Hello Bulgaria, France, the United Kingdom, and the USofA, and welcome to the blog...and Capt Happy Chap rides again...(and with good reason too, if half of what you've told me is true-Ed)...well it's coming from Mt Gambier City Council so it's potentially at least half true...(that's very generous of you-Ed)...I refer of course to today's advertised post, which I've pushed to tomorrow sorry because after yesterday's vitriolic binge and/or purge (I'm never quite sure which it is) I'd just like to tidy-up a few loose ends in a slightly lighter tone...
And unfortunately the first end is the end of the Council meeting 21st October 2014 and the closing rounds of self congratulation from retiring Councillors Biddie (Tietz) Shearing and Jim Maher, and outgoing Mayor Steve Perrymen...whilst I've covered most of the detail from those speeches, I'd just like to re-visit the mutual admiration of how fantastic Jim thinks Stevo is, and likewise how Jim mate is Stevo's new bestie, etc, etc...it was truly sickening to watch these 2...and last gasp was Stevo mate...(maaate-Ed)...openly describing the structures of control and corruption that have so thoroughly rooted Mt Gambier and allowed/perpetuated/protected the St Martins Cover-up...
For minutes he went on about how fantastic Rory McEwen was/is, and how Rory had taken him (Stevo) under his (Rory's ) wing and introduced him (Stevo) to all the people who helped his career there-on-in...(and what great things Rory had done for his family-Ed)...indeed, and how great Rory's wife was to Stevo's wife and the kids and everything's fantastic and everyone's just super...absolutely sickening and an absolute indicator of how comfortable and self-justified these people are in their corruption...
In my rather unpleasant reality that's the person (locally) second most responsible for the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up, second only to the person he's gushingly praising-up, and only just ahead of 'Labor stalwart' Jim Maher...so I get to spend my evening (21st Oct 2014) sitting right behind Viv Maher, herself complicit in the St Martins issue...(shall we give her 4th?-Ed)...yeah, go on, why not...listening to Jim praise-up Stevo, followed by Stevo slobbering all over Rory...(yep, that's ya' St Martins Child Abuse Cover-up Trifecta right there-Ed)...indeed it is Ed, indeed it is...
And when Stevo was done with his verbal Rory-fondling he went straight onto what a top bloke Greg Muller is...(and at that point I decided I'd had enough...but unfortunately I'm only a contrived literary tool utilised to 'engage with' rather than 'lecture at' availees of this 'ere post...if it wasn't for that, I'd have stormed out I would've-Ed)...but instead you stayed with me 'til the last, bless you...
Ironying Out the Wrinkles: in that I'm hardly thrilled to come last in the Mayoral
elections, an election where I didn't really expect to come much higher
but would've been nice to not be last, but when having a mild whinge
about it to someone, they said 'get over it, you've achieved exactly
what I expected you to, it's the blog that's important, and the
credibility you've achieved there-in'...(you're right, there is a certain irony in
someone supportively saying that they expected exactly that you would run last and genuinely well done for it-Ed)...indeed...
And another day another whinge to another person was exuberantly and demonstratively contested with the observationings 'no way man, good on you for at least having a bloody go, we need people like you doing what you're doing'...I was floored that such a relatively reserved person whom I didn't think liked me all that much would be so openly and emotively supportive...(good on her, eh?-Ed)...absolutely...thankyou...
Putin In The Ritz:...Obama in the Meridien, Abbott in the Surfers Paradise YMCA ...if this is the answer, the question must be 'where are our illustrious leaders staying whilst in Brisbane for the OMG20'...(and that's actually just the G20 Meeting of the 20 leaders of leading global economies-Ed)...well how the shreck did Oz getta' guernsey then?...(not sure, I think they have to invite the host don't they? can't rock up to someone's house for a party and not invite them?-Ed)...perhaps we're the USofA's 'plus one'...(maybe China's-Ed)...whoevs, the important thing is we're going...(I'll have to get a new hat-Ed)...oo oo, that reminds me...
People Aren't Wearing Enough Hats: is a collective title for several things in the media recently, namely...
Part 1: Is that whilst the whole Horse Racing thingy doesn't mean a whole bunch to me personally, I acknowledge that there's apparently an allied industry in aesthetically appealing generally revealing coiturey for the otherwise apparelly-challenged...and that includes hats...(fascinating-Ed)...ahaha, I'll give ya' that one...and associated business, eg, millineures (hat-makers)...
And so when Lady Chamomile Smythe-Tompkinson visits Tristan, Millineure To The Stars, and he says, 'so now I'm gonna' make it look like a flamingo has collided with the back of your head, that'll be $4500 thanks' apparently this year they'll have not been harangued by the common soldiery wandering about the shoppe because the plebs ain't got the spare extra cash to spend on extravagant hats, etc...(I notice that it got so bad that some young women couldn't even afford underwear, leading to the introduction of related Dress Codes-Ed)...yeah I'm not sure that was a lack of finances so much as a lack of finesse...(I'd have said lack of self-respect-Ed)...maybe, a bit...
Part 2: As a twice-times Cancer survivor, the massive Lymphoma tumour in my chest that I had 8 months of Chemotherapy and 4 weeks of Radiotherapy to treat in 2004/05, that was my second 'episode', after having 2 'regressed malignant melanomas' removed in 1996...I continue intermittently to have moles removed as precaution...as a young and very vain man I spent a a lot of time sans shirt, hat, etc, but I rarely go anywhere now without a hat, long sleeve shirt, etc...and I'd like to pass on this observation as is the title...
I reckon I've made this joke previous but it certainly bears repeating, I continue to see the vast majority of people, eg, walking the magnificent Blue Lake, not wearing hats...(and lots of singlets, etc, meaning exposed necks, backs of ears, etc-Ed)...and many of the few hats worn are actually caps that similarly offer little if any protection to the back of the neck, ears, etc...Please People: and tell the people you know, particularly flabby white folk like me, please, please, please wear broad-brimmed hats and long sleeves and if ya' have to be brown, use a low-irritant fake tan and shizzle...
Part 3: Is about the increasing lack of and/or increasing average age of volunteers, etc, which itself ironically sees less people in our community wearing more hats each when it comes to running these volunteer organisations...(that is ironic, not enough people are wearing those hats so more people of the less people end up wearing more hats-Ed)...exactly...
And in closing, now the Sow Strayn Ombudsman is having a go at the SA Independent Commission Against Corruption...(what the Police Ombudsman again?-Ed)..no no, the Acting Ombudsman Megan Philpott, not the PO Sarah Bolt...(why are our Ombudswomen called Ombudsman?-Ed)...om stuffed if I know, but I'd guess convention...and the conflict appears to be about an increase in workload that is also then being duplicated within the ICAC as well...as with all these alleged conflicts, I struggle to see them as genuine, but rather as confected arguments to give the false impression of independence and credibility...
Tomorrow: The Council Inheritance Stuff
And freak me out to see on the news the window cleaner's swing-scaffold hangin' off the new World Trade Centre building, because I did that job on 2 buildings in Adelaide, namely the AMP building on the South West corner of North Tce/King William St, and the Grenfell Tower, and we also went onto the roof of the Commonwealth building along King William St...
First day (1989) was get in the open scaffold at ground level on the South face of the AMP building , 2 cables only on either end, not attached at all to the side of the building, and go up to the roof (18-20 floors) and then get out onto the roof across the foot-wide gap, to then see that the horizontal supporting poles for the scaffold were not actually attached to the building at all, but loose poles with heavy weights and sandbags stacked on the other ends...(omg-Ed)...indeed, and then fill up the buckets with water and back over the parapet into the scaffold, across that gap that now looked a metre wide...(I bet-Ed)...and slowly down floor by floor...(ick-Ed)...
And between floors no grip on the building at all and only little sucker things when we were stopped and thank gourd I only did that building that one day, because having seen how it was just hangjn' off the top of the building I'm not sure I'd have got in it a second time...the dude I was workin' with had been in it only weeks before on the Western side when high winds 'unstuck' them about 6 floors up and blew them out across the footpath on the other side of the lane, crashing back into the building several times before a brief calm allowed them to get back to ground level...(I think I just soiled myself-Ed)...fair enough...
I'm not great with heights but that day was particularly quietly terrifying...the other scaffold at the Grenfell Tower was absolute bloody luxury compared, up to the roof in the service elevator, to a fully enclosed and covered basket hanging from a crane that ran on rails around the top of the building and was attached by rollers to the side of each window frame...that sucker wasn't goin' nowhere but up and down...and we're cleaning windows when the bloody phone rings (and this was 1989, no mobiles then sonny) the cradle/scaffold thingy had a telephone, 2 in fact, and someone was ringing from the AMP building across town on North Tce to tell us we'd missed a window...hilarious...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
I'm Not An Anti-Corruption Campaigner
Hello and welcome to the blog China, Poland, Thailand, and Hong Kong...and sortta' sorry to availees as we set sail in yet another jolly treatise on the pro-paedophile corruption that lies behind/alongside the relatively mainstream albeit still massive corruption of Mt Gambier City Council, a combined corruption that makes Mt Gambier look like a paedophile haven for corrupt politicians, developers, etc, and why people the calibre of Rory McEwen and Greg Muller and Steve Perryman thrive...(wow, who's in a good mood today then-Ed)...not me...(ahh yeah, it was a rhetorical question-Ed)...get stuffed...(fair enough-Ed).
As part of this series of posts, effectively a 'post-Mayoral re-booting of this 'ere blog' , and for those 'availees' who've only recently joined the shenanigans here-in and there-abouts, I'd just like to re-iterate that which it is what done see us gather here for this 'ere blog thingy, the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up...and like the Rail Lands Retail Agenda, the reality of the St Martins Cover-up is not open to debate or discussion...(certainly not on the local ABC, or anywhere on the National Broadcaster, or in The Border Watch, or The Advertiser-Ed)...good point well made, but I just meant that they are undeniable, as proven on this 'ere blog...
For The Record: I'm not now nor never have I been a lawyer or a law officer of any description...(me neither-Ed)...I have no formal qualifications in anything let alone law and/or politics...I'm not part of any group or official anything or any political affiliation/affliction/aspiration/whatevs...I ain't not nuthin', ain't not no-one, ain't nuthin' but a Thang...(and a rather large rather angry rather hairy Thang at that-Ed)...indeed...
Straight up, I'd be a liar to deny that I've felt like a walking target ever since I rode/strode/drove into this town, and that feelin' ain't done no settlin' down any in recent times when Nick Fletcher has become the issue instead of the issue being, well, the issue...and that is my fundamental motivation for doing the blog...given the complicit nature of the local media I need a forum to explain the realities, and so here they are...and so heeeere's Nicky...here I am...and if I'm the bloody problem then bloody-mindedly problematic I'll be, and when I see y'all in the street it's gunna' be quietly politely ugly in very fundamental ways...('Christian Cuddles' all 'round then?-Ed)...and why not...
And again, 1) to those whom know 'y'all' doesn't mean y'all, y'all know we're cool, yeah, and 2) the sickeningly hilarious implied threat of the 'Christian Cuddle', the phrase used by the Lutherans et al to understate and play-down the gross abuses committed against 7 year old children by teacher Glyn Dorling at St Martins Lutheran School in 2002...it's used to try and deny the abuses committed against 7 year olds by their 50+ year old teacher, but when I talk about visiting those self-same behaviours on say, Rory McEwen, then all of a sudden the same phrase drips menace and malice and great dis-ease...(which in itself defines just how in-appropriate those 'cuddles' were-ed)...exactly...
And I'm most definitely, definitively not an Anti-Corruption Activist...(but that's pretty much all you ever bang on about-Ed)...let me finish...it's just that with virtually every issue I've tried to engage with, there's a rank of rank corruption waiting to be discovered, to be dug through, to be negotiated...and then of course, In The Beginning, there was the St Martins issue always just waiting for some poor shmuck to wade right in and say 'right, I'll fix this then'...(when it's so obviously so very much already 'fixed'-Ed)...indeed...
I'm not an Anti-Corruption Campaigner or anything even remotely like that, I'm just a man, just a man who is just a parent...I am just a parent who along with a handful of other parents was handed the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up and has since endured 12 years of intense conflict with the alleged Child Protection system, the Labor government, SAPol, the Crown Solicitor, the Teachers Registration Board, and in my case, a bank of constantly whinging screeching lawyers...(err, err that's defamation Mr Fletcher, stop that or else-WSL)...or else what?
(Or else you get 2 SAPol Anti-Corruption detectives in your home "seizing" your computer and telling you "expect to be charged"?-Ed)...is that another rhetorical question, what given like that that's already actually happened, unlike...(ahh yeah, just like that-Ed)...I believe Ed is just making the point that for all my repeatious renderings of perceived injustice and corrupted process, for all the criminality and corruption I've effectively exposed but that remains unresolved, for the undeniable collusion and pro-paedophile co-operation between Authorities and the Lutherans, etc, etc, etc, all of that and it's me that gets touched-up by the Fuzz...
And nuthin' I can think of says it better than something I already thought of, namely, whilst I may spend a great deal of my time 'venting' things on this 'ere blog, I ain't doin' no 'inventing'...(and that's why the 'defamation' threats pile up and, like the very issues themselves, remain unresolved-Ed)...well put Ed, that's exactly right...none of these clowns want my scurrilously accurate 'allegations' going anywhere near a Court...(except of course now that the SA parliament is trying to give Magistrates/Judges/whatevs the power to deny defendants a 'Jury trial', and therefore a large angry hippy may well find themselves on show in yet another 'get-the Child Protection advocate' Show Trial as was used against CPAs in 2008-Ed)...
Exactly Ed, I'd be quietly confident that it would be a very short matter of time before I was hauled before one of Adelaide's plethora of apparently pro-paedophile Magistrates, legally denied a jury, and then corruptly convicted of the heinous crime of talking about the reality of what South Australia is, a state run for paedophiles, by paedophiles, from the heads of our political parties, through SAPol (the police), the Courts, the Public Service, etc, etc...it's what we as adults all conveniently ignore because 1) it doesn't affect us directly as individuals, and 2) we convince ourselves that it's all too hard to resolve...
I'm just the parent of a child who was a 7 year old student in grade 2 at St Martins Lutheran School, a child who was subjected to the daily, regimented, clearly "researched" (FCPS) litany of physical, emotional, and psychological abuses perpetrated against the entire class by their teacher Glyn Dorling...a child who was subjected to those abuses by the Lutheran Church who knew what Dorling was doing and had only 2 years prior furiously defended him in a legal action against a family...
I'm just a parent who has been openly attacked, vilified, deliberately expertly Pariahtised by the Lutheran Church and it's various agents, eg, Rory McEwen, he whom was ringing Child Protection Advocates to rancidly denigrate myself and other parents, and whom went on the front page of The Border Watch in May 2005 openly defending Dorling, St Martins, and the Lutherans by accusing us parents of 'hounding' Glyn Dorling, and labelling us 'conspiracy theorists'...
I'm just a parent caught-up in pro-paedophile corruption so absolute that it's me the desperate parent fighting foe appropriate resolution of a clearly unacceptable situation who finds themselves banned off the ABC, the alleged Public Broadcaster, banned and then completely censored out of the debate re the Mayoral stuff in the recent Local Government Election...(how dodgy is that?-Ed)...and the length and breadth of that corruption is allowed by the complicit co-operation of your illustrious leaders like Rory McEwen, Steve Perryman, Greg Muller, Don Pegler, Peter Gandolfi,Tony Pasin, et al...
And the truly sad thing is that Mt Gambier just sits there and takes it, silently fuming about how much they hate Council, the Mayor, the corruption, etc, yet when the opportunity arises to express that displeasure, they allegedly elect to Mayor Andrew Lee, one of the worst of the current crop of Councillors, and the widely loathed current Mayor Steve Perryman is allegedly elected no.1 Councillor...(and you say allegedly because?-Ed)...because the system is so fundamentally corruptible and open to manipulation...
Starting shortly, a new separate blog purely dedicated to the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up...thought I'd start with a copy of the SAPol Charge Sheet describing exactly what teacher Glyn Dorling was charged with and investigated over, etc, but of course I'd forgotten that no such document actually exists because SAPol never even interviewed Dorling let alone charge him for his crimes...(you're just hilarious-Ed)...but seriously, to canvas the vast range of documents, letters, various alleged Inquiries, etc, I'll start posting documents as a separate post...
And on Remembrance Day (***now yesterday, sorry) I embrace the way my fore-fathers did it because it had to be done...(ain't nuthin' but a Thang-Ed)...no, ain't nuthin' but the Thang...(fair enough-Ed)...
Tomorrow: A List of Pain
All of the things that this out-going and massively corrupted Council has dumped into/onto the incoming Council, eg, the massive debt load of approx $600,000pa after borrowing $6million in 2013 and spending it all inside 12 months...(even I struggle to believe that-Ed)...ohhh it's only money mate...(ohhh, well that's just fine then-Ed)...just fine?...(no, actually, it's super fine...it's 'finetastic'-Ed)...nice...
And of course there's the bizarre shoving of the James Morrison Jazz Course into the Town Hall in a blazingly obvious attempt to justify the vast sums of money already burned on the ridiculous Main Corner Project...(and the impending associated corruption is so blatantly predictable that even I can see it coming-Ed)...and it's so obvious because it's exactly what Council did at the November 2010 Council meeting with the then incoming new Council...
In November 2010, first meeting for the new Councillors, they were greeted with the approx $3million 'Expansion Plan' of the already part-built Main Corner Project, which included the commercial kitchen, lights, etc, and were less than subtly manipulated/bullied/tricked into voting for it because it was 'the best thing to do for the City and we can't stop halfway done', etc, etc, 'be a good team player'...(orrr that ol' manipulation, 'you mustn't talk down the team, no matter what'-Ed)...exactly...and it's exactly what this incoming Council has carefully placed ahead of it by the current Council and associated vested interests...
But if you are to believe Council's own Agenda/Minutes from May 2014, Council has been thoroughly, comprehensively investigated re multiple issues and found to be officially without fault on any issue, presumably including the ones I raise on this blog...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...
As part of this series of posts, effectively a 'post-Mayoral re-booting of this 'ere blog' , and for those 'availees' who've only recently joined the shenanigans here-in and there-abouts, I'd just like to re-iterate that which it is what done see us gather here for this 'ere blog thingy, the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up...and like the Rail Lands Retail Agenda, the reality of the St Martins Cover-up is not open to debate or discussion...(certainly not on the local ABC, or anywhere on the National Broadcaster, or in The Border Watch, or The Advertiser-Ed)...good point well made, but I just meant that they are undeniable, as proven on this 'ere blog...
For The Record: I'm not now nor never have I been a lawyer or a law officer of any description...(me neither-Ed)...I have no formal qualifications in anything let alone law and/or politics...I'm not part of any group or official anything or any political affiliation/affliction/aspiration/whatevs...I ain't not nuthin', ain't not no-one, ain't nuthin' but a Thang...(and a rather large rather angry rather hairy Thang at that-Ed)...indeed...
Straight up, I'd be a liar to deny that I've felt like a walking target ever since I rode/strode/drove into this town, and that feelin' ain't done no settlin' down any in recent times when Nick Fletcher has become the issue instead of the issue being, well, the issue...and that is my fundamental motivation for doing the blog...given the complicit nature of the local media I need a forum to explain the realities, and so here they are...and so heeeere's Nicky...here I am...and if I'm the bloody problem then bloody-mindedly problematic I'll be, and when I see y'all in the street it's gunna' be quietly politely ugly in very fundamental ways...('Christian Cuddles' all 'round then?-Ed)...and why not...
And again, 1) to those whom know 'y'all' doesn't mean y'all, y'all know we're cool, yeah, and 2) the sickeningly hilarious implied threat of the 'Christian Cuddle', the phrase used by the Lutherans et al to understate and play-down the gross abuses committed against 7 year old children by teacher Glyn Dorling at St Martins Lutheran School in 2002...it's used to try and deny the abuses committed against 7 year olds by their 50+ year old teacher, but when I talk about visiting those self-same behaviours on say, Rory McEwen, then all of a sudden the same phrase drips menace and malice and great dis-ease...(which in itself defines just how in-appropriate those 'cuddles' were-ed)...exactly...
And I'm most definitely, definitively not an Anti-Corruption Activist...(but that's pretty much all you ever bang on about-Ed)...let me finish...it's just that with virtually every issue I've tried to engage with, there's a rank of rank corruption waiting to be discovered, to be dug through, to be negotiated...and then of course, In The Beginning, there was the St Martins issue always just waiting for some poor shmuck to wade right in and say 'right, I'll fix this then'...(when it's so obviously so very much already 'fixed'-Ed)...indeed...
I'm not an Anti-Corruption Campaigner or anything even remotely like that, I'm just a man, just a man who is just a parent...I am just a parent who along with a handful of other parents was handed the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up and has since endured 12 years of intense conflict with the alleged Child Protection system, the Labor government, SAPol, the Crown Solicitor, the Teachers Registration Board, and in my case, a bank of constantly whinging screeching lawyers...(err, err that's defamation Mr Fletcher, stop that or else-WSL)...or else what?
(Or else you get 2 SAPol Anti-Corruption detectives in your home "seizing" your computer and telling you "expect to be charged"?-Ed)...is that another rhetorical question, what given like that that's already actually happened, unlike...(ahh yeah, just like that-Ed)...I believe Ed is just making the point that for all my repeatious renderings of perceived injustice and corrupted process, for all the criminality and corruption I've effectively exposed but that remains unresolved, for the undeniable collusion and pro-paedophile co-operation between Authorities and the Lutherans, etc, etc, etc, all of that and it's me that gets touched-up by the Fuzz...
And nuthin' I can think of says it better than something I already thought of, namely, whilst I may spend a great deal of my time 'venting' things on this 'ere blog, I ain't doin' no 'inventing'...(and that's why the 'defamation' threats pile up and, like the very issues themselves, remain unresolved-Ed)...well put Ed, that's exactly right...none of these clowns want my scurrilously accurate 'allegations' going anywhere near a Court...(except of course now that the SA parliament is trying to give Magistrates/Judges/whatevs the power to deny defendants a 'Jury trial', and therefore a large angry hippy may well find themselves on show in yet another 'get-the Child Protection advocate' Show Trial as was used against CPAs in 2008-Ed)...
Exactly Ed, I'd be quietly confident that it would be a very short matter of time before I was hauled before one of Adelaide's plethora of apparently pro-paedophile Magistrates, legally denied a jury, and then corruptly convicted of the heinous crime of talking about the reality of what South Australia is, a state run for paedophiles, by paedophiles, from the heads of our political parties, through SAPol (the police), the Courts, the Public Service, etc, etc...it's what we as adults all conveniently ignore because 1) it doesn't affect us directly as individuals, and 2) we convince ourselves that it's all too hard to resolve...
I'm just the parent of a child who was a 7 year old student in grade 2 at St Martins Lutheran School, a child who was subjected to the daily, regimented, clearly "researched" (FCPS) litany of physical, emotional, and psychological abuses perpetrated against the entire class by their teacher Glyn Dorling...a child who was subjected to those abuses by the Lutheran Church who knew what Dorling was doing and had only 2 years prior furiously defended him in a legal action against a family...
I'm just a parent who has been openly attacked, vilified, deliberately expertly Pariahtised by the Lutheran Church and it's various agents, eg, Rory McEwen, he whom was ringing Child Protection Advocates to rancidly denigrate myself and other parents, and whom went on the front page of The Border Watch in May 2005 openly defending Dorling, St Martins, and the Lutherans by accusing us parents of 'hounding' Glyn Dorling, and labelling us 'conspiracy theorists'...
I'm just a parent caught-up in pro-paedophile corruption so absolute that it's me the desperate parent fighting foe appropriate resolution of a clearly unacceptable situation who finds themselves banned off the ABC, the alleged Public Broadcaster, banned and then completely censored out of the debate re the Mayoral stuff in the recent Local Government Election...(how dodgy is that?-Ed)...and the length and breadth of that corruption is allowed by the complicit co-operation of your illustrious leaders like Rory McEwen, Steve Perryman, Greg Muller, Don Pegler, Peter Gandolfi,Tony Pasin, et al...
And the truly sad thing is that Mt Gambier just sits there and takes it, silently fuming about how much they hate Council, the Mayor, the corruption, etc, yet when the opportunity arises to express that displeasure, they allegedly elect to Mayor Andrew Lee, one of the worst of the current crop of Councillors, and the widely loathed current Mayor Steve Perryman is allegedly elected no.1 Councillor...(and you say allegedly because?-Ed)...because the system is so fundamentally corruptible and open to manipulation...
Starting shortly, a new separate blog purely dedicated to the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up...thought I'd start with a copy of the SAPol Charge Sheet describing exactly what teacher Glyn Dorling was charged with and investigated over, etc, but of course I'd forgotten that no such document actually exists because SAPol never even interviewed Dorling let alone charge him for his crimes...(you're just hilarious-Ed)...but seriously, to canvas the vast range of documents, letters, various alleged Inquiries, etc, I'll start posting documents as a separate post...
And on Remembrance Day (***now yesterday, sorry) I embrace the way my fore-fathers did it because it had to be done...(ain't nuthin' but a Thang-Ed)...no, ain't nuthin' but the Thang...(fair enough-Ed)...
Tomorrow: A List of Pain
All of the things that this out-going and massively corrupted Council has dumped into/onto the incoming Council, eg, the massive debt load of approx $600,000pa after borrowing $6million in 2013 and spending it all inside 12 months...(even I struggle to believe that-Ed)...ohhh it's only money mate...(ohhh, well that's just fine then-Ed)...just fine?...(no, actually, it's super fine...it's 'finetastic'-Ed)...nice...
And of course there's the bizarre shoving of the James Morrison Jazz Course into the Town Hall in a blazingly obvious attempt to justify the vast sums of money already burned on the ridiculous Main Corner Project...(and the impending associated corruption is so blatantly predictable that even I can see it coming-Ed)...and it's so obvious because it's exactly what Council did at the November 2010 Council meeting with the then incoming new Council...
In November 2010, first meeting for the new Councillors, they were greeted with the approx $3million 'Expansion Plan' of the already part-built Main Corner Project, which included the commercial kitchen, lights, etc, and were less than subtly manipulated/bullied/tricked into voting for it because it was 'the best thing to do for the City and we can't stop halfway done', etc, etc, 'be a good team player'...(orrr that ol' manipulation, 'you mustn't talk down the team, no matter what'-Ed)...exactly...and it's exactly what this incoming Council has carefully placed ahead of it by the current Council and associated vested interests...
But if you are to believe Council's own Agenda/Minutes from May 2014, Council has been thoroughly, comprehensively investigated re multiple issues and found to be officially without fault on any issue, presumably including the ones I raise on this blog...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...
Monday, November 10, 2014
Normal Transmission Resumes
Hello Venezuela, Iraq, Taiwan, and Macau, and welcome to the blog and the resumption of 'normal' bloggin' right 'ere...apologies for no post yesterday and/or the day before but Saturday was Local Government Election count day and yesterday I just couldn't summon the energy to give a damn...(come on, come on, you slept more in the last 36 hours than you have in a week-Ed)...true, true...(and you can barely stand up for giving so much of a damn-Ed)...indeed, indeed...(and you stacked 3kgs back on in just 2 days-Ed)...ok, thankyou, that's enough sharing...
But on that general note I'd just like to note and thank people for the support I've had over the last few weeks and apologise where necessary for the average standard of posts and/or repeated 'postless' days...it's been a bit of a grind trying to engage in an electoral process where one doesn't trust the system/processes, etc, and expect to probably run last anyway...in re-booting this 'ere blog I'd like to trawl back over a coupla' personal issues...
Again I'd like to acknowledge the life of relative luxury and privilege that I lead and the support I receive from both the Disability Support Pension and the Housing Trust (Housing SA), albeit support right on the 'poverty line' in this society...I further re-iterate my previous statements that I currently consider myself to be in the employ of the society that supports me with the DSP and Public Housing...also of course it's been really difficult to do this 'ere blog because I've been trying to spend as much time as possible not here at home and I still don't have my laptop...(still?!-Ed)...
Yep, it's now 6 months since 2 SAPol Anti-Corruption detectives came to my home (in May 2014) and "seized" my laptop as evidence, repeatedly telling me that I should "expect to be charged" for the heinous crime of talking about a state government Authority allegedly doing what it's allegedly supposed to do...(you bastard-Ed)...an Authority that I possibly still cannot name...(ludicrous-Ed)...well I'd have said corruptly Fascist, but we quibble over terms...
And also acknowledge that I live this life of relative luxury effectively for having the good fortune to be born a White man in a stolen land, ironically the exact reasons I don't 'fit' into the Social Security System...the SSS explained it to me themselves, essentially, they're so busy dealing with the dis-enfranchised, the dis-empowered, the down-trodden, people with disabilities, those with problematic Mental Health issues, etc, etc, which is also predominantly women, Aboriginal people, and the elderly, etc, that because our entire society is geared to serve the wants and needs of White men, they (SSS) aren't geared/legislated/whatevs to deal with a relatively sane, relatively able-bodied White man...
And having said that, why was I 'diagnosed' by Centrelink (SSS) psychologist Luciana (last name?) back in 2003 (an appointment that I had requested), 'diagnosed' as apparently requiring 'psychiatiric' help/referral/whatevs (as in previous posts), why was I thusly diagnosed and then dumped back into the Job Search market without receiving any support what-so-ever?...was this a genuine but massive failure of the system, or was I deliberately dumped there to rot whilst the 'crazy diagnosis' was used to further discredit me?
(Anyhoos, how'd ya' go in the election?-Ed)...dunno, probably last of 8 Mayoral candidates given early counting from my scrutineers...(so who's in then?-Ed)...was looking like either Bob Sandow, Andrew Lee, or Allen Smith...(oh my gourd-Ed)...well exactly, coming last is one thing but last to this pack a' clowns, that's just sad...
And the word on the street late yesterday is that former Councillor Andrew Lee is Mt Gambier's new Mayor...(sweet baby cheeses-Ed)...so it's dodgy business as usual for Mt Gambier City Council...(didn't he always stay in the Chamber for votes on issues that he had a direct 'Conflict of Interest' with, eg, the recent 5 year re-leasing of the Main Corner commercial kitchen, a vote done in private after kicking the public out, and where he and then Mayor Steve Perryman both 'unlawfully' remained in the room and voted on that lease-Ed)...absolutely Ed, you're spot on...it's just so sad...
And not sad for me but sad for Mt Gambier...of all the retrograde, smothering, backwards steps to take, allegedly voting-in one of these corrupt clowns as Mayor...and I say alleged because of the vastly corruptable nature of the Voluntary Postal Voting system where 7 outta' 10 votes remain supposedly unaccounted for...I know some-one who didn't receive their forms in the mail or possibly it was stuck somewhere in the junk mail and thrown out, but they never saw it and had to apply for replacements...(so what happened with their original forms?-Ed)...that's what I said/asked, and it's 'no idea'...
(But what happens if/when 2 envelopes with their name on show up in the mail for counting?-Ed)...no idea, not count both of them?...(and they're not really 'unaccounted for' are they, they are mostly people who didn't vote for whatever reason-Ed)...sure, there are many people who won't vote for whatevs reason, eg, I know a coupla' people who didn't vote because they didn't know anything about the candidates in their electorate...(ironic really. given how well they know what's goin' on in Mt Gambier politics-Ed)...indeed, but no, they are unaccounted actual voting forms not just people whom have not voted...
Regardless of the result, personally I've very much achieved what I set out to achieve, and that's just to address the decade of character assassination that I and other parents, our families, and especially our children have been subjected to as all senior public figures in this town cover-up the abuse of a class of 7 year old children at St Martins...and the credibility of this 'ere blog is now fueled by peoples personal exposure to me as a person capable of so much more than just angry ranting on the aforementioned this 'ere blog...
Whilst I won't speak specifically for other parents about how their families were/are treated by the charming Lutherans and other families from St Martins, I know that immediately following the removal of "text-book grooming paedophile" (Flinders Child Protection Service-August 2002) teacher Glyn Dorling, I and other parents were openly targetted by the shreckin' Lutherans as they sort to destroy us personally so as to protect their precious paedophile teacher, and that our kids got caught up in that as they too were shunned, party invitations just stopped, etc...(those goodly godly folk at St Martins-Ed)...
News Just In: that our mate Mayor Richard Vickery has lost the Tatiara Mayorship and therefore is out as President of the Local Government Assoc...Kingston Mayor Evan Flint is also out and he is/was LGA vice-president...this means a coupla' interim appointments until new leaders can be voted for early next year.
Mission Creep: is a major concern for the Greens and Labor here in Oz, and similarly in the USofA...(well if they're so damned concerned about it they shouldn't give him his own damn Operation-Ed)...sorry what?...(if everybody's so concerned about Tony Abbott and his bellicosely militaristic carry-on, then they shouldn't encourage him by naming a military Operation after him-Ed)...still not with you orrr no, wait, yes I am...that's not the name of a military manoeuvre named after our charming PM, it's a term used to describe the gradual escalation of involvement in a conflict...in this case it's referring to the latest 1600 USofA troops going back into Iraq...
(Didn't we just leave Iraq and/or Aghanistan? and why do we have $500million + for this latest Middle East muddling meddling namely aerially attacking someone we hope is our enemy, or at least the enemy of our enemy?-Ed)...and one we're not keeping so close as to make ourselves a target or 'collateral damages as a result of friendly fire'...lost as I have been in my own Mayoral shenanigans, the often bizarre and violent events in Iraq and Syria have not escaped me as reportage of the daily bombings and/or other killings routinely surge and subside through our local media...
There were reports (ABC/BBC ? Radio) about increased shelling in Donetsk in Ukraine, or that part of Ukraine surrounding there that is quasi-Russian, but it didn't say (or I missed) specifically whom was shelling whom, but it was residents mostly at risk...please pardon my ignorance availees in Ukraine and thereabouts, but it's really hard to stay on track with what's actually happening, particularly when I'm deeply cynical about how things are reported at me...(fair enough too...but to be even fairer, it's not just the questionable nature of modern 'reportage', look at the statements from PM Tony 'Have At You Sir' Abbott about how 'the Russians are responsible', and the equally definitively judgemental comments from Foreign Minister Julie Bishop-Ed)...good point...
Only this week, the Dutch President Mark Rutte stated that 'we may never know exactly what happened with the Malaysian Airlines flight MH 17'...(and yet Tones and Jules have been holding forth at volume ever since it happened about how 'the Russian-backed Separatists' are directly definitely responsible for shooting it down, with attached derogatory describers about Russia's culpability-Ed)...exactly, coupled with their extraordinary behaviour bordering on frenzy around 'Operation Bring Them Home'...even if Mr Rutte is being super-diplomatic purely so as to negotiate full/better access to the crash site, etc, what room for negotiation with T-Man and J-Woman?...none...
That's enough for today, and back into it,
Tomorrow: What This Council Has Inherited
And it's a wall of pain, a pit of debt, a waking nightmare of fear, loathing and intimidation...(oh, so you're still going to go to the meetings then?-Ed)...hilarious...and yes...
Not bloody Authorised anymore because it doesn't have to be but still Written by Nick Fletcher is this 'ere blog...cheers and laters mofos...
But on that general note I'd just like to note and thank people for the support I've had over the last few weeks and apologise where necessary for the average standard of posts and/or repeated 'postless' days...it's been a bit of a grind trying to engage in an electoral process where one doesn't trust the system/processes, etc, and expect to probably run last anyway...in re-booting this 'ere blog I'd like to trawl back over a coupla' personal issues...
Again I'd like to acknowledge the life of relative luxury and privilege that I lead and the support I receive from both the Disability Support Pension and the Housing Trust (Housing SA), albeit support right on the 'poverty line' in this society...I further re-iterate my previous statements that I currently consider myself to be in the employ of the society that supports me with the DSP and Public Housing...also of course it's been really difficult to do this 'ere blog because I've been trying to spend as much time as possible not here at home and I still don't have my laptop...(still?!-Ed)...
Yep, it's now 6 months since 2 SAPol Anti-Corruption detectives came to my home (in May 2014) and "seized" my laptop as evidence, repeatedly telling me that I should "expect to be charged" for the heinous crime of talking about a state government Authority allegedly doing what it's allegedly supposed to do...(you bastard-Ed)...an Authority that I possibly still cannot name...(ludicrous-Ed)...well I'd have said corruptly Fascist, but we quibble over terms...
And also acknowledge that I live this life of relative luxury effectively for having the good fortune to be born a White man in a stolen land, ironically the exact reasons I don't 'fit' into the Social Security System...the SSS explained it to me themselves, essentially, they're so busy dealing with the dis-enfranchised, the dis-empowered, the down-trodden, people with disabilities, those with problematic Mental Health issues, etc, etc, which is also predominantly women, Aboriginal people, and the elderly, etc, that because our entire society is geared to serve the wants and needs of White men, they (SSS) aren't geared/legislated/whatevs to deal with a relatively sane, relatively able-bodied White man...
And having said that, why was I 'diagnosed' by Centrelink (SSS) psychologist Luciana (last name?) back in 2003 (an appointment that I had requested), 'diagnosed' as apparently requiring 'psychiatiric' help/referral/whatevs (as in previous posts), why was I thusly diagnosed and then dumped back into the Job Search market without receiving any support what-so-ever?...was this a genuine but massive failure of the system, or was I deliberately dumped there to rot whilst the 'crazy diagnosis' was used to further discredit me?
(Anyhoos, how'd ya' go in the election?-Ed)...dunno, probably last of 8 Mayoral candidates given early counting from my scrutineers...(so who's in then?-Ed)...was looking like either Bob Sandow, Andrew Lee, or Allen Smith...(oh my gourd-Ed)...well exactly, coming last is one thing but last to this pack a' clowns, that's just sad...
And the word on the street late yesterday is that former Councillor Andrew Lee is Mt Gambier's new Mayor...(sweet baby cheeses-Ed)...so it's dodgy business as usual for Mt Gambier City Council...(didn't he always stay in the Chamber for votes on issues that he had a direct 'Conflict of Interest' with, eg, the recent 5 year re-leasing of the Main Corner commercial kitchen, a vote done in private after kicking the public out, and where he and then Mayor Steve Perryman both 'unlawfully' remained in the room and voted on that lease-Ed)...absolutely Ed, you're spot on...it's just so sad...
And not sad for me but sad for Mt Gambier...of all the retrograde, smothering, backwards steps to take, allegedly voting-in one of these corrupt clowns as Mayor...and I say alleged because of the vastly corruptable nature of the Voluntary Postal Voting system where 7 outta' 10 votes remain supposedly unaccounted for...I know some-one who didn't receive their forms in the mail or possibly it was stuck somewhere in the junk mail and thrown out, but they never saw it and had to apply for replacements...(so what happened with their original forms?-Ed)...that's what I said/asked, and it's 'no idea'...
(But what happens if/when 2 envelopes with their name on show up in the mail for counting?-Ed)...no idea, not count both of them?...(and they're not really 'unaccounted for' are they, they are mostly people who didn't vote for whatever reason-Ed)...sure, there are many people who won't vote for whatevs reason, eg, I know a coupla' people who didn't vote because they didn't know anything about the candidates in their electorate...(ironic really. given how well they know what's goin' on in Mt Gambier politics-Ed)...indeed, but no, they are unaccounted actual voting forms not just people whom have not voted...
Regardless of the result, personally I've very much achieved what I set out to achieve, and that's just to address the decade of character assassination that I and other parents, our families, and especially our children have been subjected to as all senior public figures in this town cover-up the abuse of a class of 7 year old children at St Martins...and the credibility of this 'ere blog is now fueled by peoples personal exposure to me as a person capable of so much more than just angry ranting on the aforementioned this 'ere blog...
Whilst I won't speak specifically for other parents about how their families were/are treated by the charming Lutherans and other families from St Martins, I know that immediately following the removal of "text-book grooming paedophile" (Flinders Child Protection Service-August 2002) teacher Glyn Dorling, I and other parents were openly targetted by the shreckin' Lutherans as they sort to destroy us personally so as to protect their precious paedophile teacher, and that our kids got caught up in that as they too were shunned, party invitations just stopped, etc...(those goodly godly folk at St Martins-Ed)...
News Just In: that our mate Mayor Richard Vickery has lost the Tatiara Mayorship and therefore is out as President of the Local Government Assoc...Kingston Mayor Evan Flint is also out and he is/was LGA vice-president...this means a coupla' interim appointments until new leaders can be voted for early next year.
Mission Creep: is a major concern for the Greens and Labor here in Oz, and similarly in the USofA...(well if they're so damned concerned about it they shouldn't give him his own damn Operation-Ed)...sorry what?...(if everybody's so concerned about Tony Abbott and his bellicosely militaristic carry-on, then they shouldn't encourage him by naming a military Operation after him-Ed)...still not with you orrr no, wait, yes I am...that's not the name of a military manoeuvre named after our charming PM, it's a term used to describe the gradual escalation of involvement in a conflict...in this case it's referring to the latest 1600 USofA troops going back into Iraq...
(Didn't we just leave Iraq and/or Aghanistan? and why do we have $500million + for this latest Middle East muddling meddling namely aerially attacking someone we hope is our enemy, or at least the enemy of our enemy?-Ed)...and one we're not keeping so close as to make ourselves a target or 'collateral damages as a result of friendly fire'...lost as I have been in my own Mayoral shenanigans, the often bizarre and violent events in Iraq and Syria have not escaped me as reportage of the daily bombings and/or other killings routinely surge and subside through our local media...
There were reports (ABC/BBC ? Radio) about increased shelling in Donetsk in Ukraine, or that part of Ukraine surrounding there that is quasi-Russian, but it didn't say (or I missed) specifically whom was shelling whom, but it was residents mostly at risk...please pardon my ignorance availees in Ukraine and thereabouts, but it's really hard to stay on track with what's actually happening, particularly when I'm deeply cynical about how things are reported at me...(fair enough too...but to be even fairer, it's not just the questionable nature of modern 'reportage', look at the statements from PM Tony 'Have At You Sir' Abbott about how 'the Russians are responsible', and the equally definitively judgemental comments from Foreign Minister Julie Bishop-Ed)...good point...
Only this week, the Dutch President Mark Rutte stated that 'we may never know exactly what happened with the Malaysian Airlines flight MH 17'...(and yet Tones and Jules have been holding forth at volume ever since it happened about how 'the Russian-backed Separatists' are directly definitely responsible for shooting it down, with attached derogatory describers about Russia's culpability-Ed)...exactly, coupled with their extraordinary behaviour bordering on frenzy around 'Operation Bring Them Home'...even if Mr Rutte is being super-diplomatic purely so as to negotiate full/better access to the crash site, etc, what room for negotiation with T-Man and J-Woman?...none...
That's enough for today, and back into it,
Tomorrow: What This Council Has Inherited
And it's a wall of pain, a pit of debt, a waking nightmare of fear, loathing and intimidation...(oh, so you're still going to go to the meetings then?-Ed)...hilarious...and yes...
Not bloody Authorised anymore because it doesn't have to be but still Written by Nick Fletcher is this 'ere blog...cheers and laters mofos...
Friday, November 7, 2014
Actually MGCCM21OCT2014 Part II
Hello and welcome to y'all Morocco, Slovenia, Canada, and from yesterday's post, it's actually Macedonia (FYROM) where FYROM is 'Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia...and a brief apology for sortta' ignoring the resta' the world with another post recounting what happened at the Mt Gambier City Council meeting 21st October 2014...(***and apologies yet again for another missed post, no excuses, I just couldn't face hours at the computer when I finally got to sit down to finish this 'ere blog last evening...not to put too fine a point on it, but I'm quite the knackered one...I look forward to being Mayor so's I can have a bit of a break (ahaha-Ed)...business as usual with daily posts post the postal vote***)...
Crayzy Talk: because apparently upcoming crayfish love a bitta' Scotch but it makes them switch from the Chardonnay to a big 'ol Cabernet, maybe even a Grange...(I hear they can drink like a fish-Ed)...indeed, yes, apparently when moved from deep to shallow water, crayfish change from white to red after a single moult.......can't believe it's approx $90/kg for the local crays, and at Woolworths there's a frozen $25 spiky pink cockroach masquerading as a crayfish, that's actually from the good 'ol USofA, Florida to be precise, by way of Perth, Western Oz...figure that one out...
Heard a bunch of stuff re the Local Government elections, eg, just this morning on ABC Radio , and there's plenty of people making weak excuses about why they aren't going to vote, eg, no decent candidates, doesn't make any difference, etc, and plenty complaining about the whole process, eg, having your name, address, and signature attached to your voting envelope...as a candidate I can honestly say that the whole 'voluntary postal voting' process is a farcically corruptible joke...but back to the Council meeting...
Over 2 weeks on and it still puts a nasty taste in my mouth...(that'd be biting that bitter tongue-Ed)...nice, that's exactly what it'd be...more than one or two things to say and unable to speak out during the meeting because that'll getcha' chucked out and potentially banned for good...(not giving the bastards the satisfaction?-Ed)...precisely, and I want to know what goes on, so, as much as it irks me I need to be in that room...and even just being in that room is/was absolutely indicative of my existence in Mt Gambier, confrontingly immediate in it's reminiscent definitiveness, my experience of Mt Gambier literally personified...(to a man, in fact to a woman and a man-Ed)...indeed...
I breezed into the Chamber bang on 1800hrs but needn't have rushed 'cos Mayor Steve Perryman was running nearly 10 minutes late...(ending by continuing the fine tradition of how most meetings have begun, Waiting For Stevo-Ed)...classic...and sitting right there was Mrs Viv Maher, a regular featurer in this 'ere blog, namely;
1) was briefly my counsellor way back in 2003 re the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up, stating that I wasn't her only client re St Martins;
2) is wife of Labor branch president and City Councillor Jim Maher;
3) both have been Labor candidates in state elections, eg, Viv in 2010 and Jim in 2014;
4) their son is a former Crown Solicitor employee and currently Labor Legislative Council (Upper House) Member Kyam Maher;
5) in 2009, Jim and Viv invited me and another parent to their home to discuss St Martins, and the first thing they said was 'careful that you don't further traumatise your kids by continuing to pursue this';
6) at the March 2010 Election Forum Viv sat on stage as a candidate, and when the St Martins issue was raised by an audience member, she failed to address it at all, instead remaining seated with Don Pegler, Henk Bruins, and Steve Perryman as Liberal candidate...
And now explaining why these things are so demanding, so beckoning, so conjuring of my dis-ease;
1) Viv Maher has an extensive and explicit understanding of the Cover-up of the gross abuse of a class of 7 year old kids at St Martins Lutheran School;
2) between them, Viv and Jim are the Labor Party in Mt Gambier, and there rank failures re dealing with St Martins is a failure motivated by their commitment to the completely corrupt pro-paedophile Sow Strayn Labor Party;
3) both have been the Labor candidate, specifically carrying forward the St Martins Cover-up on behalf of their Party at successive elections;
4) the Crown Solicitors Office is as rabidly pro-paedophile corrupted as the Labor Party, and a clear driver/conspirator in the St Martins Cover-up, eg, their corruptly farcical running of the Teachers Registration Board hearing that completely exonerated "text-book grooming paedophile" teacher Glyn Dorling, their written threats to gaol me for 'Criminal Defamation', etc;
5) so very many times this line has been used 'against' us parents to try and manipulate us and guilt us into dropping the St Martins issue;
6) as Labor candidate, on stage at the Election Forum, and fully aware of some of the most intimate details of the St Martins case, and Mrs Maher sat there staring at the desk.
Just sat there all 4 of them heads bowed staring at the desk, hands clasped in front of them...they all knew exactly what it was but didn't have the common decency, the simple dignity, the strength of character, to even stand up and acknowledge the question...not even a 'sorry, I don't really know about that'...(well they couldn't say that, could they?-Ed)...of course not, because I amongst others had personally explained St Martins to them...but worse, they sat there and said nuthin'...and there in the crowd was current Member for Barker Liberal Tony Pasin, leaping outta' his chair with joy when I mentioned that teacher Glyn Dorling's lawyer in the TRB/CSO hearing was Premier Jay Weatherill's business partner Stephen Lietchke...
And at the Walk Together event on 25th October 2014 I ran into all 3 Mahers as Kyam was down here shamelessly promoting himself with taxpayer funded flyers saying 'Walk With Me' and his photo and blurb in the bottom corner...and Viv just stared at me as she does these days, Jim avoided eye contact, and I just stayed away aways from Kyam, aways to one side, although Cr Penny Richardson did talk to me, and then I marched at the back as far as my car...went to show my face and hence my support and respect, and did that by staying right away...(ain't nuthin' but a Thang-Ed)...indeed...
But I digress, back to the meeting...in rolled Mayor Steve Perryman's family including his charming mother Cherylanne, senior office person at St Martins, and one of the charming Lutherans who took it upon themselves to harass and abuse me in the street, the supermarket, on the bus, etc...(charming people-Ed)...bedrock of the community...(insult of the Earth-Ed)...nice...and then Stevo mate...(maaate!-Ed)...strolled in and away we went...(you're thinking about 'Christian Cuddling' a coupla' people, arn'cha'?-Ed)...only always...
As per previous post, Council;
1) again skipped the Helpmann Theatre re-cladding issue, thus dumping it on the incoming Council;
2) had Stevo leave the Chamber with yet another 'Conflict of Interest' re Fracking and having a 'business arrangement' with Beach Energy;
3) organised another $100,000+ pit on the Rail Lands, this time called an 'amphitheatre';
4) self-approved their own self-appointed Auditor and gave themselves yet another glowing Financial Report care of said alleged Auditor;
5) ratified their ludicrous 'Futures Paper', thus lumbering the incoming Council with that as well;
6) then gave Biddie (Tietz) Shearing, Jim Maher, and Steve Perryman 10 minutes for reminiscing and congratulating each other...and everybody's just great and everything's just fine...(only just fine?-Ed)...alright, everything's super fine...
Not really interested in anything Biddie (Tietz) Shearing has to say...her role with Regional Development Australia is yet another one of these 'jobs for mates' appointments that has cost our society so much...people promoted not on merit but on mateness...and I note that her husband Kirby Shearing is apparently 'a celebrity chef appearing with Neil Perry' at the Council run market at the Library tomorrow...(how much is that 'celebrity appearance' bloody costing ratepayers?-Ed)...oh come on, be a good team player, it's only money...(might have to slide by and say howdy?-Ed)...just might...I mention this because it is just the latest crass manipulation using public funds to try and justify the Library/Main Corner placement fiasco...
But Jim, well Jim loves Stevo and everyone's been great and everything's just fine...(you're not really trying are you?-Ed)...I'm just gathering myself to get through the sickening self-serving sycophancy of Stevo's little address...I've not seen anyone fake-sob their way through a speech like that since Oscar Pistorius tried to argue that cowardly killing his girlfriend Reeva Steinkamp was just an accident...but away we go and it's straight into whatta' top bloke Rory McEwen is...(sweet baby cheeses-Ed)...well quite...
And nuthin' but a shameless recount of the treacherous and corrupted realities in that Stevo praised up Rory for introducing him to all the people who helped Stevo's career as a highly corrupted public official, and for helping with all those connections and deals, etc, etc...(so he sat there and openly described the raft of corruption that has crippled and bankrupted this town and this state?-Ed)...bold as brass, 'Rory's so fantastic and he helped me so much and his wife Di helped mine and aren't we all just so fantastic'...(I'm detecting a note of simmering rage, and I can can see how you might find that quite sickening, what with these 2 being intimately involved in the St Martins Cover-up and all-Ed)...
If I had to make a mound of the local people most responsible for the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up, most of them are right 'ere on this page, namely Rory McEwen, Steve Perryman, Jim and Viv Maher...chuck the school's Principal John Alexander and then local SAPol Superintendent Terry Harbour onto that heap and you got yourself a ragin' bonfire sir...
I re-refer to my comments about how I can't just go outta' the house, and/or to the supermarket, and/or to a public event, and/or whatevs,without running into these clowns...and can only apologise that I've forgotten to write to Jim Maher re his comments/criticisms on the ABC last week...because this has already gone on long enough:
Tomorrow: Part III Maybe
Written and Authorised by Nick Fletcher, 16 Kooringa St, Mt Gambier, SA 5290...cheers and laters...
Crayzy Talk: because apparently upcoming crayfish love a bitta' Scotch but it makes them switch from the Chardonnay to a big 'ol Cabernet, maybe even a Grange...(I hear they can drink like a fish-Ed)...indeed, yes, apparently when moved from deep to shallow water, crayfish change from white to red after a single moult.......can't believe it's approx $90/kg for the local crays, and at Woolworths there's a frozen $25 spiky pink cockroach masquerading as a crayfish, that's actually from the good 'ol USofA, Florida to be precise, by way of Perth, Western Oz...figure that one out...
Heard a bunch of stuff re the Local Government elections, eg, just this morning on ABC Radio , and there's plenty of people making weak excuses about why they aren't going to vote, eg, no decent candidates, doesn't make any difference, etc, and plenty complaining about the whole process, eg, having your name, address, and signature attached to your voting envelope...as a candidate I can honestly say that the whole 'voluntary postal voting' process is a farcically corruptible joke...but back to the Council meeting...
Over 2 weeks on and it still puts a nasty taste in my mouth...(that'd be biting that bitter tongue-Ed)...nice, that's exactly what it'd be...more than one or two things to say and unable to speak out during the meeting because that'll getcha' chucked out and potentially banned for good...(not giving the bastards the satisfaction?-Ed)...precisely, and I want to know what goes on, so, as much as it irks me I need to be in that room...and even just being in that room is/was absolutely indicative of my existence in Mt Gambier, confrontingly immediate in it's reminiscent definitiveness, my experience of Mt Gambier literally personified...(to a man, in fact to a woman and a man-Ed)...indeed...
I breezed into the Chamber bang on 1800hrs but needn't have rushed 'cos Mayor Steve Perryman was running nearly 10 minutes late...(ending by continuing the fine tradition of how most meetings have begun, Waiting For Stevo-Ed)...classic...and sitting right there was Mrs Viv Maher, a regular featurer in this 'ere blog, namely;
1) was briefly my counsellor way back in 2003 re the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up, stating that I wasn't her only client re St Martins;
2) is wife of Labor branch president and City Councillor Jim Maher;
3) both have been Labor candidates in state elections, eg, Viv in 2010 and Jim in 2014;
4) their son is a former Crown Solicitor employee and currently Labor Legislative Council (Upper House) Member Kyam Maher;
5) in 2009, Jim and Viv invited me and another parent to their home to discuss St Martins, and the first thing they said was 'careful that you don't further traumatise your kids by continuing to pursue this';
6) at the March 2010 Election Forum Viv sat on stage as a candidate, and when the St Martins issue was raised by an audience member, she failed to address it at all, instead remaining seated with Don Pegler, Henk Bruins, and Steve Perryman as Liberal candidate...
And now explaining why these things are so demanding, so beckoning, so conjuring of my dis-ease;
1) Viv Maher has an extensive and explicit understanding of the Cover-up of the gross abuse of a class of 7 year old kids at St Martins Lutheran School;
2) between them, Viv and Jim are the Labor Party in Mt Gambier, and there rank failures re dealing with St Martins is a failure motivated by their commitment to the completely corrupt pro-paedophile Sow Strayn Labor Party;
3) both have been the Labor candidate, specifically carrying forward the St Martins Cover-up on behalf of their Party at successive elections;
4) the Crown Solicitors Office is as rabidly pro-paedophile corrupted as the Labor Party, and a clear driver/conspirator in the St Martins Cover-up, eg, their corruptly farcical running of the Teachers Registration Board hearing that completely exonerated "text-book grooming paedophile" teacher Glyn Dorling, their written threats to gaol me for 'Criminal Defamation', etc;
5) so very many times this line has been used 'against' us parents to try and manipulate us and guilt us into dropping the St Martins issue;
6) as Labor candidate, on stage at the Election Forum, and fully aware of some of the most intimate details of the St Martins case, and Mrs Maher sat there staring at the desk.
Just sat there all 4 of them heads bowed staring at the desk, hands clasped in front of them...they all knew exactly what it was but didn't have the common decency, the simple dignity, the strength of character, to even stand up and acknowledge the question...not even a 'sorry, I don't really know about that'...(well they couldn't say that, could they?-Ed)...of course not, because I amongst others had personally explained St Martins to them...but worse, they sat there and said nuthin'...and there in the crowd was current Member for Barker Liberal Tony Pasin, leaping outta' his chair with joy when I mentioned that teacher Glyn Dorling's lawyer in the TRB/CSO hearing was Premier Jay Weatherill's business partner Stephen Lietchke...
And at the Walk Together event on 25th October 2014 I ran into all 3 Mahers as Kyam was down here shamelessly promoting himself with taxpayer funded flyers saying 'Walk With Me' and his photo and blurb in the bottom corner...and Viv just stared at me as she does these days, Jim avoided eye contact, and I just stayed away aways from Kyam, aways to one side, although Cr Penny Richardson did talk to me, and then I marched at the back as far as my car...went to show my face and hence my support and respect, and did that by staying right away...(ain't nuthin' but a Thang-Ed)...indeed...
But I digress, back to the meeting...in rolled Mayor Steve Perryman's family including his charming mother Cherylanne, senior office person at St Martins, and one of the charming Lutherans who took it upon themselves to harass and abuse me in the street, the supermarket, on the bus, etc...(charming people-Ed)...bedrock of the community...(insult of the Earth-Ed)...nice...and then Stevo mate...(maaate!-Ed)...strolled in and away we went...(you're thinking about 'Christian Cuddling' a coupla' people, arn'cha'?-Ed)...only always...
As per previous post, Council;
1) again skipped the Helpmann Theatre re-cladding issue, thus dumping it on the incoming Council;
2) had Stevo leave the Chamber with yet another 'Conflict of Interest' re Fracking and having a 'business arrangement' with Beach Energy;
3) organised another $100,000+ pit on the Rail Lands, this time called an 'amphitheatre';
4) self-approved their own self-appointed Auditor and gave themselves yet another glowing Financial Report care of said alleged Auditor;
5) ratified their ludicrous 'Futures Paper', thus lumbering the incoming Council with that as well;
6) then gave Biddie (Tietz) Shearing, Jim Maher, and Steve Perryman 10 minutes for reminiscing and congratulating each other...and everybody's just great and everything's just fine...(only just fine?-Ed)...alright, everything's super fine...
Not really interested in anything Biddie (Tietz) Shearing has to say...her role with Regional Development Australia is yet another one of these 'jobs for mates' appointments that has cost our society so much...people promoted not on merit but on mateness...and I note that her husband Kirby Shearing is apparently 'a celebrity chef appearing with Neil Perry' at the Council run market at the Library tomorrow...(how much is that 'celebrity appearance' bloody costing ratepayers?-Ed)...oh come on, be a good team player, it's only money...(might have to slide by and say howdy?-Ed)...just might...I mention this because it is just the latest crass manipulation using public funds to try and justify the Library/Main Corner placement fiasco...
But Jim, well Jim loves Stevo and everyone's been great and everything's just fine...(you're not really trying are you?-Ed)...I'm just gathering myself to get through the sickening self-serving sycophancy of Stevo's little address...I've not seen anyone fake-sob their way through a speech like that since Oscar Pistorius tried to argue that cowardly killing his girlfriend Reeva Steinkamp was just an accident...but away we go and it's straight into whatta' top bloke Rory McEwen is...(sweet baby cheeses-Ed)...well quite...
And nuthin' but a shameless recount of the treacherous and corrupted realities in that Stevo praised up Rory for introducing him to all the people who helped Stevo's career as a highly corrupted public official, and for helping with all those connections and deals, etc, etc...(so he sat there and openly described the raft of corruption that has crippled and bankrupted this town and this state?-Ed)...bold as brass, 'Rory's so fantastic and he helped me so much and his wife Di helped mine and aren't we all just so fantastic'...(I'm detecting a note of simmering rage, and I can can see how you might find that quite sickening, what with these 2 being intimately involved in the St Martins Cover-up and all-Ed)...
If I had to make a mound of the local people most responsible for the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up, most of them are right 'ere on this page, namely Rory McEwen, Steve Perryman, Jim and Viv Maher...chuck the school's Principal John Alexander and then local SAPol Superintendent Terry Harbour onto that heap and you got yourself a ragin' bonfire sir...
I re-refer to my comments about how I can't just go outta' the house, and/or to the supermarket, and/or to a public event, and/or whatevs,without running into these clowns...and can only apologise that I've forgotten to write to Jim Maher re his comments/criticisms on the ABC last week...because this has already gone on long enough:
Tomorrow: Part III Maybe
Written and Authorised by Nick Fletcher, 16 Kooringa St, Mt Gambier, SA 5290...cheers and laters...
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
MGCCM21OCT2014 Part II
Yoh ma' homies, wadd'up?...(sorry what?-Ed)...sorry, just trying to sound hip and street...(yes well don't please, you sound ridiculous-Ed)...fair enough...hello and welcome to the blog Canada, Macedonia, Taiwan, and Turkey...and late yesterday the blog briefly hit exactly 66,666 views...(but it says 160,000+ views on the Google page thingy-Ed)...yeah, dunno' what's goin' on there exactly either, whether the 'blog stats' are part of the 'Google count' or not...whatevs...(***and apologies again for missing another post by again falling asleep on the couch, again, whilst taking a break from 'posting'***)
Strewth: Keith (1/2 way between Mt Gambier and Adelaide) received only 4mm of rain in October, only 1/10th it's average 42mm, and across the South East similar drops were recorded...(or rather lack of drops-Ed)...clever...and I've been giving my garden/fruit trees/whatevs small regular waterings from the tap for weeks already because 1) my knees are too sore to handle much bucketting of the rainwater I've 'tanked', and 2) hopefully these small exposures to the crap in Mt Gambier's water supply, the Chlorine and Sodium Flourodose or whatevs toxic 'Flouride' sludge they're using now, these brief 'poisonings' will make them less susceptible to the stress that killed half my garden when I just suddenly watered it 2 years ago...
Sick Puppies: at Country Health SA just ain't giving up when it comes to their ludicrous bordering on deceitful declaration that they're going to get the 15 staff they need for the 6 private-bed Mental Health Care Unit (real name for unit?)...15 full-time staff including a resident psychiatrist, dedicated Aboriginal Health Care worker, occupational therapist, care nurses, etc...and they've apparently been successful in recruiting in their similar units in Whyalla and Berr...(but that's not Mt Gambier, here recruitment is the no.1 hurdle to service provision-Ed)...indeed...
And I did hear bits of an interview earlier today re a new 'incentive funding plan thingy' to address this exact issue...(but that was also about how the re-zoning stuff meant that Regional centres like Tailem Bend (100kms from Adelaide, near Murray Bridge) are still far more desirable/attractive than somewhere like Mt Gambier-Ed)...yeah, well when I worked in Adelaide in the early 1990s, I knew several people who lived out near The Bend...(oh, so they were Benders then?-Ed)...settle...and commuted the 1 hour drive down the South Eastern Freeway to work in Adelaide, so it makes sense that someone would move to the Adelaide Hills for example and commute to The Bend...
On Friday I happened past the Country Health SA 'Info Booth' at the Centro/Lakes/Central/whatevs Plaza to grab the latest glossy load of crap they've produced asking 'the public' what we think they should do to fix the health system, Transforming Health - Discussion Paper...this a clumsy and obvious excuse to shreck about with faux consultation and just fudge everything along for another 18 months...it's nothing but an excuse to not have any policy and do nothing to advance Regional Health...but it gets better...(oh gourd, do I really want to know?-Ed)...no no, it's all good...
I walked up to the display and was just going to grab the 46 page A4 size colour booklet and whatevs else was there, but the woman standing there engaged me and asked what I thought...it was only then that I realised I was talking to Ms Jayne Downs from Country Health SA, and she asked me what I thought could be done to improve health service provision, and I responded that I thought it was too late because of the privatisation of the SA health system...(and she made the mistake of asking what you meant?-Ed)...indeed...
Whilst being politely scathing of the profit-guarantee contract that the Labor state government has entered into re the new Royal Adelaide Hospital, and how that guarantees that Health will suffer across the state as Labor pulls funds from everywhere else to meet the contractual obligations re the new RAH, I stated that this is guaranteed to happen because Health Services always run at a loss...Ms Downs politely grabbed at this hint of familiar ground, sayin 'well it is very expensive'...I continued, using her agreement to further emphasis/explain my point...Ms Downs said it was an 'interesting theory'...(I note that she didn't argue with and/or try to contradict you-Ed)...indeed...
It was a funny exchange in that we sortta' both recognised each other as we spoke and so sortta' knew who was whom without saying it, and Ms Downs was clearly 'mildly anxious' because, well...(because it was a Large Angry Hippy with a reputation for politely bludgeoning politicking-Ed)...indeed, but hers was not the wide-eyed fear of persons such as Frank 'The Ghost' Morello...(you know he's a Councillor candidate?-Ed)...indeed, 100% stooge-athon...speaking of which...
Council's Micheal Silvy was on the ABC this morning stating that the Rail Lands will be mostly open in time for Christmas, 'maybe about 81% open by Christmas'...(that's a very specific maybe-Ed)...whatevs...and then onto the bleedin' obvious, there's no funding for the old Rail Station and the Sound Shell, a brief mention of a fence around The Deathpit Of Stupidity, etc...the good ol' Rail Lands eh...pardon my fury but this is another Council debasco motivated by the desire to pour Ratepayer's money into Councillor's mates and/or each other's pockets...it's a bloody disgrace what these people's corruption and greed have done to this town...
And kudos to Mt Gambier Ratepayers for supporting/sponsoring/subsidising the Dycer's having a horse in today's Melbourne Cup...the people of Mt Gambier have paid dearly for it too...(I don't follow-Ed)...well how much does it cost to get a horse there and in, there-in?...(no idea, probably a bit-Ed)...I don't know either, but yeah, it ain't free...(but how have MG Ratepayers paid for it?-Ed)...because Dycer Constructions are one of Council's 'preferred contractors'...(well actually in the Agenda 21st October 2014 it refers to them as one of several "currently pre-qualified local contractors"-Ed)...we quibble over terms sir...
Bottomline, and as expressed to me by a coupla' people now, Dycer Constructions have made a profit on Council contracts like the Main Corner and Library, projects that went double over cost to a total over $20million, and, as Council funded contracts, whatever that profit is, it's Ratepayer's money what paid it...(fair enough-Ed)...and therefore the good citizenry have directly at least partly subsidised the Dycer's racehorse...(Lifestyles of the Rich and Pre-Qualified Contractor-Ed)...well indeed...
And I re-iterate, it has been repeatedly stated to me that on top of the Council-acknowledegd massive cost blow-outs, there are costs re the Main Corner and the Library that do not appear in the official Council figures, eg, works costed through other Council depts...there's also the issue of the $345,000 that was 'obtained' somehow by former CEO Greg Muller...this is not my allegation/complaint/whatevs, it was raised in Council by Councillor Richardson, been in TBW, etc, etc, and remains unaccounted for...and if this has happened, what other monies are potentially missing?...this also raises the issues of 1) who is auditing Council and 2) what else they've potentially missed...(I'm gettin' that headache again-Ed)...fair enough...
And heard another interview with Electoral Commission SA Comm Kay Mousley stating that the 2010 Local Government Election saw a 33% return...(so only 67% unaccounted for?-Ed)...exactly, but that this election the numbers are down to nearer 30%, even a tad lower...(but on the Win TV 30 Second Jammed In An Ad-break News Service as sourced from The Border Watch, on that it stated that Mt Gambier was doing great things return wise, and then quoted "25%"-Ed)...I know...
(***now Wednesday 5th November, cheers***)...and that's about it for this post anyway...this is where I fell asleep last night...today is pretty much the last day to get your vote in for the Local Government elections so's get amongst it homies...if you're too late to post it snail-mail, there's a booth at the Council offices open till 1700hrs Friday 7th November 2014 so take your voting envelope directly there...and this self-contradiction re voting returns has continued this morning with Kay Mousley stating 30% across the state, but local media saying that the Regional SA rate is slightly higher at 25%...(which is usually described as 'less' than 30%, rather than more-Ed)...well this is a Sow Strayn election...(enough said-Ed)...and, so, we end today/yesterday/both, and sorry, but the Council meeting stuff will have to be,
Tomorrow: Everything's Just Peachy, Everyone's Just Terrific
Just paraphrasing the farcical mutual praise-fest that was the Council meeting 21st October 2014...2 weeks on it's still just sickening given the reality of what damage they've done to Mt Gambier...
Written and Authorised by Nick Fletcher, 16 Kooringa St, Mt Gambier, SA 5290...cheers and laters...
Strewth: Keith (1/2 way between Mt Gambier and Adelaide) received only 4mm of rain in October, only 1/10th it's average 42mm, and across the South East similar drops were recorded...(or rather lack of drops-Ed)...clever...and I've been giving my garden/fruit trees/whatevs small regular waterings from the tap for weeks already because 1) my knees are too sore to handle much bucketting of the rainwater I've 'tanked', and 2) hopefully these small exposures to the crap in Mt Gambier's water supply, the Chlorine and Sodium Flourodose or whatevs toxic 'Flouride' sludge they're using now, these brief 'poisonings' will make them less susceptible to the stress that killed half my garden when I just suddenly watered it 2 years ago...
Sick Puppies: at Country Health SA just ain't giving up when it comes to their ludicrous bordering on deceitful declaration that they're going to get the 15 staff they need for the 6 private-bed Mental Health Care Unit (real name for unit?)...15 full-time staff including a resident psychiatrist, dedicated Aboriginal Health Care worker, occupational therapist, care nurses, etc...and they've apparently been successful in recruiting in their similar units in Whyalla and Berr...(but that's not Mt Gambier, here recruitment is the no.1 hurdle to service provision-Ed)...indeed...
And I did hear bits of an interview earlier today re a new 'incentive funding plan thingy' to address this exact issue...(but that was also about how the re-zoning stuff meant that Regional centres like Tailem Bend (100kms from Adelaide, near Murray Bridge) are still far more desirable/attractive than somewhere like Mt Gambier-Ed)...yeah, well when I worked in Adelaide in the early 1990s, I knew several people who lived out near The Bend...(oh, so they were Benders then?-Ed)...settle...and commuted the 1 hour drive down the South Eastern Freeway to work in Adelaide, so it makes sense that someone would move to the Adelaide Hills for example and commute to The Bend...
On Friday I happened past the Country Health SA 'Info Booth' at the Centro/Lakes/Central/whatevs Plaza to grab the latest glossy load of crap they've produced asking 'the public' what we think they should do to fix the health system, Transforming Health - Discussion Paper...this a clumsy and obvious excuse to shreck about with faux consultation and just fudge everything along for another 18 months...it's nothing but an excuse to not have any policy and do nothing to advance Regional Health...but it gets better...(oh gourd, do I really want to know?-Ed)...no no, it's all good...
I walked up to the display and was just going to grab the 46 page A4 size colour booklet and whatevs else was there, but the woman standing there engaged me and asked what I thought...it was only then that I realised I was talking to Ms Jayne Downs from Country Health SA, and she asked me what I thought could be done to improve health service provision, and I responded that I thought it was too late because of the privatisation of the SA health system...(and she made the mistake of asking what you meant?-Ed)...indeed...
Whilst being politely scathing of the profit-guarantee contract that the Labor state government has entered into re the new Royal Adelaide Hospital, and how that guarantees that Health will suffer across the state as Labor pulls funds from everywhere else to meet the contractual obligations re the new RAH, I stated that this is guaranteed to happen because Health Services always run at a loss...Ms Downs politely grabbed at this hint of familiar ground, sayin 'well it is very expensive'...I continued, using her agreement to further emphasis/explain my point...Ms Downs said it was an 'interesting theory'...(I note that she didn't argue with and/or try to contradict you-Ed)...indeed...
It was a funny exchange in that we sortta' both recognised each other as we spoke and so sortta' knew who was whom without saying it, and Ms Downs was clearly 'mildly anxious' because, well...(because it was a Large Angry Hippy with a reputation for politely bludgeoning politicking-Ed)...indeed, but hers was not the wide-eyed fear of persons such as Frank 'The Ghost' Morello...(you know he's a Councillor candidate?-Ed)...indeed, 100% stooge-athon...speaking of which...
Council's Micheal Silvy was on the ABC this morning stating that the Rail Lands will be mostly open in time for Christmas, 'maybe about 81% open by Christmas'...(that's a very specific maybe-Ed)...whatevs...and then onto the bleedin' obvious, there's no funding for the old Rail Station and the Sound Shell, a brief mention of a fence around The Deathpit Of Stupidity, etc...the good ol' Rail Lands eh...pardon my fury but this is another Council debasco motivated by the desire to pour Ratepayer's money into Councillor's mates and/or each other's pockets...it's a bloody disgrace what these people's corruption and greed have done to this town...
And kudos to Mt Gambier Ratepayers for supporting/sponsoring/subsidising the Dycer's having a horse in today's Melbourne Cup...the people of Mt Gambier have paid dearly for it too...(I don't follow-Ed)...well how much does it cost to get a horse there and in, there-in?...(no idea, probably a bit-Ed)...I don't know either, but yeah, it ain't free...(but how have MG Ratepayers paid for it?-Ed)...because Dycer Constructions are one of Council's 'preferred contractors'...(well actually in the Agenda 21st October 2014 it refers to them as one of several "currently pre-qualified local contractors"-Ed)...we quibble over terms sir...
Bottomline, and as expressed to me by a coupla' people now, Dycer Constructions have made a profit on Council contracts like the Main Corner and Library, projects that went double over cost to a total over $20million, and, as Council funded contracts, whatever that profit is, it's Ratepayer's money what paid it...(fair enough-Ed)...and therefore the good citizenry have directly at least partly subsidised the Dycer's racehorse...(Lifestyles of the Rich and Pre-Qualified Contractor-Ed)...well indeed...
And I re-iterate, it has been repeatedly stated to me that on top of the Council-acknowledegd massive cost blow-outs, there are costs re the Main Corner and the Library that do not appear in the official Council figures, eg, works costed through other Council depts...there's also the issue of the $345,000 that was 'obtained' somehow by former CEO Greg Muller...this is not my allegation/complaint/whatevs, it was raised in Council by Councillor Richardson, been in TBW, etc, etc, and remains unaccounted for...and if this has happened, what other monies are potentially missing?...this also raises the issues of 1) who is auditing Council and 2) what else they've potentially missed...(I'm gettin' that headache again-Ed)...fair enough...
And heard another interview with Electoral Commission SA Comm Kay Mousley stating that the 2010 Local Government Election saw a 33% return...(so only 67% unaccounted for?-Ed)...exactly, but that this election the numbers are down to nearer 30%, even a tad lower...(but on the Win TV 30 Second Jammed In An Ad-break News Service as sourced from The Border Watch, on that it stated that Mt Gambier was doing great things return wise, and then quoted "25%"-Ed)...I know...
(***now Wednesday 5th November, cheers***)...and that's about it for this post anyway...this is where I fell asleep last night...today is pretty much the last day to get your vote in for the Local Government elections so's get amongst it homies...if you're too late to post it snail-mail, there's a booth at the Council offices open till 1700hrs Friday 7th November 2014 so take your voting envelope directly there...and this self-contradiction re voting returns has continued this morning with Kay Mousley stating 30% across the state, but local media saying that the Regional SA rate is slightly higher at 25%...(which is usually described as 'less' than 30%, rather than more-Ed)...well this is a Sow Strayn election...(enough said-Ed)...and, so, we end today/yesterday/both, and sorry, but the Council meeting stuff will have to be,
Tomorrow: Everything's Just Peachy, Everyone's Just Terrific
Just paraphrasing the farcical mutual praise-fest that was the Council meeting 21st October 2014...2 weeks on it's still just sickening given the reality of what damage they've done to Mt Gambier...
Written and Authorised by Nick Fletcher, 16 Kooringa St, Mt Gambier, SA 5290...cheers and laters...
Monday, November 3, 2014
Mt Gambier City Council Meeting 21st October 2014
Hello Russia, Cyprus, Ukraine, and the USofA...welcome one and all to the blog and a slightly late post re, as titled, the Mt Gambier City Council meeting of Tuesday 21st October 2014...(title often means nothing relative to content in this 'ere blog-Ed)...fair enough...and deadset, I've started out to do it a coupla' times and just couldn't be bothered trying to self-modify my own post away from the intense dis-ease this causes me, leading to the need for extensive expletive excretion deletion...(fair enough-Ed)...
But First:...('ere we go-Ed)...hold your horses, it's important...the Sow Strayn Electoral Commissioner (ECSA) Kay Mousley has stated that the early 10-15% return figures re the Voluntary Postal Votes of the Local Government Elections, has rocketed up to 25-30%, likely to settle at 25%...(sold!-Ed)...which means I was way pessimistic about the early return figures being at best 15%, closer 10%...so it's not 8-9 outta' 10 voting envelopes and therefore votes that remain unaccounted for after the election, it's only 7-8 outta' 10...(oh well, that's just fine then-Ed)...just fine...by the Commissioner's own word, 3/4 of votes just go away and aren't counted...(may I?-Ed)...please do...
(What the shreck sortta' Electoral system operates with over 3/4 of the votes unaccounted for...this voluntary vote crap is an absolute set-up for corrupting the system and fixing elections...at the very best, how can you claim an election is free and fair and democratic if 1) no-one knows if their voting slip even made it to the ECSA office, and 2) a guaranteed 70-75% of votes are unaccounted for by anyone, even the ECSA?-Ed)...and Kay was on the ABC this evening bangin' on about how great this postal system is, 'it's just like the RAA use'...(but the Royal Automobile Assoc isn't even a political party, let alone running the state-Ed)...exactly, Labor's running the state...(into the ground-Ed)...taboomtish...
But it gets better...(why wouldn't it-Ed)...because Ms Mousley stated that 'if you don't get a voting pack/form in the mail, to return via the mail, then just download one and send that, or contact us and we'll send you another one'...(how many can you have?-Ed)...gourd knows...at the ballot box it's simple enough to filter out replications with a checklist, but if 2 or more show up, which one do you count?...(and by contrast, it's impossible to filter out any of the 75% of non-returned/unaccounted forms should someone happen to happen upon some and send them in fraudulently-Ed)...exactly...
And by that logic, what percentage of the 25% returned voting envelopes are potentially some of the unaccounted 75%?...(ohhh sweet baby cheeses stop it already, I'm getting a headache...the point well made is that this 'ere voluntary postal voting system is as dodgy as all get out and wide-open to rorting by people like, for example, current Labor Minister Leon Bignell and/or his wife who fraudulently dressed and presented as a Family First postal booth worker and handed out fake how-to-vote cards directing FF preferences to Neon Leon-Ed)...indeed, if a state Minister is capable of that in a state election, and then excused of that by Kay Mousley, what rort isn't possible in a voluntary postal vote?
Equally Concerning: for me personally anyway, is the legislation currently before Sow Strayn parliament to allow Magistrates to decide whether a case will or won't be held before a jury...(say sorry what!?!-Ed)...oh yeah, you spotted it...this gives the Magistrate the power to deny the accused a trial by jury if the Magistrate decides...the justification is that 'social media can possibly poison the jury against an accused so if the Magistrate decides it's best for said perp, then it's no jury, just the Magistrate who makes the decision'...(so...sorry?...what!?...slow down...what the hell is going on? are you sure you got this right?-Ed)...unfortunately absolutely sure...
(So say some Large Angry Hippy ends up in front of a random Magistrate, say, Bill Morris, facing random charges of, say, talking about the Banana Lord and Club GoGo Bananas-Ed)...I'm not sure whether you're being specifically random or randomly specific...(and Magistrate Bill decides that due to say, 2 comments left on social media by, say, a coupla' Labor Party stooges-Ed)...good thing you can't turn over a rock in this sick state without uncovering at least one Labor stooge...(then LAH don't get no jury-Ed)...super...
This legislation gives the Courts/Magistrates/Whatevs the power to deny an accused a trial by jury...(and tries to put it in a context where it's doing the perp a favour, 'we're removing your right to a jury hearing because it's best for you'-Ed)...that doesn't sound like Fascism at all...(hardly at all-Ed)...
And now it's Raine Korte of Electranet getting another free kick on the ABC Local Radio Late Afternoons re Renewable Energy...(oh dear gourd, we're not going to get to the Council stuff are we?-ED)...one paragraph, just one...(yeah sure, you'll stick to just one-Ed)...and it's the usual empty rhetoric about how great Wind Turbines are and it's all about the great power generation and SA is "world leading" in it's production...(with resultant "world-leading" electricity prices-Ed)...no, Raine mate neglected to mention that...(I bet 'e did-Ed)...and then he started bangin' on about '100% Renewables...(what?-Ed)...
And Raine's positive that the only risk to relying 100% on Wind Turbines and Solar (didn't hear him mention geothermal, might have missed it) would the interconnecting link with Victoria (the Heywood Interconnector as in previous posts)...as long as that remains intact we'll be just fine, apparently...it was a funny bitta' the conversation that was sortta' about the Heywood Interconnector without mentioning it specifically or the fact that the more we rely on turbines and even solar, the more we rely on Victorian coal-fired power stations to make up the difference when we inevitably need it...anyhoos...
Kersplash: the word on the street is that at least one person has already dipped more than a toe in the Death Pit of Stupidity (aka the $650,000+ pond/dam/damn pond thingy on the Rail Lands)...(and they've pulled the fencing off the Bay Rd end of the Rail Lands site back about 1/3 to adjacent the Old Rail Station-Ed)...and wonder what happened to the Grand Opening that they 'have to have before this Council finishes It's term'?...(oh yeah, I'd forgotten, it was said several times in Council meetings, should probably be in the Minutes somewhere if I could be bothered-Ed)...moving on...
Council Meeting: I got nuthin'...(ahh come on big fella-Ed)...ok, ok...this was of course the last meeting of this Council, they all said how great they all were, blah blah blah, I went home a not happy camper...(now come on, do it properly-Ed)...alright already...as expected Council passed their mind-numbingly irrelevant and fraudulent 'Futures Paper - City Development Framework' ...(oh dear gourd-Ed)...well exactly, you can see my problem...
This is the most fundamentally obvious cynical manipulation of the incoming Council, that it cannot be accepted as acceptable...it's a corrupted document conjured on fictional numbers...if it weren't so terribly serious it'd be completely laughable...Council has spent a fortune on needless forums and experts and gourd knows what-all, over many many months, pushing this very ugly baby up to the cliff edge, and in their last meeting, shoved it over...and the incoming Council will be set at the bottom with no choice but to catch it...
But before that vote, Council had voted to accept yet another Tender (this time re the Rail Lands Amphitheatre) and in accepting that Tender, state that they'll then negotiate a different price...(isn't that what Council did with the ludicrous Blue Lake Solar Lights tender?-Ed)...exactly, only with that tender Council allowed the winning contractor to put in 2 different quotes for the project...and then quite rightly ran into a wall of shizzle that's gunna' cost Mt Gambier ratepayers a small fortune in legal fees...(ohh, it's only money-Ed)...speaking of which, I've recently heard some more tales of the outrageous waste within Council projects, eg, some stuff on the Rail Lands...apologies cannot divulge, would potentially expose The Teller of Tales...not trying to be a smart-arse, just the way it is...
I also note that the issue of re-cladding the externals of the Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre/Civic Centre building, that went silently through, again, tucked away in the Business Arising Schedule, with the ' Action Required' stating "Release Expression of Interest (in conjunction with Country Arts SA)"...looks like another baby droppin' on the new Council...(do Country Arts SA know they're 'in-conjunctioning' with Council?-Ed)...indeed, and least ways not the Arts people I've spoken to, but ultimately I don't know...it's clear though that this is yet another énfant terriblé (French for 'terrible child'?) that will fall to the next Council...(and good luck with that-Ed)...indeed...
There was also the rather interesting issue of Council self-approving the auditor, "certifying the independence of the Council Auditor", the auditor what they done chose whom is I believe the same auditor who couldn't see the $345-350,000 that former CEO Greg Muller misappropriated from the Main Corner Project...as discussed in Council, on the front page of The Border Watch, etc, etc, ad infinitum (previous posts)...this is blowing outta' bit so I'll go a Part II on the morrow...
Tomorrow : MGCCM21OCT2014 Part II
(I can wait-Ed)...yeah, it's nuthin' really to look forward to...who all was there, 20 minutes of sickening self-congratulation and sycophantic mutual admiration, etc, etc...2 weeks on and it still just makes me spit and I don't apologise for getting so upset, it was truly infuriating to the point of sickening...
Written and Authorised by Nick Fletcher, 16 Kooringa St, Mt Gambier, SA 5290
But First:...('ere we go-Ed)...hold your horses, it's important...the Sow Strayn Electoral Commissioner (ECSA) Kay Mousley has stated that the early 10-15% return figures re the Voluntary Postal Votes of the Local Government Elections, has rocketed up to 25-30%, likely to settle at 25%...(sold!-Ed)...which means I was way pessimistic about the early return figures being at best 15%, closer 10%...so it's not 8-9 outta' 10 voting envelopes and therefore votes that remain unaccounted for after the election, it's only 7-8 outta' 10...(oh well, that's just fine then-Ed)...just fine...by the Commissioner's own word, 3/4 of votes just go away and aren't counted...(may I?-Ed)...please do...
(What the shreck sortta' Electoral system operates with over 3/4 of the votes unaccounted for...this voluntary vote crap is an absolute set-up for corrupting the system and fixing elections...at the very best, how can you claim an election is free and fair and democratic if 1) no-one knows if their voting slip even made it to the ECSA office, and 2) a guaranteed 70-75% of votes are unaccounted for by anyone, even the ECSA?-Ed)...and Kay was on the ABC this evening bangin' on about how great this postal system is, 'it's just like the RAA use'...(but the Royal Automobile Assoc isn't even a political party, let alone running the state-Ed)...exactly, Labor's running the state...(into the ground-Ed)...taboomtish...
But it gets better...(why wouldn't it-Ed)...because Ms Mousley stated that 'if you don't get a voting pack/form in the mail, to return via the mail, then just download one and send that, or contact us and we'll send you another one'...(how many can you have?-Ed)...gourd knows...at the ballot box it's simple enough to filter out replications with a checklist, but if 2 or more show up, which one do you count?...(and by contrast, it's impossible to filter out any of the 75% of non-returned/unaccounted forms should someone happen to happen upon some and send them in fraudulently-Ed)...exactly...
And by that logic, what percentage of the 25% returned voting envelopes are potentially some of the unaccounted 75%?...(ohhh sweet baby cheeses stop it already, I'm getting a headache...the point well made is that this 'ere voluntary postal voting system is as dodgy as all get out and wide-open to rorting by people like, for example, current Labor Minister Leon Bignell and/or his wife who fraudulently dressed and presented as a Family First postal booth worker and handed out fake how-to-vote cards directing FF preferences to Neon Leon-Ed)...indeed, if a state Minister is capable of that in a state election, and then excused of that by Kay Mousley, what rort isn't possible in a voluntary postal vote?
Equally Concerning: for me personally anyway, is the legislation currently before Sow Strayn parliament to allow Magistrates to decide whether a case will or won't be held before a jury...(say sorry what!?!-Ed)...oh yeah, you spotted it...this gives the Magistrate the power to deny the accused a trial by jury if the Magistrate decides...the justification is that 'social media can possibly poison the jury against an accused so if the Magistrate decides it's best for said perp, then it's no jury, just the Magistrate who makes the decision'...(so...sorry?...what!?...slow down...what the hell is going on? are you sure you got this right?-Ed)...unfortunately absolutely sure...
(So say some Large Angry Hippy ends up in front of a random Magistrate, say, Bill Morris, facing random charges of, say, talking about the Banana Lord and Club GoGo Bananas-Ed)...I'm not sure whether you're being specifically random or randomly specific...(and Magistrate Bill decides that due to say, 2 comments left on social media by, say, a coupla' Labor Party stooges-Ed)...good thing you can't turn over a rock in this sick state without uncovering at least one Labor stooge...(then LAH don't get no jury-Ed)...super...
This legislation gives the Courts/Magistrates/Whatevs the power to deny an accused a trial by jury...(and tries to put it in a context where it's doing the perp a favour, 'we're removing your right to a jury hearing because it's best for you'-Ed)...that doesn't sound like Fascism at all...(hardly at all-Ed)...
And now it's Raine Korte of Electranet getting another free kick on the ABC Local Radio Late Afternoons re Renewable Energy...(oh dear gourd, we're not going to get to the Council stuff are we?-ED)...one paragraph, just one...(yeah sure, you'll stick to just one-Ed)...and it's the usual empty rhetoric about how great Wind Turbines are and it's all about the great power generation and SA is "world leading" in it's production...(with resultant "world-leading" electricity prices-Ed)...no, Raine mate neglected to mention that...(I bet 'e did-Ed)...and then he started bangin' on about '100% Renewables...(what?-Ed)...
And Raine's positive that the only risk to relying 100% on Wind Turbines and Solar (didn't hear him mention geothermal, might have missed it) would the interconnecting link with Victoria (the Heywood Interconnector as in previous posts)...as long as that remains intact we'll be just fine, apparently...it was a funny bitta' the conversation that was sortta' about the Heywood Interconnector without mentioning it specifically or the fact that the more we rely on turbines and even solar, the more we rely on Victorian coal-fired power stations to make up the difference when we inevitably need it...anyhoos...
Kersplash: the word on the street is that at least one person has already dipped more than a toe in the Death Pit of Stupidity (aka the $650,000+ pond/dam/damn pond thingy on the Rail Lands)...(and they've pulled the fencing off the Bay Rd end of the Rail Lands site back about 1/3 to adjacent the Old Rail Station-Ed)...and wonder what happened to the Grand Opening that they 'have to have before this Council finishes It's term'?...(oh yeah, I'd forgotten, it was said several times in Council meetings, should probably be in the Minutes somewhere if I could be bothered-Ed)...moving on...
Council Meeting: I got nuthin'...(ahh come on big fella-Ed)...ok, ok...this was of course the last meeting of this Council, they all said how great they all were, blah blah blah, I went home a not happy camper...(now come on, do it properly-Ed)...alright already...as expected Council passed their mind-numbingly irrelevant and fraudulent 'Futures Paper - City Development Framework' ...(oh dear gourd-Ed)...well exactly, you can see my problem...
This is the most fundamentally obvious cynical manipulation of the incoming Council, that it cannot be accepted as acceptable...it's a corrupted document conjured on fictional numbers...if it weren't so terribly serious it'd be completely laughable...Council has spent a fortune on needless forums and experts and gourd knows what-all, over many many months, pushing this very ugly baby up to the cliff edge, and in their last meeting, shoved it over...and the incoming Council will be set at the bottom with no choice but to catch it...
But before that vote, Council had voted to accept yet another Tender (this time re the Rail Lands Amphitheatre) and in accepting that Tender, state that they'll then negotiate a different price...(isn't that what Council did with the ludicrous Blue Lake Solar Lights tender?-Ed)...exactly, only with that tender Council allowed the winning contractor to put in 2 different quotes for the project...and then quite rightly ran into a wall of shizzle that's gunna' cost Mt Gambier ratepayers a small fortune in legal fees...(ohh, it's only money-Ed)...speaking of which, I've recently heard some more tales of the outrageous waste within Council projects, eg, some stuff on the Rail Lands...apologies cannot divulge, would potentially expose The Teller of Tales...not trying to be a smart-arse, just the way it is...
I also note that the issue of re-cladding the externals of the Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre/Civic Centre building, that went silently through, again, tucked away in the Business Arising Schedule, with the ' Action Required' stating "Release Expression of Interest (in conjunction with Country Arts SA)"...looks like another baby droppin' on the new Council...(do Country Arts SA know they're 'in-conjunctioning' with Council?-Ed)...indeed, and least ways not the Arts people I've spoken to, but ultimately I don't know...it's clear though that this is yet another énfant terriblé (French for 'terrible child'?) that will fall to the next Council...(and good luck with that-Ed)...indeed...
There was also the rather interesting issue of Council self-approving the auditor, "certifying the independence of the Council Auditor", the auditor what they done chose whom is I believe the same auditor who couldn't see the $345-350,000 that former CEO Greg Muller misappropriated from the Main Corner Project...as discussed in Council, on the front page of The Border Watch, etc, etc, ad infinitum (previous posts)...this is blowing outta' bit so I'll go a Part II on the morrow...
Tomorrow : MGCCM21OCT2014 Part II
(I can wait-Ed)...yeah, it's nuthin' really to look forward to...who all was there, 20 minutes of sickening self-congratulation and sycophantic mutual admiration, etc, etc...2 weeks on and it still just makes me spit and I don't apologise for getting so upset, it was truly infuriating to the point of sickening...
Written and Authorised by Nick Fletcher, 16 Kooringa St, Mt Gambier, SA 5290
Sunday, November 2, 2014
A House Built Of Straw Polls
Howdy y'all and welcome to the blog for the first day of November (***sorry, now the 2nd of Nov...took a break from the blog last night to check emails, etc, and Interweb 'cut-out' and wouldn't come back...doing it again today...very fortunately had saved some of the post as below***)...and I don't know really where to start...so I'm going to start with the terribly sad news of the death overnight of the CFS volunteer who was badly burned yesterday fighting a fire in our state's Mid-North...yesterday I didn't even want to think let alone post about this likelihood given his injuries, and my worst fears confirmed that this 38 year old man was a father of 2...
I was at the sink doing dishes, busily mind-whinging about how sore my knee is, when this news came through...I cried...for all of the horror and suffering constantly jammed in my face, admittedly mostly self-jammed, for some reason this has really hit me as such a saddening loss...a simple accident whilst helping others...it's just not fair and I can't even write about it without crying...the Country Fire Service are extraordinary people, as indeed are their counterparts in other states...
I apologise that I have no humour in me today and no desire to even try really...for all of the crap I've got going on in my life, at least it isn't this...my heart truly aches for those kids and the rest of his family and I've been unable to think of much else all afternoon...it is a sadness born of mine own experience that my child nearly lost their father (to a massive Lymphoma tumour) at the same age these kids have lost their father...
Some days I feel like that segment on the show Fear Factor where bowls of offal and shizzle roll along a conveyor belt and you have to take big mouthfuls of gourd knows what and run around and spit it out and go back and get another mouthful of whatevs and spit that out and so on and just do it without thinking about it and/or vomitting...and that's the game I have chosen to play and not chosen by choice but by necessity...
There have been extensive commemorations in Albany, the port city South of Perth, Western Australia, on the 100th anniversary of Australian and New Zealand troops leaving there for World War 1...I re-iterate my position that there is nothing to be celebrated about "the Birth of a Nation" or whatevs, about what Australian and New Zealand troops were sacrificed for in being sent by Britain to invade Turkey (the Gallipoli campaign)...and I am yet to hear it described as this reality...my dis-ease is further exacerbated by seeing PM Tony Abbott extolling the virtues of sacrifice...
It's one thing to rightly acknowledge the horrific slaughter and loss of young men, etc, but it's only part of the respect and gratitude we are constantly told we must feel, and it is in many ways an empty respect if you don't understand and acknowledge why this stuff happened...ANZACs (themselves landing in the wrong place) were sent to invade Turkey to distract the Turkish troops away from where English troops were landed, a campaign designed by Winston Churchill to make it easier for the English...I've read/heard various versions of this and how those involved were responsible, etc, but what I've put here is a simple truth, good bad or indifferent...
My concern as always are in the many ways in which these things are misrepresented and misappropriated and stampeded from commemoration into celebration...my thoughts are always with my grandfathers, both WWII veterans, and their individual decisions to not 'celebrate' ANZAC Day, but to still recognise that it was important for some veterans and how they dealt with the traumas and losses of war service, etc, as covered in previous posts...love you and miss you Pops and Papa...the extraordinary strength of gentle men...
Please find attached two articles that cover a bunch of stuff I've posted about, namely, 1) the connection between the Main Corner leasee and the nearby cafe, following on as it does from the outrageously corrupted and nepotistic first Main Corner 'free lease' for Councillor Des Mutton's son Lachlan...not my allegation, just the highly corrupt reality...(***now 2nd November 2014) I further note that Council recently 're-leased' the Main Corner after kicking everybody out of the associated Council meeting...(so the leasing of a ratepayer owned, ratepayer funded facility was done in secret?-Ed)...yep, and Cr Andrew Lee and Mayor Steve Perryman who both have definable Conflict of Interests on this issue, they both remained in the Chamber and/or voted on this...
This is just one of the latest in a litany of highly corrupted Council 'votes' that have trampled all over appropriate process...it would be quicker for me to list the Council meetings where there haven't been gross corruptions of appropriate process...(well I'm struggling to think of one-Ed)...fair enough...I don't know if the young women pictured are aware of any of these shenanigans, nor if there is any connection to Councillor Ian Von Stanke...(isn't he the clown who came out to your home in 2011 with a letter repeatedly referring to 'Council' and threatening 'defamation' ?-Ed)...indeed, and as covered in previous posts...
The second article is another GG classic that flies in the face of reality and doesn't mention the one candidate who has been up front the standout candidate, eg, at the CAS Forum Friday 17th October 2014...(well I don't believe that GG was even there...I sure as shreck didn't see 'im-Ed)...indeed...and in my limited experience, in my 'straw poll' people believe this bumph as much as anything else in The Border Watch...in my reality, in my Straw Poll House, people are telling me that they're putting any current Councillors and Mayor Perryman last on their ballots and then going from there to putting some new people on Council...
Apologies for the orientation but I had to get a new printer and haven't sussed-out the new program, it just scans and automatically saves any which way...
Tomorrow: The Council Meeting (sorry)
(And so you should be sir, it's nearly 2 weeks ago now-Ed)...I've had some stuff on and stuff comes up and it's just really depressing to go through that a second time...once was bad enough...(fair enough-Ed)...and thankyou to all of those people who have called me, and/or stop me in the street, at the Show, etc, to thank and/or congratulate me for 'at least having a bloody go', and/or continue to send me the Wind Turbine stuff, local issues stuff, eg, the Aldi shenanigans re the Showgrounds site, etc, etc...
However, I'm less enthusiastic about statistics showing that the average return of postal voting forms for the current Local Government Elections struggles to get into double digits...(sorry, what?-Ed)...early return counts have roughly only 11-14% of voters returning their voting slips...(sorry, how much?-Ed)...and that's being generous, with some Council areas not even getting to double digits...even if you generously round it up to the nearest 5% it's still only 15% across the state...(but where are the other 85% of votes?-Ed)...good question, who knows...(and the numbers I'm looking at suggest it's a state-wide average nearer 10% than 15%-Ed)...indeed...
So at least 8 nearer 9 outta' 10 votes are unaccounted for...(omg, how could that possibly go wrong?-Ed)...well I can think of several immediately obvious ways which I'll list after the Election is over...(yeah sorry, it was a rhetorical question-Ed)...oh right...anyhoos, those voting slips returned are immediately identifiable because the official postal envelopes have the voters details on it, are sent to Council offices, and then sit there for sometimes weeks, etc, etc...it's a farcically insecure way to run an election and it's a real grind trying to engage appropriately in a system that is more of a game and that you have absolutely no confidence in what-so-ever...
You'll excuse me if the relentless, rank pro-paedophile corruption I've experienced and/or exposed in Mt Gambier and/or South Australia denies me any faith in an Election/Electoral system so obviously insecure and open to corruption and manipulation...I've also noticed my voting slips already have small handwritten marks on them that could immediately identify them as mine...(doesn't it render the slip 'informal' and therefore not counted if it has anything written on it outside the Candidate boxes-Ed)...indeed it can, but I'm not sure to what extent that applies...
Written and Authorised by Nick Fletcher, 16 Kooringa St, Mt Gambier, SA 5290...cheers and laters...
I was at the sink doing dishes, busily mind-whinging about how sore my knee is, when this news came through...I cried...for all of the horror and suffering constantly jammed in my face, admittedly mostly self-jammed, for some reason this has really hit me as such a saddening loss...a simple accident whilst helping others...it's just not fair and I can't even write about it without crying...the Country Fire Service are extraordinary people, as indeed are their counterparts in other states...
I apologise that I have no humour in me today and no desire to even try really...for all of the crap I've got going on in my life, at least it isn't this...my heart truly aches for those kids and the rest of his family and I've been unable to think of much else all afternoon...it is a sadness born of mine own experience that my child nearly lost their father (to a massive Lymphoma tumour) at the same age these kids have lost their father...
Some days I feel like that segment on the show Fear Factor where bowls of offal and shizzle roll along a conveyor belt and you have to take big mouthfuls of gourd knows what and run around and spit it out and go back and get another mouthful of whatevs and spit that out and so on and just do it without thinking about it and/or vomitting...and that's the game I have chosen to play and not chosen by choice but by necessity...
There have been extensive commemorations in Albany, the port city South of Perth, Western Australia, on the 100th anniversary of Australian and New Zealand troops leaving there for World War 1...I re-iterate my position that there is nothing to be celebrated about "the Birth of a Nation" or whatevs, about what Australian and New Zealand troops were sacrificed for in being sent by Britain to invade Turkey (the Gallipoli campaign)...and I am yet to hear it described as this reality...my dis-ease is further exacerbated by seeing PM Tony Abbott extolling the virtues of sacrifice...
It's one thing to rightly acknowledge the horrific slaughter and loss of young men, etc, but it's only part of the respect and gratitude we are constantly told we must feel, and it is in many ways an empty respect if you don't understand and acknowledge why this stuff happened...ANZACs (themselves landing in the wrong place) were sent to invade Turkey to distract the Turkish troops away from where English troops were landed, a campaign designed by Winston Churchill to make it easier for the English...I've read/heard various versions of this and how those involved were responsible, etc, but what I've put here is a simple truth, good bad or indifferent...
My concern as always are in the many ways in which these things are misrepresented and misappropriated and stampeded from commemoration into celebration...my thoughts are always with my grandfathers, both WWII veterans, and their individual decisions to not 'celebrate' ANZAC Day, but to still recognise that it was important for some veterans and how they dealt with the traumas and losses of war service, etc, as covered in previous posts...love you and miss you Pops and Papa...the extraordinary strength of gentle men...
Please find attached two articles that cover a bunch of stuff I've posted about, namely, 1) the connection between the Main Corner leasee and the nearby cafe, following on as it does from the outrageously corrupted and nepotistic first Main Corner 'free lease' for Councillor Des Mutton's son Lachlan...not my allegation, just the highly corrupt reality...(***now 2nd November 2014) I further note that Council recently 're-leased' the Main Corner after kicking everybody out of the associated Council meeting...(so the leasing of a ratepayer owned, ratepayer funded facility was done in secret?-Ed)...yep, and Cr Andrew Lee and Mayor Steve Perryman who both have definable Conflict of Interests on this issue, they both remained in the Chamber and/or voted on this...
This is just one of the latest in a litany of highly corrupted Council 'votes' that have trampled all over appropriate process...it would be quicker for me to list the Council meetings where there haven't been gross corruptions of appropriate process...(well I'm struggling to think of one-Ed)...fair enough...I don't know if the young women pictured are aware of any of these shenanigans, nor if there is any connection to Councillor Ian Von Stanke...(isn't he the clown who came out to your home in 2011 with a letter repeatedly referring to 'Council' and threatening 'defamation' ?-Ed)...indeed, and as covered in previous posts...
The second article is another GG classic that flies in the face of reality and doesn't mention the one candidate who has been up front the standout candidate, eg, at the CAS Forum Friday 17th October 2014...(well I don't believe that GG was even there...I sure as shreck didn't see 'im-Ed)...indeed...and in my limited experience, in my 'straw poll' people believe this bumph as much as anything else in The Border Watch...in my reality, in my Straw Poll House, people are telling me that they're putting any current Councillors and Mayor Perryman last on their ballots and then going from there to putting some new people on Council...
Apologies for the orientation but I had to get a new printer and haven't sussed-out the new program, it just scans and automatically saves any which way...
Tomorrow: The Council Meeting (sorry)
(And so you should be sir, it's nearly 2 weeks ago now-Ed)...I've had some stuff on and stuff comes up and it's just really depressing to go through that a second time...once was bad enough...(fair enough-Ed)...and thankyou to all of those people who have called me, and/or stop me in the street, at the Show, etc, to thank and/or congratulate me for 'at least having a bloody go', and/or continue to send me the Wind Turbine stuff, local issues stuff, eg, the Aldi shenanigans re the Showgrounds site, etc, etc...
However, I'm less enthusiastic about statistics showing that the average return of postal voting forms for the current Local Government Elections struggles to get into double digits...(sorry, what?-Ed)...early return counts have roughly only 11-14% of voters returning their voting slips...(sorry, how much?-Ed)...and that's being generous, with some Council areas not even getting to double digits...even if you generously round it up to the nearest 5% it's still only 15% across the state...(but where are the other 85% of votes?-Ed)...good question, who knows...(and the numbers I'm looking at suggest it's a state-wide average nearer 10% than 15%-Ed)...indeed...
So at least 8 nearer 9 outta' 10 votes are unaccounted for...(omg, how could that possibly go wrong?-Ed)...well I can think of several immediately obvious ways which I'll list after the Election is over...(yeah sorry, it was a rhetorical question-Ed)...oh right...anyhoos, those voting slips returned are immediately identifiable because the official postal envelopes have the voters details on it, are sent to Council offices, and then sit there for sometimes weeks, etc, etc...it's a farcically insecure way to run an election and it's a real grind trying to engage appropriately in a system that is more of a game and that you have absolutely no confidence in what-so-ever...
You'll excuse me if the relentless, rank pro-paedophile corruption I've experienced and/or exposed in Mt Gambier and/or South Australia denies me any faith in an Election/Electoral system so obviously insecure and open to corruption and manipulation...I've also noticed my voting slips already have small handwritten marks on them that could immediately identify them as mine...(doesn't it render the slip 'informal' and therefore not counted if it has anything written on it outside the Candidate boxes-Ed)...indeed it can, but I'm not sure to what extent that applies...
Written and Authorised by Nick Fletcher, 16 Kooringa St, Mt Gambier, SA 5290...cheers and laters...
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