tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-268143404428121012024-02-19T08:43:33.443-08:00Freedom GraffitiHuman rights and wrongs, state and corporate power, law, technology, philosophy, religion, media, politics, environment, health and travel, and miscellaneous everything else.Brent C. Melvillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05661608043513398851noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26814340442812101.post-61269844267753194462020-03-09T19:44:00.001-07:002020-03-09T19:44:33.528-07:00No, corona virus and financial panic is not Revelation prophecy being fulfilled <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Extracts from accounts by historians Josephus and Tacitus of the destruction of Jerusalem in AD70 describe apparently supernatural happenings that align with the prophecies of Jesus concerning the destruction of the temple and city as <br />recorded in the gospels e.g. Matthew 24, Luke 17.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>HE 2020 “corona virus pandemic” has raised global alarm and
a stock market crash. Amidst this panic are Christians who advocate the
doctrine of dispensationalism or futurist eschatology, i.e. future fulfilment of biblical prophecy or "end times" teaching. The words “global pandemic” fuel their expectations of what they believe to be impending “global judgment”.</div>
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“Revelation is being fulfilled before our very eyes,”
someone proclaimed somewhere online recently. Let me assure those of you who
may be wondering, this is not so. The Book of Revelation, also titled "The Revelation of
Jesus to St John", was literally an urgent warning to the church in the years
leading up to the destruction of Jerusalem in AD70. This is the “historicist”
interpretation of Revelation, as opposed to the “futurist” view i.e. the fulfillment is in the far distant future. But the dispensationalist interpretation can be proven faulty and outright wrong.<br />
The warnings of Revelation came in a series of visions John had on the Greek island of
Patmos, where he had been exiled. John writes that he was “in the Spirit on the Lord’s
day” when he heard “a loud voice, like a trumpet”. The voice was that of Jesus in his spiritual form. He told John to write down the visions. “What you
see, write in a book (scroll) and send it to the seven churches which are in
Asia,” John recorded. "Asia" is Asia Minor or
Turkey as it is known today. The seven churches – Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos,
Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea – are named after their locations in cities and towns, which still can be visited today in modern Turkey.<br />
So how do we know Revelation was primarily directed to the Christians of that time? Because John states so, very clearly. Verse 1 of Revelation states: “The Revelation
of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants – things which shortly
take place.” The New King James Bible footnote on the word “shortly” states
“quickly or swiftly”. How is it then, that Revelation has been cast as a
prophecy in the far distant future from the actual time it was written?</div>
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Internet doomsdayers would have you believe this
record of a series of visions wasn’t really for these seven churches. They
maintain it was for us – a generation nearly two millennia in the distant
future 2020. Perhaps they should note the third verse of Revelation: “Blessed
is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those
things which are written in it: for the time is near.”</div>
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Again, the NKJV margin note on this verse refers us to James 5:8.
“You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at
hand.” Most other translations say “…the coming of the Lord is near.” So, if
the English is not obvious enough, let’s try the Greek translation of “at
hand/near” to underline this. In the Greek Interlinear at Bible Hub.com we find
the Greek word <a href="https://biblehub.com/greek/e_ngiken_1448.htm" title="ēngiken: Trans: I bring near; intrans: I come near, approach. From eggus; to make near, i.e. approach.">ēngiken</a><span class="translit">, whose translation adds ever more urgency i.e. “has drawn
near”. </span></div>
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Dispensationalism teaches that these churches are not only historical
churches, but symbolic of future churches from which we can learn spiritual
lessons from their good and bad points as spoken by Jesus in John’s vision.
That’s not unreasonable, but we should first see these seven churches
as literal, historical churches with real people in real places at a certain
time in history.</div>
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So what were the “things which shortly take place”? The
futurist interpretation suggests Revelation was written post AD70, when
Jerusalem and its temple were finally destroyed after months of attacks by the
Roman armies under the command of Titus. The destruction of the temple was
prophesied a few decades earlier by Jesus, as recorded in Matthew 24 and Luke
17. That proposition that John’s book was written after all this seems highly
unlikely. More likely and more logically, it was written before these truly
horrendous, unprecedented events. If Jesus was to warn the seven churches of
something to happen “shortly”, what can it be post AD70? The siege of Masada in AD70, three years later? That's an absurd proposition because it suggests the warning missed the main event!<br />Revelation contains much imagery and symbolism that should be interpreted within the context of the Bible. This requires considerable study and reading. If you have limited time watch <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HgEG0Dc7Is">Gary De Mar's</a> YouTube channel but for a multitude of articles going back centuries in Christian teaching, go to The <a href="https://www.preteristarchive.com/">Preterist Archive.com </a>which presents various systems of prophecy interpretations.<br />
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Brent C. Melvillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05661608043513398851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26814340442812101.post-18765431025111326822019-03-25T15:39:00.000-07:002019-03-25T15:39:09.116-07:00Media, politicians in denial as 'The Q Storm' hits America<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The White House photo op in 2017 where President Trump drew a Q in the air, warning the media it could <br />
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IT was October 5, 2017, during a presidential photo op at the White House for the media. President Trump had his top military brass around him, including FLOTUS and others. "You guys know what this represents?" the President asked the media while appearing to draw a large Q in the air with his finger. "Tell us sir," someone responded. "Maybe it's the calm before the storm," said the President. He went on to note: "We have the world's great military people in this room. I can tell you that." As the President began to wind things up a female reporter persisted. "What's the storm?" "You'll find out," the President shot back. <br />
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Fast forward to the weekend of March 25th, 2019, just before the release of the long-awaited Mueller Report on alleged Russian interference and collusion with the Trump team to upset Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. Californian Democrat and chairman of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff looked bug-eyed and stressed as he told CNN's Jake Tapper that President Trump was somehow still guilty of "Russian collusion". On MSNBC an angry, flustered author and anti-Trump commentator Sarah Kendzior went over the top to blurt out: "... and no matter what is in this (Mueller) report, we have a crisis, a transnational crisis. We have a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government!" To top it off, Democrat representative John Lewis (Georgia) said the President "is not a legitimate president and he will be impeached!"<br />
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Closer to reality was this official statement from US Attorney General Jim Barr: “The Special Counsel did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone
associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia in its efforts
to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election."<br />
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Mainstream media journalists, who have hounded the President relentlessly since his inauguration, appeared embarrassed to report what Trump had been saying all along: the Mueller report was a witch hunt designed by the Democrats (and the RINO Republicans) to hinder and harass POTUS. Q or QAnon, the anonymous Trump team insider, called it an "insurance policy" to give the Democrats fuel for the 2020 election. Q noted: "Their only defense is to play ‘dumb’ (shocked & surprised) to avoid ‘collusion’ claims. Nobody walks away from this."<br />
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Q had long commented that the Democrats would "project" their own crimes on to the President. "Define projection" Q stated in one post. The incredible accusations of Sarah Kendzior were certainly projection, given that she should be well aware of the alleged gross criminal activity being associated with the Clinton political empire. <br />
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All this blew up just after the Q platforms released a series of photographs starting with Bill Clinton enjoying the shallows at an unnamed Caribbean resort with Tony Podesta and three other men. Q's March 20 post related this directly to a Politico report on attempts by two individuals to suppress names in court documents relating to the conviction of billionaire Jeffrey Epstein on child sex charges. Two anonymous
individuals objected to a key lower-court
ruling in the Epstein case, as well as various submissions by the parties, from being unsealed.<br />
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Is Politico waking up to the enormity of "the swamp" that President Trump has promised to drain and the "deep state" he is bringing out into the light. The Epstein case is just one part - albeit an important part - of the enormous, corrupt, satanically based network that has come to dominate politics of the west. Obama, the Clintons, the Bush family, Tony Blair, Angela Merkel, Phillipe Macron and others are the political front of the network that employs bribery, extortion, murder, military and economic force and moral compromise. It's main method of control is to entrap morally weak leaders in sexual compromise from recorded illicit affairs to pedophilia. The central spiritual force driving this is satanism whose horrific crimes of human sacrifice are fueled by human trafficking - much of which is now coming to light across the west. <br />
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Those military leaders around President Trump are the force behind "Q" - the back channel information service that bypasses the big media and frequently updates on "The Plan", i.e. an actual political-military-economic plan and strategy to defeat the deep state and drain the swamp. These military leaders had approached Donald Trump years ago to run as president and lead their plan to take back America from the grips of the globalism. They knew that globalism demanded the USA must be broken down economically and absorbed into the regions of a global superstate whose power relies on the suppression of freedom and Orwellian-style control of populations by a technocratic elite. Orwell and Huxley were not prophets or seers. They knew long ago that <a href="https://publicintelligence.net/aldous-huxley-1962-u-c-berkeley-speech-on-the-ultimate-revolution/">such a plan existed</a> and warned the world with their novels 1984 and Brave New World.<br />
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"The Plan" as referred to by "Q" is revolutionary as much as it is subversive of the global deep state apparatus and ideology. It suffered a major blow when the President cancelled America's involvement in the Paris Accord on Climate Change - the major globalist plan for economic control of nations in the guise of "saving the planet from climate change".<br /><br />Keep up to date on the Q plan at this site: https://qmap.pub/ Highly recommended in helping interpret Q's cryptic, coded messages are <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBWOcoK7JiI">X22 Report</a>,<a href="https://www.sgtreport.com/"> SGT Report</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ-qLG1bdWVrHM-Hu2W73CQ">Operation Freedom</a> with Dr Dave Janda.<br />
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Brent C. Melvillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05661608043513398851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26814340442812101.post-23439861918988848142018-06-08T18:48:00.000-07:002019-07-02T18:19:50.236-07:00Lucifer, the very dark side of swamp politics and the battle for the soul of America<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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As President Trump acts upon his promise to "drain the swamp" the fallout will be substantial. This battle has major international implications - especially in the western nations who share much of their philosophical, religious, legal and political heritage with America. </span></span></span></i></span></span></h4>
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US PRESIDENTIAL candidate Ben Carson (now US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development) sparked a ruckus on July 19, 2016, at the Republican Party convention, when he suggested there was Luciferian, and by implication, satanic influence on Hillary Clinton's leftist Democrat ideology. Carson, a member of the Seventh Day Adventist church, was referring to an epigraph in the book Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky, a hero of the American left, described by Wikipedia as "an American community organizer ... generally considered to be the founder of modern community organising (and) often noted for his book <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_Radicals">Rules for Radicals</a> (1971)." Clinton wrote her undergraduate thesis around Alinsky's methodology. The epigraph states: "Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins — or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer." <br />
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Naturally, the Left-slanted Snopes.com and other media leapt to Mrs Clinton's defence to state the obvious, that Carson's use of the quote was mischievous. Yes, it was the only reference to Lucifer in the entire book. No doubt it was Alinsky in a moment of mere musing and reflection. He was said to be agnostic, with a leaning towards communism but no party membership. How interesting that Alinsky employed the orthodox biblical understanding of the spiritual entity named Lucifer and Satan. Had he been searching? Perhaps he had some real self doubts? But Carson did have a point, at least from his conservative perspective. His actual comment was: "He (Alinsky) wrote a book called Rules for Radicals. It acknowledges Lucifer, the original radical who gained his own kingdom. Now think about that. This is our nation where our founding document, the Declaration of Independence talks about certain inalienable rights that come from our Creator, a nation where our Pledge of Allegiance says we are ‘One nation under God.’ This is a nation where every coin in our pockets and every bill in our wallet says, ‘In God We Trust.’ So are we willing to elect someone as president who has as their role model somebody who acknowledges Lucifer? Think about that." <br />
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For the sceptical, the link is not as tenuous as it sounds. Is Carson justified in suggesting a Luciferian conspiracy within American socialism? Yes he is, in that the global New Left (i.e. the Frankfurt School post Eastern Bloc communism) is actively seeking to overthrow the western established order - its religion, law and language. As for Hillary Clinton, her connections to the dark arts are well known. Husband Bill (in a public speech), his former Arkansas handler Larry Nicholls and Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward all referred to her involvement with the occult. Nicholls said he was gobsmacked when then-Arkansas Governor Clinton confided in him that Hillary was attending "some sort of witches church" on weekends in LA. According to Woodward, Mrs Clinton was a follower of Jean Houston, co-director the Foundation for Mind Research, a new age group that studies the psychic experience and altered consciousness. Houston stayed at the White House for days at a time. Bill himself is rumoured to have attended a voodoo ceremony in Haiti, where the Clintons have had - to say the least - "highly controversial" aid dealings. <br />
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Now, before those with leftist sympathies accuse me of a smear job on behalf of conservative forces, let me say it's no secret that Luciferianism and Satanism also haunt the right of American politics. President Ronald Reagan and wife Nancy both had strong interest in psychic guidance and astrology - activities condemned in the Bibles of their Christian supporters. President George H.W. Bush (Bush senior), at his 1988 acceptance speech referenced "1000 points of light" . "I will keep America moving forward, ever forward for an enduring dream and a thousand points of light?"(1) The same President Bush on the eve of his Gulf War I, also invoked the idea of a new world order coming together in a multinational force against the nation of Iraq. The Bush family and many of their elite Republican political and business circles who attended Yale University, are initiates of a now-notorious, not-so-secret society called The Order of Skull and Bones. Pictured below is Bush senior and his fellow initiates. Another Bush Bonesman, George W. Bush, became the 43rd president. Bonesman John Kerry, Bush's Democrat "opponent", became Secretary of State (2013-17) for the Obama administration. <br />
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Anthony C. Sutton, a former research Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, says Skull and Bones is much more than a college fraternity. It's lurid activities were confirmed in 1982 when some Yale students broke into the cult's temple at Yale and seized materials. Sutton detailed its activities and history in his book An Introduction to the Order (2). The cult began at Yale in 1833 and every year takes in 15 senior students as "Knights" who then become "Patriarchs" in the outside world. Three generations of the Bush family are initiates of the cult. Sutton says the histories of individual members show their primary objective is "to aquire power, to keep power and use power for their own individual purposes". We might consider the words of the gospel in respect of that thing called power. "Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. “All this I will give you,” he said, “if you will bow down and worship me.” (Matthew 4:8)<br />
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That the Luciferian/Satanic power virus deeply infects politics in America was made even clearer in the 2016 US presidential campaign when Wikileaks released emails from US Democratic Party circles. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has hinted that the leaker was Democrat IT consultant Seth Rich (3) , who was subsequently murdered on the street of his Washington DC neighbourhood. The killers remain free. The emails link the Clintons and their closest associates such as the Podesta brothers and Huma Abedein to the overtly satanic "spirit cooking" rituals with "conceptual artist" Marina Abravomich. In the emails are illogical references to "pizza", which is known among crime investigators as a code word for pedophile activity. This was linked to the Comet Ping Pong pizza business in Washington DC and dubbed "Pizzagate". Comet Ping Pong's owner James Alephantis aka Jimmy Comet, posted the bizarre image (above) on Instagram. In addition, stylised triangular symbols and logos identified by the FBI as those used by pedophiles were replicated on signs on two nearby businesses including Besta Pizza. Then came the release of photos of Tony Podesta's "edgy" art and sculpture collection portraying child trafficking, satanic sexual abuse and even cannibalism. Perhaps it's just a matter of the artist doing what avant garde artists do - push moral boundaries. Indeed. <br />
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Most mainstream media outlets and the predictable "debunk the right-wing conspiracy theory" website Snopes.com claim Pizzagate has been "thoroughly debunked". More accurately the allegations have been vigorously denied and some wilder claims rebutted. But ritual child abuse allegations against the Podesta brothers and their circle were known long before Pizzagate. On February 2nd and 4th, 2011, the investigative journalist Andrew Breitbart, founder of Breitbart News, used Twitter to publicly accuse John Podesta, Bill Clinton's chief of staff and Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, of covering up "underage sex slave operations". Investigative journalist Liz Crokin posted similar allegations on Twitter. The Podestas could have sued but didn't. Breitbart however, did die an unfortunate early death that cut short any further attempts to make the issue public. <br />
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More than two decades before that, allegations of satanic pedophile activities involving the Republican Party and reaching into the George H. W. Bush (Snr) White House were made in The Franklin Cover-Up, an investigation by Nebraska lawyer and state Republican Senator John de Camp.(4) Similar information was published by BBC journalist Nick Bryant in The Franklin Scandal. De Camp was investigating allegations of pedophile rings operating in Omaha through his own party's circles and the Boys Town institution. He had been tipped off by Paul Bonacci, who had been jailed for a minor sexual assault at Boys Town. Around the same time, Larry King, a "rising star" in the Republican Party, was jailed for money laundering at the Franklin Credit Union in Omaha, coincidentally, the same city inhabited by the multi-billionaire investor Warren Buffett. Bonacci said the pedophile activity was national in scale and involved teen prostitutes. From 1988, when the Franklin scandal first became public, until mid-1991, at least 15 people associated with the case as investigators, alleged perpetrators or potential witnesses, died sudden deaths, many of them violent. "By their fruits you shall know them", a well known Bible verse states. And death is the fruit of the criminal, satanic cults that inhabit the corridors of power in America and elsewhere.<br />
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As this blog is being written, the Freedom Caucus of the Republic Party have called for investigations of "Spygate", that is the alleged deliberate infiltration of the Trump political campaign with a spying operation initiated by the Obama administration in cahoots with the FBI - a criminal offence against the state in the realm of treason or sedition. And Hillary Clinton, despite FBI investigations of her illegal use of a private email server being dropped before the 2016 election, will face more questions from Congress and official investigators when current FBI investigations into the Clinton Foundation emerge.(5) It is only a matter of time when others around her in the swamp of DC politics face the same official scrutiny and prosecutions from the Trump administration.<br />
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In December 2017, President Trump signed an Executive Order Blocking the Property of Persons Involved in Serious Human Rights Abuse or Corruption. The powers are enabling state and federal authorities across America to conduct a massive, ongoing sweep against the very pedophile and sex cult activities that have become entrenched in both sides of American politics. The NXIVM sex cult arrests in March-April are one example.(6) Senior members of that particular cult - Nancy Salzman and the Bronfman sisters - were reported to be members of the Clinton Global Initiative and donors to the foundation. Both organisations reach deep into the treasuries of many nations. Up until 2016, Australia alone donated a staggering $460 million to the foundation and its associated entities.(7) The sheer size and reach of the Clinton networks make investigations a long and mammoth task. Revelations of criminal activity will come as no surprise to those who have followed this family's political activities from Arkansas to the White House. Let the fireworks begin.<br />
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Footnotes:<br />
1. George H. W. Bush delivers an acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention on August 18, 1988.- www.history.com<br />
2. Antony C Sutton - America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull Bones, Trine Day, April 1, 2004. First pub. 1986. <br />
3. Assange implies murdered DNC staffer was Wikileaks source: Fox News Politics, Aug. 10, 2016.<br />
4. The Franklin Cover-up: Child Abuse, Satanism and Murder in Nebraska - John W. DeCamp. Amazon.com<br />
5. FBI launches new Clinton Foundation investigation - John Solomon, The Hill, 04/01/18.<br />
6. Nxivm leader rips prosecutors in request for $10M bail - New York Post, June 6, 2018. <br />
The Hollywood Followers of Nxivm, a Woman Branding Sex Cult - Amy Zimmerman, The Daily Beast (30/3/18) <br />
7. Why have we donated to Clinton's foundation? Andrew Bolt, Herald-Sun, (31/10/16).</div>
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Brent C. Melvillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05661608043513398851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26814340442812101.post-69983043730687496602016-09-09T16:23:00.000-07:002016-09-09T16:23:29.689-07:00When regulation becomes state tyranny: the case of NSW, Australia <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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IN the state of New South Wales
commercial fishermen are fighting for freedom and commonsense as the Department
of Primary Industries strangles their industry with oppressive and even
life-threatening regulations on what was once seen as an everyday commercial
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Similar oppressive regulations have been imposed upon the
state’s farmers by a succession of governments in the name of ‘preserving biodiversity’.
Farmers have effectively lost the ability to manage their own farms. The same
government has declared its intention to ban the sport of greyhound racing –
and the largely rural industries associated with it. </div>
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These alarming developments raise an important question: If
government in our system is given its authority by the people, then why is this
government acting directly against the will of the people who elect it?</div>
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Commercial fishing regulations in NSW involve extreme
“micro-management” of people in the manner of a jailer over prisoners. The NSW
Department of Primary Industries decrees that “fishers” (we must use the non-sexist
term of course) in a certain category can only fish in estuaries at night by
themselves. Neither can anyone help with launching or unloading that boat at
the jetty. They can be fined $550 for merely shining a torch at the fisherman or
even offering a cup of coffee! </div>
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Even worse is that a regulation imposed by a government
agency should put people in mortal danger. Four fatalities in the past few
years have been attributed to fishermen being forced into solo fishing at night
with no companion to assist in an emergency or lack of mobile coverage in many
areas. But those who make the rules and impose the penalties have been far from
willing to listen to reason or the public they are supposed to serve.</div>
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Has it been lost upon those in authority in NSW that fines
and punishments should only be applied to people who do something wrong or
harmful? Such regulations appear to be simply a threat of force to control
behaviour and to strangle an industry seen as some sort of threat the
environment. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Section 270.1 of the
Commonwealth Criminal Code defines the term ‘slavery’ as “the condition of a
person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership
are exercised, including where such a condition results from a debt or contract
made by the person”. The same Criminal Code also outlaws “slavery-like
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In effect, NSW’s so-called “fishing laws” reverse the
traditional definition of law, which is to protect life and property and provide
remedy for those who suffer harm or loss. </div>
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Fishing industry spokesmen say their government is clearly
intent on suppression of their trade. At least one former politician is on the
record as saying that the people who make a living from fishing will be “starved
out” of their occupation and reduced to a mere 500 businesses on the entire NSW
coast. In the 1980s there were more than 6000 commercial fishing businesses. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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To underline how corrupt and oppressive NSW statute laws
have become, we need to look into some history of our Westminster
system of government. Englishman Kenn d’Oudney notes in his book Democracy
Defined: The Manifesto<sup>1</sup>: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“It
remains a universal criterion of justice that the validity and justice of laws
and all acts of their enforcement require them to be judged not by those who
make and enforce the laws (government), but by those who voluntarily agree to
abide by the laws (all adult citizens). All men and women who do not uphold
this tenet are then promoting unlawful rule by a tyrannical élite.”</i></div>
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“Tyrannical elite” fits perfectly today to the powerful,
highly-paid (and armed) public servants who strictly enforce endless,
micro-managing regulations under the threat of penalties than can bankrupt an
individual or small business. Armed NSW fisheries officers have even threatened
NSW fishermen on occasion.</div>
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Supposedly, this is all to save “dwindling, threatened fish
stocks”, which has long been disputed by independent scientific opinion.
Regardless, the fishermen themselves rely on conservation of the seafood resource
and have substantially submitted to the declaration of various coastal parks
and no-fishing zones. </div>
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But the political reality is not about protecting resources,
it is controlling them under the United Nations’ Agenda 21 (now Agenda 20-30)
planning template. The regulations forcing this change are tyrannical, as might
be expected under a system of global, centralized control of population and
resources.</div>
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This is essentially why these behaviour-modifying
regulations are put into place by senior public servants and compliant
politicians – in that order. Senior corporate bureaucrats implement UN “policy
guidelines” drawn up under “international treaty obligations” and other global
agreements that most Australians have never heard of. Concurrrent with this is
pressure from environmentalist groups ranging from the high-powered Pew
Foundation in America
to Greenpeace and others pushing the globalist Agenda 21 program.</div>
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But international law and UN treaties cannot override our
inherent rights and freedoms. They only have force when legislated into place
with the consent of the people through their elected representatives – and even
then they must not override the will or the welfare of the people in what we
loosely call a democracy.</div>
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Some claim that parliaments in the west have supreme power (parliamentary
supremacy) to legislate whatever they want. This is a half truth. Under the Westminster
parliamentary tradition they can indeed legislate what they want but the people
can also judge and overrule the statute law they make if that statute law is
unjust or destructive or violates the rights of the people. They can also vote
the politicians out.</div>
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D’Oudney further writes in Democracy Defined: The Manifesto:
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Naturally, people have the moral
responsibility, the right and the duty to resist and suppress injustice
wherever it occurs, and by whomsoever it is perpetrated, governments
notwithstanding. By definition and in practice, Democracy and Justice require
that the People at all times retain the Supreme Power to annul injustices and
the bad laws made by fallible politicians … According to legem terræ* common
law, it is the jurors’ duty in Trial by Jury to judge the justice of the law
and every act of enforcement and acquit any persons </i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">accused under an
arbitrary, unjust or apocryphal statute, regulation or prosecution.”</i> (pp
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Mr d’Oudney and his fellow researchers Astrid and Joanna
d’Oudney, have devoted themselves to reawakening all people – not just those
who live under the Westminster
system and English law – to this principle that power in a free society resides
with the people and their ability to judge the law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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D’Oudney cites, among others, Harlan F. Stone, US Chief
Justice 1941-1946, on the Juror’s Duty in the authentic Trial by Jury, as
follows: </div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“If a juror feels that
the statute involved in any criminal offence is unfair, or that it infringes
upon the defendant’s natural God-given unalienable or Constitutional rights,
then <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">it is his duty to affirm that the
offending statute is really no law at all and that the violation of it is no
crime at all, for no one is bound to obey an unjust law</b>. That juror must
vote Not Guilty regardless of the pressures or abuses that may be heaped on him
by any or all members of the jury with whom he may in good conscience disagree.
He is voting on the justice of the law according to his own conscience and
convictions and not someone else’s. The law itself is on trial quite as much as
the case which is to be decided.”</i> (p.3)</div>
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Today, in Australia,
that is a radical concept as state governments and their supposed public
servants wage war on any activity deemed to be some sort of threat to the
environment or a threat to the big commercial interests that have rigged rules
and regulations within legislation to serve their own interests.</div>
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The commercial fishing community has tried to co-operate with
the politicians and public servants. They are protesting the most dangerous of
the regulations but have made little progress. Their role, according to current
“corporate management” fads, is merely to comply. “Compliance” has become a
part of corporate management systems that operate within the public service. </div>
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Kenn d’Oudney further cites the case ruling of United
States v. Moylan; U.S. Fourth Circuit Court
of Appeals, 1969, 417 F. 2d 1002 as an example of how true democracy should
work. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“If the jury feels the law is
unjust, we recognise the undisputed power of the jury to acquit even if its
verdict is contrary to the law as given by the judge, and contrary to the
evidence. If the jury feels that the law under which the defendant is accused
is unjust, or that exigent circumstances justified the actions of the accused,
or for any reason which appeals to their logic or passion, the jury has the
power to acquit, and the courts must abide by that decision.” </div>
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States and Australia
both share that English common law tradition and US
case law can be used in Australian courts.</div>
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Is it not time for a jury to judge whether the NSW
government is imposing unjust and harmful statute laws and regulations upon the
state’s commercial fishermen, its farmers and its greyhound breeders?</div>
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Without doubt it is time, as the government of NSW (and most
if not all others in Australia) has not only put in place tyrannical
regulations that endanger life and take away liberty, but has brazenly defied
the will of people who it is elected to serve.</div>
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Just as the American colonists decided that their English
king and his government had become oppressors and tyrants, perhaps it is time
to declare the same about governments in Australia
and separate the right from the wrong. It is time to restate the principles
upon which free societies and free peoples operate. We can leave the last words
with the American colonists and their Declaration of Independence:</div>
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The Declaration of Independence:
A Transcription<sup>2</sup></div>
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IN CONGRESS, July 4,
1776.</div>
<b>The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of </b><b>America</b><b>,</b><br />
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to
dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to
assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which
the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the
opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel
them to the separation.<br />
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that
among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure
these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers
from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government
becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to
abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such
principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most
likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate
that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient
causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more
disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by
abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of
abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to
reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to
throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future
security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is
now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of
Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of
repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the
establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let
Facts be submitted to a candid world.<br />
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Kenn. DEMOCRACY DEFINED: The Manifesto (p. 5). SCORPIO RECORDING COMPANY
(PUBLISHING) LTD.. Kindle Edition.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;">The US
National Archives and Records Administration <br />
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Brent C. Melvillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05661608043513398851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26814340442812101.post-89943412475810401302016-07-29T06:00:00.002-07:002016-08-06T01:54:27.461-07:00Why Hillary must absolutely not be president<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>"I WAS there in the beginning, inside the Clinton machine. I saw it all
happen. From the corrupt to the absolutely corrupt, and that's when I
thought about my father who was dying of lung cancer, and what he'd do
if he knew the man I'd become. And then I thought about my daughter.
What if the cocaine they were bringing in ended up being used by her. I
hit my knees that day and asked God to forgive me."</i> - Former Clinton political aide and whistle-blower Larry Nichols, <i>The New Clinton Chronicles</i> (2015).<br />
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People who don't know the history of Bill and Hillary Clinton might understandably support her presidential campaign against the abrasive, shoot-from-the-lip billionaire and political outsider Donald Trump. After all, Hillary is a lawyer and former First Lady of Arkansas and the White House, a senator for New York state and a Secretary of State in the Obama administration. She's tough, plucky, intelligent, eloquent, "charming" even. But Hillary has a serious problem - her and husband Bill's very dark history that is littered with all manner of criminal allegations and, in Bill's case, convictions.<br />
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Bill Clinton's serious character problems are now well known, but were identified decades ago by
his political fixer Larry Nichols, who helped recruit him for
his successful run for Governor of Arkansas. In the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS7uSmG-R34">2015 video</a>
(referenced above) Nichols tells of his time with Bill in a restaurant during that
recruitment process on behalf of Witt Stephens, founder of Stephens Inc,
the Arkansas financial services company. "I said to Mr Witt ... 'this
guy is a sexual predator. He's not just a womaniser. I tell you, this
guy's sick and a pathological liar'. And I told Mr Witt 'I couldn't even
make him tell the truth and when he came to something that he could
tell the truth on that was harmless to him - he still couldn't tell the
truth'."<br />
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But should Hillary be condemned for her
husband's flaws? No. Perhaps she's just a strong woman holding her
family together at all costs. It would be nice to think such a thing.
She could indeed be called a noble, selfless woman if that were the case.
Unfortunately for the want-to-be first woman US president, the facts don't stack up for such a conclusion. Nichols says Hillary is in fact the driver behind Bill.<br />
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Did their history really involve drugs? Yes, a drug-running operation did go on at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxaFGsdGxnc">Mena airport</a> in Arkansas under the noses of Governor Bill and First Lady Hillary. But the governor did assure the press he and Hillary had nothing to do with the reputed $100 million-a-month drug running operation linked to the Iran-Contra arms scandal and involving George H.W. Bush (a long-time Clinton family friend). Perhaps they weren't directly linked to it, but Bill did attend parties with jailed drug user Dan Lasater where young women were freely supplied with cocaine. Bill's half-brother Roger was also jailed for his role in a cocaine dealing ring. So who do we believe? Former Arkansas Supreme Court judge and former senator Jim Johnston said of President Clinton: "He can accommodate any situation that comes up because he's not hemmed in by the truth. I've never felt that Clinton, consciously or unconsciously, was hemmed in with morality." (<i>The Clinton Chronicles</i>). <br />
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The long-running rumours about Clinton administration corruption began to be confirmed when Nichols investigated the books of the Arkansas Development Finance Authority - an entity officially set up to provide state-backed, low-interest finance for schools and churches. Nichols had been appointed ADFA's marketing president. His investigations not only showed ADFA funds were going to Clinton's close friends, his election campaigns and to Hillary's Rose Law Firm, but appeared to be part of a money laundering operation. His attempts to prosecute the racket were simply ignored by the media and dismissed by the local courts.<br />
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Further investigations would allege links between the AFDA and the notorious drug money-laundering Bank Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), shut down in 1991. Nichols states in <i>The Clinton Chronicles</i>: "ADFA, until 1989, never banked any money in Arkansas. What they would do is ship the money down ... to a bank in Florida, which later would be connected to BCCI. They would ship money to a bank in Atlanta, Georgia, which by the way was later connected to BCCI. They would ship to Citicorp in New York, which would ship the money overseas. There was an interesting one, a bank in Chicago, and that bank is partially owned by Dan Rostenkowski (the prominent, now deceased Democrat politician jailed for mail fraud)."<br />
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Nichols goes on to explain that the Clintons' friend Dan Lasater became the broker for the bonds and would transfer money back to ADFA. "You never saw (unclear) a bond. The money would then leave ADFA, go into one of the various banks for a specific bond loan and they would zero it out. And when they were zeroing it out they would give it back to Lasater, less their handling fees."<br />
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ADFA was structured so that decisions were made in secret and applications for funding were handled by Rose Law Firm - at a cost of $50,000 each. Nichols says he asked the AFDC comptroller Bill Wilson how the loans were repaid. "He looked at me and said 'they don't'. He thought I knew!"<br />
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"So it was just another corrupt government," a cynic might say. Well, it's much more than the odd paper bag stuffed with notes. How many politicians today with some sense of proprietary would stand down if such allegations surfaced around them? Not the Clintons. And their story gets much worse.<br />
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There was a growing list of people who were offside with Clinton administrations were ending up dead from unnatural causes. Some or even most of those deaths might well be the genuine suicides and mishaps (e.g. plane crashes) that investigators said they were. But what's undeniable is that there are suspicious deaths around the Clinton political circle. One
online mini-documentary puts the numbers of dead, formerly close Clinton associates in the high 40s. Some say the
number of victims of "Arkancide" is 150. <br />
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Snopes.com tries to dismiss the allegation superficially: "Bill Clinton has quietly done away with several dozen people who possessed incriminating evidence about him. False." That's not necessarily what's being claimed. Various lists have been circulating since the damning <i>Clinton Chronicles</i> documentary. There is no way that Snopes.com, an outfit that specialises in defending establishment narratives, can suggest that <i>none</i> of the deaths around the Clinton political machine are genuinely suspicious. Take the alleged death by suicide of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Foster">Vincent Foster</a>, Hillary's former Rose Law Firm associate - also said to be her lover. The Wikipedia official account of Foster's suicide is seriously at odds with other accounts, particularly that of Larry Nichols. Nichols has publicly confessed on radio that he carried out "hits". <br />
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So, after all of this, have the Clintons been convicted of any serious crime? Not Hillary, but
in Bill's case he was convicted (and later acquitted) for perjury and
obstruction of justice. Both have also been the subject of a number of
serious criminal investigations, the most notable being the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewater_controversy#Subpoena_of_the_presidential_couple">Whitewater scandal</a>.
In that event 15 Clinton friends and associates were convicted of 40
federal crimes. But for the Clintons and their supporters, Whitewater is just more water under the bridge.<br />
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During their time in the White House there were also the Travelgate and Filegate scandals. Bill was found guilty of contempt of court in the case alleging he sexually harassed Paula Jones, and was subsequently impeached as president by the way. Jones technically lost her case but Clinton had to pay her $850,000 in compensation. We also know about Hillary's role as Secretary of State in the Benghazi (Libya) Affair, and her infamous comment "what difference at this point does it make?" in relation to the deaths of US government employees there at the hands of terrorists. As Secretary of State she appeared to have ignored repeated pleas by the late Ambassador Stevens to increase security there. There's also her use of a private email server as a government employee and how she is sidestepping that possible crime with the help of the Obama administration. Again, a background of such controversy would force most politicians to quietly step down - but not Hillary Clinton, who seems to regard herself as untouchable. Indeed, she seems to thrive on controversy. <br />
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Larry Nichols, unlike the Clintons, admits he "wasn't a good person". He worked in "special operations" in Central and South America and "did a lot of bad things". But now Nichols, battling lung cancer, has vowed to do everything he can to stop Hillary Clinton going to the White House. "I just want to see (them) brought to justice and get their just dues ... and put where they belong, in jail," he says in <i>The New Clinton Chronicles,</i> and updated version of the earlier documentary.<br />
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To simply dismiss the most serious allegations of crime and corruption
around the Clintons as mere political mudslinging is disingenuous and denial of facts. They say mud
sticks, but the Clintons are masters of chutzpah. They walk through these
fires to emerge like the risen phoenix bird. How appropriate that Hillary
sometimes wears a gold phoenix bird brooch. The bird is venerated in occult circles and Mr Nichols and others believe the would-be president has long-standing
connections with those circles. Prominent Republican Ben Carson drew attention to the same matter at the 2016 Republican National Convention, noting that the young Hillary Rodham's political mentor, the US communist Saul Alinsky, wrote of Lucifer as "the original radical who gained his own kingdom". Hillary's senior thesis was on Alinsky. Whether the Lucerferian connections are valid or not, she is well schooled in the far-left politics of subterfuge, subversion and deception.<br />
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Like her husband, Hillary consistently shows she is not bound by conventional morality. She was recently accused from several quarters of lying under oath to the Congress at the investigations into the Benghazi affair. But Clinton obviously knows the technicalities of the law and that she can get away with it, as explained on <a href="http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/why-hillary-clinton-will-not-be-charged-for-lying-to-congress-even-though-she-did/">Law Newz.</a> It's par for the course for Hillary.<br />
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This same "liberal champion of women's and minority causes" considers babies in the womb not to be "persons" i.e. living, breathing beings. She is a strong supporter of Planned Parenthood (the abortion provider) and its philosophical founder Margaret Sanger, a eugenicist who advocated exterminating the Negro population and actually supported the Klu Klux Klan. Clinton accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood and went on to defend Sanger when questioned on the issue.<br />
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Hillary Clinton's behaviour away from the cameras has been described variously as obscene and racist by a number of former associates such as former US Secret Service agent Gary Byrne. In a book titled "Crisis of Character" he describes her "obscenity-laced tirades thrown at staff members" in the White House. There were also "volcanic" fights between the couple. Byrne says she, like Bill, is "habitually dishonest" and unfit to lead America. <br />
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And then there's the multi-billion-dollar Clinton Foundation that gathers donations from businesses and governments worldwide for various charitable projects in developing nations. But we've heard a story like that somewhere before. Donations include an estimated $25 million from Saudi Arabia, a nation notorious for violations of women's and minority rights - or generally any kind of justice except Wahhabist beheadings and hand chopping. Even the Clinton-backing New York Times acknowledges there are conflicts of interest with the foundation, such as multinational corporations being able to "buy" US government policy.<br />
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First woman president of the United States might well be a noble aspiration, but for Hillary Clinton it is her ultimate grab for power. Drug running, financial scandals, sexual scandals and suspicious deaths are nothing to her but inconvenient obstacles on the path of power. Nichols believes she will promote her husband to UN ambassador and between them and their fabulously wealthy Clinton Foundation wield vastly more power than any US presidential family ever did. If Hillary and her husband Bill have no shame about their past, the mind boggles as to what she and her circle will be capable of when and if they take over (God forbid) the US presidential reigns once more. <br />
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* A Wikipedia summary states: "As a consequence of his conduct in the <i>Jones v. Clinton</i> civil
suit and before the federal grand jury, President Clinton incurred
significant administrative sanctions. The Independent Counsel considered
seven non-criminal alternative sanctions that were imposed in making
his decision to decline prosecution: (1) President Clinton’s admission
of providing false testimony that was knowingly misleading, evasive, and
prejudicial to the administration of justice before the United States
District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas; (2) his
acknowledgement that his conduct violated the Rules of Professional
Conduct of the Arkansas Supreme Court; (3) the five-year suspension of
his license to practice law and $25,000 fine imposed on him by the
Circuit Court of Pulaski County, Arkansas; (4) the civil contempt
penalty of more than $900,000 imposed on President Clinton by the
federal court for violating its orders; (5) the payment of more than
$850,000 in settlement to Paula Jones; (6) the express finding by the
federal court that President Clinton had engaged in contemptuous
conduct; and (7) the substantial public condemnation of President
Clinton arising from his impeachment." </div>
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Melvillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05661608043513398851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26814340442812101.post-506902883097162502009-03-15T17:50:00.000-07:002009-03-28T17:19:36.690-07:00The Great Southern Escape from Queensland<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAm_09WMtx6B-qV_HNoopRwENPSlOTC2xYWwaB8OIQnPe1cHyCMEaDF48WgHABVf3T7u9-nIAu_aq4rnY2rB6jRiHkgwFk5rjvlb7ThLYJupAl8EgEuHqHbl5_9rwsvvrByFzbj28BQg/s1600-h/NZ09+052.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318389518999546322" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 150px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAm_09WMtx6B-qV_HNoopRwENPSlOTC2xYWwaB8OIQnPe1cHyCMEaDF48WgHABVf3T7u9-nIAu_aq4rnY2rB6jRiHkgwFk5rjvlb7ThLYJupAl8EgEuHqHbl5_9rwsvvrByFzbj28BQg/s200/NZ09+052.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br><br />PHOTOS:<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOSv6IVnQW42Frc52Os7prBLMNnmYs1ZdaIzlD7z76SzL_L0FTjtOEYGsLAv4Vo5AHeU2vYjqsaPIefA9vYngFKl4_pPLNowAFZi8EQ-E8UIj8j4QkINb2mpMq5T7PSgtuVZ1BnMkg8g/s1600-h/NZ09+100.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318172550297813842" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 269px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 184px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOSv6IVnQW42Frc52Os7prBLMNnmYs1ZdaIzlD7z76SzL_L0FTjtOEYGsLAv4Vo5AHeU2vYjqsaPIefA9vYngFKl4_pPLNowAFZi8EQ-E8UIj8j4QkINb2mpMq5T7PSgtuVZ1BnMkg8g/s320/NZ09+100.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br><br />Left: Seals on the Otago Peninsula. <br /><br />Right: Keiran Dooley at his inner city Arc Cafe. Below: Art deco 1920s-40s flats; retro collector Fritz at Purple Rain; the ornate Dunedin Railway Station and surrounding buildings; Victorian facade meets stark 60s.<br /><br /><div align="right"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVGOupfeBagBm1IlIOa9u4nNd9PGqG7bvCKMAuLUXLRhxOm3lu33qvQA42dNJdn4N0LxNOsOHSoOI7ArFC2ZAh4V0UfGaHclKsRXqNA8epEsNn_PAnyl-yvkA8cgM1RCQ7ZkJIEpps1w/s1600-h/NZ09+096.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314365152643660450" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVGOupfeBagBm1IlIOa9u4nNd9PGqG7bvCKMAuLUXLRhxOm3lu33qvQA42dNJdn4N0LxNOsOHSoOI7ArFC2ZAh4V0UfGaHclKsRXqNA8epEsNn_PAnyl-yvkA8cgM1RCQ7ZkJIEpps1w/s320/NZ09+096.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD5Brs8lo0nu8in-fvyT0r2CPe_PN6B0sgAWyP3itavdhbS9m0u5_dzvOI7S5s8gpBGt3u262drUxtGNdFslEUf7CHa4kzzSRnqKOWmdgxBd9LY60gqRAGq60WlaNqWiNgOxIVwqxI0A/s1600-h/NZ09+006.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314358001151457826" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD5Brs8lo0nu8in-fvyT0r2CPe_PN6B0sgAWyP3itavdhbS9m0u5_dzvOI7S5s8gpBGt3u262drUxtGNdFslEUf7CHa4kzzSRnqKOWmdgxBd9LY60gqRAGq60WlaNqWiNgOxIVwqxI0A/s320/NZ09+006.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikAiDF3j2uKl1XsbpAiC1l3DI4y16RHBCh5kM8Y-j_coJJ4KbYDpgQn3vBA9Rtb-6YEnVu5_x91TftBMWym74QAJesibP-Oqnm6gEc-SygLZqQ1EfJt-m2dQjfW9BF_sahwdFYOyG__A/s1600-h/NZ09+018.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314352835516311954" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; WIDTH: 224px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 270px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikAiDF3j2uKl1XsbpAiC1l3DI4y16RHBCh5kM8Y-j_coJJ4KbYDpgQn3vBA9Rtb-6YEnVu5_x91TftBMWym74QAJesibP-Oqnm6gEc-SygLZqQ1EfJt-m2dQjfW9BF_sahwdFYOyG__A/s200/NZ09+018.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><br /><br /><p align="left"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzOqGENKMbauFgc0ABXjQ7fAm7veCL2xgiAbhK1HtoyTtUHZ-xvMJ-p7uFEyrL_hE5B4AJqMZSZmN8rBvuxNaJjQmp-F5AoxH5y8cvPgyRtCS_ePI70VtZU1R3wUbxaVX6xiY2xVeW3g/s1600-h/NZ09+017.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314336230842126802" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; WIDTH: 345px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 259px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzOqGENKMbauFgc0ABXjQ7fAm7veCL2xgiAbhK1HtoyTtUHZ-xvMJ-p7uFEyrL_hE5B4AJqMZSZmN8rBvuxNaJjQmp-F5AoxH5y8cvPgyRtCS_ePI70VtZU1R3wUbxaVX6xiY2xVeW3g/s320/NZ09+017.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><br /><br />MARCH 16, 2009: The New Zealand South Island <span lang="EN-AU">city of Dunedin is the ultimate contrast to the </span>Gold Coast. For tourists it’s a transition from the brash beachfront of high-rise glitz to a sedate, civilized provincial city of some 118.000 people. Where the Gold Coast boasts glassy residential towers, Dunedin parades one of the richest displays of Victorian (and more recent) architecture anywhere in the Southern Hemisphere. The Otago Railway Station and nearby hotels (above left) are punctuated by examples of some not so pretty styles as seen in the distinctive but garish 60s office building (right) adjoining a Victorian frontage. A steep city centre street (above right) also feature art-deco 20s-era apartments<span lang="EN-AU">. A couple of ultra-mod </span>examples are Otago University's Centre for Innovation and the Information Services Building.<br /><span lang="EN-AU">Getting to Dunedin from Australia meanwhile, is not so easy over winter. Air New Zealand plans to suspend flights between </span>Dunedin and Sydney from April 16 to October 24 2009, but the Brisbane link will stay open. That’s a good thing for people from balmy Queensland, who still have the opportunity for not only the popular Aussie jaunt to the South Island snowfields in winter, but to escape the summer humidity for some refreshing Otago weather. Mind you, Otago records some of New Zealand’s hottest summer temperatures with brief bursts into the mid 30s.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>In such circumstances, a quick dip at a Dunedin beach or in one of the high country lakes will very quickly remind you you’re in southern latitudes.<br />Dunedin, perhaps like Adelaide, likes to defy its own staid image. Fed by the annual intake to Otago University, New Zealand’s oldest institution of higher learning, the city naturally has a vibrant youth culture. Dunedin bands claim their own particular sound – although descriptions of that hometown sound are a bit vague.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>Students do get a bit out of hand in March at the start of the academic year. We negotiated dozens of them clad in caveman outfits surging across the road towards town.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>The annual toga parade turned a little ugly and vile this year and a few years ago there was a real riot in the student quarter. But don’t fear, it’s mostly all good fun. Dunedin’s cold snaps cool off the worst hotheads and send you scurrying into one of the many cosy internet cafes and pubs around The Octagon in the city centre, graced with a statue of the Scottish poet Robert Burns.<br />A couple of nights later on a quiet Monday night we chanced upon the spacious Arc Café, looking for some internet time. As a local death metal band thrashed away<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>at practice in the adjoining live music venue, café proprietor Kieran Dooley most generously obliged with some $2 brewed coffee as a ‘swap’ for some free PC use. Kieran likes everything organic and his chocolate covered banana cake was superb. The city also has a great range of secondhand and antique stores on Princess St that my wife and daughter couldn’t resist. One example is Odds ’n’ Ends run by a charming elderly gent with a long white beard. He specializes in cups and saucers. The jam-packed place could keep you busy for hours. Across the road is the trendy Purple Rain run by a Dutch-Kiwi man by the name of Fritz (top left) who has tapped into some great supplies of quality retro such as his beloved Wurlitzer juke box and a big old booming cathode tube radio that recalls an exceptional and long-lost AM sound. Fritz (upper right), like other Dunedinites, seems to appreciate the city’s past. There’s no fretting over the height of the next high rise project, although a proposed new $190 million sports stadium to replace the famous ‘House of Pain’ rugby stadium at Carisbrook is raising some hackles. Speaking of rugby, there’s a great rugby shop on busy George St and a pub on the northern side of the Octagon is also dedicated to the game. There’s also a Scottish shop with kilts – a rarity indeed – and haggis. Scots, of course, founded the fair city. They were laymen from the Free Church of Scotland, invited by the New Zealand Company to establish a new settlement at a whaling station at the head of Otago Harbour. It all started in 1847.<br />Today the car brings the city, harbour and surrounding hills all within easy reach. In the city centre the spectacular architecture of the railway station, university and cathedrals gives way to the charming Otago Peninsula, where narrow, winding roads take you across almost mountainous sheep farms to Larnach’s Castle, wild ocean beaches graced by seals and penguins and placid harbourside bays adorned with compact settlements. We bought two good-sized sole (flounder) at one of the Saturday markets for $6. Back in town there’s a Cadbury’s chocolate factory open for tours most days. And don’t forget Baldwin St in North Dunedin, listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s steepest street. Great exercise to work off the chocolate.<br /><br /><br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span></p>Brent C. Melvillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05661608043513398851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26814340442812101.post-14961040370779718402009-03-08T01:16:00.000-08:002009-03-08T03:29:00.585-07:00Globalisation on the march eating up Australian farms<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1pJoFIFBcq2zinVfamBuBkrFTAJKk0qXYw_as8M8h0UdhPz6RO9GAdF2AYW_uL_AGNg-Jsx5YhfMaahJzFjLNY1MfAPaQVAnfVBq4J9Eipd2KxWyQhJ7BBDBudywoilWLQ09eYG9jQ/s1600-h/sun+pix+043.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1pJoFIFBcq2zinVfamBuBkrFTAJKk0qXYw_as8M8h0UdhPz6RO9GAdF2AYW_uL_AGNg-Jsx5YhfMaahJzFjLNY1MfAPaQVAnfVBq4J9Eipd2KxWyQhJ7BBDBudywoilWLQ09eYG9jQ/s320/sun+pix+043.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310761611956999314" border="0" /></a><br />A SPECIAL investigation by Tracey Spicer of the Daily Telegraph (March 07, 2009) has revealed the stark reality of globalisation, but without pointing to the big issue itself. Spicer points out something that might shock the 'average Australian' who uses television as their only means of information: Hasan Mohammad Bin Laden - one of Osama's brothers - is the head of the Middle-East Foodstuff Consortium and is eyeing off millions of hectares of farmland around the world to use as Saudi Arabia's "rice barn" and next on his hit list is Australia! Shock horror Tracey, welcome to the global economy.<br />Spicer reveals Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Kuwait want to buy buy more than $1 billion worth of Aussie farmland in a 21st century land grab. "Their mission is to own Australian cropping land to feed their own people. The big legal question is: Who owns what if there is a global food crisis?" "Everyone knows it's been going on," Suzanne Laing from the Australian Grain Growers Association said. "But we don't want to make any political comment."<br />Spicer's report notes that the National Farmers Federation supports the sell off. "We have no concerns at all," NFF president David Crombie said. "Foreigners bring in new dollars; it's good for Australian agriculture."<br />But Crombie and the NFF say it's all about 'free trade'. What they don't tell us is that its trade controlled by a global bureaucracy called the World Trade Organisation and a few global corporations like Monsanto, who admit they want total control of the world food supply.<br />Spicer tells us China is the most aggressive foreign land buyer, acquiring two million hectares overseas since 2007. But Spicer doesn't mention the Australia-China Free Trade Agreement, which virtually allows a Chinese takeover of Australia.<br />Spicer goes on to quote an anonymous staff member of Coffey International, one of the firms facilitating the deals. This person says 'foreign companies have been covertly buying up adjacent farms in Australia for the past year. Most are under the $100 million mark, so they don't have to be approved by the Foreign Investment Review Board'.<br />Spicer goes on to report that GRAIN, 'an international sustainable-agriculture group', as identifying at least five global firms acting on behalf of their governments who are trying to buy or lease Australian farms. They are China's Suntime International Techno-Economic Co-operation Group, India's Ministry of External Affairs, Abu Dhabi's Al Qudra Holding, the Qatar Company for Meat and Livestock Trading (Mawashi) and the Bahraini company TRAFCO. A fortnight ago, Australia's biggest beef cattle company, AAco, sold a $67.4 million stake to a foodstuffs conglomerate from the United Arab Emirates.<br />The report also refers the sale of the rights to a 550 million-tonne mine run by the Shenhua Energy Company near Gunnedah in north-west NSW.<br />And surprise, surprise, 'the UN and World Bank cautiously supported this trend - until they realised offshore farms are all about locking up food supplies, not helping the local farmers'.<br />Spicer also quotes a former UN environmental bureaucrat Lester Brown who now runs the Earth Policy Institute. Brown talks of the 'dangerous politics of food scarcity' and 'neo-colonialism'. Brown is right on the mark there, despite his role in promoting globalisation through environmental scare-mongering.<br />The report continues: "Strong increases in food prices and land scarcity are driving the corporatisation of Australian farms," said Audrey Riddell from market research firm IBISWorld.<br />So what happens in the event of a food shortage and subsequent riots, similar to those seen last year in Haiti?<br />"The international corporations have all the rights of a property owner," said lawyer Stephen Keim SC. "They can decide to whom they sell their food."<br />The report confirms the Federal Government's support for selling of land to foreign corporations: "Australia has a well-developed set of guidelines against which particular foreign investments are screened," the Minister for Agriculture Tony Burke said. "Outside of those guidelines, there are no plans to further restrict when and to whom farmers sell their own properties."Brent C. Melvillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05661608043513398851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26814340442812101.post-8532064924789891062009-02-09T00:49:00.000-08:002020-03-10T01:36:20.349-07:00Bushfire policy 10 years on from Black Saturday: Environmentalist policy fails again<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: small;">I <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">WROTE the article below shortly after Victoria's Black Saturday bushfires over the weekend of February 7, 2009. A decade later, following the catastrophic summer fires of </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">2019-20</span></span></span>, it appears the policy makers in state environment and land management departments have learned little from previous disasters. The departments have given no sign that they want to end the draconian and ridiculous protections for eucalyptus trees and shrubs - described by Victorian botanist Jeremy Griffiths on Sky TV as "incinerators from hell dressed up as trees". In the heat of a spreading bush fire that's exactly what they are, and always have been. The 1939 Victorian Royal Commission into the Black Friday fires noted the explosive nature of the flames. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Black Friday fires were also catastrophic and burnt through 2 million hectares of the state of Victoria to South Australia. Seventy-one </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">people were killed, several towns were obliterated, more than 1300 homes and 69 sawmills were burned, and 3700 buildings were
destroyed or damaged.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">NSW also experienced major fires at the same time. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">On Black Saturday 2009 the exploding eucalypts claimed the lives of 173 people and destroyed 1200 homes and hundreds of other structures across the state between January 28th and March 4th. As with the recent fires throughout Australia's eastern states, the Black Saturday fires started with a heatwave and high winds. Black Friday 1939 and the most recent fires also came on the back of a drought.<br />This is the way of hot, dry Australian summers joining forces with invasive, inflammable woody weeds otherwise known as eucalypts.<br />But not the for the generation of environmentalists lodged in government, media and even the fire services themselves. These most recent fires, they claimed, were a result of, you guessed it, "climate change" and "longer, hotter summers". What utter baloney. Not even the CSIRO could produce a study making that claim. No doubt they will try.<br /></span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Bushfires: DSE policy puts trees before people</span></b><br />
FEB. 9, 2009 (updated Feb. 10): Victoria's Department of Sustainability and Environment is on the defensive with its spin doctors on full alert, trying to douse any suggesti<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ-PvS0BNEMFdZppD3xqfpMKPHuXQ41OHTymfiN-kYnS-9iZZHO4t0aiTaG8gffXP9ZtmCMpC-BLHRVP0FqgC7wM6VatStDygV7wUc9cMs8AGkVb5qrXq_eaj-ypTkusRBhXNboc-JyQ/s1600-h/Vicfire.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301127710085834130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ-PvS0BNEMFdZppD3xqfpMKPHuXQ41OHTymfiN-kYnS-9iZZHO4t0aiTaG8gffXP9ZtmCMpC-BLHRVP0FqgC7wM6VatStDygV7wUc9cMs8AGkVb5qrXq_eaj-ypTkusRBhXNboc-JyQ/s320/Vicfire.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 144px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 192px;" /></a>on that their 'environmental policies' that cover almost every square metre of Victoria may have contributed to the worst ever Australian bushfire disaster. And watch the DSE try to deflect the Royal Commission of Inquiry away from its 'save vegetation at all costs' policy. The DSE's own regulations as outlined in a 'Practice Note' from the DSE website: "<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Trees overhanging a dwelling: This exemption allows the lopping or removal </span><span style="font-style: italic;">of any part of a tree overhanging a dwelling or other building used for accommodation. Under </span><span style="font-style: italic;">this exemption <span style="font-weight: bold;">only that part of the tree which is overhanging the building and which is necessary for fire protection can be removed or lopped</span>. Native vegetation within 30 metres of a dwelling This exemption allows the removal of native vegetation within 30 metres of a dwelling or other building used for accommodation provided: </span><span style="font-style: italic;">at least 50 percent of native shrubs are retained; and</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">native grasses are kept to at least a height of 100 millimetres. </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">This exemption does not apply to trees</span>."</span></span><br />
The DSE regulation, totally ignoring private property rights going back to Magna Carta, considers property owners and occupiers require 'special dispensation' to cut back a 'tree' which they appear to consider sacred. And only that part of the tree overhanging the dwelling can be cut. This regulation may have cost Victorian lives and homes. This anti-human, deep green insanity has must stop, but is there a politician who would dare stand up? Wilson Tuckey is one of few such such politicians. Tuckey says it's time governments woke up to the fact that current forest 'management' practices, based on locking up forests and allowing leaf litter to accumulate, are misguided and lethal. Most of the land surrounding Kinglake and other towns wiped out in the bushfires is in fact 'managed' by DSE and Parks Victoria.<span style="font-style: italic;"><br />Perhaps it's time for another national tree chop day as organised by NSW farmers and SOS News last year in protest against environ-mentalist lunacy in government.</span><br />
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Brent C. Melvillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05661608043513398851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26814340442812101.post-32873186843341921992009-02-07T15:56:00.000-08:002009-02-10T03:21:37.720-08:00Bushfires kill 180 Victorians - worst ever bushfire toll<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjItL23DNv7Bky7jvz4STwoxNzpzlwZ6Gy8ZUFzb7lRolifauCZcNE13KVYztaLZJf1cQ_ry2h8GcGxzJhO9gfZu7PkfCzzbRMGSGXWGITAev7WOrIn0-kNB2Ou0eNBUV3Oc2gr8dO8Cw/s1600-h/bushfire.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 143px; height: 108px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjItL23DNv7Bky7jvz4STwoxNzpzlwZ6Gy8ZUFzb7lRolifauCZcNE13KVYztaLZJf1cQ_ry2h8GcGxzJhO9gfZu7PkfCzzbRMGSGXWGITAev7WOrIn0-kNB2Ou0eNBUV3Oc2gr8dO8Cw/s200/bushfire.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300264033932050450" border="0" /></a><br /><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Mel/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg" alt="" />February 8, 2008 (updated Feb. 10): Wildfires in Victoria have this last weekend killed at least 181 people and destroyed 700 homes, most of them in the heavily forested hill country northeast of Melbourne. Queenslanders' sympathy goes out to the victims. Please give to the appeals such as Red Cross on 1800 811 700. The towns including Kinglake and Marysville, have been virtually destroyed in the latest fire.<br />As much as this tragic time right now is one for grief and solidarity and not one for issuing blame, the questions must again be asked about how the management or mismanagement of the Australian landscape contributes to fires. An ABC news report stated: "And hard questions will be asked of Victoria's Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) about whether it has done enough to manage the state's forests."<br />When summer weather turns extreme, protected eucalypt and other native trees become lethal firebombs. The Kinglake Fire Brigade website reveals what is happening in our countryside across the nation: "Today the farming community is shrinking with the growth of rural-residential properties (5 acres or less) and <span style="font-weight: bold;">the forests around the area are now either national parks or protected/controlled areas under the control of the DSE (Department of Sustainability and Environment) or Parks Victoria</span>."<br />The Victorian DSE must take responsibility for much of the latest devastation just as the ACT Government was held accountable the devastating fires there in 2003. It's time for governments to think more rationally about trees when they present a fire threat to a community. Currently in municipalities Australia-wide, trees have 'sacred cow' status. Council environment departments have no qualms about sending property owners bankrupt (or even jailing them) if they destroy a tree. One Sydney waterfront property owner was fined $180,000 for the 'crime' of removing trees on his own property. What if those trees became fuel in a bushfire? In NSW and Queensland, beachfront property owners have their views blocked by screens when trees are poisoned or cut down. The screens carry messages accusing the people in the area as likely 'environmental criminals'. But again, what if that tree became fuel in a wildfire?<br />Mal Davies' SOS News website, a forum for rural activists fighting city-based bureaucracies, has bitterly attacked the ACT government for failing to understand forests and fire risks by simply locking up more and more land without fire management.<br />http://www.sosnews.org/newsfront/<br />Snowy Mountains scientist Noeline Franklin had this to say about the environmental devastation after the 2003 Canberra tragedy: <span style="font-style: italic;font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;" >"What a celebration of chronically incompetent government management of public land and assets, Canberra is still surrounded by incinerated mountains,sun bleached boulders and bare fire-baked sub soil protruding like the skeleton of a dinosaur form the vista west of every suburban house window, with still silent bush turned from old growth forest to old ghost forest as rampant fire deformed scrub is devouring any chance of run off ... </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;" >Water catchment was deprived cool fire fuel load hazard reduction, selective logging of major fuel load reduction, mixed species grazing animals deliberately fed to packs of wild dogs by the Government. Wildlife were on lands taken on the pretext of “biodiversity conservation.” Fed and bred exotic dingo mongrels! So much for the credibility of political propaganda.</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;" >"<br />http://www.sosnews.org/newsfront/?p=311#more-311<br /><br /></span>Brent C. Melvillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05661608043513398851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26814340442812101.post-60677093793547472362009-02-01T03:08:00.001-08:002009-02-01T03:43:08.759-08:00Confiscating hoon carsIn 2004 police in Western Australia, egged on by media-amplified public outrage, passed laws to confiscate so-called 'hoon cars'. Other states have followed Western Australia in order to deal with this social phenomenon that has become worse with the increasing number of high-performance sedans on the market. 'Hooning' is otherwise known as dangerous driving, which in most places is a criminal offence. <br />Hooning is undoubtedly dangerous, irresponsible and downright annoying in suburban areas late at night. But what most people forget is that seizure of private property without due process violates fundamental rights and freedoms established as far back as Magna Carta.<br />If we give the state the 'right' to seize private property without due process in courts we are in dangerous waters.<br />Policing of teenagers who drive dangerously should not require confiscation of cars, just due process in a court of law. Repeated offences should undoubtedly lead to jail terms.<br />However, foaming-at-the-mouth radio shock jocks and others now want to go further. Crush the hoon cars! So, private property is not only illegally confiscated by the state, it is wilfully destroyed - almost as an act of spite and vengeance. If I was to 'confiscate' someone's car and then destroy it I would face charges of theft and wilful damage. Why is it OK for the state, via the police, to do that?Brent C. Melvillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05661608043513398851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26814340442812101.post-15313963497279365912009-01-31T20:32:00.000-08:002009-02-10T04:54:33.767-08:00Petrol engine becoming a dinosaur?EVER heard the term 'energy crisis' or 'peak oil'? Both have appeared in the world media many thousands of times and both invoke the idea that somehow the human race is going to have to revert to, primitive, non-mechanical, or 'sustainable' forms of energy because oil is running out.<br />But regardless of whether oil is in short supply or not, there is technology to massively reduce or even totally replace oil consumption, such as engines developed by a former F1 engineer Guy Negre, that run on compressed air:<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4byxDtoczo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4byxDtoczo</a> or<br /><a href="http://freeenergynews.com/Directory/CompressedAir/index.html">http://freeenergynews.com/Directory/CompressedAir/index.html</a><br />There is also a lot of technology around employing various methods to run engines from hydrogen split from water:<br /><a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?Build-Hydrogen-And-Water-Engines---How-To-Run-Your-Car-on-Water&id=1021945">http://ezinearticles.com/?Build-Hydrogen-And-Water-Engines---How-To-Run-Your-Car-on-Water&id=1021945</a><br />Solar-electric technology, of course, is also available and improving in efficiency.<br />MASSIVE OIL FIELD CAPPED<br />The so-called problem of 'peak oil', given much media exposure before the recent run up of oil to $US160 a barrel, is exposed as political chicanery in many articles available on the web.<br />An article on Alex Jones' website Prison Planet tells the story:<br /><a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/archives/peak_oil/index.htm">http://www.prisonplanet.com/archives/peak_oil/index.htm</a><br />A google video here <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3340274697167011147">http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3340274697167011147</a> features a former chaplain who worked on the Alaskan oilfieds and was privy to inside knowledge on how the massive reserves there were capped.<br />It seems that if there is any 'oil crisis' or 'energy crisis', it is in the minds of those who wish to profit monetarily or politically from the alleged shortage.Brent C. 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