Former Oz TV person Robert Hughes has just been found guilty on 9 of 11 charges of Child Sexual Assault involving 4 girls/young women, and a further 2 charges are to be 're-considered' by the jury...apparently Hughes mouthed no to each 'guilty' and yelled out 'I'm innocent' when one of the verdicts was read out...(well he's hardly likely to plead 'Not Guilty' all the way through and then at the end leap up and yell 'actually, nah you're right, yes I did molest those girls'-Ed)...fair point if snidely made.
Missed my own anniversary again...April 6th 2005 was the day of my last Radiotherapy, following Chemo and stuff, all to treat lymphoma...and altogether a very strange day...please see previous post re this anniversary (from April 6th 2013)...cheers...
What Is The Matrix?:...(a series of increasingly bizarre 'futuristic' movies starring Keanu Reeves and Hugo Weaving?-Ed)...well yes but nope, not for the purposes of this post...(the medieval precursor to the modern April Fools?-Ed)...nice, but also nope...(shenanigans with a prostitute called May?-Ed)...definitely not...(the possessions of my good friend Richard?-Ed)...sorry, don't get that one...(who's stuff is this?...it's my mate Rick's-Ed)...clever, but again no...it is a system of allegedly just recompense...(sorry, now it's my turn to say whaaa?-Ed)...
Just listening to some of the latest from the Federal Child Abuse Royal Commission, and The Matrix is apparently the sliding scale template created and utilised by the Salvation Army to calculate financial compensation for Child Abuse victims...basically, the more the Salvos thought they could deny abuse and/or could screw down on any complainant, the less compensation they initially offered according to a specific scale.
Essentially, they would go through a rudimentary and highly compromised internal 'investigation', and if that was followed by any Court action, then any compensation offer would be calculated based on their own judgement of the likelihood of the abuse being proved, and therefore the potential compensation should there be a successful legal action, all conducted under the guidelines of The Matrix...
Today also marks 20 years since the Rwandan Genocide...following 3-4 years of 'Civil War', there had been a 12 month ceasefire between the predominantly Hutu government and the Rwandan Patriotic Front (Tutsi) when on April 6th 1994 the President Juvenal Habyarimana's plane was shot down as it came into land and this triggered the Hutu dominated police, military and government to unleash on the Tutsi...whilst there were terrible massacres on both sides, it was a predominantly the Tutsi and moderate Hutu who were killed.
The official end of the violence was in July 1994 but the conflict has continued between Hutu and Tutsi, with a series of 'wars' in the Goma region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire) and other areas, and there are still massive refugee populations of both Hutu and Tutsi in neighbouring countries...it is guesstimated that as many a 1million people were killed, close to 1/5th of Rwanda's population.
It was/is a massive indictment of the United Nations who effectively just sat by and watched for months, a pattern of behaviour being repeated in the Balkans War (1992-1996)...and it makes a notable comparison...the Rwandan Genocide wasn't just some ugly African anomaly with a bunch of savages slaughtering each other, because the exact same 'racial Cleansing' was happening in Europe between 'white' factions.
In both cases there was an almost immediate disintegration of public order based on decades even centuries old differences, and people who had been peaceful neighbours were driven into the sort of 'us and them' paradigm that brings the disconnection that allows the murders and destruction...but I digress...
Just Caught the tail-end of an ABC/BBC Radio news report stating that 3 people in South Australia's South East have been charged with Child Pornography and/or Child Procurement offenses, but that was unfortunately all I heard...I'll keep an ear out for anything else and post if I hear...
There was a lot of coverage in last week's The Border Watch newspaper (and elsewhere recently) about growing concerns that One Forty One Plantations, the '3 Rotation Leasees' of the South East Forestry Estate, is looking to recoup their $680million (alleged) investment as quickly as possible, eg, there were reports last year that they were logging undersized trees only approx 25 years old, rather than the usual 33-35 year harvest cycle...
(It just occurred to me that the Labor state government, when effectively selling the Estate to 141 Plantations, threw-in the Glencoe Nursery for $2 at the last minute...and yes that is $2, not $2m or even $2k...$2...which makes promises of renewal and responsible future management look rather empty-Ed)...how so?...(well, if you were committed to renewal, replanting, etc, wouldn't the critical nursery facility be something included as a fundamental and precious resource?...not something to be chucked in at the last moment for $2...almost seems like 141 weren't interested in a nursery because they had no intention of ever using it-Ed).
Great point well made Ed, so you're suggesting that it is quite possibly the case that 141 intend to cut and run...(well, cut, ship, and then run-Ed)...so you're suggesting what pretty much everyone in the South East feared would happen and now believes is happening, is happening...(well everyone who isn't a moronic Labor sycophant, stool-pigeon, or stooge-Ed)...fair enough...
Because of the extent of detail in the The Border Watch articles, rather than try to re-phrase them, I will just add them across 2 posts...below please find attached the TBW Friday 4th April 2014 front page and page 4 morphed together using the most cutting edge technology...(you folded back the pages-Ed)...shhhh, you'll destroy the reader's sense of wonderment...(right about now they're wondering what they're doing reading this dross-Ed)...pardon?...(nothing-Ed)...
I note the massive spike in log volumes leaving via the Port of Portland (Victoria) and apparent reluctance of authorities to share information about these numbers, info that they were happy to broadcast only months ago...
Tomorrow: CSTFTTAAAP Part II -
That headline is Export alarm...more about this quite genuine and reasonable response to the reality along with other stuffage on the morrow...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters....
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