Hello Turkey, Moldova, India and Canada, and welcome one and all to the blog...with the bewildering array of conflicts and human tragedy currently playing out across every continent it seems very trite indeed to make bad puns and facetiously sarcastic jibes, but my cynicism sure as hell gets a good run...(where's the human tragedy in Oz?-Ed)...how about the gross failures in Aboriginal health provision, eg, 70-80% of kids going deaf with treatable ear infections...(that's not just a tragedy, that's an embarrassing national disgrace-Ed)...indeed...
This morning Liberal Foreign Minister Julie Bishop is stating as fact that the Malaysian Airlines flight MH 17 was brought down by a missile, and PM Tony Abbott is charging about wanting to call it an 'Act of Terrorism', and while there is still apparently no specific evidence beyond official conjecture, the USofA Secretary of State John Kerry is saying that they have data showing/tracking a missile launch at the time of the disaster, and strong evidence that Russia supplied the Mobile Missile system allegedly responsible, "an extraordinary amount of circumstantial evidence"...and in the next sentence says 'the Administration fully supports Israels right to do what it's doing'...
And again, I'm not trying to be sensationalist or anything stupid when I say that I take with a grain of salt any definitive statements of fact coming from any government, let alone statements of 'we're pretty sure', and particularly from our own PM Tony Abbott who has demonstrated a bewildering capacity and distinct affection for deceit...he clearly has no problems just lying through his teeth, usually with that arrogant, belligerent bullying, insular, bigoted self-righteousness, and smug swagger of a borderline insane zealot...
When Tony Abbott is banging on about who supplied what weapon to whom
and who is a terrorist, etc, does he stop to think of some of the arms
deals some of his allies have done in very recent times, let alone over the past 20-30 years?...(did someone say Contra?-Ed)...indeed...and where is his bellicosity...(bellicose at velocity?-Ed)...spot on Ed, with the latest Israeli invasion of Palestine and the deaths of hundreds of civilians?...(didn't we just give the Sri Lankan Navy a couple of Patrol Boats?-Ed)...indeed we did Ed, indeed we did...
(Well then I believe it's terribly unfair on us that we should still have to catch Sri Lankan refugees and hand them back to the government that they're fleeing...we didn't give SL those boats to stop the boats only to have to use our boats to stop the boats by getting those boats that our other boats didn't get and get those boats to the other boats but not before keeping them for a week on our boat first-Ed)...sorry, which boat is ours again?...(they're all our boats-Ed)...even the one's we've stopped...(particularly the one's we've stopped-Ed)...and which boat are we on?...(that I'm not so sure about-Ed)...
I am of course making a very specific critique of the very genuine fact that we did give the Sri Lankans 2 Patrol boats, but have done nothing about the horrendous executions, bombings of civilians, and other atrocities committed by government troops at the end of the 30-year war...I feel that this refusal to acknowledge these atrocities and current issues of persecution, disappearances, etc, is purely about denying the possibility of any such critter as the Genuine Sri Lankan Refugee...no conflict, no persecution, no Refugees, no problem...
There is nothing that will make right what has happened with MH 17, but remember it only takes one loose unit on either side to fire a missile, or even to make a mistake...and it's not just me that thinks that the Politics of European Power Supply already evident in the muted response of some European nations will win out over any real action...there's a lot of fuel, particularly gas, pouring into Europe, from Russia, via pipelines that run through Ukraine...
Russia for it's part seems reluctant to exercise the influence it clearly has in that Region to demand immediate and unrestricted access for Air Crash Investigators, retrieval of bodies, etc, but does this indicate guilt?...is it purely political bastardry in response to an incident not of Russian President Putin's doing? does he know something we don't, eg, that someone did target his plane but missed?...regardless, commentators are unanimous in stating that the last thing we would want to do is push him into a corner with rampant, pig-headed bellicosity...(ala Tony Abbott-Ed)...exactly...because Russia/Vladimir is likely to respond with increased aggression in Ukraine...
Similarly, it's not just my opinion that the USofA government was capable of deceiving it's own citizens re the 'Weapons of Mass Destruction' claims that allegedly justified the Iraq Invasion, a deceit that other world leaders were complicit in perpetuating, whether they knew it or not...and again, there are multiple incidents of passenger jets being shot down 'accidentally', eg, Russia with a Korean Airlines plane, the USofA Navy and an Iranian jet, the Italian airliner by the French Airforce, etc ...
Never one to miss any opportunity for rank self-promotion, no matter how inappropriate, is our darling pro-Paedophile Premier Jay Weatherill. who was straight in the media stating that the High Commissioner or who-evs was immediately on the phone to let him know that no South Australians were on MH 17...(yeah right...in all this chaos and tragedy, the HC's first thought was 'I better ring Jay-baby right now to let him know nothing's happened' because Ray-Jay is just so important...bollocks-Ed)...but I digress...
Completely denying the effects of pollution and/or trying to derail and/or distract from the realities with arguments about 'Climate Change' is usually a wanton stupidity mired in Ideology and self-gain, and ditching appropriate research in Solar and/or Geo-Thermal production, is simply wrong...completely dumping efforts to address pollution, etc, is irresponsible, but I was not upset to hear today that my good friends at Pacific Hydro have put their 42 Turbine Kyneton Wind Turbine project on hold, along with 6-7 other projects.
Didn't catch the spokesperson's name but it sure sounded like my main man Lane Crockett whom, in responding to my statement (at the Portland public meeting in July 2012) about South Australia's 2011 Development Plan Amendment removing any rights to oppose Turbine developments, admitted/agreed that the DPA was 'unfair' on citizens...I have covered this in several early 'Turbine posts'...anyhoos...
Mr Spokesperson stated that the Kyneton Project was a $240m investment in the Region, that would provide many jobs in construction, lease fees for land holders,etc, but that was all in jeopardy now...long story short, the Liberals threatening to scrap the Climate has put the wind up investors, which for me confirms how Economically vulnerable/fragile/unviable Wind Turbines are...(don't you mean 'Climate Change', not just 'Climate'?-Ed)...no, I'm sure Tony & Co are tabling the Climate Repeal Bill to end all this nonsense about change...no Climate, no Change, no problem...
Wind Turbines are a fully established industry in South Australia with an absolutely unchallengeable, legislated Green Light on further development that is unquestionably outright Fascism, and are already also receiving massive subsidies, and yet the whole industry is supposedly in disarray at the first hurdle...(can't help feeling this 'we're pulling our investment and the jobs, etc', is just Turbiners pushing for more government funding, albeit coupled with the reality you describe that they can't survive without it-Ed)...it's a vicious swooshing, whistling, grinding, pulsing, circle...
And yet more propaganda about 'Gas Shortages' in Australia but 'no we don't need a National Domestic Reserve'...we have no sort of Domestic Reserve policy or export regulation, etc, which means that 'our gas' is being syphoned off overseas driving local prices up to the export value, and without any control over how much is taken, or any effort to secure our own national demands...it's 'Quarry Australia' stuff where we yet again are losing our Natural Resources with massive profits for very few...(it's a bloody outrage-Ed)...
And this 'supply disaster' is the farcical justification for Fracking at Penola as given by Beach Energy's Reg Nelson himself...and it's a lie, an outrageous manufactured lie reflecting the even more outrageous reality...in closing, a brief shout-out to them what does continue to sendeth me the Turbine stuff...much appreciated and saves me a ton of time...cheers...
Tomorrow: Bolty The Wonder Mare Rides Again
More Local Government Election shenanigans...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...
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