Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Over The Pension Age Of Entitlement

***further apologies for recent continuing gaps and/or disjointed posts (like this one) in this 'ere blog...started this post a month ago, probably longer, so it's out of date, etc, and I've got several others half-finished, etc, etc...can only say I'm still tryin', and for what it's worth, just quietly, just between you and me, succeeding...but don't tell anyone...***

Howdy again Russia, Aotearoa (New Zealand), Canada, and Singapore, and to everyone else, welcome...given the brief part-post earlier last week, let's get stuck in to it, ay?...

Ways back last week I was 'just listening' to a South Australian Labor Minister Ian Hunter 'post-truthing' his way through an interview re the 'toxic dust cloud' blowing over Pt Augusta, in SA's Mid-North...the dust originates from the recently decommissioned coal-fired power station that is/was a physically imposing, defining feature of the very actual Northern point of Spencer Gulf, where it (the dust) has been exposed when 'recent heavy rains washed away the protective top-layer'...(what, off all 200 hectares of it?-Ed)...indeed, it's a huge area of swampy ground, mangroves, etc, and scrubby saltbush, covered in 50 something years of 'fly ash', ...

Ian stated outright that the gritty shit blowin' all over Pt Augusta was the "top ash" not the "bottom ash" and that there were specific differences as to where they came from in the chimney stack/scrubbers/whatevs, and that this was just "top ash" and therefore there were no potential health issues for affected residents...but then, having made these specific statements vehemently denying any problems or potential for problems he refused to answer specific questions re those statements, saying that he wasn't the expert on those matters so and he'd leave it to those experts (in the Dept of Health and the Environmental Protection Agency) to explain that stuff...and then the EPA guy came on and did the same thing, 'it's safe', followed by 'I'm not a health expert so I can't comment'...

(So, hang on, in the same interview, firstly Minister Hunter made specific statements of fact re 1) the nature and/or type of the ash, and 2) why that meant it was 'safe', which is itself 3) a definitive statement re health issues-Ed)...spot on...(but then refused to answer specific questions re those definitive statements, deferring to Health and EPA 'experts'?-Ed)...yep...(and then the EPA doofus did the same thing specifically re the health issues, stating that it's all safe, but refusing to answer questions, and instead deferring?-Ed)...yes, everything's fine apparently, and subsequent scientific analysis has apparently found there's absolutely no problems contamination wise...(so there's just the immediate chronic health problems associated with chowing-down on lung-fulls of otherwise perfectly fine chimney soot?-Ed)...I'm sensing a degree of sarcastic skepticism from you Ed...(do ya' think?! this is the shit they scrape outta' the chimneys mate!-Ed)...fair point...  

(And who did that testing? was it the South Australian EPA?-Ed)...not sure, why?...(because the Rann/Weatherill Labor governments have made so many nepotistic and politically subservient official appointments, that none of these departments have any genuine credibility anymore...remember, they made Mia Handshin head of the EPA-Ed)...yeah, another fair point...(and only recently Labor/Weatherill dumped independent members off the Economic Development Board and appointed 3 of his/their own-Ed)...mate, you don't have to convince me of Jay Weatherills' lack of credibility on any issue...            

(***dear availees, watch the gap...didn't finish this last bit just there and I haven't got anything to get me to the next topic just down there...(you know, availees could just go back and re-visit one of their favourite amusing Segue Dialogues from our vast catalogue of witty banter in previous posts, and just use it here to fill-in until we get to the next topic-Ed)...you mean like this banter right here, what we're doin' now?...(well no, perhaps not this one-Ed)...hey, here's the next topic now...(oh thank god for that, I got nuthin'-Ed)...me neither to be honest...(move on?-Ed)...it's for the best...***)

Sussin' the Sussan Ley Of The Land:...(tally bally ho! polo anyone?-Ed)...yes well indeed, I'll get back to you Princess Julie...to briefly explain, Federal Liberal Minister for Health Sussan Ley has been in all sortsa' strife for a simple mistake re her travel allowances and one trip to Queensland where she happened to purchase an $800,000 apartment 'on the spur of the moment'...and it was reported that apartment happened to be bought from a major Liberal donor...and Minister Ley did a stern turn at the lecturn for the media about how this purchase was just a "spur of the moment" thing, made after a 10 minute inspection, perfectly appropriate, but she's gunna' stand aside pending an inquiry, but no probs, it's all groovy...unfortunately, there just happened to be 30 other trips with Ms Leys' name on the tickets, including twice for New Years Eve parties...(ouch, not so groovy-Ed)...indeed...this is all covered ad infinitum in mainstream media, including numerous other examples of recent similar rorts by other pollies from both major parties, including Foreign Minister Julie 'Princess' Bishop spending/claiming over $2,000 to attend an exclusive 'polo party' in/near Melbourne...(charming-Ed)...

And while y'all are laughing snidely at these Federal crooks, consider that Mt Gambier City Council continues to function as a corrupt profit-venture for it's constituent members and their families and friends...and so this post segues so neatly into the next, a review of the recent rampage of rampant rorting of Ratepayers' readies, otherwise known as a Mt Gambier City Council meeting...

Tomorrow: Ding, Ding, Next Stop China

MGCC doesn't have one red cent to support public transport in Mt Gambier, but has ample albeit undefined funds to get themselves to China...(well that's public transport-Ed)...how?...(well the Mt Gambier public's paying for Councillors' transport-Ed)...hilarious...(and their accommodation-Ed)...yeah, alright, we get it...(meals-Ed)...you can stop now...(nice bottle of Grange-Ed)...enough!...

And Councillor and former Mayor Steve Perryman thrice declaring a Conflict of Interest re his involvement with his self-appointed Tourism Mount Gambier, on the third occasion actually leaving the Chamber (*this refers to the December 2016 meeting)...all this and multiple other truly bizarre developments re this wholly corrupt TMG group...and I say wholly corrupt sure in the knowledge that the 3 main players in this li'l pantomime are rankly corrupt people who I have personally witnessed engage in multiple acts of rank corruption whilst elected public officers in the employ of the citizens of Mt Gambier and South Australia...(and also personally witnessed and then catalogued here on this 'ere blog the extraordinary corruption in Council meetings re TMG-Ed)...well exactly...   

I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...and it's a whole year since Bowie died...(can't believe that-Ed)...no-one can mate... 

***And what a stunningly karmic segue into the next post because this post (above) was started over a month ago, 50% completed, and then finished today (Jan 31st 2017)...Sussan Ley has resigned as Health Minister weeks ago now...the main point I was headed toward was the general attitude of these Class A Crooks, particularly in Federal Politics, bastards to a man, including the women, who are so, so wealthy yet continue to just rort and deceive and be, well, complete arseholes to the disenfranchised and poor, etc...and the latest possibly lowest act of all from these bastards? attacking the Old Age Pension...(you're right, what an act of unbridled arseholeness-Ed)...sorry? did you say 'please Nick, go ape-shaped-bat-shit crazy about this issue'?...(well no, no I didn't-Ed)...well consider it done...(wish you wouldn't-Ed)...no no, don't thank me...

Whilst they haven't actually asked me to, I'd just like to say on behalf of my elderly parents (and the thousands of other Aussies in similar strife), both of whom worked extremely hard their entire lives, and have both just had their OAP savagely cut...(Language Warning-Ed)...damn straight Language Warning...To The Federal Liberal Party...(Language Warning-Ed)...yeah yeah, ok, we get it, there's a Language Warning...(well it's just I've had a quick browse into this next bit, and I thought several Language Warnings were appropriate-Ed)..............fair enough, but I'm not just angry about what's happened to my parents, I'm just rabid full-stop about this...(and fair enough to you mate, you could boil bunnies with my blood right now, it's a bloody disgrace-Ed)...seriously though, if strong language offends, please avoid the next paragraph...(he ain't kiddin' folks-Ed)...

To the Federal Liberal Party,
                                        Dear Arseholes, you low fucking bastards; you low, thieving fuckin' bastards...you steal these peoples money whilst you swan-about on the taxes they're still paying...and then you wonder why people call you low, thievin' fuckin' bastards...and they do...because you are....................................there, I'm done...   

And We're Back:...(what? done? already? wow, that was quick-Ed)...said what I had to say the only way it could be said...(and fair enough, but it's hardly the most eloquent or witty evisceration you've come-up with over the years-Ed)...there's only so many ways to say, well, to say what I said there...(indeed-Ed)...and as far as I'm concerned, those ways number One for there is simply no other way to say it...(well quite-Ed)...in fact, it's actually really quite cathartic to read it through a few times, go on, give it a go...(no, I already have thanks, but I do get what you mean, there is actually something very healing about having a good hard swear at people who really deserve it...arseholes!!!-Ed)...that's the spirit...
 
Manna From Heaven:...but then, only yesterday/today (January 30th/31st 2017), the local media has been awash with allegations that Mt Gambier Mayor Andrew Lee has 'done deals whilst overseas on Ratepayer-funded Council trips' and 'not declared Conflicts of Interest', and 'not declared business links on the Council Register as required', and 'has received income re those businesses and not declared it either', and so on and so forth...(wow, a Mt Gambier Mayor involved in dodgy dealings and not declaring it, etc, etc, there's something you do see pretty much every day-Ed)...certainly in this sickly corrupt town you do, but he's still got a helluva' ways to go before he catches-up to former Mayor/current Councillor Steve Perryman and his litany of corrupt dealings, not least of all his latest rankly corrupt enterprise, the self-declared Tourism Mount Gambier, as funded by MGCC and therefore Ratepayers, to the tune of $160,000 per annum plus 'in-kind support' (office and a car)...(now that's corrupt!-Ed)...

Tomorrow: The Ongoing Corruption Of Mt Gambier City Council

I am Nick Fletcher and this here is my blog...Nick Fletcher, Bringin' the Angry as only a very Large Hippy can...cheers and laters...

Monday, January 30, 2017

Nick Fletcher Concedes Defeat

Dear Availees,
                    It don't take a mug of beer* to see that I haven't been 'coping' let alone posting, in fact reckon it's a month today since the last post...a mans' gotta' know his limitations, or so it's said, because otherwise just sometimes a mans' limitations gunna' come get him and remind him...and so it has been for me...my limitations have sought me out and fundamentally redefined themselves such that I might have a better understanding of 1) just exactly where that line exists, and 2) that I've left that line well behind quite some time ago...it is no exaggeration to say that I've spent half of the last 2 months 'dozing' from bed to couch...literally half...    (*Einstein...'ein stein' of beer)

I've covered this 'Crash and Burn Intermittent Narcolepsy (CABIN Fever)' stuff and how that relates to Depression, etc, and the Agoraphobia stuff, etc, etc, in previous posts, and the factors at play, most of that has also been covered, but not quite nearly all of it, etc, etc...one's got stuff goin' on, not coping quite as well as one might hope, etc, etc...it's all fairly straight forward really...

The Odd Angry Parting Shot:...certainly not least of all is the extraordinary conduct of my Court case re this 'ere blog, with another 10 'hearings' last year (2016), culminating in a supposed 'trial' in November that lasted less than a day before it ground to a halt as the Magistrate was forced to call an adjournment because SAPol (police) Prosecutions presented a 'Charge Sheet' riddled with basic errors and contradictions, etc, which they (SAPol) then moved to 'Amend', and 'Amend' after I'd already been directed/forced to 'Plead' to each of the 19 'Counts'...when we returned later that day, SAPol had a completely different 'Charge Sheet' covered with flouro highlighter marks and hand written comments, but still run-through with the same mistakes as before...

This discussion went on for well over an hour in total, and Magistrate Anderson carefully explained what Her Honour considered to be the problems, and that one particular 'Count', 'Count 10' simply could not be 'Amended' and therefore had to be removed or HH would make that 'Order'...as I say, this discussion about the problems/faults went on for well over an hour...first SAPol tried to 'Amend' half of their own 'Charge Sheet', leading to an adjournment, then we returned an hour later only to have HH take issue with most of the other half, and very specifically with '10'...

I am not a lawyer and I haven't studied Law, officially or otherwise, apart from some limited stuff re my particular case of course, but I'm at least intelligent enough to understand what is being said to me/in front of me when it goes on for an hour or more, and the principles at play are relatively so basic...so here goes...

SAPol have cobbled together a 'Charge Sheet' that cites 18* 'Counts' of breaching that specific Act, (*was 19 before HH put the boot into 'Count 10' and SAPol withdrew it), but the error is that each 'Count' actually contains multiple 'Counts'...please allow me to explain thusly...for example - it is alleged that, on a certain date, the defendant has breached 'the Act' by 'blogging' about the defendant's own complaint and identifying people the subject of that complaint/investigation under that same 'Act', namely Joe Bloggs, Jane Citizen, and John Doe, and also identifying the Local Government body involved...each of these 'identifications' is a separate 'Count'...simple enough...

The 'Charge Sheet' should list these as individual 'Counts', that is, Count 1- On (date) the defendant commented on their 'blog' re their own complaint; Count 2- On (same date) the defendant identified Joe Bloggs re 'the Act'; Count 3- On (same date) the defendant identified Jane Citizen re 'the Act'; Count 4- On (same date) the defendant identified John Doe re 'the Act'; Count 5- On (same date) the defendant identified the Local Government body re 'the Act'...all of these are allegedly a breach of 'the Act'...this is a very vague and broad version of what's happening specifically to me, but the basic issue is obvious, each alleged breach should be a separate 'Count' on the 'Charge Sheet'...

Citing Her Honours' own concerns back to HH, I politely declined to accept this attempt to 'Amend' the charges, and HH had no option but to call yet a further adjournment, and I went straight to the only legal advice I can afford, South East Community Legal Service, and they took one look at this 'Amend' the charges stuff and gave me an appointment, in which they re-iterated/confirmed everything that HH had just explained to SAPol and me about the problems/faults...SECLS provided me some limited advice as best they could, and photocopies of the relevant legislation, with only 2 words highlighted, firstly "prejudiced" re how this 'Amend' business affects my case, and 2) "dismiss", which is fairly self-explanatory...

This issue was never resolved by Magistrate Anderson because, on the commencement of my trial next morning, HH suddenly excused/disallowed/whatevs Herself from hearing my case, and the whole shabang was adjourned, again, to be heard 3 weeks later by a different Magistrate flying down from Adelaide especially...as previously posted, when HH called the adjournment early on that first afternoon, November 3rd 2016, HH stated that HH would utilise that now-free time to read the 100 documents I had provided the Court and SAPol, as Ordered by HH, documents in support of my frequent statements/accusations that my trial was/is "a pro-paedophile political persecution motivated by the contents of the blog"...this is me directly quoting what I have said at least twice in Court, along with multiple other similar "political persecution" statements...my constant statements re this issue led to HH acknowledging them as being claims/allegations of "Abuse of Process", which then became "Malicious Prosecution"...these are the specific terms HH used...  

The new Magistrate acknowledged but completely dismissed the multiple issues re the 'Charge Sheet' and acknowledged but dismissed the advice/photocopies from SECLS, even dismissing my specific examples of the several specific issues as identified by Her Honour previously...and aside from the advice/direction I had had from both HH and SECLS, I had also spotted that in several 'Counts' a specific person/group/whatevs was the subject I had allegedly 'identified', yet in other 'Counts' the same p/g/ws were 'identified' but not mentioned by SAPol's 'Charge Sheet'...so, what appears in one place and is apparently therefore a crime, appears in the exact same place/context, immediately adjacent, and yet is not a crime...this also then leads directly into the stuff about multiple 'Counts' within each 'Count'...

Pointless hyperbole aside, I had gone into Court that morning fully expecting for the whole case to be thrown out ('Permanently Stayed'), and was genuinely stunned by His Honours' repeated dismissal of all of the issues that had originally forced the adjournment on the first day of the trial, only weeks before...it's not often that I'm left speechless but I was left completely floundering, absolutely at a loss, absolutely unable to reconcile what I was now being told and how it conflicted with everything that I had been told previous by Magistrate Anderson and SECLS...His Honour described it as a 'judgement call' that my case was not compromised in any way by either the gross faults in the SAPol 'Charge Sheet' or the sudden self-removal of Magistrate Anderson...

I argued that my case/hearing was completely compromised because His Honour had not witnessed/experienced any of the extraordinary events of the many previous hearings, eg, the repeated lies of SAPol Prosecutions and their openly contemptuous conduct re the Court, Her Honour, and most particularly me, probably to be listed in reverse in that SAPol's contempt for and animosity toward me has slopped carelessly into their behaviour in Court...regardless, when SAPol Prosecutions lies to me, and is then stupid enough to put that in writing and then send it to me and then provides those same documents to the Court as being factual statements yet knowing that those documents are false, that right there is Contempt of Court, perjury, call it what ya' shreckin' like...but I digress...
  
I also identified to His Honour, the extraordinary and deceitful conduct of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in lodging a scathingly libellous Affidavit with the Court, alleging years of problems with me and my supposed behaviours re the ABC, etc...using the ABC's own Affidavit I managed to convince Her Honour that it was necessary to get the ABC to provide information to support these outrageous allegations, explain the gaping omissions, etc, and in response to that Court Summons, senior ABC lawyers from Ultimo in Sydney provided swathes of photocopied 'case law' (about 1 inch), and long diatribes via phone hook-up, saying that the Summons was 'too vaguely worded', and 'just fishing for info', and overall it was just "too oppressive"...

You don't know sanctimonious self-satisfaction until you've heard a Sydney ABC lawyer righteously citing why it's alright for the ABC to make rancidly slanderous statements about me in an official Court Affidavit yet fail/refuse to provide one single document to back that up because 'it's all a bit difficult'...I can now, have already, and will continue always to prove 1) the rankly corrupt perjury of the ABC re their extraordinary Affidavit, and 2) how that perjury is motivated by the long history of corrupt behaviour from the ABC re the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up...and I've barely scratched the surface with this ABC Affidavit stuff...cannot wait to get these gentlemen in Court when they are required to give evidence to this remarkable Affidavit...

Bottomline, I was so genuinely confused in the moment, with His Honours' apparently conflicting statements and subsequent decision to proceed, etc, that I had to ask for a break to get my head together, and HH called yet another adjournment, setting yet another date for another hearing in February 2017 (coupla' weeks away)...HH stated that the 'Malicious Prosecution' would be handled separately on that date and not as part of the actual trial, now set-down for another 3 days in March 2017...

Not too proud to say that I am completely lost...whilst withdrawing, Her Honour made statements about 'Contempt of Court' issues, etc, in a context where it seemed that the trial is/was still current despite HHs' self-removal, but His Honours' comments seem to indicate otherwise, we're having another 'hearing' prior to 'the actual trial'...I have no idea...and beyond that, Her Honour directed that my "Malicious Prosecution" claims would be tested as part of my trial, to follow the 'Charges/Pleads' stuff that we had started but that went so ballistically wrong, etc, and before SAPol began their 'prosecution case', but now it's apparently a separate hearing...no idea why...I have received nothing from the Court since this latest November 2016 hearing...

I do not understand how it is possible that my trial just continues, for 20 hearings and a disastrous trial, across 2 years now, continues-on seemingly regardless of the relentless official chaos and how that fundamentally and completely compromises my chances of a 'fair trial'...and now that I think about it, his bizarre ABC Affidavit perjury stuff and their mind-boggling lawyers, etc, really deserve a post all their own...ahhh, what the heck...

Tomorrow: And Then Gets Back Up And Goes Again

Apologies for deliberately inferring that I was stopping this 'ere blog...a tad naughty of me, but it's not a million miles from the truth...

I have been defeated by the sum of my woes and I have hit the sack like a deck of...I've sacked the deck like a spud of...I've dropped like a pole-axed oxen, prone, face-down in the mud, just a lyin' there...but then, something grabbed me by the scruff of the neck and started dragging me forward...and wouldn't you know it, it's that bloody Self Esteem...

Some weeks ago I made the conscious decision to let myself 'collapse', to resign myself to that which was already happening, etc, and it hasn't been particularly fun, but here we are...

I am Nick Fletcher and I am The Mount Gambier Independent and that's just the way it is and I am here to stay for exactly as long as it takes...cheers and laters...

To close with a joke...had a channel-surfing encounter with one of the plethora of Aotearoa (New Zealand) cop shows on Aussie TV, where-in a middle-aged traffic officer resonded happily that he didn't have any problems dealing with the boisterous and rambunctious young ladies he'd stopped for a vehicle check, no probs because he himself was a father to daughters of a similar age...least ways, that's what he was trying to impart to viewers, but instead, with a broad smile and obvious pleasure, he gushingly blurted-out, "I've had teenage girls"...charming...

Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Happy New Year 2017

Proper post up later today...cheers y'all and welcome to The Mount Gambier Independent for 2017, the 5th year of this 'ere blog, TMGI...(nooo?! really?! 5 years?-Ed)...well 5th year technically, 4 years of actual blogging, starting February 2013, so this February is 4 years of TMGI...(strewth-Ed)...indeed, strewth...(and February, that coincides with the second anniversary of your Court case, which started in February 2015, and is set to continue in February 2017 and then for 3 more days in March-Ed)...strewth!..(indeed, strewth-Ed)...and if you continue that back to when the official SAPol (police) investigation of me re this 'ere blog, 'Operation Baritone', back when that began in February 2014, it's also gunna' be 3 years of 'Taskforce Get The Dirty Mouthy Hippy'...(is it my turn?-Ed)...yep...(strewth!-Ed)...indeed, strewth...

I reconfirm my commitment to continuing with this 'ere blog, albeit I'm clearly still struggling with that...not one to make New Years' resolutions, I still consider the way forward is to push back to a daily post as per an actual job, that is, weekdays, with weekends off, etc, just like a job...one of the biggest problems I'm having with continuing is that I completely ran myself into the ground last year...(for only the 15th year in a row-Ed)...well quite, but specifically not least of all this year, I've had no choice but to expend enormous amounts of time, effort, stress, etc, etc, achieving a series of extraordinary 'wins' self-representing in my Court case...(so bizarre-Ed)...indeed...

Second problem is that just trying to address the issues currently at play in Mt Gambier and South Australia just drags me straight into the pro-paedophile quagmire of corruption that has crippled SA...I know I've been through this before, but what can you say? eg, the spiralling price of electricity, the most expensive in Oz, and yet the most unreliable, with repeated blackouts and no 'base-load' production...and Premier Jay Weatherill continues to say it's everybody elses' fault but his. on this and every other subject...pathetic...

I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog, cheers and laters today...