses simply erodes our quality of life whether we play the sport or not. It is just theft from the people of Melbourne.
Will Venezuela finally hold Guaido to account for his treason?
On 23 January 2019, Juan Guaidó, who was virtually unknown in Venezuela at the time, declared himself 'interim President of Venezuela.' He did this at the behest of his masters in the United States government: Secretary of State Pompeo and U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton. Bolton on at least one occasion shamelessly stated that he wanted U.S. oil corporations to be able to exploit Venezuela's oil wealth once the elected President Nicolas Maduro had been replaced by Guaidó.
In spite of Guaido's clear act of treason on behalf of a country which has repeatedly interfered destructively in the affairs of Venezuela and practically every other country in Latin America since before the start of the twentieth century, Guaidó and his supporters have, astonishingly, been allowed until now, to freely walk around Venezuela in pursuit of their nefarious goals. Guaido has openly asked for an invasion of Venezuela by the United States, and called for the continuation of the sanctions which have so devastated his country, costing 40,000 lives by one estimate!
Finally, nearly eight months later, it seems that the Venezuelan government has finally decided to act against Guaidó, even if not explicitly for the actions described above.
As Stephen Lendman reports in Venezuelan Usurper Guaido to Be Charged with High Treason? (7/9/10):
Until now, his government failed to hold Guaido accountable for sedition and treason, the highest of high crimes against the state.
On Friday, Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek Saab said the following:
“We have initiated an investigation (into) an illegal negotiation behind the country's back (by Guaido) that intends to withdraw the historical claim our country has on the territory of Essequibo. The facts imply a crime of treason.”
Preceding his remarks, Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez accused Guaido of being part of a “criminal organization” — aiming to hand Bolivarian territory and resources to foreign corporations, including ExxonMobil.
In April, Guaido's parliamentary immunity was lifted. He faces various charges, including “usurping the functions of the president.”
On Thursday, Maduro asked prosecutors to charge him with treason, urging “(t)he Public Ministry and the Attorney General's Office have to act expeditiously because pretending to deliver the Essequibo is a crime of treason to the Fatherland.”
Maduro urged Venezuelans to defend the nation's “legitimate and non-renounceable” territorial rights over the Essequibo region.
Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino defended his country's claim to the territory, saying: “The Sun of Venezuela is born in the Essequibo.”
The territory is located in southeastern Venezuela. It's rich in oil and other natural resources. It links the Caribbean Sea with the Orinoco River.
Venezuelan authorities have audio recordings between illegitimate Guaido envoy to Britain Vanessa Neumann and his “outside advisor” Manuel Avendano to “deliver the Essequibo” to ExxonMobil and other corporate interests, Rodriguez saying:
“The criminal organization headed by Juan Guaido had initiated concrete actions to illegally appropriate Venezuela's assets, financial resources, Venezuelan gold, Venezuelan debt, to enrich themselves and to serve transnational interests.”
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What’s likely next? Will Guaido be formally charged with treason, arrested, jailed and prosecuted?
He was guilty of the highest of high political crimes against the state by illegally self-declaring himself interim president in January — attempting to illegally usurp power in cahoots with the Trump regime.
Accountability for his criminal actions is long overdue!
The U.S. has since warned the Venezuelan government that there will be consequences should it proceed to prosecute Guaidó. Let's hope the Venezuelan government stands up to this bullying. Certainly the U.S. should be made to feel welcome to send an attorney to defend Guaidó before the Venezuelan courts, but the International community must tell the U.S. to let the Venezuelan justice system take its course and to get its thieving, bloody hands out of Venezuela!
Sri Lankan pea and thimble trick
Activists protesting about the family being returned to Sri Lanka are playing right into the Government's pea and thimble fraud. Useful idiots.
Make a media bonfire about 4 people and no-one will notice 60,000 more immigrants coming in on short-term visas. Visas that will all be converted to permanent in time.
From a net migration increase of 242,000 in 2017, Treasury plans to exceed 270,000 in both 2019 and 2020 with less permanents and many more temporaries. One in four people working in metro Melbourne is on a temporary visa. One in three people working in metro Sydney is on a temporary visa. Wonder why wages aren't growing?
Morrison promised to cut immigration. He lied.
Thanks for your
Can I simply say what a relief to search out someone who actually is aware of what they're talking about on the internet. Folks need to read this and perceive this side of the story.
Sheer bastardry of U.S. attack only makes sense if ...
Apart from sheer bastardry, this US attack only makes sense as a desperate move to kill commanders of terrorist groups before they fall into Syrian or Russian hands. The reason they did it during the ceasefire is evident – there wouldn’t be any Syrian or Russian aircraft to contend with.
It seems the US can see they’ve lost the battle in Idlib, even though they’ll still assist the terrorists if they can.
It may also be that Israel will be more constrained in firing into Syrian territory because they won’t be so sure about going into Lebanese airspace now. I hope Hezbollah has a few missiles ready if they do; Israel needs to lose a few fighter jets it can’t hide and can’t justify.
Meanwhile the IOF’s use of White Phosphorous showers in South Lebanon to set fire to fields is, apart from a war-crime, reminiscent of Ehud Barak in the run up to the election of 2009, when he used photos of showers of WP over Gaza in his advertising campaign.
“Look how we can smite them with fire and kill their children!”
A despicable entity.
Shadow also affects vegetation and soil
Shadows also reduce or destroy the ability of vegetation to thrive or even establish. They would also reduce the temperature of the soil and the kinds and numbers of soil organisms that store and use carbon. The growth lobby is blissfully ignorant of biology or beauty; it creates narcissistic monuments for its narcissistic membership, which is protected by deviously acquired wealth.
Wattle Day - Order Of The Wattle Blossom Awards
National Wattle Day
1st September 2019
A Celebration Of Australian Culture
Native Australian Awards Announced
THE ORDER OF THE WATTLE BLOSSOM
Professor Clive Hamilton - For advancing the Great Cause of Australian Independence from foreign imperialism, through the field of political-historical literature.
Larry Barngarinji Hoosan - For excellence in Youth Education on Dreamtime Holistic Values,
aiding the preservation of ecological integrity in the Roper Gulf Region.
Maria Hitchcock - For exemplary contributions to the promotion of Australian Nativism
through the values inherent to Australian flora.
AUSTRALIA FIRST PARTY
P.O. Box 223 Croydon 3136
www.australiafirstparty.net [email protected]
National Contact Line 02 8587 0014
Australia First - Reclaiming Australia for Australians
No brainer
Without doing any shadow drawings or thinking about this too much it is obvious that a tall building will cast a long shadow in winter when sun is most needed. If the building is situated north of the park then this shadow will fall on the park. Even if the building is to the south of the park it will destroy its ambience, block the view of the sky and destroy the feeling of space. It will change the amount of night light in the park and no doubt affect wild life. As the population increases, large buildings near parks accommodating extra population will leave less useable open space even if the actual area remains the same. And what about in summer? When the sun is high in the sky to the north the buildings will not offer any shade. That's what trees within the park are good for!
Growth lobby push for more buildings to overshadow public park
The City of Melbourne is reviewing its overshadowing policy for public parks.
We have put in a submission with regard to Royal Park but would encourage you to visit the Council website to express your thoughts for the Royal Park and all the public parks in the city. Overshadowing is bad for all our parks impacting biodiversity and usage. Access to winter sunshine is really important.
Below is an excerpt from the website inviting your input.
The general reference is www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/community/parks-open-spaces/pages/sunlight-publ... and
submission page https://participate.melbourne.vic.gov.au/amendmentc278
The issues that you may like to raise/endorse are:
Support for no further overshadowing to be allowed
Rule should apply to all structures within and outside of the park boundaries (including sports pavilions, Zoo, SNHC etc)
Submissions are due 5 September.
Update on Seaford carpark
Hi Matthew,
I am emailing you in regards to your enquiry made to the Councillors Office regarding parking arrangement at Seaford North Reserve Car Park.
I advise that the intent of the car park is to allow both long term and short term parking, basically similar to what was there before. There has been some progress since your communication, some short term parking will be reinstated at the northern part of the car park for park users in the coming weeks. Part of the car park will remain free all day for commuter use while level crossing removal works continue until march next week[sic]. Then permanent parking restrictions will be fully reinstated to provide mix of paid and free short term and long term parking that cater for different community needs.
Should you have any further query, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Australian Federal Police
The Australian Federal Police raided the ABC did they not?
Seaford North Resever Car Park
It also puts the lie to the claim of 'local democracy' does anyone recall in one of the occasional (every few years) community consultations the Council hold at the local community centre Council flagging that it was to make the Seaford North Reserve paid parking and available to commuters to occupy all day? Did they consult the members of the soccer club who use the reserve most frequently over winter? My kids play for the club, I never received any invitation or information on it - but maybe I missed it - if anyone else did please let me know?
A very reasonable request
This is a vey reasonable request. It just shows how poorly though-out ideas like "transport hubs" are. In planning , every change has a flow on- effect and people lose out. Actually "they" know this but just couldn't care. As long as people just move over and accommodate, problems can be swept under the carpet.
Councillor response
Councillor Kris Bolam is the only Councillor to respond so far - he has promised to follow it up.
Population growth and coming chaos
Thanks John,
The real shame is that all the increase in population is being placed on our prime farm land - as many people have pointed out before. Also development is increasingly encroaching on the Eastern Treatment Plant (ETP) - the regional sewerage farm - which is already struggling not only to process waste, but with complaints about smell - it was supposed to have a large farm buffer area to prevent this problem, but that is rapidly disappearing.
I note in my own area - Seaford, - that backyards that kids used to play in have disappeared as they have been developed - I wonder how this will flow on to obesity and other problems in children who no longer can just go outside to play. Also the traffic has increased phenomenally - Seaford used to be a quiet village area - now parts of of it have become major thoroughfares - and soon lights will be needed on roads that not long ago were pretty quiet. Finally, large tracts of Seaford - especially around the station, have been converted to car parking for commuters - no doubt from many surrounding areas, and Seaford North Reserve (a large area of soccer fields) - whose car park used to be used during the day for school buses full of kids to use the playing fields there - that car park is now turned over to rail parking, and is completely full during the day, and into the evening so that soccer players (kids with mums and babies in tow) need to park in surrounding streets and walk to the park.
I cannot see that so-called positives are outweighing the complete destruction of the Australian way of life - nor can I see how it helps globally to be destroying farm land when Australia is a net exporter of food to other countries - at this rate we will consume all we produce (through producing less and consuming more locally) and that must impact on the countries that rely on us to feed their own nations (particularly the middle East and China I think).
Matt
Peace Meeting -IPAN - 29 August Trades Hall - friends welcome
Dear friends and supporters of Independent and Peaceful Australia
REMINDER: Next IPAN-Victoria Meeting
Thursday 29 August
6pm - 8pm
Level 4, Trades Hall (cream building at the back, next to the car park)
Corner Lygon and Swanston streets, Carlton.
Agenda
1. Reports from IPAN Conference and activities in Darwin (a few photos attached). AGM Report.
Resolutions and calls for action.
2. Nominations for 2 Victorian representatives on IPAN National co-ordinating committee
To date 2 nominations received. Please send in your nominations to the email address above, before the meeting.
3. Planning next IPAN-Victoria activities
4. Solidarity activities
Links below to recent IPAN articles, press releases and articles.
https://youtu.be/VARTEt2_HJc
https://ipan.org.au/voice-august-2019/
https://ipan.org.au/no-to-us-missiles-in-australia-no-to-joining-the-u-s-in-a-battle-with-china-6th-august/
https://ipan.org.au/naval-support-for-us-in-iran-media-release-4-august-2019/
End plague level immigration and overpopulation chaos
End plague level immigration and overpopulation chaos
Evidenced by:-
Clogged roads, home invasions, crowded schools/hospitals/public facilities, pollution, waste, eco-system/environmental decline, house price/rent madness, wages falling, poor living conditions - Aussis now strangers in the street!
Population has increased by 30% in 13 years - 70% being [...] immigrants/ foreign students, and 457 Visa workers.
The Conservation Society holds to 14 Million People as the Sustainable Population for Australia:-
Australia First will:-
i] to introduce a Peoples’ Commission for Population, with paid delegates from community and environmental groups to oversee sustainable population directions for our Native Land and Australian civilisation.
ii] The Commission to be authorised under the Citizenship Act, to direct Legislators for closing down the Lib/Lab/Greens destructive Immigration Programme.
iii] The Commission to oversee orderly repatriation of alien immigrant excess, to pursue a population level in accord with the Conservation Society optimum for our Australia.
iv] Repatriation to involve unassimilable aliens/multiple wife blowfly breeders, welfare parasites, fake refugees, criminals, drug cartels, 457 visa workers, foreign students, etc.
v] A Public Educative programme to expose the extensive overpopulation effects to our Ancient Continent and its Ecological Order, Australian Heritage, and cause for economic decline. End all immigration!
Australia First Party - Bringing Redemption to Australians
email: [email protected] - www.australiafirstparty.net.
National Contact Line 02 85870014
If you don't fight - you lose!
Blatant, incurable and incorrigible, methinks
I think that Bernard Salt is blatant in his broadcasting of growthist propaganda for the benefit of developers and property speculators. To me this is a crime against the citizenship he lives amongst and belongs to. He has form over a couple of decades and seems is incorrigible and incurable. As I recall, he objected to candobetter pointing out that he lives in a large property far better than ones the he urged "widows " to leave because they are "rattling around in them." It appears there are different standards and rules for the likes of Bernard Salt and for the rest of us. I wonder where he is going once Melbourne is completely wrecked. Off to support and urge on the wrecking of Hobart?
RACV: Tell us what you think about loss of wildlife habitat.
The latest edition of the RACV Magazine Royalauto on page 13 has a brief story headed “The mob next door” which says “Just 20 years ago kangaroos and cows grazed pastures and grasslands around Craigieburn in Melbourne’s north. But as suburbs expand and engulf open land mobs of roos are confined to small green wedges along waterways where they are vulnerable to cars and dogs. Tell us what you think about loss of wildlife habitat. You can make a comment here:https://Facebook.com/racv.
Huxley’s Predictions Of A Dystopian World Come To Pass?
The PM, Scott Morrison and his Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, have been gloating like parrots in a granary nearly all of 2019 as to how their government will be returning a budget-surplus. However, what neither of them or, indeed, any of the other 73 members of the LNP will say is that, but for the disasters in Brazil on Feb 19 [with a tailings dam collapsing], then not only wouldn’t there be a budget- surplus for this fiscal year, but Australia would be at least $5bn worse off, due no royalties’ benefits. Because had Vale’s Brumhandino tailings dam not given-way, then China wouldn’t have had to ramp-up its iron ore imports - utilising Australia in the process.
Moreover, that disaster duly meant that a ton of iron ore shot up more than 85% from $70 per ton to $123.
Quite simply, the only reason for the LNP being able to post its surplus is, entirely due to what went down at Brumhandino, less than 5 months ago. But, once Vale gets its act back in order, which is within a maximum of 3 months, we will see the honey-pot emanating by an act-of-God thousands of kilometres away in Brazil, dry up. But, moreover, if China’s economy continues to stagnate then the adverse affects upon Australia’s economy from the double whammy is going to quite detrimental.
Indubitably, just about anyone with a grasp of the simple intricacies that propels Australia’s economy, is only too aware that it is a tad dodgy. And the RBA cutting interest rates by 25 basis points in consecutive months of June and July are blatantly aware that the country is on the skids as, indeed, are numerous other economies; pertinently so in the EU. Bizarrely, in this exact duration, the economy of the US appears to be humming along OK. Unfortunately, this is effectively [only] due to the US increasing its debt to fund an array of activities.
But what is most wacky with everything that is presently going down comes to pass with stock markets in the US and, also, Australia, reaching records in the exact period that interest rates are dropping; and economies are borrowing more to fund their actives. Here in Australia, there are numerous economic advisory institutions calling for governments in Australia to channel billions of dollars into infrastructural ventures i.e. more roads, tunnels and airports.
Quite disturbingly, these measures currently under way or, those proposed, neither generate real wealth but, moreover, upon completion their specific purposes aren’t being undertaken with agendas that will facilitate industries; which in turn will spawn production of tangible goods. Thereby, these processes would engender real wealth; by virtue of demand from consumers most pertinently overseas.
The tragedy for Australia - and many other foreign jurisdictions, too - is that it is totally unable to compete with manufactures in a swathe of developing Economies in our near region, to produce goods cost effectively. Of course, this has been decades in the making it obviously can be dated with the Lima Declaration being signed in May 1975. So here we are now close on 45 years since then and find Australia being a place which once produced a large swag of things ranging from cars, TVs, radios, furniture, garments etc, etc, to a place that now depends upon services to sustain it. Two of those ‘services’ are international students and tourism. As it transpires, China is the most significant entity with charging that duo.
Obviously, now that Australia’s economy has become so dependent upon being a provider of services, means we are in a very precarious position particularly considering that we are so reliant upon China. With regards to the international-student-sector Australia currently have over 900,000 of them here with over 330,000 just from mainland China. With regards to this the advocates of the IS sector gloat as to how it ‘boosted the economy of Australia by $32bn’ in 2018. However, those figures are, perhaps, the most devious set of numbers ever complied. This is primarily so, because they only purport the ‘pros’ of the equation but not the negatives.
For instance, a huge negative with the IS sector comes to pass with the 600,000 odd [of the 900,000 IS's here] who are totally dependent and, desperate upon working to survive. Well, the ABC and Fairfax from as far back as early 2013 has exposed numerous instances of them being wilfully exploited with wages and conditions by unscrupulous employers in almost ALL the instances of these exploitation's by members of their own diasporas. Estimates of how much they are under underpaid runs [in a six year slot] into billions of dollars.
Apart from that, a significant percentage of these ISs and, also, hundreds of thousands of people here on other temporary work visas sees them working many more hours per week than their visas allow them to do. This is achieved by them aside from getting anything up to $10 less per hour than an award designates - being paid cash-in-the-hand. Thus, they avoid taxes. And this means that state and federal treasuries are deprived of revenue; which ultimately means citizens of Australia have to stump-up the rest to maintain x, y or z.
With pertinent reference to the Indian communities primarily in Sydney and Melbourne it’s estimated that about $400m didn’t find its way into stimulating the broad-steam's of economies, because it was contained within its diasporas. Essentially, this is applicable to bode of a circular economy, functioning within a larger economy. (Incidentally, as just indicated, a major reason as to why wages have been flat for years is, inherently, due to Australia having about 1.9 million people here on temporary-work visas. Of which ISs are a primary aspect of such.)
Hardly a day goes by over the past few years without there being an economics-guru telling us in the media that, ‘we have to improve productivity’ in order to boost the economy. Unfortunately, all of those calls are very much hollow! And this is entirely due to the fact that, you can only really improve productivity if, the nations actually PRODUCING tangible goods either domestically or abroad - that people want and need to use.
Tragically, Australia has pretty much run out of booms and, therefore it’s much vaunted and, fabled, luck! Measures inaugurated by various governments from as far back in the early Noughties, but particularly since the LNP won office in Sept 2013 - to assuage what we once had have come to pass with touting for immigrants to come here and buy properties and
consuming goods and services; thereby, spawning revenue sources by way of stamp-duties and GSTs
With regards to stamp-duties NSW and Victoria acquired billions in revenue by way of the hundreds of billions of dollars, which tsunamied in from China from, perhaps, 2009 up until late 2017, when Beijing decided to stifle capital gushing out of the country to buy real estate in Australia, Canada, NZ and elsewhere.
Thus, now that capital from China is greatly down means that the state governments have to deal with significantly reduced revenue sources.
So what does the future hold now for Australia that we’re in the situations we are?
Unfortunately, there can’t be too much to look forward to; even if interest rates are cut to ZERO. And whilst ZERO interest rates might assist people buying properties the other side of the coin means that people about 3 million or so who are retired and live on their superannuation, are sinking into in truly a diabolical cauldron. Because with interest rates so abysmal means they are greatly affected. For some that still own properties this scenario can be alleviated by way of them borrowing capital from their properties value. But another downside to this comes to pass, because it inevitably means that those who would be the beneficiaries of estates will receive less.
The ongoing consequences of this must mean that, primarily with their offspring they will have less to put towards establishing themselves into the real estate ’arcades’ (sic). But what’s worse that as technology moves along at the speeds it has been doing must, inevitably, result with employment/stability/tenures being akin to living atop geological mantels. Because these changes in work structures will engender scenarios that'll ensue with employers only needing to hire at times that suit their requirements. Essentially, there will be very few jobs in Western nations, which will be full-time. Moreover, low-skilled occupations such as cleaning and the like will be filled by very desperate souls who will undertake those tasks at very low-rates of pay and under woeful conditions.
Revenues to governments shall be pitifully low. Thus, it will be impossible to maintain welfare payments that are anything remotely akin to what has prevailed fro decades. With the most down-trodden members of society being worst affected. Upon this occurring, events will confluence and spawn huge sociological upheavals; which will transform our cities into something that will mirror the movie: Escape From New York. And, in 20 years from now, when much of this sociological cataclysm is encroaching on Australia's cities will be directly linked to the open-door immigration programmes that have been imposed upon us over the past two decades. Because by the late 2030's Sydney and Melbourne Anglo/Europeans will comprise a maximum of 40% of those cities populations, and they will become splintered into ethno-cultural enclaves of peoples with allegiances to their pertinent tribe.
In closing, all that’s transpired, particularly over the past two to three decades, seems to culminate with what Aldus Huxley was predicting in his 1932 book Brave New World. Alas, we've learnt nothing from history with how open-door immigration was the crux for the destruction of Rome. And also, many centuries later with Constantinople, too. Regrettably, for Australia along with Canada, Britain and Europe, the inundations of peoples with cultures so different to those of Western people are the catalysts of our demise.
The closing epoch for the Vision Splendid of Australia First now looms, unless uncompromising Australianism comes to the fore.
Left versus Right Ideology
You say:
"That this is led by the Left is one the great ironies of contemporary politics. The Right simply loves it"
I think the Left v Right dichotomy has broken down and is no longer useful. At the extreme ends of each they are both equally fascist.
Also the "Left" used to be about families and wages and fairness, now it is about sexuality, equity (not the same as equality) and unions are pretty useless.
What you refer to as the Right here - and what you lament about the supposed Left - I think is actually Elites. It is the Elites that are pushing high immigration - for the those on the Left they sell it as compassionate and fair to share Australia, to those on the Right they push it as offering growth and prosperity. The Elites are happy to play a double game, and get everyone arguing about issues they don't care about (e LGBT rights etc) as long as there is agreement on their core concerns - policies that gain them more wealth and power. Population growth is one of their core concerns, as it is impoverishes everyone but them. Their end game is to be unchallengeable overlords with everyone else too poor or exhausted to resist them, with the only resistance being through organisations they finance (eg. GetUP). Thus we have Soros financing all sorts of so-called 'left wing' organisations, and the Koch Brothers funding all kinds of Right wing ones. They don't care either way.
Labor speaking against Hanson's motion
Below is the response to Senator Hanson's motion from Labor Senator Ciccone
"Labor understands Australians are frustrated with stagnant wages, unaffordable housing and clogged infrastructure; however, migrants are not to blame. The truth is that this nation would not be what it is today without the contributions made to it by those who have come here in the hope of making a great contribution to Australia. It is not for us to subject this to a divisive and, perfectly honestly speaking, hurtful plebiscite. Whilst Labor accepts that this is important—that we make sure that we get the balance right in managing our migration program—this is the responsibility of the government with the best advice at hand. There is simply no place in our inclusive and proudly diverse nation for an expensive opinion poll on questions that don't need to be asked"
I understand the reluctance to use polls excessively in making decisions in Parliament but surely this is a question that should be asked? If the government were on the right track then this would be confirmed by a poll. Population growth of which net immigration is such a large component affects people massively in their daily lives. Those speaking against the motion acknowledged the 'concern" people have over these affects but it is more than concern if they are experiencing it. It is not just theoretical. I am disappointed in Jacqui Lambie in voting against the motion since she comes across as someone whose focus is the welfare of ordinary people.
Community meeting 6 Aug 7pm to protect Fitzroy North
1. FROM PROTECT FITZROY NORTH
If you can, go to the community meeting they are having on August 6 at 7pm Fitzroy Nth Library.
They are doing a great job trying to protect Fitzroy Nth:
Hello
We think Piedimonte's revised plans are ... STILL TOO BIG!
* Still 7 stories
* Still dominating and monopolising the village neighbourhood
* Still inconsistent with its surrounds
* Still losing 7 shops
* Still acquiring the laneway
* Still 66 apartments
* Still not enough car parking
Still concerned?
The only way our views will have any impact is to show Council and Piedimonte's the strength of the community's concerns.
This develop will proceed unless we make our views known now!
Come to the Community Meeting to:
· hear an overview of what the revised plans propose
· share your concerns
· discuss action we can take.
DATE: Tuesday 6 August 2019
TIME: 7 pm
WHERE: Fitzroy North Library
Looking forward to seeing you there.
National Wattle Day
AUSTRALIA FIRST MOVEMENT
PRESS RELEASE
National Wattle Day
1st September 2019
Nominations for the Native Australian Award
"THE ORDER OF THE WATTLE BLOSSOM"
are invited from Fairdinkum Australians
GENERAL CRITERIA.
Persons nominated should have displayed a commitment to Australia's heritage and
culture, our national values, our native soil, or any other suitable aspect that has
contributed to the advancement of our European derived civilisation.
Nominations may be either Native Australians, members of our Sacred
Aborigine Races, or any [adjective edited out] immigrant who has particularly
exhibited having taken up the Australian Spirit.
Please forward particulars, including the following information to the
address below before 25th August 2019.
Name and address of nomination; suggested award citation.
Include your own name and address.
In keeping with past tradition, up to five awards can be granted.
AUSTRALIA FIRST PARTY
www.australiafirstparty.net email: [email protected]
P.O. Box 223 Croydon 3136 National Contact Line 02 8587 0014
I've fought it through the world since then, I wrote for her, I fought for her,
And seen the best and worst, And when at last I lie,
But always in the lands of men Then who, to wear the wattle, has
I held Australia first. A better right than I? Henry Lawson
Identity - Freedom - Independence
US Study: Raising retirement age beats mass immigration hollow
A new report from the Center for Immigration Studies: S. A. Camarota and K. Zeigler, 'Can immigration solve the problem of an aging society: estimating the impact of post-1990 immigration', Center for Immigration Studies, Washington, July 2019. https://cis.org/Report/Can-Immigration-Solve-Problem-Aging-Society
If you are worried about the share of 16-64 (aka 'working age' population), raising the retirement age by one year would have been more effective than all the immigrants the US has added since 1990 (cf pp. 3, 6) [They treat 16-64 as working age - in Australia it has always 15-64.]
See also the diminishing returns re youthfulness of higher levels of immigration p. 6, and their useful phraseology of talking about the 16-64 group as ‘potential workers’ and the 65+ as ‘likely retirees’.
Save Queens Parade Fundraising Dinner - 8 August 2019
The Queens Parade Panning, Heritage and Traders Group invite you to a fundraising dinner
Thursday 8th August, 2019
6:30 pm drinks for 7:00 pm dinner
ARGO Fishop
318-320 Queens Parade Fitzroy North
$50 per head.
Drinks available at bar prices
BOOKINGS: TryBooking
“Saving Queens Parade Dinner” Seats are limited to 70.
Funds Raised will be used for an expert heritage witness to attend the Queens Parade Planning Panel commencing on August 12th.
The dinner is organised by The Queens Parade Heritage and Traders Coalition.
The 3068 Group is a member of this coalition.
Funds will be paid into the Protect Fitzroy North bank account.
Land lines
Surely there are enough reasons above to retain land lines in houses and businesses?
Social tennis for immigrants
A friend reported to me today that on a social platform, the tennis club of which she is a member is promoting "Tennis connecting cultures" It is for "new adults to Melbourne".(sic) There does not seem to be any requirement to be a member of the club. Most adults new to Melbourne are from overseas so it would seem that they, in this case take priority over long term residents of Melbourne. It might not be as much of an affront if it were open to anyone wanting to play tennis and made a special point of welcoming people new to Melbourne but this is not the case. My friend now knows her place with respect to this club of which she has been a member for at least 5 years.
Who infects who?
News item on the ABC and discussed on afternoon radio today: 1/5 of sea gulls tested in 2 areas of Victoria (droppings) show they carry bacterial infections resistant to last resort antibiotics. The gulls pick up these bacterial infections from human waste on rubbish dumps - nappies , incontinence pads. No reporting I have heard about this has suggested that HUMANS should clean up their act. No, they make out that it's the sea gulls that are dirty and a threat to people. But WE have ALREADY in infected THEM!!!!
Singer's community shows a way, perhaps
In the Television documentary aired on SBS last night about the late Australian Indigenous singer- musician Gurimal and his community the connection with the land , with local community, animals and with past and future generations was palpable. Watching the community that Gurimal grew up in I could see that humanity's march away from this towards to becoming cogs in the urbanised industrial and global economic 21st century world promises by comparison only increased individual isolation. In Gurimal's world all generations were (and are still, I hope) an active part of the tribe or community. His parents both died as part of that community as he did as well, fortunately after his parents. By contrast, we in large cities are silo-ed in creches, in kindergartens in retirement villages. The late artist Mariette Perrinjaquet-Spertini illustrates our urban alienation in her book about "Humanis" who has been dehumanised, separated from nature, crushed in the cogs of the modern economy but eventually finds his way back from this dystopia. There must be several ways back since there were probably many ways we got to where we are. We urgently need to identify them.
They killed migrants and sold their organs: 38 arrests - Italy
This is from the following Italian article: Uccidevano i migranti e vendevano i loro organi: 38 arresti
[Translation via Reverso with some help from Sheila Newman.]
A shocking scenario, emerged from the operation "glauco 3", conducted by the State Police, which at dawn this morning triggered the handcuffing of 38 people in different cities, involved in trafficking in human beings in various ways. The economic operations base of the criminal association was in the capital, in a store where more than half a million euros and 25 thousand US dollars in cash were seized. The arrest warrants were signed by the Palermo District Anti-Mafia Directorate.
The shocking revelations of a remorseful participant
According to the revelations of a remorseful participant in these crimes, those who did not have the money to pay for the "voyage of hope" with boats were killed and soon after the organs were removed, which were then sold to some Egyptian traffickers. In order to reconstruct the criminal plot, the statements of the collaborator of justice, whose revelations had already led to the execution of 24 arrest orders in the context of operation "glauco 2".
Who is the repentant
His name is Nuredin Wehabrebatta, he is 32 years old, and he is an Eritrean trafficker who ended up in handcuffs in 2015, the man who with his confession led the magistrates to carry out the arrests.
Right after he was in handcuffs, the criminal decided to reveal how the human trafficking organization worked. The investigation is led by Assistant Prosecutor Maurizio Scalia and pm Gery Ferrara, Claudio camilleri and Annamaria picozzi.
Migrant children vanished into thin air
The operation brings to mind what was announced a few weeks ago by Europol, in relation to the numerous disappearances of minors, who from the "Third World" undertake on their own clandestine journeys to Europe.
Thousands of them vanish every year. These children are missing and, according to the authorities, there may be criminal organizations of a paedophile nature behind these disappearances. It cannot be ruled out that there may also be criminal organisations involved in the illegal trafficking of organs.
Strange homelessness related news item
Today I heard a news item on the ABC that a gang from China is bringing elderly Chinese people into Australia to beg in the streets of our cities The Salvation Army reported on it. Apparently people have been very generous and the operation has taken quite bit of money back to China.
Is it an irony or should one say adding insult to injury that the Chinese amongst the countries are buying housing in Australia up our property and this is expected to increase? Furthermore they often keep houses and apartments empty which means the property is no longer available even to rent. This exacerbates the obvious shortage of accommodation. The criminal exercise of the bogus beggars displaces Australia's homeless in their own begging territory !!
What sort of Visa do the elderly Chinese come in on?
Thumbs down!
I don't think these experiments can be justified on any grounds. "Intelligent life"is right here on Earth and we treat it like rubbish!
The Elephant In The Room
From: Perry Jewell
Subject: The Elephant In The Room
The elephant in the room, "Oops, they've eaten him."
With regard to the debate on global pollution - warming, we must face the fact that without any doubt the principle cause has to be the alarming increase in third world populations, in particular Africa, Asia and China.
During my school days in East Africa approximately 60 years ago, Nigeria's population was said to be about 20 million, today's statistics show that figure to be approaching 200 million.
It won't be long before the African elephant faces total extinction as hungry Africans see an elephant as a few tonnes of meat and of course the ivory is in huge demand, thereby also rewarding poaching.
As third world populations lead to an ever increasing demand on our resources thereby taxing our economies and degrading our societies as the well-intentioned policy of multiculturalism fails.
Henceforth all foreign aid should be tied to effective birth control campaigns.
A point worth mentioning bringing in a few hundred thousand from tens of millions does little to help them. Indeed it can be argued that in effect we are stealing their intelligencia, unless we return their educated countrymen to aid in the betterment of their own peoples and countries.
No doubt if moon men landed we would try and collect a few, set up a ghetto (perhaps a dome in or near Canberra) and then go on to insist on their "human rights" to go and breed an interstellar race problem.
What a stupid country, wake up Australia.
Perry Jewell
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Finally someone names the
Finally someone names the elephant in the room. The problem is it's not just happening in Australia - this is a global problem. Overpopulation of humans, most of whom are living unsustainably, is wrecking the planet. On a mad race to the cliff of consumerism and depletion of limited natural resources. Nobody knows what to do about it. You can't tell people they can't breed. It failed in China, the most controlled country in the world so how could it work anywhere else? And so they are giving us mobile phones knowing full well it kills sperm and little girls eggs when on their lap. And they are making it the new cool to be homosexual or transgender and marketing it even to children. This is not to even mention the many ways they are killing us off with chemicals. I won't go on.
Tower block in Melbourne evacuated
Melbourne people have been reading about the people in Sydney recently who have been evacuated from tower blocks because of faulty construction (I understand the latest horror is actually sinking!) but now in Melbourne we have a block called Liberty which has been evacuated because of a pumping problem resulting in cuts to power and water in the basement. This is all symptomatic of the building and population growth monster which is very much dominating the scene in Sydney and Melbourne and steadily destroying the quality of our lives. The less well- off suffer first.
Interviewer more on ball than most
This radio interviewer is more on the ball than most. For instance, he brought up the fact that, without a population cap, the 'sky' is the limit. This is the first time I have heard any mainstream media figure actually broach the horrific fact that, as it stands, with current 'planning', our population will be growing faster and faster when it hits 30m, when it hits 50m, when it hits 100m, when it hits 200m. It won't end there. This is the worst thing that could happen to Australia. The best thing we had going for us was our small population. Furthermore, the point was well made that our state governments are, not only too busy coping with this growth to do anything else, but that they are continuously misinformed of the growth rate. Dealing with this rate of population growth is obviously beyond any of us. Amazing that the New Zealand Government has put a stop to this, as it promised to. Are all our politicians educated in catholic schools and brainwashed that growth is inevitable?
Population policy so bare-faced, so shocking
This population growth is so obviously not for our benefit that one wonders that anyone dares openly advocate it.
Julian Assange and mainstream media
Unfortunately the mainstream media is not going to change, and there is nothing powerful enough to meaningfully replace it. But they got a taste of what Assange was going through when the Feds raided the ABC recently. Not enough for anyone to come to his defense though.
With the media the way it is, we are in serious trouble.
IPAN meeting Thursday 4 July Vic Trades Hall meeting room 1
Dear friends and supporters of an independent Australia
Your are invited to a Public Forum and discussion on 4th July, the U.S. Independence Day
"Keep Australia Out of U.S. wars: Time for our Independence from the U.S.A. and all big powers"
Thursday 4 July
6.30 - 8.30 pm
Meeting Room 1, Victorian Trades Hall, cnr Victoria and Lygon streets, Carlton
Speakers: Richard Tanter, Fiona McCandless, Vince Scappatura. Speakers' details on flyer below and attached.
Information and contacts: IPAN-Victoria 0412906459; 0417456001.
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It's time to put an end to the Australian governments' obsequious support for US imperialist wars, US engineered regime changes and political and military interference in sovereign countries.
U.S. is the most aggressive world power threatening global peace, security and the sovereignty of countries. It's time for an independent and peaceful Australian foreign policy not subservient to any big power.
Shirley Winton
IPAN-Victoria
Australian government has abandoned Julian Assange
The Australian government has abandoned Julian Assange. He could end up dead as a result of this. This is what citizenship means in Australia - nothing. This is what we pay our taxes for - for a government composed of US appointees.
Decline of play and increase in children's mental disorders
I have recently read a US psychology article about the greatly increased numbers of young people who are assessed as depressed, testing covering the last 50 to 70 years! In brief the article relates how the increases in depression are not about external circumstances or threats but about the degree to which subjects feel they have control over their lives. There has also been a shift over time in the sort of goals young people have for their lives from goals formulated by self to imposed goals, like material wealth and achievements that will be approved of socially. The author puts forward the hypothesis that there is a causal link between the increased "extrinsic" goal setting and a decrease in opportunities for free play (where children work out problems for themselves in an unstructured situation) since they have coincided. I have certainly noticed in Australia, an increase in parental supervision of children's out of school time with organised activities and organised sports or after school care. A year or so ago I saw a television documentary where they were able to show that neural brain networks were differently organised in children who played freely, unsupervised by adults and children whose out of school time was more organised and adult-directed. This brings me to the conclusion that the free play issue is also an issue of space- space in which to play. There must be a wealth of research about this as the implications are profound. It looks as though in the US and in Australia (as i think we have the same problems) we are sabotaging the well being of our children and that they will take their troubles into adult life.
Here is a quote from the article:
"The standard measure of sense of control is a questionnaire developed by Julien Rotter in the late 1950s called the Internal-External Locus of Control Scale. The questionnaire consists of 23 pairs of statements. One statement in each pair represents belief in an Internal locus of control (control by the person) and the other represents belief in an External locus of control (control by circumstances outside of the person). The person taking the test must decide which statement in each pair is more true. One pair, for example, is the following:
(a) I have found that what is going to happen will happen.
(b) Trusting to fate has never turned out as well for me as making a decision to take a definite course of action.
In this case, choice (a) represents an External locus of control and (b) represents an Internal locus of control.Many studies over the years have shown that people who score toward the Internal end of Rotter's scale fare better in life than do those who score toward the External end.[2] They are more likely to get good jobs that they enjoy, take care of their health, and play active roles in their communities—and they are less likely to become anxious or depressed.
In a research study published a few years ago, Twenge and her colleagues analyzed the results of many previous studies that used Rotter's Scale with young people from 1960 through 2002.[3] They found that over this period average scores shifted dramatically—for children aged 9 to 14 as well as for college students—away from the Internal toward the External end of the scale. In fact, the shift was so great that the average young person in 2002 was more External than were 80% of young people in the 1960s. The rise in Externality on Rotter's scale over the 42-year period showed the same linear trend as did the rise in depression and anxiety."
Below is the link to the article
https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/freedom-learn/201001/the-decline-play-and-rise-in-childrens-mental-disorders?fbclid=IwAR3pQq5pm786v9OkbumddLhF1uCRpcL2KnzUQzK9JE0Iyqjlboqe9okSUPE"
Miscarriage of Justice: Why Assange’s Belmarsh Sentence is Wrong
By Nina Cross at 12st Century Wire
Judge Taylor gave Assange effectively a year in Belmarsh Category A prison for skipping bail in 2012. Assange was required to prove he had good reason to skip bail:
Under s. 6(3) of the Bail Act 1976, it is for the defendant to prove that he had a reasonable cause for failing to surrender.
Taylor dismissed Assange’s mitigating reasons for jumping bail, citing the previous judges’ rejection. This is a collective dismissal of what has been a very public aggression towards Assange by the US government and its allies. Examples of threats to Assange, which appeared in his statement, are seen here, here, here and here. The question we must ask in the case of Assange is what type of mitigating proof (threats of assassination, torture and abuse aside) would have stood up in Taylor’s court? Had Assange had a note from Mike Pompeo threatening capital punishment or a life sentence without parole in a high security prison for exposing US war crimes, signed prior to June 2012, would that have got Assange into a B Category prison for 6 months instead?
Taylor dismissed Assange’s fear of persecution by the US, sentencing him to 50 weeks in Belmarsh prison, where his condition, already identified as deteriorating, has worsened to the extent he is now in the prison health ward. Her reason was that Assange had a choice:
“Whilst you may have had fears as to what may happen to you, nonetheless you had a choice…”
This may be technically true. An individual chased by their attacker may have the choice of hiding, if they can, to avoid being attacked; if their attacker hangs around they can choose to come out and risk being hurt or stay out of sight. This ‘choice’ has been presented as an illusion of freedom, and in turn, an illusion of due process.
This reality of the ‘choice’ facing Assange has been summed up by Melzer in a response to Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s denial of UK abuse on Twitter:
Australian parliament silent on 17 Assange espionage charges
#E8FFFF">The following is from Australian government, Labor opposition silent on espionage charges against Assange (28/5/19) by Oscar Grenfell | World Socialist Web Site:
By their silence, the Liberal-National government and Labor are signalling their support for the US-led persecution of Assange, over his role in the exposure of US war crimes, mass surveillance and diplomatic conspiracies around the world.
The political establishment is making clear that nothing will be done to prevent Assange's extradition from Britain to the US, where he would face a show-trial that would establish a precedent for the suppression of freedom of the press and free speech.
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The refusal to defend Assange on the part of the official parties is in line with their collaboration in the US-led vendetta against him since 2010.
Successive Labor and Coalition governments have refused to exercise their legal discretion and diplomatic powers to protect Assange. Instead they have joined in the chorus of denunciations and aided the US intelligence agencies in their efforts to destroy WikiLeaks.
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The refusal to defend Assange on the part of the official parties is in line with their collaboration in the US-led vendetta against him since 2010.
Successive Labor and Coalition governments have refused to exercise their legal discretion and diplomatic powers to protect Assange. Instead they have joined in the chorus of denunciations and aided the US intelligence agencies in their efforts to destroy WikiLeaks.
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Labor and Coalition MPs made mealy-mouthed statements that they would provide him with unspecified consular assistance, committing them to nothing. With the assistance of the Greens, the unions and the pseudo-left, they buried the issue of Assange's plight throughout the official federal election campaign that began just hours after his detention by British police.
Now, senior political figures are voicing concerns that the government's abandonment of Assange may provoke widespread opposition from workers, students and young people, who rightly view him as a heroic figure who is being attacked for revealing the truth.
On Friday, former Labor foreign minister Bob Carr told the Guardian that the additional charges against Assange “change the game” and could “test the patience” of US allies, including Australia. He noted that the length of the maximum sentence against Assange made the charges against him almost as severe as those which attract capital punishment.
Carr issued a warning to the Coalition government of Prime Minister Scott Morrison that its Foreign Minister Marise Payne “needs to protect herself from the charge that she's failed in her duty to protect the life of an Australian citizen.”
Carr stated that the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade would likely provide Payne with “talking points” for discussions with her US, British and Swedish counterparts. Sweden has revived a sexual misconduct investigation into Assange, aimed at blackening his name and creating an alternate route for his extradition to the US.
“Not to do so would leave the minister exposed to withering criticism that they did not take all appropriate action that might have made a difference, mainly before the British court makes a decision,” he warned.
(The article goes on to goes on to point out Bob Carr's previous role as an effective agent for the U.S. government within the Australian Labor Party and questions the motives for his apparent support for Julian Assange. Whilst Bob Carr's previous record of support for the U.S. should not be overlooked, I think that it would be more helpful to Julian Assange to take Bob Carr's words at face value. We should ask Bob Carr to raise his voice more loudly for Julian Assange including on his own blog. A search "Julian Assange site:bobcarrblog.wordpress.com" found nothing!)
IPAN Peace meeting Weds 29 May 2019 Trades Hall
Independent and Peaceful Australia Network(IPAN)
REMINDER: NEXT MEETING OF IPAN-Victoria
A speaker and discussion on the current situation in Syria, Iran and the Middle East - all welcome.
Wednesday 29 May
6pm
Level 4
Trades Hall
corner Lygon and Victoria streets
cream building at the back
Call 0417456001 if you can't find the building.
Agenda
1. Elections and US-Australia military alliance
2. IPAN National Conference in Darwin 2 - 4 August (new flyer below and attached)
- Joint military exercises in Queensland
3. Organising 4 July Forum in Melbourne. Richard Tanter and Fiona McCandless confirmed speakers to date.
4. Speaker and discussion on the situation in Syria and Iran - half an hour for speaker and discussion (or longer if time allows).
Also attached IPAN's most recent Media Release on Iran - US Fire on Iran Could Burn us all
5. Other business
National IPAN Conference in Darwin 2-4 August 2019
"Australia at the Crossroads: time for an independent foreign policy"
Australia First Movement news
Keeping the citizen informed:- Autumn 2019
Mass immigration past use-by date for Australian Workers!
Real unemployment is at 18.5% according to Roy Morgan polling. Participation rate for men is at 65.7%, whereas in the late 1960’s it was at 96%, indicating 30% of men are now out of the workforce, and with over 5% underemployment, a 1/3rd. of men now don’t have a job!
Interest rates (cash rate) are at an all time low of 1.5% and are forecast likely to drop. This is proof the economy is in a very bad state. Having high migration at this point is madness and an attack upon the working people of Australia.
When Countries are hit by economic crisis’s some workers go to other countries looking for jobs. This shows the lie that migration stimulates economies. All the richest countries have small increases in population. In some African countries they have a 4% annual increase in population which causes their economies to head towards collapse.
The stagnation of wage growth can be attributed to excessive migration policies. Employers are not having to pay good wages for good workers.
The banks have recklessly made loans until our level of debt to the retail banks is around 180% of GDP, strangling the economy. If there was any good times it is coming to an end.
The concept of a rapidly growing population being a bad thing for the workers was first outlined by Thomas Malthus in 1798. Then it was reiterated by Karl Marx 150 years later. More recently historians looking at the effects of the Bubonic plague in 1347 where population was reduced by around 50%, saw that rather than society collapsing, the peasants could demand higher wages - much to the disgust of the then ruling class.
Population growth by migration has more of an effect upon the working class. White collar workers have mechanisms that exclude migrants from taking their jobs such as professional associations doing all they can to not recognise migrants qualifications. The other thing is just not employing migrants.
More often than not migrants and refugees are conflated. Both sides of the political spectrum mix both up for their own purposes, so as at times people don’t know the difference.
It is concerning about the number of refugees in the world today but there is little criticism of the politicians sending our defence forces around the world to engage in conflicts creating more of them. The resultant psychological effects on our service personnel of course never rates a mention!
Another cause of refugees is the IMF imposing free market policies on third world countries. There has been data around for 20 years that these actions destroy economies and even worse they lead to a fall into civil war.
Looking at countries on a GDP/capita basis, the 18 top countries have small populations of under 8 million. On comparing the 2 largest countries, India and China, the one with the smaller population growth, China, has nearly 5 times the wealth.
One of the most compelling arguments for curtailing migration is the onset of automation of work, now and in the future. Predictions that in the future automation will take up to 50% of the jobs seem a bit over the top, but with current unemployment, under employment and the working poor, it seems an absurdity and foolish to push high migration.
Skills shortage is also a stated reason for migration, yet it hasn’t been a problem for the last 200 years. One of the strongest reasons to limit migration are environmental concerns which whilst not in the scope of this discussion, are acknowledged as essential to ensure for future generations.
Migration is an attack upon the working people of Australia.
Migration is now well past use by date for Australia - It all must end!
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Britain and France the aggressors at the outset of World War 2?
On 13 May Paul Craig Roberts published The Lies About World War II in which he put new and controversial views about the Second World War argued by British Historian, David Irving in his books Hitler's War and Churchill’s War: The Struggle for Power.
Paul Craig Roberts and David Irving correctly agree with Hitler's denunciation of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles where Germany was dismembered and made to pay ruinous reparations to the countries of the victorious Entente. However, he goes on to argue that Britain, France, and their allies, and not Nazi Germany were the aggressors when Nazi Germany invaded Poland on 1 Septemper 1939.
Superficially, many of Paul Craig Roberts' arguments seem correct. The Polish government's refusal to negotiate with Nazi Germany over its territorial claims for regions of Poland, including Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland) inhabited by millions of Germans, seems to make Nazi Germany's subsequent war against Poland seem somewhat justified. For their part, by guaranteeing military support to "the Polish military dictatorship" against Germany's claims, Britain and France are also held to be to blame for the outbreak of war.
Paul Craig Roberts' rightly denounces subsequent war crimes of the western powers during the war, including the deliberate killing of more than 305,000 Germans by the aerial bombardment of cities. He also accuses US President Roosevelt (FDR) of unconscionable conduct towards Britain, including financial extortion, in its time of vulnerability. I am not in a position to confirm or refute such allegations. Nonetheless, it still seems to me that humanity still had a vital stake in Britain's and America's war against Nazi Germany. As I will be posting to Paul Craig Roberts:
Whilst I think you are the single most insightful and informative of all bloggers of which I have become aware in recent years, I think your recent article about the Second World War is way off the mark and I intend to show you how in the near future.
For all of Churchill's glaring faults, humanity is clearly indebted to Churchill's Britain for refusing to make peace with the Third Reich after France surrendered in June 1940. Humanity is also indebted to FDR for backing Britain, even if he had to do so clandestinely prior to 1942.
Contrary to what is said by many who now rightly defend Russia against the war plans of the US, I believe the Soviet Union would have been defeated without support from Britain and the US. I believe the Red Army would have lost largely thanks to Stalin's purge of the best Red Army officers in 1938. [1]
Had he won, Hitler would have ethnically cleansed Eastern Europe and Russia in order to create lebensraum for the German "master race." The Third Reich would have had access to all the natural resources of Russia and the other Soviet republics. The world would have been ruled for decades by Nazi Germany, Japan and the notorious 'isolationist' President Charles Lindbergh's United States.
The real secret of the Second World War is that those who contributed the most to the defeat of Japan and the Third Reich were betrayed by Churchill and FDR's successor, Truman, most notably in Greece and Korea (in both these countries former collaborators were rearmed by the British or American 'liberators' and turned on resistance fighters).
Another hidden secret of the Second World War was that it was needlessly prolonged. One of many examples is the reconquest of Italy by Germany in September 1943 after the Italians had liberated themselves from Mussolini on 25 July 1943. Even though America and Britain had air superiority, they allowed Nazi Germany forces to reconquer almost all of Italy. Nicola Bellomo, one of the very few Italian generals who tried to resist the German invasion was subsequently tried and executed on 11 September 1945 for the "war crime" that two British prisoners were killed trying to escape from a prisoner-of-war camp that he was in command of at the time.
Had Britain and the US both made, and remained at, peace with Nazi Germay after 1940, history since 1945 would have been even more terrible than it was.
Footnotes
[1] Two other reasons why the Nazi invasion might have succeeded are: 1. The Red Army was needlessly surprised on the morning of 22 June 1941, because Stalin ignored warnings of Nazi Germany's invasion plans from Britain, the US and even from his own agent, Richard Sorge, in the German Tokyo embassy; and 2. After the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact in August 1938, Stalin supplied Nazi Germany with vast quantities of the raw materiels necessary for the Wehrmacht to prepare for its invasion of the Soviet Union as well as to continue to wage war against the western European democracies and Britain.
Senator Richard di Natale has spoken up for Julian Assange
Thank you Matthew,
The above article has received a positive response on Twitter. As a consequence, I was shown a press release of 12 April 2019 from Greens Senator Richard Di Natale, "Use the 'special relationship' to stop Assange extradition". It has been republished here. Further information about Richard di Natale and other candidates who support Julian Assange will be posted here.
Hopefully, we will hear more from Senator Richard di Natale in support of Julian Assange over the remaining few days of the election campaign. Hopefully, other candidates will be inspired by the above article to also "Stand up for Julian Assange".
Assange letter
Good idea James - it hope is has some success.
Matt
Rationale will be fees they will pay, I think
I somehow think they will be hitting the imported old folk with big fees. I wonder if the native-born old folk would get this kind of respect if they also paid 'survivor' fees. Not that whatever windfall the Treasury and the various hangers-ons might get from old-folk entry fees could possibly make up for the impact on the environment. It's the toll-gate mentality.
Rationale of elderly import?
The idea of allowing elderly parents of migrants to stay long- term in Australia in a series of family reunions is an odd mixture of completely forgetting that one of the excuses used by the "growth lobby" for high immigration is the ageing of the Australian population and on the other hand a rare acknowledgement that older people are of value to society. (usual denigrated by pro- growthers as a cost to society) If they are valuable enough to actually import from other countries, then why worry about the ageing of the Australian population in the first place?
Infrastructure in art?
Artists are, of course all different in their sources of inspiration and their points of interest but I think few would not be energised by a natural landscape and some uninterrupted peace, whether they choose to depict it or not.
Some artists use the urban environment in their work maybe to draw attention to its intrusiveness. A classic example is Jeffrey Smart who makes much of buildings, motorways , train carriages , containers dominating his canvasses in bright pure colours. Is he saying "these things are taking over!"? Rick Amor is another, who incorporates the built -up environment into natural spaces . He actually seems to be drawn to the introduced aspects of the Australian landscape with his well known use of the iconic cypresses on the Mornington Peninsular. These trees used to seem eerie to me when I was a child yet are compelling and fascinating in Amor's work. Young artist, Harley Manifold, as well as painting pure landscape also draws on the most unlikely subjects, the sorts of glimpses you get whilst travelling 100kms/hr on one of the state highways in Victoria or a momentary exchange seen from a car or passing by on foot. His reminds me of the work of Edward Hopper who tried to get out there in the country in his car on weekends and would manage to get a "gas" station into the picture. I see a certain sadness in what Amor and Manifold show in their work. Likewise a sort of loneliness in some of Jeffrey Smart's work. The Cahill Expressway painting , devoid of nature except for the sky with one lost figure to the side, dwarfed by what is now called "infrastructure".
My impression is not that these artists see the dominance of man- made things in the environment as beautiful but that they are challenged by them and rising to the challenge. each in their own way.
Assange case exposes the double standard practiced by US
"Compared with Edward Snowden, a whistleblower and former US National Security Agency agent, who was granted asylum by Russia, the experience of Assange is tragic and shows that those who expose the ugly side of Western governments cannot get political asylum in any Western country.
Wikileaks' exposé highlights the hypocrisy of the West when it comes to internet freedom. In particular, since the US controls 11 of the 13 root servers in the world and the other two servers are situated in its ally countries, there is a big question mark on internet freedom. Even if internet freedom exists, it is under surveillance of the US.
The US is known to force other countries to open their internet networks in exchange for deepening or improving trade relations. And with the China-US trade negotiation reaching a critical point, it would be interesting to see whether the US uses the same ploy against China and asks it to open its cyberspace."
Article by Li Qingsi | China Daily | Updated: 2019-05-07 07:35
Read more here.
ABC 7.30 segment on housing stress