Hello Fiji, Denmark, South Africa and Aotearoa (New Zealand) and welcome all to the blog...and I'm not going to apologise for not apologising for missing yet another post...another day of sitting down to the keyboard and just looking at it and not wanting to be there (here)* and turning it off again and spending much of the day dozing on the couch and not much else...I don't apologise for not coping particularly well at the moment and my genuine commitment to at least continue forward with the blog is constantly hampered by the realities I find myself not so much involved as embroiled in... (*Post script apology - that ain't a 'suicidey' declaration or anthin', that's just a literal depiction about not wanting to be sitting at the computer and going through it all again today thanks very much)
(And sometimes doin' the blog is personally cathartic and sometimes it has some small effect or outcome elsewhere, but in all ways it's often about being emotionally, psychologically, and then ultimately physically dragged kicking outta' the fire and into the embroiler-Ed)...wow, Ed, you do listen, and well put too sir...(listen? didn't know I had a choice...I've just heard it over and over...whinge, bleat, bloody belly achin' and moanin', bangin' on and on-Ed)...ok ok, fair enough, but don't just criticise me for speakin' out about this shizzle, show me where I'm wrong and I'll apologise for that and get on with the rest...
(Ah, the perfect hand well played sir, because you know that I know that you know that I know damn well that if any of what you keep screechin' about here in this 'ere blog, if any of it were not true, if it were not so thoroughly provable and therefore defendable in a shreckin' Court, even in a South Australian Court, you'd have had at least one if not some if not all of these clowns bring their oft promised Defamation Circus to your li'l town and pitch their tents and toss their threats and hoist an actual case up the massive stack of empty promises they've hurled at you thus far-Ed)...absolutely...
Segues To This: brief reminder that it's now 7 months since 2 SAPol Anti-Corruption detectives very sortta' politely visited (7th May 2014) then raided my home (8th May) telling me that I should "expect to be charged" for apparently talking about a, if not the, major Sow Strayn 'legal' Authority supposedly doing what it's supposedly supposed to do and then concluding that with positive and glowing outcomes for all concerned...but it ain't about me...except of course only those bits that is all clearly quite about me...(what it is to be special-Ed)...and that when I went to get legal advice about this Club GoGo Bananas/the Banana Lord stuff, and after I pointed it out, said legal advice had to write to the Big Banana asking for permission, written permission, to be allowed to even talk to me, about something I hadn't even been charged with...
And I've been advised that I shouldn't reveal my strugglings and stressings and the associated physical manifestations...(he means dozing on the couch-Ed)...for example, because by discussin' my suff'rin' I'm supposedly givin' succour to those whom would gladly see me suffer...and suffer I do and yet here I am...and furthermore, I find myself in the conundrummy position of being in receipt of good news, but am not at liberty to divulge/discuss/whatevs because it ain't specifically my shizzle...(not even a clue?-Ed)...I've mentioned it in the blog previous...(ok, hilarious, 650+ posts, each of them bangin' on all over the shop about a range of issues...what about a real clue?-Ed)...sorry, just ain't mine to share...one day maybe, hopefully soon...(ok ok-Ed)...
Point being that it knocked me flat, again, but instead of by trauma and/or anger and/or whatevs, it was more like being deflated by a sudden release of pressure...it's a fair reminder that I'm functioning largely on anger rather than inspiration...and aside from my own shizzle was the terrible news of another Country Fire Service volunteer being struck and killed by a fellow CFS worker in another unit truck...this collision occurred on the same stretch of road and only 20 kms from where 4 members of the one family were killed last week, and follows the death of another CFS volunteer back in October...
For What It's Worth: I'd reckon that on the last day of the Adelaide Cricket Test (currently day 3 of 5) that there should be a least one minute of reflective silence for these 2 CFS volunteers and their families, etc...much has been made of the death of cricketer Philip Hughes, and it's undoubtedly a tragic accident that obviously has shocked many people, but I find myself pushed inevitably toward the collective who find the response to Mr Hughes's death to be inappropriately over-the-top...
Again, I have no professional credentials, but just personally I think this 'over-reaction' is a bit of a 'release valve' for some of the pent-up emotions in a society feeling so bludgeoned and traumatised by relentless footage of airstrikes and bombings and beheadings and water-boarding and Climate Doom and personal debt and perpetual impending unemployment, etc, etc...it is just such a sudden and fundamentally pointless and unfair loss for Phillip's family and friends, team-mates and even opponents, etc, and given his relatively high profile as an Aussie cricketer his death also reaches to the wider cricket community, players and supporters alike, and beyond that to many who don't give a hoot about cricket...
So Sue Me Some More: because apparently Labor Minister 'Neon' Leon
Bignell's now former partner Sandra De Poi...(whom apparently was/is/whatevs the current/former/whatevs partner of Neon's Personal Assistant/Advisor/whatevs-Ed)...deadset?..(that's what I read-Ed)...fair enough, well she's 'suing for defamation' (or at least threatening to) re her collectively corrupt behaviour as a Director of WorkCover and a company receiving nearly $6million in WorkCover contracts...(and also that dressin' up as a Family First polling booth volunteer at the March 2010 State Election and handin' out deliberately false 'How To Vote' flyers fraudulently directing FF preferences to Labor rather than the Liberals as was FF intention-Ed)...yeah yeah, that's her...
Well apparently she's havin' a go at suing the Liberals, The Advertiser/News
Limited, Bullwinkle the Moose, and whatevs that lives on the Dark Side Of The Moon...(whaaa?-Ed)...she's havin' a go at pretty much everyone and everything for sayin' pretty much exactly what she has done...(bit more info please-Ed)...it was an article from The Advertiser that I've referenced when covering this, perhaps the specific one that Sandra is whingin' about, and to that end have included it attached at this end, again (*no I haven't, can't find it - sorry*)...it's just so sad it's hilarious that when held under the spotlight of scrutiny that Ms De Poi would scuttle for the shelter of 'defamation'...(ah, so you reckon that she'll get this and then go after others whom have repeated these scurrilous truths?-Ed)...nuthin' would surprise me at this stage...
Taking The Shirt Off Ya' Front:...(oo oo, hows about 'Causing A Short Affront'?-Ed)...nice...we are of course referring to the Australian National Dictionary Centre's word of the year for 2014, 'shirt-front', as used by PM Tony Abbott recently to describe how he was going to negotiate with Russia's Vladimir Putin...(ironic really?-Ed)...how so?...(well The Mad Monks Foreign Policy strategies include assaulting unsuspecting World Leaders front on via their shirts, whilst his Budget is furiously floundering so he's looking to go around the Senate, behind Democracy's back if you will, looking to take the shirt off the backs of many Australians-Ed)...well it's far easier to do all that "heavy lifting" that we all need to do according to the PM, if we're all unencumbered by shirts...(ah yes, I see his point...clothing can be so restrictive-Ed)...oh for the love of gourd, put it back on, no-one needs to see that...(I'm too sexy for my clothes, too sexy for my...-Ed)...enough!...you'll frighten the animals...
To Russia With Love: 2 things, namely 1) can't believe that I'm explaining/apologising for Tones, but when I first heard him say this 'shirt-front' thingy I immediately thought that he's just gotten hold of a term from a code of football (the AFL) that he...(a Rugger man-Ed)...a Rugby man doesn't understand to describe what he was going to do when he met Vladimir Putin, namely, 'tackle him head-on on the issue', 'not shy from confronting him', etc...unfortunately 'shirt-front' almost invariably involves an aggressor causing physical harm to a relatively vulnerable opponent often unawares they are about to get violently assaulted...
Just for the record, and I ain't no lawyer, but any contact sport of the nature of Gridiron, Aussie Rules (AFL), Rugby, etc, is a Contract of 'mutually agreed assault' because it infers/covers the guaranteed heavy physical contacts and resultant injuries that are part of these games...just sayin'...and 2) it could have been so much worse had PM Tones got his 'liftings' and his 'frontings' confused when verbosely chastising the V-Lad...(I'm very much hoping that's a scythingly insightful application of humour utilising the otherwise highly abusive term 'shirt-lifter' as used to describe a gay man, used here in a context where it is a critical reference to Russia's relatively conservative views on homosexuality, etc...please tell me it was that-Ed)...ummm, yes?...
Go David Hicks: the youngish Aussie who was a former guest of the USofA's Guantanamoa Bay, held in detention for over 6 years without charge or trial, and whom pleaded guilty to a charge that doesn't actually exist under Australian, USofA, or any International law, pleading guilty just to get outta' there...last evening he attended the Humanitarian Awards and confronted Liberal Senator George Brandis, whom bravely left...I don't condone anything Hicks did, but his treatment as an alleged prisoner of war, and the abject failure of the John Howard Liberal government to act re his welfare, are all manifestly unacceptable...
In closing, thanks again for all of the support I have received around and/or since the Mayoral contest, etc, and to all availees thanks for your patience and persistence and support as I work back to a better place, hopefully not at the expense of your time in reading this...cheers...
Tomorrow: The Frackin' Sets Sail
Apologies for pushing this post yet again. but it's a full post to cover the implications of Frackin' and sinkholes and seismic activity and Wind Turbines and the local Geology and how it all relates to one another...(strewth, fair enough-Ed)...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Millstones And Monorails
Hello one and all and welcome to the blog, and especially to Turkey whom have briefly bobbed-up again after another month+ long absence...howdy...and today we're going to move forward by going back to autopsy the attached articles from The Border Watch as started the other day...but first...
And in the Fisher By-Election (following the death of long-time Member conservative Independent Bob Such) it looks like the Liberals may yet drag their allegedly safe Conservative seat outta' the fire by a handful of votes...it looked all but gone to Labor, but recent counting has the Libs 17 whole votes ahead, but counting continues and will do so for days to come...keep ya' posted...much has been made at a state level of the damage caused to the Liberal cause by the comments re 'canoes' from Federal Defense Minister David Johnston, with very little acknowledgement of the truths there-in, namely, that there are clearly some major problems at the Australian Submarine Corp...
It's a poison chalice for local politicians who want to speak out about the aforementioned problems re ship-building in South Australia, eg, the cost and delivery date blow-outs of the 3 Air Warfare Destroyer Boat thingys that are now set to be finished 2-3 years after the original due date, and at an as yet un-calculated cost increase...(yeah, it's not a great foundation upon which to build faith in a future of building-Ed)...well put...
One Degree Of Separation: because way, way back in the day, I went out with a young woman who as a child survived Cyclone Tracy, a relatively unexpected and severe tropical storm that slammed into Darwin (Northern Territory) early on Christmas Day in 1974...she has featured previous as my first real relationship whom I met at the ZZ Top concert, Memorial Drive, Adelaide, March 6th 1987...she, her brother, and adoptive parents, rode out the storm in their bathtub under a collapsed ceiling...(wow-Ed)...indeed...and pssst, I still love her...(you are pathetic, you really are-Ed)...so sue me...
Hear Me, Here Me, Lend Me Your Years: apparently Mt Gambier is 60 years today a city...and Mayor Andrew Lee was on the ABC bangin' on about how 'we're making history' by having an Asian Mayor (the City's first), and the first Aboriginal Councillor Mark Lovett, etc...(yeah, yeah, hooray for Mt Gambier-Ed)...yeah, it's something I really struggle with too, ya' know?...(I know-ed)...it's hard for me to to take 'civic pride' in what is to my experience such a corrupt and broken town...there are some very real problems with Mt Gambier, problems that most people seem either ignorant of or happy to ignore, particularly the local media...which is a lovely segue into the realisation of that corruption and dysfunction via these attached articles and their ilk...
But first, and itself a bit seguish, I cannot understand the apparently contradictory reportage in The Border Watch, where-in one day it's stories about the apparent/alleged murder of a local man re an alleged $50,000-$80,000 drug debt re Ice/Crack/whatevs, and stories about local addicts and their suffering, etc, then literally the next day it's SAPol (police) in TBW and it's all 'hey, nuthin to see here, everything's fine, relax mister'...(and then next day it's back to the scourge of Ice, etc-Ed)...exactly, you've noticed that too?...(yeah, not necessarily as an exact sequence, but certainly the very conflicting storyline that yes there are problems but it's ok because there aren't-Ed)...now that's some Old School Confusin' right there...
Not A Word Of A Lie: but I went to have dinner, came back to here to finish the post and the Ice issue is on Channel 7's Today Tonight and there's footage of Mt Gambier High School, and there's TBW Editor Jason Wallace and they're covering the abduction and alleged murder as above...and now it's footage of driving around Mt Gambier streets at night and interviews with a disguised recovering addict couple...unfortunately I missed the opening bit but it was clearly saying that there's a major problem with Ice in Mt Gambier (and other Regional centres?)...hopefully this will be on their website within days...but I digress...
Park And Stride:...(sweet baby cheeses, I nearly parked something in my strides I was laughing so hard when I saw this sorry excuse for a Social Initiative dredged-up and spewed back into Ratepayer's laps-Ed)...Ratepayers? what's it got to do with Ratepayers? why are you always on about the poor bloody Ratepayers?...(oh don't get me wrong, I'm not blaming Ratepayers, what I'm sayin' is that everything Council does has everything to do with Ratepayers because every single cent that Council spends is a Ratepayers cent-Ed)...fair enough...and every cent spent on this nonsense, on the t-shirts and the flyers, every minute of Council employee time, all of the associated bollockry, every dime is Ratepayer's...every single one...
I'll Say It Again: Any Grant to the City, any Rates collected, any Dividend received, any Asset realised and/or rationalised and/or divested, each and every dirty dollar skulkingly diverted to the multiple legal issues that Council engages in but are so very rarely aired, every stupid sod turned, every minute every Council employee has work, everything that happens, everything the li'l town owns, it all belongs to Ratepayers, and it's all payed for by Ratepayers, and Council is supposed to serve the Ratepayers as our employees...but in each and every way this reality is distorted by a small raft of vested interests who clearly believe that they don't live to serve, but deserve to rule...
Scent Of A Ratepayer:...the ways Council has found to waste that money absolutely stinks, and in a context where it's the stink, the stench of every mis-spent cent sent down the gurgler by bent gents on venues and events of self-service and ridiculous nodes that remove carparks from the Main St and then tell everyone to Park and Stride...(Get and Stuffed-Ed)....precisely...who the hell is Council, and Graham Greenwood for that matter, to tell me that I have to park aways over there and walk wherevs and whatevs...get stuffed...here's a crazy idea, how's about provide the maximum parks possible to improve access to the central shopping district and that'll improve commerce, etc...(oh that's just crazy talk-Ed)...and don't shreck-up half the street with ludicrous nodes that serve no purpose...(you've gone coco-loco, insane in the membrane-Ed)...
That's Not How You Spell Millstone:...(oh, are we getting a rollercoaster? what about a Monorail?-Ed)...Monorail!...(Monorail!-Ratepayers)...this hilarious reference to The Simpsons cartoon is of course referring in reality to the attached article below...had planned to just move on from these but there's a ton of stuff going on here-in...just for the record, I don't know this writer and he may well genuinely have no idea of what's really going on re what he's commenting on, and/or there's the massive Editorial pressure to run the Vested Interests playbook, etc, etc, but the facts are undeniable, namely;
1) Mark McShane was dual CEO for the first 2 years, with his predecessor Greg Muller employed
full-time by Council under Manager Projects 1.0;
2) this article is a litany of disasters almost entirely of Council's/McShane's own creation, over which Mr
McShenanigans has largely presided, much of it based on the Rail Lands Retail Agenda, as covered
in many previous posts, eg, Council's rank refusal to centralise the Lady Nelson Bus Shelter, a refusal
motivated by the desire to keep the Rail Lands site clear for Retail Development;
3) Mr McShane was fully involved in the ludicrously irresponsible 2013/14 Council Budget that
self-approved doubling Council's debt capacity and massively raising Rates, and the
break-neck/break-bank rate at which they spent that money on the Rail Lands, the Old Hospital
Demolition, and the Caroline Landfill...all $6million borrowed all gone inside 12 months...(well, it's
only money-Ed)...
And I remind availees of then Mayor Steve Perryman's Conflict of Interest where the demolition contractor McMahons were all gunna' go an' stay with Stevo mate...(maaate-Ed)...out there at Rancho Relaxo or whatevs he calls his little motel thingy...(sorry, missed that, I thought I could hear someone screaming "rank Insider Trading and Corruption", but it was only me, ahaha-Ed)...nice...and reminder also that Council purchased and then demolished what was a sound building whilst there's a Court case pending re the valuation and/or Rezoning of the site...it's just something else this new Council has inherited...
These things are all covered many times in previous posts and regular availees will have no trouble spotting the gaping holes and glaring errors in these 2 articles...I cannot for the life of me understand the comment that 'this isn't about changing people's habits, it's about changing their behaviour'...(they're the same thing aren't they? habits/behaviours?...just ridiculous-Ed)...the whole thing is ridiculous mate, from it's inception to it's conception to it's initial demise and current costly resurrection, the whole thing is bollocks...hows about investing in some better Public Transport instead of wasting $1,000s on this nonsense?...
To close I'd make the observation entirely sans humour that police in the USofA have learned to avoid the thorny issue of Black deaths in custody, still such a problem with law enforcement in Australia, avoid this by engaging in a strategy of shooting or otherwise killing African-Americans before they're even under arrest...the recent separate shooting and choking deaths of 2 unarmed Black men and subsequent Grand Jury exoneration of the officers involved, seem to indicate that this is the officially sanctioned strategy for dealing with this strata of society...
And in a further rather spooky coincidence, there's a report just now on the ABC about 3 'police casualty' shooting deaths in 3 weeks in Queensland as part of an increasing trend of police shootings...and the constant inference that this is a choice made before other options were tried, eg, pepper spray and/or tazers, and usually involve people with Mental Health issues...apparently our rate of police shooting deaths is approx 4x that of the United Kingdom...and as you look back at it over the years, it's clear that this is not a new problem in Oz though...
Tomorrow: Release The Frackin'
As promised...the unavoidable reality of seismic disturbance and/or subsidence due to frickin' Fracking...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...
And in the Fisher By-Election (following the death of long-time Member conservative Independent Bob Such) it looks like the Liberals may yet drag their allegedly safe Conservative seat outta' the fire by a handful of votes...it looked all but gone to Labor, but recent counting has the Libs 17 whole votes ahead, but counting continues and will do so for days to come...keep ya' posted...much has been made at a state level of the damage caused to the Liberal cause by the comments re 'canoes' from Federal Defense Minister David Johnston, with very little acknowledgement of the truths there-in, namely, that there are clearly some major problems at the Australian Submarine Corp...
It's a poison chalice for local politicians who want to speak out about the aforementioned problems re ship-building in South Australia, eg, the cost and delivery date blow-outs of the 3 Air Warfare Destroyer Boat thingys that are now set to be finished 2-3 years after the original due date, and at an as yet un-calculated cost increase...(yeah, it's not a great foundation upon which to build faith in a future of building-Ed)...well put...
One Degree Of Separation: because way, way back in the day, I went out with a young woman who as a child survived Cyclone Tracy, a relatively unexpected and severe tropical storm that slammed into Darwin (Northern Territory) early on Christmas Day in 1974...she has featured previous as my first real relationship whom I met at the ZZ Top concert, Memorial Drive, Adelaide, March 6th 1987...she, her brother, and adoptive parents, rode out the storm in their bathtub under a collapsed ceiling...(wow-Ed)...indeed...and pssst, I still love her...(you are pathetic, you really are-Ed)...so sue me...
Hear Me, Here Me, Lend Me Your Years: apparently Mt Gambier is 60 years today a city...and Mayor Andrew Lee was on the ABC bangin' on about how 'we're making history' by having an Asian Mayor (the City's first), and the first Aboriginal Councillor Mark Lovett, etc...(yeah, yeah, hooray for Mt Gambier-Ed)...yeah, it's something I really struggle with too, ya' know?...(I know-ed)...it's hard for me to to take 'civic pride' in what is to my experience such a corrupt and broken town...there are some very real problems with Mt Gambier, problems that most people seem either ignorant of or happy to ignore, particularly the local media...which is a lovely segue into the realisation of that corruption and dysfunction via these attached articles and their ilk...
But first, and itself a bit seguish, I cannot understand the apparently contradictory reportage in The Border Watch, where-in one day it's stories about the apparent/alleged murder of a local man re an alleged $50,000-$80,000 drug debt re Ice/Crack/whatevs, and stories about local addicts and their suffering, etc, then literally the next day it's SAPol (police) in TBW and it's all 'hey, nuthin to see here, everything's fine, relax mister'...(and then next day it's back to the scourge of Ice, etc-Ed)...exactly, you've noticed that too?...(yeah, not necessarily as an exact sequence, but certainly the very conflicting storyline that yes there are problems but it's ok because there aren't-Ed)...now that's some Old School Confusin' right there...
Not A Word Of A Lie: but I went to have dinner, came back to here to finish the post and the Ice issue is on Channel 7's Today Tonight and there's footage of Mt Gambier High School, and there's TBW Editor Jason Wallace and they're covering the abduction and alleged murder as above...and now it's footage of driving around Mt Gambier streets at night and interviews with a disguised recovering addict couple...unfortunately I missed the opening bit but it was clearly saying that there's a major problem with Ice in Mt Gambier (and other Regional centres?)...hopefully this will be on their website within days...but I digress...
Park And Stride:...(sweet baby cheeses, I nearly parked something in my strides I was laughing so hard when I saw this sorry excuse for a Social Initiative dredged-up and spewed back into Ratepayer's laps-Ed)...Ratepayers? what's it got to do with Ratepayers? why are you always on about the poor bloody Ratepayers?...(oh don't get me wrong, I'm not blaming Ratepayers, what I'm sayin' is that everything Council does has everything to do with Ratepayers because every single cent that Council spends is a Ratepayers cent-Ed)...fair enough...and every cent spent on this nonsense, on the t-shirts and the flyers, every minute of Council employee time, all of the associated bollockry, every dime is Ratepayer's...every single one...
I'll Say It Again: Any Grant to the City, any Rates collected, any Dividend received, any Asset realised and/or rationalised and/or divested, each and every dirty dollar skulkingly diverted to the multiple legal issues that Council engages in but are so very rarely aired, every stupid sod turned, every minute every Council employee has work, everything that happens, everything the li'l town owns, it all belongs to Ratepayers, and it's all payed for by Ratepayers, and Council is supposed to serve the Ratepayers as our employees...but in each and every way this reality is distorted by a small raft of vested interests who clearly believe that they don't live to serve, but deserve to rule...
Scent Of A Ratepayer:...the ways Council has found to waste that money absolutely stinks, and in a context where it's the stink, the stench of every mis-spent cent sent down the gurgler by bent gents on venues and events of self-service and ridiculous nodes that remove carparks from the Main St and then tell everyone to Park and Stride...(Get and Stuffed-Ed)....precisely...who the hell is Council, and Graham Greenwood for that matter, to tell me that I have to park aways over there and walk wherevs and whatevs...get stuffed...here's a crazy idea, how's about provide the maximum parks possible to improve access to the central shopping district and that'll improve commerce, etc...(oh that's just crazy talk-Ed)...and don't shreck-up half the street with ludicrous nodes that serve no purpose...(you've gone coco-loco, insane in the membrane-Ed)...
That's Not How You Spell Millstone:...(oh, are we getting a rollercoaster? what about a Monorail?-Ed)...Monorail!...(Monorail!-Ratepayers)...this hilarious reference to The Simpsons cartoon is of course referring in reality to the attached article below...had planned to just move on from these but there's a ton of stuff going on here-in...just for the record, I don't know this writer and he may well genuinely have no idea of what's really going on re what he's commenting on, and/or there's the massive Editorial pressure to run the Vested Interests playbook, etc, etc, but the facts are undeniable, namely;
1) Mark McShane was dual CEO for the first 2 years, with his predecessor Greg Muller employed
full-time by Council under Manager Projects 1.0;
2) this article is a litany of disasters almost entirely of Council's/McShane's own creation, over which Mr
McShenanigans has largely presided, much of it based on the Rail Lands Retail Agenda, as covered
in many previous posts, eg, Council's rank refusal to centralise the Lady Nelson Bus Shelter, a refusal
motivated by the desire to keep the Rail Lands site clear for Retail Development;
3) Mr McShane was fully involved in the ludicrously irresponsible 2013/14 Council Budget that
self-approved doubling Council's debt capacity and massively raising Rates, and the
break-neck/break-bank rate at which they spent that money on the Rail Lands, the Old Hospital
Demolition, and the Caroline Landfill...all $6million borrowed all gone inside 12 months...(well, it's
only money-Ed)...
And I remind availees of then Mayor Steve Perryman's Conflict of Interest where the demolition contractor McMahons were all gunna' go an' stay with Stevo mate...(maaate-Ed)...out there at Rancho Relaxo or whatevs he calls his little motel thingy...(sorry, missed that, I thought I could hear someone screaming "rank Insider Trading and Corruption", but it was only me, ahaha-Ed)...nice...and reminder also that Council purchased and then demolished what was a sound building whilst there's a Court case pending re the valuation and/or Rezoning of the site...it's just something else this new Council has inherited...
These things are all covered many times in previous posts and regular availees will have no trouble spotting the gaping holes and glaring errors in these 2 articles...I cannot for the life of me understand the comment that 'this isn't about changing people's habits, it's about changing their behaviour'...(they're the same thing aren't they? habits/behaviours?...just ridiculous-Ed)...the whole thing is ridiculous mate, from it's inception to it's conception to it's initial demise and current costly resurrection, the whole thing is bollocks...hows about investing in some better Public Transport instead of wasting $1,000s on this nonsense?...
To close I'd make the observation entirely sans humour that police in the USofA have learned to avoid the thorny issue of Black deaths in custody, still such a problem with law enforcement in Australia, avoid this by engaging in a strategy of shooting or otherwise killing African-Americans before they're even under arrest...the recent separate shooting and choking deaths of 2 unarmed Black men and subsequent Grand Jury exoneration of the officers involved, seem to indicate that this is the officially sanctioned strategy for dealing with this strata of society...
And in a further rather spooky coincidence, there's a report just now on the ABC about 3 'police casualty' shooting deaths in 3 weeks in Queensland as part of an increasing trend of police shootings...and the constant inference that this is a choice made before other options were tried, eg, pepper spray and/or tazers, and usually involve people with Mental Health issues...apparently our rate of police shooting deaths is approx 4x that of the United Kingdom...and as you look back at it over the years, it's clear that this is not a new problem in Oz though...
Tomorrow: Release The Frackin'
As promised...the unavoidable reality of seismic disturbance and/or subsidence due to frickin' Fracking...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...
Monday, December 8, 2014
Post 650 - Hear Me Say 'Dear Me, The Media In SA'
Hello South Africa, Venezuela, Canada, and Slovenia and welcome to the blog and another post reflecting the week in my reality as it hopefully relates to others...(whaaa?-Ed)...well I know I bang on 'bout myself a fair bit, but it's usually because I find myself on and/or in publicly relevant issues, eg, the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up, how Mt Gambier City Council attacks and vilifies people whom dare to question the least little thing and/or Council's apparently rank corruption, etc, etc...
***Apologies for missing a post yesterday...(again? I thought you'd got your arse back on the horse and were collectively moving forward and all that?-Ed)...yes, well, it appears that my optimism and enthusiasm have been doggedly run-down from behind by the the more pressing reality of depression, Agoraphobia, isolation and loneliness...spent a good deal of this weekend dozing on the couch and/or wandering distractedly around the garden feeling sorry for myself slightly more than I'm concerned for my society/community...(well at least you have your Housing Trust 'home' and that beautiful garden, that's something-Ed)...yes it is, it's fantastic, but some days it feels like the 'golden cage' thingy...***
Black Dog: is a popular metaphor/descriptor/symbol for Depressive States and although I find the language itself somewhat problematic, it does paint a relevant mind-picture of what it can feel like...I was somewhat surprised though when said descriptor manifested itself in my backyard on Tuesday morning last week...my dog almost never barks, the best he manages is working himself excitedly up to a sudden 'yarp', so when there were some deep barks in the garden, I thought he'd bailed up a snake or lizard or something...turns out it was a large black boisterous dog that wouldn't come near me...
Eventually got him out the side gate but 5 minutes later he was back at the backdoor, somehow getting over the 5foot high galvanised iron fencing...later I found a big hole under the side-fence, but I reckon that's how he got back out the second time...my dog just stood next to me watching this other mad hound tear around the garden...don't know where it came from or where it eventually went to...
And it's usually the case that I'm just standin' 'ere mindin' ma' own business when along comes some sassy young situation or some crusty ol' conundrum...(or some chunkily current child abuse cover-up, for example-Ed)...well exactly Ed, well put...it's exactly like just tryin' to live ya' life in a small town when ya' suddenly dumped into the very confected role of sinister troublemaker and duly Parahiatised and villified, and dumped there by the very crooks cookin' the books and/or touchin' up the kiddies...(how poetically abusive-Ed)...and this time of year I know that I can't go very far before having the reality of the rank corruption that defines my reality of Mt Gambier jammed in my face, rammed down my throat, pissed profusely into my ear...
Think I'm over-reacting?...(well now that you've mentioned it...-Ed)...fair enough, but please scroll to the end of this post and discover the joy that is my average day down this way 'round about this time a' year...(ok, wait a second.....ummm, the Lutherans, yeah...free Community lunch for the homeless and lonely, ok...at the Town Hall/Main Corner, mmm right...supported by Council and the Anglicans, yes, well...the Lutherans doing Christmas Day lunch at The Main Corner, financed to some degree by Council which means Ratepayers-Ed)...exactly...even take the shreckin' Lutherans outta' that equation and minus any other Council support, and it's still the Ratepayer subsidised Main Corner facility which means the Ratepayer subsidised Leasees/caterers, etc, etc...
For all I know there's a whole bunch of people here-in involved whom are absolutely genuine and are donating their time/money/turkeys/whatevs, and don't have the faintest idea about the corruption underlying the whole Town Hall/Main Corner set-up...(soon to be massively complicated by the Jazz University goin' there-Ed)...well, indeed...or the St Martins corruption stuff, and as how that relates to the local media constantly promoting the Lutherans but refusing to address the St Martins stuff, instead turning on me and other parents, etc, etc...(come on, take that next step-Ed)...alright, alright, I know as fact that the vast majority of people involved in this have no idea about the above and relatively genuine motive, be it Christian charity, whatevs...(there's a good boy-Ed)...but it still ain't nuthin' but a Thang...(fair enough-Ed)...
I know that come December I can't even listen to the ABC Local Radio or open The Border Watch without having some massive slab a' pro-Lutheran bullshit waved in my face...and that super-sized slice of bullshit pie is usually plated up with a generous side-serve of Rory McEwen utilising his mates at the entirely corrupted Mt Gambier ABC Local Radio to yet again spew his special brand of pro-paedophile corruption and rank hypocrisy at the Universe, eg, his involvement in the weekend's Toy Run...(go big fella'-Ed)...and it's this fundamental corruption within the local media that allows for disgraceful cover-ups like the St Martins Lutheran School Case...
The St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up has been possible because of the media's complicit and corrupt support for the Cover-up (here and in Adelaide and even interstate, eg, the ABC Sydney) and it's main local players, eg, Rory McEwen, Steve Perryman, the Lutherans and St Martins School, SAPol, etc, support particularly evident at the ABC where some people are clearly employed because of their allegiance to this sickening agenda, as one individual mockingly, tauntingly flung in my face when 'recently' appointed to the ABC Mt Gambier...for all of the complete bastards I may be the problem here is clearly St Martins, the Lutherans, the ABC, et al, this time the problem isn't me...
Try as I might to get past this 'angry chair' stuff it just ain't happenin' in that just trying to just listen to the radio, read the papers, watch telly news, etc, it's like climbing into a boxing ring knowing full well that you can't even raise your hands to defend yourself, let alone strike-out, and that all you can do is step to the centre of the ring knowing you're going to stand there and cop a beating and then be villified for that as well, and then get up again when ya' can and take another hammering...day in, day out, over and over...this ad was in The Border Watch Tuesday 2nd December 2014, and on Thursday 4th December 2014 there was a long ABC Radio interview with a senior Lutheran Mrs/Ms?Whatevs (somethin'?) Pettingill...
Ms Pettingill stated that God wanted the Lutherans to put on a Thursday night soiree at their church in Edward St, "sharing God's gift", starting that night and then this week and next, leading up to Xmas...it was all about what God apparently wants the Lutherans to do for others...(yay-Ed)...indeed, and then it went onto the Christmas Day lunch stuff, and sure-as Ms Pettingill'll be there doin' somethin'...and all neatly rounded out with some sanctimonious bollocks from the interviewer about how she/they/whoevs is 'happily giving up there Xmas Day for the community...(orr, god bless the Lutherans-Ed)...
My ANZAC Spirit: has clearly been well established in me by the experiences I've shared via my grandfathers, both iconic WWII veterans - iconic in that one was an AIF 'Desert Rat' who served in Tobruk, etc, and the other was a senior RAF fighter pilot who flew in the Battle of France, pre-Battle of Britain, the Pacific Theatre with the USofA, etc, etc - but there's also a strong argument to be made for the fact that I've been as successfully indoctrinated as anyone else with this bullshit notion of emotive devotion where-in real men sacrifice themselves for their nation, for their people, for their community...
(Where you goin' with this?-Ed)...just addressin' some a' that feedback stuff about 'why would you do this, particularly given that it's clearly quite distressing for you on occasions?'...firstly, I greatly appreciate that people do genuinely give a damn, and as rampant as the statistic numbers can be there's clearly a small number of people who have stuck with the blog across the last month...it's gotta' be said that I myself am a little disappointed with the recent quality of the blog, let alone the intermittentness, and I can only promise that I continue in my commitment to this 'ere blog and the general concept of addressing these sortta' issues appropriately...
However, it's often a confronting experience in that I don't have to go trawling the Interweb for bizarre conspiracy theories about paedophile corruption and cover-ups in South Australia because I'm living one, and I don't need to hear other peoples stories about surviving Cancer, etc, and right this moment there's an item re the Yoga Ashram case that the Federal Child Abuse Royal Commission is currently looking at...and yes it is terrible stuff, but my reality is that this was then and St Martins is right now, current and comprehensive in it's exposure of the related rank corruption...why not come to Mt Gambier and look at a current Child Abuse Cover-up that undeniably involves the current Sow Strayn Premier Jay Weatherill?...(another self-answering question-Ed)...
Tomorrow: Tidying Up Some Of Many Loose Ends
(Well good luck with that-Ed)...indeed, but I'll keep tryin' and we'll see how we go...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...
***Apologies for missing a post yesterday...(again? I thought you'd got your arse back on the horse and were collectively moving forward and all that?-Ed)...yes, well, it appears that my optimism and enthusiasm have been doggedly run-down from behind by the the more pressing reality of depression, Agoraphobia, isolation and loneliness...spent a good deal of this weekend dozing on the couch and/or wandering distractedly around the garden feeling sorry for myself slightly more than I'm concerned for my society/community...(well at least you have your Housing Trust 'home' and that beautiful garden, that's something-Ed)...yes it is, it's fantastic, but some days it feels like the 'golden cage' thingy...***
Black Dog: is a popular metaphor/descriptor/symbol for Depressive States and although I find the language itself somewhat problematic, it does paint a relevant mind-picture of what it can feel like...I was somewhat surprised though when said descriptor manifested itself in my backyard on Tuesday morning last week...my dog almost never barks, the best he manages is working himself excitedly up to a sudden 'yarp', so when there were some deep barks in the garden, I thought he'd bailed up a snake or lizard or something...turns out it was a large black boisterous dog that wouldn't come near me...
Eventually got him out the side gate but 5 minutes later he was back at the backdoor, somehow getting over the 5foot high galvanised iron fencing...later I found a big hole under the side-fence, but I reckon that's how he got back out the second time...my dog just stood next to me watching this other mad hound tear around the garden...don't know where it came from or where it eventually went to...
And it's usually the case that I'm just standin' 'ere mindin' ma' own business when along comes some sassy young situation or some crusty ol' conundrum...(or some chunkily current child abuse cover-up, for example-Ed)...well exactly Ed, well put...it's exactly like just tryin' to live ya' life in a small town when ya' suddenly dumped into the very confected role of sinister troublemaker and duly Parahiatised and villified, and dumped there by the very crooks cookin' the books and/or touchin' up the kiddies...(how poetically abusive-Ed)...and this time of year I know that I can't go very far before having the reality of the rank corruption that defines my reality of Mt Gambier jammed in my face, rammed down my throat, pissed profusely into my ear...
Think I'm over-reacting?...(well now that you've mentioned it...-Ed)...fair enough, but please scroll to the end of this post and discover the joy that is my average day down this way 'round about this time a' year...(ok, wait a second.....ummm, the Lutherans, yeah...free Community lunch for the homeless and lonely, ok...at the Town Hall/Main Corner, mmm right...supported by Council and the Anglicans, yes, well...the Lutherans doing Christmas Day lunch at The Main Corner, financed to some degree by Council which means Ratepayers-Ed)...exactly...even take the shreckin' Lutherans outta' that equation and minus any other Council support, and it's still the Ratepayer subsidised Main Corner facility which means the Ratepayer subsidised Leasees/caterers, etc, etc...
For all I know there's a whole bunch of people here-in involved whom are absolutely genuine and are donating their time/money/turkeys/whatevs, and don't have the faintest idea about the corruption underlying the whole Town Hall/Main Corner set-up...(soon to be massively complicated by the Jazz University goin' there-Ed)...well, indeed...or the St Martins corruption stuff, and as how that relates to the local media constantly promoting the Lutherans but refusing to address the St Martins stuff, instead turning on me and other parents, etc, etc...(come on, take that next step-Ed)...alright, alright, I know as fact that the vast majority of people involved in this have no idea about the above and relatively genuine motive, be it Christian charity, whatevs...(there's a good boy-Ed)...but it still ain't nuthin' but a Thang...(fair enough-Ed)...
I know that come December I can't even listen to the ABC Local Radio or open The Border Watch without having some massive slab a' pro-Lutheran bullshit waved in my face...and that super-sized slice of bullshit pie is usually plated up with a generous side-serve of Rory McEwen utilising his mates at the entirely corrupted Mt Gambier ABC Local Radio to yet again spew his special brand of pro-paedophile corruption and rank hypocrisy at the Universe, eg, his involvement in the weekend's Toy Run...(go big fella'-Ed)...and it's this fundamental corruption within the local media that allows for disgraceful cover-ups like the St Martins Lutheran School Case...
The St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up has been possible because of the media's complicit and corrupt support for the Cover-up (here and in Adelaide and even interstate, eg, the ABC Sydney) and it's main local players, eg, Rory McEwen, Steve Perryman, the Lutherans and St Martins School, SAPol, etc, support particularly evident at the ABC where some people are clearly employed because of their allegiance to this sickening agenda, as one individual mockingly, tauntingly flung in my face when 'recently' appointed to the ABC Mt Gambier...for all of the complete bastards I may be the problem here is clearly St Martins, the Lutherans, the ABC, et al, this time the problem isn't me...
Try as I might to get past this 'angry chair' stuff it just ain't happenin' in that just trying to just listen to the radio, read the papers, watch telly news, etc, it's like climbing into a boxing ring knowing full well that you can't even raise your hands to defend yourself, let alone strike-out, and that all you can do is step to the centre of the ring knowing you're going to stand there and cop a beating and then be villified for that as well, and then get up again when ya' can and take another hammering...day in, day out, over and over...this ad was in The Border Watch Tuesday 2nd December 2014, and on Thursday 4th December 2014 there was a long ABC Radio interview with a senior Lutheran Mrs/Ms?Whatevs (somethin'?) Pettingill...
Ms Pettingill stated that God wanted the Lutherans to put on a Thursday night soiree at their church in Edward St, "sharing God's gift", starting that night and then this week and next, leading up to Xmas...it was all about what God apparently wants the Lutherans to do for others...(yay-Ed)...indeed, and then it went onto the Christmas Day lunch stuff, and sure-as Ms Pettingill'll be there doin' somethin'...and all neatly rounded out with some sanctimonious bollocks from the interviewer about how she/they/whoevs is 'happily giving up there Xmas Day for the community...(orr, god bless the Lutherans-Ed)...
My ANZAC Spirit: has clearly been well established in me by the experiences I've shared via my grandfathers, both iconic WWII veterans - iconic in that one was an AIF 'Desert Rat' who served in Tobruk, etc, and the other was a senior RAF fighter pilot who flew in the Battle of France, pre-Battle of Britain, the Pacific Theatre with the USofA, etc, etc - but there's also a strong argument to be made for the fact that I've been as successfully indoctrinated as anyone else with this bullshit notion of emotive devotion where-in real men sacrifice themselves for their nation, for their people, for their community...
(Where you goin' with this?-Ed)...just addressin' some a' that feedback stuff about 'why would you do this, particularly given that it's clearly quite distressing for you on occasions?'...firstly, I greatly appreciate that people do genuinely give a damn, and as rampant as the statistic numbers can be there's clearly a small number of people who have stuck with the blog across the last month...it's gotta' be said that I myself am a little disappointed with the recent quality of the blog, let alone the intermittentness, and I can only promise that I continue in my commitment to this 'ere blog and the general concept of addressing these sortta' issues appropriately...
However, it's often a confronting experience in that I don't have to go trawling the Interweb for bizarre conspiracy theories about paedophile corruption and cover-ups in South Australia because I'm living one, and I don't need to hear other peoples stories about surviving Cancer, etc, and right this moment there's an item re the Yoga Ashram case that the Federal Child Abuse Royal Commission is currently looking at...and yes it is terrible stuff, but my reality is that this was then and St Martins is right now, current and comprehensive in it's exposure of the related rank corruption...why not come to Mt Gambier and look at a current Child Abuse Cover-up that undeniably involves the current Sow Strayn Premier Jay Weatherill?...(another self-answering question-Ed)...
Tomorrow: Tidying Up Some Of Many Loose Ends
(Well good luck with that-Ed)...indeed, but I'll keep tryin' and we'll see how we go...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...
Saturday, December 6, 2014
A Blog Day Afternoon
Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, and/or goodnight Macedonia (FYROM), Hong Kong, Venezuela, and Lithuania, the USofA, Russia, Germany, France, the UK, Ukraine, China, Poland, Turkey, Moldova, Singapore, Costa Rica, et al...and welcome one and all to the blog...apologise for missing post yesterday, but I had a very, very long day yesterday, including mucho time consumed trawling through old grounds for/with someone whom had requested a detailed explanation of what had happened re the often featured St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up from 2002 after reading about it on this 'ere blog...(makes for a very long day-Ed)...indeed, didn't sleep too well last night, sorry, this morning...I don't apologise for being literally dazed today by yesterday, it was tough going...
And this after a morning (yesterday) of airwaves laden with that pro-paedophile champ, our former local state Member Rory McEwen promoting the Ulysses Motorcycle Club Toy Run to be held today...and that following on from multiple references this week to how fantastic the Lutherans are, stuff I'll have to do a separate post for this arvo...one of the critical players in the St Martins Cover-up, it's always a delight to hear/see/whatevs Rory has to say, but it's particularly gratifying to hear him on the ABC Local Radio yet again bangin' on with such unblinking hypocrisy as he and his mates Stan Thompson and/or Stuart Stansfield discuss Rory's great work with/for the kiddies...2 months ago(?) it was the Ryder-Cheshire Foundation, and this week it's the Toy Run...
There's only so much anger that a man can bear before it bears him...that is, a man can only in so many ways carry only so much before it turns on him and carries him away, and so, if these people like Ulysses and Ryder-Cheshire are happy to have this stinkin' pro-paedophile shreck-pig Rory McEwen as their front man then they can and must expect that angry men will send themselves to stroll amongst you with respect and control but vengeance at heart, and with their role to play to drag kicking and screaming into the cold hard light of day the sickening reality of what Rory has done...
(So you're going along then? I had wondered if you were going to go and say howdy to your bestie Rory...I know that you struggle with doing anything deliberately confrontational, even with Rory, particularly in such an inappropriate context as a Toy Run, but I get your point that he should be confronted re his screeching hypocrisy and history of corruptly protecting paedophiles...personally, I find it hard to believe, given the length and breadth of his pro-paedophile corruption, that Rory isn't a paedophile himself-Ed)...you and everyone else reading the blog...but thankyou for talking me down off the ledge Ed by politely reminding me that there is a time and a place and the middle of a Toy Run just ain't it...
But here-in lies the crux, the crucible, the Creator of all that's so desperately wrong with South Australia and in particular Mt Gambier...here-in lies a definitive study in how paedophiles run our society...despite what he has done, the betrayal of children and parents at St Martins and the ultimate betrayal of all kids and families across the state by cementing the control of other pro-paedophile vested interests, Rory is happy to promote himself via his mates at an entirely corrupted ABC Radio, an ABC whom themselves are intimately aware of the reality of Rory's corruption and criminality...
And not one word about the reality that they are all complicit in, covering-up the gross abuse of a class of 7 year old children at St Martins Lutheran School, Mt Gambier...
Just Farcical: that in the Fisher By-election (to replace deceased Member Bob Such) Labor are yet again running a Labor-stooge candidate as an 'Independent'...and that vacuous Labor stooge and serial apologist alleged Professor Clem McIntyre and The Advertiser et al are pouring credibility into this clown's campaign and paying brief if any lip-service to the reality of his history...check it for yourselves, he's come from the Crown Solicitor, that bastion of institutionalised corruption in Sow Straya, was a former Labor member and staffer, etc...100% Rolled Gold Labor Stooge...Independent my left plum...
And I'm The Crazy One: In the middle of the largest Pine Plantation in the Southern Planetsphere section of the arse end of Nowheresville...(wow-Ed)...outta' my way...(hey, come on, don't blog angry now-Ed)...sorry, fair enough...but in the middle of a massive but shrinking due to the clear-felling of the South East Forestry Estate by 141Plantations for export via Portland forest of Pine Trees...breath, breath...in the middle of that and during a global financial meltdown and savaging of state and/or Federal funding for Council's, Mt Gambier City Council have gone to Melbourne to buy a fake 6m high Christmas tree and placed it right outside the Main Corner...(dare I ask?-Ed)...$20,000...(sweet baby cheeses...good thing it's only Ratepayer's money-Ed)...well exactly...
With everything going on, it's $20,000 for a freakin' fake Xmas tree, and bought from Melbourne...(and I was just reading in TBW where Council's Denise Richardson reckons this is just the start of purchasing many new decorations, etc, for Council to tart-up the town-Ed)...omg...(oh indeed-Ed)...
Further apologies that it's a bittuva' 'cut and paste' post anyway, but I don't know how else to cover this stuff thoroughly without doing so...thank me for not attaching all of the pro Council and/or pro-The Border Watch crap that was pouring through TBW leading up to the November 2014 Local Government Elections...in one TBW there was 6-7 pages of how great Council is and what great work they do, etc...(I noticed that that 'feature' didn't feature the senior department heads or Councillors themselves, but had the mid-upper level bureaucrats (no offense intended)-Ed)...indeed...and a bunch of stuff self-praising about how great TBW's own 'Cadet Journalists' are because they have the guidance, wisdom, and mighty penmanship of Graham Greenwood to guide and inspire them...
Anyhoos, please find attached 2 articles and then I'll come back to them in a dot-point synopsis post later today, effectively one very long post across the whole day...cheers...
Laters: What I Just Said, Don't You Listen?
(Don't start with me champ-Ed)...alright, alright, cool ya' jets, just jokin', sorry, tryin' to take the edge off a rather angry post...(fair enough, not a lotta' humour in any a' that today, but that's not your fault-Ed)...ta...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...
And this after a morning (yesterday) of airwaves laden with that pro-paedophile champ, our former local state Member Rory McEwen promoting the Ulysses Motorcycle Club Toy Run to be held today...and that following on from multiple references this week to how fantastic the Lutherans are, stuff I'll have to do a separate post for this arvo...one of the critical players in the St Martins Cover-up, it's always a delight to hear/see/whatevs Rory has to say, but it's particularly gratifying to hear him on the ABC Local Radio yet again bangin' on with such unblinking hypocrisy as he and his mates Stan Thompson and/or Stuart Stansfield discuss Rory's great work with/for the kiddies...2 months ago(?) it was the Ryder-Cheshire Foundation, and this week it's the Toy Run...
There's only so much anger that a man can bear before it bears him...that is, a man can only in so many ways carry only so much before it turns on him and carries him away, and so, if these people like Ulysses and Ryder-Cheshire are happy to have this stinkin' pro-paedophile shreck-pig Rory McEwen as their front man then they can and must expect that angry men will send themselves to stroll amongst you with respect and control but vengeance at heart, and with their role to play to drag kicking and screaming into the cold hard light of day the sickening reality of what Rory has done...
(So you're going along then? I had wondered if you were going to go and say howdy to your bestie Rory...I know that you struggle with doing anything deliberately confrontational, even with Rory, particularly in such an inappropriate context as a Toy Run, but I get your point that he should be confronted re his screeching hypocrisy and history of corruptly protecting paedophiles...personally, I find it hard to believe, given the length and breadth of his pro-paedophile corruption, that Rory isn't a paedophile himself-Ed)...you and everyone else reading the blog...but thankyou for talking me down off the ledge Ed by politely reminding me that there is a time and a place and the middle of a Toy Run just ain't it...
But here-in lies the crux, the crucible, the Creator of all that's so desperately wrong with South Australia and in particular Mt Gambier...here-in lies a definitive study in how paedophiles run our society...despite what he has done, the betrayal of children and parents at St Martins and the ultimate betrayal of all kids and families across the state by cementing the control of other pro-paedophile vested interests, Rory is happy to promote himself via his mates at an entirely corrupted ABC Radio, an ABC whom themselves are intimately aware of the reality of Rory's corruption and criminality...
And not one word about the reality that they are all complicit in, covering-up the gross abuse of a class of 7 year old children at St Martins Lutheran School, Mt Gambier...
Just Farcical: that in the Fisher By-election (to replace deceased Member Bob Such) Labor are yet again running a Labor-stooge candidate as an 'Independent'...and that vacuous Labor stooge and serial apologist alleged Professor Clem McIntyre and The Advertiser et al are pouring credibility into this clown's campaign and paying brief if any lip-service to the reality of his history...check it for yourselves, he's come from the Crown Solicitor, that bastion of institutionalised corruption in Sow Straya, was a former Labor member and staffer, etc...100% Rolled Gold Labor Stooge...Independent my left plum...
And I'm The Crazy One: In the middle of the largest Pine Plantation in the Southern Planetsphere section of the arse end of Nowheresville...(wow-Ed)...outta' my way...(hey, come on, don't blog angry now-Ed)...sorry, fair enough...but in the middle of a massive but shrinking due to the clear-felling of the South East Forestry Estate by 141Plantations for export via Portland forest of Pine Trees...breath, breath...in the middle of that and during a global financial meltdown and savaging of state and/or Federal funding for Council's, Mt Gambier City Council have gone to Melbourne to buy a fake 6m high Christmas tree and placed it right outside the Main Corner...(dare I ask?-Ed)...$20,000...(sweet baby cheeses...good thing it's only Ratepayer's money-Ed)...well exactly...
With everything going on, it's $20,000 for a freakin' fake Xmas tree, and bought from Melbourne...(and I was just reading in TBW where Council's Denise Richardson reckons this is just the start of purchasing many new decorations, etc, for Council to tart-up the town-Ed)...omg...(oh indeed-Ed)...
Further apologies that it's a bittuva' 'cut and paste' post anyway, but I don't know how else to cover this stuff thoroughly without doing so...thank me for not attaching all of the pro Council and/or pro-The Border Watch crap that was pouring through TBW leading up to the November 2014 Local Government Elections...in one TBW there was 6-7 pages of how great Council is and what great work they do, etc...(I noticed that that 'feature' didn't feature the senior department heads or Councillors themselves, but had the mid-upper level bureaucrats (no offense intended)-Ed)...indeed...and a bunch of stuff self-praising about how great TBW's own 'Cadet Journalists' are because they have the guidance, wisdom, and mighty penmanship of Graham Greenwood to guide and inspire them...
Anyhoos, please find attached 2 articles and then I'll come back to them in a dot-point synopsis post later today, effectively one very long post across the whole day...cheers...
Laters: What I Just Said, Don't You Listen?
(Don't start with me champ-Ed)...alright, alright, cool ya' jets, just jokin', sorry, tryin' to take the edge off a rather angry post...(fair enough, not a lotta' humour in any a' that today, but that's not your fault-Ed)...ta...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...
Thursday, December 4, 2014
By Hook And By Crook
Hello United Kingdom, Germany, Aotearoa (New Zealand), and Canada and welcome to the blog...and howdy to ex-availees Turkey, Moldova, and anywheres else that I haven't picked-up that what's been chopped off the blog somehow...having some more weird shizzle happen with the blog, namely 40-50 most recent posts 'Google un-sharing' themselves...(themselves?-Ed)...well I'm not doin' it...(yeah, but the posts can't do it themselves either, someone must be doing it-Ed)...interesting point...
Well I don't reckon it's Google because they would just remove the posts as per the 10 thus far, so are you suggesting, given that only the blogger themselves can 'un-share' via this 'ere 'source computer', that someone is going onto the blog somehow and changing stuff? again?...(don't know, but it seems like it...does anyone have your passwords, etc?-Ed)...well SAPol have my laptop what they done seize back in May 2014 when they raided my home, repeatedly telling me "expect to be charged" for talking about Club GoGo Bananas and/or the Banana Lord...a ludicrous pseudo-charge left hangin' now for more than 6 months, and that directs me to probably have to avoid even naming the specific state Authority, hence the ludicrous pseudonym 'Banana Lord' stuff...
(Outrageously ludicrous...and didn't they say 'we don't need your password, we'll just hack it real easy', but you did give them your password anyways?-Ed)...yeah, but I changed it since...(yeah, but they could easily hack that, and using your own laptop, make the 'blog' itself think it's you and offer no resistance what-so-evs-Ed)...yeah, I was thinking that myself, and there's sometimes a 'there's another computer signed onto this network' notice thingy comes up when I sign-on...but even if that's the case, why are the 'availee viewing statistics' going up and down so wildly and sometimes backwards as well?...(no idea-Ed)...anyhoos...
Done Goin' Fishin': for triggers to fire-up this 'ere blog, but these days they're just jumpin' into the boat...(whaaa?-Ed)...well, researching the blog by manically monitoring media, etc, could be seen as effectively going looking (fishing) for things that suit and/or drive the dialogue that I'm producing here on this 'ere blog...it can be a fine line between research and justification, enlightenment or ideology...(dah I get it...ya' gotta' be careful to not gather, garner and ultimately regurgitate info because it supports what you feel/think/whatevs-Ed)...exactly...but the reality remains that just by doin' this 'ere blog, that multiple fishy issues are just scramblin' over the gunnals to get onto this li'l ship of fool...
So instead of scrambling about in the muddy shallows furiously guddling my way through life, I'm trying to kick-it back a wee bit on the grassy bank under the soothing shade of a convenient Coolabah...(once a jolly StuffPig guddled by a billabong-Ed)...stop that, stop that right now...(sorry-Ed)...I should think so...point being that that's a sortta' very long-winded apology, but in trying to sort out the paperwork stroll-through that has become my home, I'm constantly confronted by a bunch of stuff already covered on the blog, and at the same time stuff pouring outta' the media...
Ain't no-one here too proud...(don't look at me-Ed)...to say that I've slumped pretty much after the stress of the Mayoral shenanigans, heaped as it was onto the other stressors I already had airborne...and yesterday was a bad day and I just didn't want to be doing this blog stuff...and along comes today and away we go and that's the way it goes for me...basically I'm asking y'all ta' please cut me some slack thanks because I am trying to get this shizzle moving forward, and I don't have days off so much as days down...(neatly put sir-Ed)...ta...
For example, just the other evening I was sorting through The Border Watch articles, bills, etc, and of course the piles of St Martins Cover-up stuff...(yay-Ed)...indeed, and had the ABC Radio on when I wouldn't normally be listening, and thusly the distinct privilege of running into a gushing interview with former head of the Sow Strayn Dept of Planning, Transport, and Infrastructure Rod Hook...(oh gourd-Ed)...yes, quite...(wasn't he responsible for the bloody trams all up North Tce?-Ed)...yep, that's him...(and the Adelaide Oval?-Ed)...amongst a whole bunch of other things, oddly enough all in Adelaide, didn't hear Regional SA even mentioned...
(What? not even after you rang and asked them to acknowledge the financial disaster that selling the South East Forestry Estate was, and gave them the broad numbers, eg, immediate loss of $400million by under-selling at $670M, the loss of approx $110m annually as income from the SEFE, the monies needed to replace the wages and costs of Forstry SA , fire-fighting, etc, that came outta' that $110m, etc, etc?-Ed)...nope, not a word...(bloody typical-Ed)...
And Rod was lavish in praise of himself and his great mate former Labor Minister 'Part-time' Pat Conlon...(he whom went into political semi-retirement, returning to work (2012?) as a lawyer/consultant/whatevs whilst still an elected Member of SA Parliament?-Ed)...that be he...(and whom former Mt Gambier Member Rory McEwen stated to you was 'Terry' the paedophile politician at the centre of the Speaker Sacking Saga in 2005?-Ed)...well remembered Ed...it was 10+ minutes of isn't everything great and how great am I and even stating 'I don't know where they (Labor) got the money from for the Oval or got everyone to agree to it, but they did and it was great'...which is why I rang...
And on it all goes, eg, 1) The Federal Child Abuse Royal Commission has gone to a Yoga retreat/cult/ashram/whatevs in New South Wales to investigate terrible abuses from the 1980s and the perpetrator died 15 years ago, but the CARC ain't coming to Mt Gambier to look at the current and ongoing cover-up of Child Abuse at St Martins Lutheran School...which was followed shortly after by 2) a report re the gross abuses committed by Maurice Van Ryn, former head of Bega Cheese (NSW) in a case with sickening similarities to the Mt Gambier/St Martins case, where it appears senior members of the community have been protecting and supporting him...(committed another assault/rape whilst out on bail and then received bail again...wow-Ed)...
Keep Sayin' Cheese: people 'cos 1) apparently Asia and in particular China is super keen to get their laughin' gear wrapped around some rolled gold Aussie protein, and the latest Free Trade Agreement with China will ensure plenty of our dairy headed that whey, I mean way...(nice-Ed)...and 2) it's apparently far more nutritionally functional to eat Fermented Bovine Lactose Extract than drink it...(whaaa?-Ed)...BLE is simply milk, and FBLE fermented milk products, eg, cheese and yoghurt...(fascinating-Ed)...indeed...it's claimed that the fermenting process changes the proteins or whatevs in ways that make them far easier for the body to absord and utilise for bones, etc, than just plain milk...
And 3) it's smiles all 'round as European Union leaders strike an agreement to lower emissions from coal-fired power stations, etc, largely off the back of the deal announced between the USofA and China just prior to the OMG20...an agreement which is 4) binding...(shall I put a 'taboomtish' here to indicate that last bit was a joke about the constipational occupational hazard of consuming excessive cheesiness?-Ed)...probably best...
Higher Education Fails: to get the nod in Federal Parliament, well at least the 'privatisation' of Ozzie universities has failed to pass, but that hasn't stopped Minister Christopher Pyne from stating that it will happen inevitably because it's just like so important...and there's my mate Treasurer Joe Hockey stating that it's other people's fault that they won't talk to him about ongoing Budget issues...(oh boy-Ed)...nah, come on, 'Smokin' Joe invited all them Cross-benchers and other jolly japesters to come on down to his office and agree with him...
(Well exactly, sarcastically well said... it's pretty trite to state repeatedly, as Joe has, that he'll never give-up on any aspect of this Budget, never surrender, etc, and then say that he's happy to negotiate with intelligent people so long as they agree completely with him, etc, directly inferring that if you disagree in any way then you're an idiot, and then turn around and blame others for not wanting to talk to him-Ed)...exactly ya'self...
(Furthermore, these 2 main issues, the $7 GP Co-payment and Uni privatisation, were not even mentioned going into the September 2013 Federal Election, and the Liberals have broken so many promises since that no-one believes what they say now anyhoos...no-one believes you Joey mate-Ed)...he can't hear you...(can't, or won't?-Ed)...and speaking of political jokes, look out, here comes the South East Cabinet, whatta' shreckin' joke...supposedly, Sow Strayn Parliament will do 3 more 'Country Cabinet' sessions in 2015, and Mt Gambier just might be on the list...might be...(here? really? how exciting, be still my pounding heart-Ed)...settle down...
Hooray: news that the latest $2m, 24 bed 4 modular accommodation unit (like in mining camps) expansion at the Mt Gambier Gaol is nearly ready, bringing the gaol's capacity to 333 inmates, with 8 surge beds...and the latestish 84 bed expansion is nearly complete, following the 108 bed expansion in August 2013...and further great news that 'there will now be proper consideration given as to how best to deal with the surging inmate numbers' off the back of Labor's ludicrous Rack 'Em, Stack 'Em policy...(hang on, if they've just tripled the size of the Mt Gambier Gaol in the last 18 months, and that's happened before they've properly considered an ongoing problem, how many further expansions for the gaol here?-Ed)...be grateful for the jobs mate...(shreck me-Ed)...
Also On The News: this morn that the first solar panels of $73,000 worth are being installed on the roof of the library, supposedly to provide 1/4 of the library's energy needs, saving 18% per annum on costs...(but wasn't the Tender for 80kws?-Ed)...yeah, it looks like some people got one Tender and others another...(again?! wasn't that the ludicrous solar lights around the Blue Lake thing?-Ed)...yeah, both, that was one company allowed to submit 2 Tenders and Council tried to accept the lower and then 'negotiate' afterwards toward the higher...(wow, how dodgy is that-Ed)...just another raft of dodgy Tenders from a dodgy Council that seems not so much bureaucratically incompetent as allergic to appropriate process...
Tomorrow: Release The Frackin'
The sordid tale of a mighty drooling beast of corruption, filth, and dis-ease looming over a poor rural community...the horror...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...
Well I don't reckon it's Google because they would just remove the posts as per the 10 thus far, so are you suggesting, given that only the blogger themselves can 'un-share' via this 'ere 'source computer', that someone is going onto the blog somehow and changing stuff? again?...(don't know, but it seems like it...does anyone have your passwords, etc?-Ed)...well SAPol have my laptop what they done seize back in May 2014 when they raided my home, repeatedly telling me "expect to be charged" for talking about Club GoGo Bananas and/or the Banana Lord...a ludicrous pseudo-charge left hangin' now for more than 6 months, and that directs me to probably have to avoid even naming the specific state Authority, hence the ludicrous pseudonym 'Banana Lord' stuff...
(Outrageously ludicrous...and didn't they say 'we don't need your password, we'll just hack it real easy', but you did give them your password anyways?-Ed)...yeah, but I changed it since...(yeah, but they could easily hack that, and using your own laptop, make the 'blog' itself think it's you and offer no resistance what-so-evs-Ed)...yeah, I was thinking that myself, and there's sometimes a 'there's another computer signed onto this network' notice thingy comes up when I sign-on...but even if that's the case, why are the 'availee viewing statistics' going up and down so wildly and sometimes backwards as well?...(no idea-Ed)...anyhoos...
Done Goin' Fishin': for triggers to fire-up this 'ere blog, but these days they're just jumpin' into the boat...(whaaa?-Ed)...well, researching the blog by manically monitoring media, etc, could be seen as effectively going looking (fishing) for things that suit and/or drive the dialogue that I'm producing here on this 'ere blog...it can be a fine line between research and justification, enlightenment or ideology...(dah I get it...ya' gotta' be careful to not gather, garner and ultimately regurgitate info because it supports what you feel/think/whatevs-Ed)...exactly...but the reality remains that just by doin' this 'ere blog, that multiple fishy issues are just scramblin' over the gunnals to get onto this li'l ship of fool...
So instead of scrambling about in the muddy shallows furiously guddling my way through life, I'm trying to kick-it back a wee bit on the grassy bank under the soothing shade of a convenient Coolabah...(once a jolly StuffPig guddled by a billabong-Ed)...stop that, stop that right now...(sorry-Ed)...I should think so...point being that that's a sortta' very long-winded apology, but in trying to sort out the paperwork stroll-through that has become my home, I'm constantly confronted by a bunch of stuff already covered on the blog, and at the same time stuff pouring outta' the media...
Ain't no-one here too proud...(don't look at me-Ed)...to say that I've slumped pretty much after the stress of the Mayoral shenanigans, heaped as it was onto the other stressors I already had airborne...and yesterday was a bad day and I just didn't want to be doing this blog stuff...and along comes today and away we go and that's the way it goes for me...basically I'm asking y'all ta' please cut me some slack thanks because I am trying to get this shizzle moving forward, and I don't have days off so much as days down...(neatly put sir-Ed)...ta...
For example, just the other evening I was sorting through The Border Watch articles, bills, etc, and of course the piles of St Martins Cover-up stuff...(yay-Ed)...indeed, and had the ABC Radio on when I wouldn't normally be listening, and thusly the distinct privilege of running into a gushing interview with former head of the Sow Strayn Dept of Planning, Transport, and Infrastructure Rod Hook...(oh gourd-Ed)...yes, quite...(wasn't he responsible for the bloody trams all up North Tce?-Ed)...yep, that's him...(and the Adelaide Oval?-Ed)...amongst a whole bunch of other things, oddly enough all in Adelaide, didn't hear Regional SA even mentioned...
(What? not even after you rang and asked them to acknowledge the financial disaster that selling the South East Forestry Estate was, and gave them the broad numbers, eg, immediate loss of $400million by under-selling at $670M, the loss of approx $110m annually as income from the SEFE, the monies needed to replace the wages and costs of Forstry SA , fire-fighting, etc, that came outta' that $110m, etc, etc?-Ed)...nope, not a word...(bloody typical-Ed)...
And Rod was lavish in praise of himself and his great mate former Labor Minister 'Part-time' Pat Conlon...(he whom went into political semi-retirement, returning to work (2012?) as a lawyer/consultant/whatevs whilst still an elected Member of SA Parliament?-Ed)...that be he...(and whom former Mt Gambier Member Rory McEwen stated to you was 'Terry' the paedophile politician at the centre of the Speaker Sacking Saga in 2005?-Ed)...well remembered Ed...it was 10+ minutes of isn't everything great and how great am I and even stating 'I don't know where they (Labor) got the money from for the Oval or got everyone to agree to it, but they did and it was great'...which is why I rang...
And on it all goes, eg, 1) The Federal Child Abuse Royal Commission has gone to a Yoga retreat/cult/ashram/whatevs in New South Wales to investigate terrible abuses from the 1980s and the perpetrator died 15 years ago, but the CARC ain't coming to Mt Gambier to look at the current and ongoing cover-up of Child Abuse at St Martins Lutheran School...which was followed shortly after by 2) a report re the gross abuses committed by Maurice Van Ryn, former head of Bega Cheese (NSW) in a case with sickening similarities to the Mt Gambier/St Martins case, where it appears senior members of the community have been protecting and supporting him...(committed another assault/rape whilst out on bail and then received bail again...wow-Ed)...
Keep Sayin' Cheese: people 'cos 1) apparently Asia and in particular China is super keen to get their laughin' gear wrapped around some rolled gold Aussie protein, and the latest Free Trade Agreement with China will ensure plenty of our dairy headed that whey, I mean way...(nice-Ed)...and 2) it's apparently far more nutritionally functional to eat Fermented Bovine Lactose Extract than drink it...(whaaa?-Ed)...BLE is simply milk, and FBLE fermented milk products, eg, cheese and yoghurt...(fascinating-Ed)...indeed...it's claimed that the fermenting process changes the proteins or whatevs in ways that make them far easier for the body to absord and utilise for bones, etc, than just plain milk...
And 3) it's smiles all 'round as European Union leaders strike an agreement to lower emissions from coal-fired power stations, etc, largely off the back of the deal announced between the USofA and China just prior to the OMG20...an agreement which is 4) binding...(shall I put a 'taboomtish' here to indicate that last bit was a joke about the constipational occupational hazard of consuming excessive cheesiness?-Ed)...probably best...
Higher Education Fails: to get the nod in Federal Parliament, well at least the 'privatisation' of Ozzie universities has failed to pass, but that hasn't stopped Minister Christopher Pyne from stating that it will happen inevitably because it's just like so important...and there's my mate Treasurer Joe Hockey stating that it's other people's fault that they won't talk to him about ongoing Budget issues...(oh boy-Ed)...nah, come on, 'Smokin' Joe invited all them Cross-benchers and other jolly japesters to come on down to his office and agree with him...
(Well exactly, sarcastically well said... it's pretty trite to state repeatedly, as Joe has, that he'll never give-up on any aspect of this Budget, never surrender, etc, and then say that he's happy to negotiate with intelligent people so long as they agree completely with him, etc, directly inferring that if you disagree in any way then you're an idiot, and then turn around and blame others for not wanting to talk to him-Ed)...exactly ya'self...
(Furthermore, these 2 main issues, the $7 GP Co-payment and Uni privatisation, were not even mentioned going into the September 2013 Federal Election, and the Liberals have broken so many promises since that no-one believes what they say now anyhoos...no-one believes you Joey mate-Ed)...he can't hear you...(can't, or won't?-Ed)...and speaking of political jokes, look out, here comes the South East Cabinet, whatta' shreckin' joke...supposedly, Sow Strayn Parliament will do 3 more 'Country Cabinet' sessions in 2015, and Mt Gambier just might be on the list...might be...(here? really? how exciting, be still my pounding heart-Ed)...settle down...
Hooray: news that the latest $2m, 24 bed 4 modular accommodation unit (like in mining camps) expansion at the Mt Gambier Gaol is nearly ready, bringing the gaol's capacity to 333 inmates, with 8 surge beds...and the latestish 84 bed expansion is nearly complete, following the 108 bed expansion in August 2013...and further great news that 'there will now be proper consideration given as to how best to deal with the surging inmate numbers' off the back of Labor's ludicrous Rack 'Em, Stack 'Em policy...(hang on, if they've just tripled the size of the Mt Gambier Gaol in the last 18 months, and that's happened before they've properly considered an ongoing problem, how many further expansions for the gaol here?-Ed)...be grateful for the jobs mate...(shreck me-Ed)...
Also On The News: this morn that the first solar panels of $73,000 worth are being installed on the roof of the library, supposedly to provide 1/4 of the library's energy needs, saving 18% per annum on costs...(but wasn't the Tender for 80kws?-Ed)...yeah, it looks like some people got one Tender and others another...(again?! wasn't that the ludicrous solar lights around the Blue Lake thing?-Ed)...yeah, both, that was one company allowed to submit 2 Tenders and Council tried to accept the lower and then 'negotiate' afterwards toward the higher...(wow, how dodgy is that-Ed)...just another raft of dodgy Tenders from a dodgy Council that seems not so much bureaucratically incompetent as allergic to appropriate process...
Tomorrow: Release The Frackin'
The sordid tale of a mighty drooling beast of corruption, filth, and dis-ease looming over a poor rural community...the horror...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Happy To Be Having A Long Day
Hello Poland, Italy, Indonesia, and Romania, and welcome to the blog...a very sombre, short post today after a long day of my own shizzle and the shocking news from yesterday about a car accident near Mt Gambier...in my little anger bubble I found more forgotten documents that really I'd rather I hadn't because I'd forgotten the associated shizzle and resultant trauma for myself and other families re the St Martins stuff...
It has been confirmed that the 4 people killed in a terrible 3 car auto-accident yesterday at Hatherley 60 kms North-West of Mt Gambier are all from the one family, as is the one survivor from that vehicle...the other 2 drivers are recovering from 'non life-threatening' injuries...the confronting reality is that the people killed were likely involved as a third vehicle after a truck and ute collided ahead of them...as is being said across the national media, this is a shocking reminder of what can happen in a moment on our roads...
And just in the news that one of those killed was a 22 year old St John's Ambulance volunteer well known in the local ES groups, and as an upcoming restauranteur in Robe...in a moment his family has lost him, his teenage sister, mother, and his grandmother, 3 generations of one family...I can't pretend to understand how this will affect the family and friends and I don't know what to say...I just had to acknowledge it and say something and then acknowledge those in my life that I love and cherish...
I didn't even try not to cry, even now, at this horrendous tragedy, and I fully support the calls for vigilance and restraint and patience and reserve and respect on the roads ahead of the busy and often deadly Christmas Season...my thoughts and prayers go out to the families and friends, and particularly to the often volunteer Emergency Services personnel who attend these terrible incidents...it is often the case in Regional/Rural communities that the people responding to any incident know those directly involved...
This was the case with 2 separate drownings of local fishermen this year who weren't wearing the life-jackets in their overturned boats...(I don't understand why it is compulsory to have life-jackets in boats, but boaties don't have to wear them...I'd have thought it best to have the thing on the whole time you're on the boat at all, so that if you get ditched or fall overboard, etc, it's right where you need it immediately-Ed)...well I haven't been out on a boat recently, but I never used to wear a life-jacket...but I would now...
It brings into sharp contrast my position as a largely self-appointed Social Advocate thingy, and leaves me feeling like a bit of a whinging git...(you have your moments, sure, but don't we all?-Ed)...wise words again Ed...(even if you do say so yourself-Ed)...indeed...but even my lame attempts at humour to try and 'pretty-up' my anger for public consumption, even that seems somehow flippant and disrespectful today...
Checked out the ABC Local Radio 'Reloaded' from Tuesday last week (November 25th 2014) and the Stan Thompson interview with his Area Manager boss Stuart Stansfield...(ah yes, your fantasy interview-Ed)...indeed, that interview re the 'Efficiency Dividends' that the Federal Liberals are making to said Australian Broadcasting Corporation...(where 'Efficiency Dividends' is deceitful politician-speak for cuts to funding with resultant job losses, program cuts, etc-Ed)...well quite, and this language also being utilised to try and avoid the promise as made by our now Prime Minister Tony 'The Mad Monk' Abbott leading into the September 2013 Federal Election, namely, 'no cuts to the ABC or the SBS' (both TV stations)...
Turns out I didn't miss much because, apart from those passing comments about programming and being 'autonomous', etc, most of it was about Stuart's meeting (with other senior staff) where-in ABC Director Mark Johns explained how the Liberal's 'Efficiency Dividends'...(he means cuts-Ed)...yes I do, how those 'ED' would be distributed...(you mean what programs and/or what personnel are getting the arse, the chop, canned, axed, ditched, dumped, shafted-Ed)...yeah, I think we get the point...'ED' isn't quite in the same class of 'tritely offensive' as terms like 'collateral damages' or 'friendly fire', but it's still a beaut...
Just can't wait to see what Sow Strayn Labor's newest consultant/contractor The New Democracy comes up with re their 'randomly chosen' panel of locals whom will apparently sort out the whole South East Drainage/Surface Water/Irrigation debacle...(and what the shreck is 'The New Democracy'?-Ed)...well if you put it in context, let's say a Wind Turbines sortta' context, then it means Fascism...but if you put it in the context of the unaccountable, unfettered power of SAPol to search wherevs/seize whatevs/arrest whoevs whenevs/whyevs, well then it's, actually, Fascism again...sorry, not a good example...
I know, how's about the Independent Commission Against Corruption and their power to subpoena witnesses and force them to answer on fear of being charged, and officially shut down/silence all discourse in the media...(and shut it down with out the issue being before the ICAC-Ed)...indeed...and up front, the legislation that quite literally says 'no-one can discuss corruption, ever, because it might eventually end up in the ICAC'...(yeah, I'd like to say you're exaggerating that but I've looked it up - section 56 I believe - and I was there when you discussed this with local Member Troy Bell and he conceded/concured that that's exactly what that section says-Ed)...yeah, that's all lookin'a bit like Fascism as well isn't it?...can't wait for the New Democracy...
(And the St Martins stuff?-Ed)...ah yeah, I found the letter from the Family and Youth Services from July 2003 (attached) and it is just a letter and it just says so little but it is the writing on the wall behind that letter that tells the real story of what was happening with St Martins...the FAYS office in Mt Gambier initially told myself and a coupla' other parents when we went in there (June/July 2002) that they were horrified about the abuses our kids had been subjected to, etc, but when we went back only a week later, a genuinely terrified Sheila Holloway stated manically that they weren't responsible and quite literally pushed us out the door...
Just another official body/authority/bureaucrat/politician who said 'not my responsibility, not my problem'...at the very least FAYS Mt Gambier should have acted as mediator/mentors to us parents in directing us to the appropriate authorities...(what about their responsibility to do a Mandatory Notification?-Ed)...well exactly...FAYS should have taken the whole case off us parents and directed it to the appropriate authorities themselves, reported it all themselves...'not our problem' in June/July 2002, and then sending me a bloody letter showing that yes they are bloody involved thanks very much...
And then of course the Teachers Registration Board, at the un-challenged request of Glyn Dorling's lawyer Stephen Lieschke (Premier Jay Weatherill's business partner) subpoenaed the full Flinders Child Protection Service reports (of our children's and our (parent's) statements) and handed them to teacher Glyn Dorling whom FCPS had described to me as a "text-book grooming paedophile"...the TRB, who claim it was on advice from the Crown Solicitor, subpoenaed the full, un-edited reports and handed them over to Dorling, the paedophile that abused our kids...
And then I was aggressively cross-examined re the reports of my son, his mum, and my own statements, all whilst Dorling sat there reading them over Lieschke's arm...when I protested to the TRB/CSO members present that it was inappropriate for me to be questioned re a document I'd never seen or read, I was told to 'just answer the questions'...(shreckin' charming-Ed)...shreckin' corruption to protect a paedophile...
And further news that a 60 year old local man has been charged with 4 counts of Causing Death By Dangerous Driving re the accident at Hatherley...I don't apologise for stopping here today because I just reckon that we've all got better things to do than waste another day wading through my dire dirgings and pent-up purgings surging forth...and there's a half-price Turducken awaitin' in the oven and some roast vegies to boot...and then I'm going to have a small chunk of fruit cake with Brandy custard...
Tomorrow: The Next Frackin' Installment
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...
It has been confirmed that the 4 people killed in a terrible 3 car auto-accident yesterday at Hatherley 60 kms North-West of Mt Gambier are all from the one family, as is the one survivor from that vehicle...the other 2 drivers are recovering from 'non life-threatening' injuries...the confronting reality is that the people killed were likely involved as a third vehicle after a truck and ute collided ahead of them...as is being said across the national media, this is a shocking reminder of what can happen in a moment on our roads...
And just in the news that one of those killed was a 22 year old St John's Ambulance volunteer well known in the local ES groups, and as an upcoming restauranteur in Robe...in a moment his family has lost him, his teenage sister, mother, and his grandmother, 3 generations of one family...I can't pretend to understand how this will affect the family and friends and I don't know what to say...I just had to acknowledge it and say something and then acknowledge those in my life that I love and cherish...
I didn't even try not to cry, even now, at this horrendous tragedy, and I fully support the calls for vigilance and restraint and patience and reserve and respect on the roads ahead of the busy and often deadly Christmas Season...my thoughts and prayers go out to the families and friends, and particularly to the often volunteer Emergency Services personnel who attend these terrible incidents...it is often the case in Regional/Rural communities that the people responding to any incident know those directly involved...
This was the case with 2 separate drownings of local fishermen this year who weren't wearing the life-jackets in their overturned boats...(I don't understand why it is compulsory to have life-jackets in boats, but boaties don't have to wear them...I'd have thought it best to have the thing on the whole time you're on the boat at all, so that if you get ditched or fall overboard, etc, it's right where you need it immediately-Ed)...well I haven't been out on a boat recently, but I never used to wear a life-jacket...but I would now...
It brings into sharp contrast my position as a largely self-appointed Social Advocate thingy, and leaves me feeling like a bit of a whinging git...(you have your moments, sure, but don't we all?-Ed)...wise words again Ed...(even if you do say so yourself-Ed)...indeed...but even my lame attempts at humour to try and 'pretty-up' my anger for public consumption, even that seems somehow flippant and disrespectful today...
Checked out the ABC Local Radio 'Reloaded' from Tuesday last week (November 25th 2014) and the Stan Thompson interview with his Area Manager boss Stuart Stansfield...(ah yes, your fantasy interview-Ed)...indeed, that interview re the 'Efficiency Dividends' that the Federal Liberals are making to said Australian Broadcasting Corporation...(where 'Efficiency Dividends' is deceitful politician-speak for cuts to funding with resultant job losses, program cuts, etc-Ed)...well quite, and this language also being utilised to try and avoid the promise as made by our now Prime Minister Tony 'The Mad Monk' Abbott leading into the September 2013 Federal Election, namely, 'no cuts to the ABC or the SBS' (both TV stations)...
Turns out I didn't miss much because, apart from those passing comments about programming and being 'autonomous', etc, most of it was about Stuart's meeting (with other senior staff) where-in ABC Director Mark Johns explained how the Liberal's 'Efficiency Dividends'...(he means cuts-Ed)...yes I do, how those 'ED' would be distributed...(you mean what programs and/or what personnel are getting the arse, the chop, canned, axed, ditched, dumped, shafted-Ed)...yeah, I think we get the point...'ED' isn't quite in the same class of 'tritely offensive' as terms like 'collateral damages' or 'friendly fire', but it's still a beaut...
Just can't wait to see what Sow Strayn Labor's newest consultant/contractor The New Democracy comes up with re their 'randomly chosen' panel of locals whom will apparently sort out the whole South East Drainage/Surface Water/Irrigation debacle...(and what the shreck is 'The New Democracy'?-Ed)...well if you put it in context, let's say a Wind Turbines sortta' context, then it means Fascism...but if you put it in the context of the unaccountable, unfettered power of SAPol to search wherevs/seize whatevs/arrest whoevs whenevs/whyevs, well then it's, actually, Fascism again...sorry, not a good example...
I know, how's about the Independent Commission Against Corruption and their power to subpoena witnesses and force them to answer on fear of being charged, and officially shut down/silence all discourse in the media...(and shut it down with out the issue being before the ICAC-Ed)...indeed...and up front, the legislation that quite literally says 'no-one can discuss corruption, ever, because it might eventually end up in the ICAC'...(yeah, I'd like to say you're exaggerating that but I've looked it up - section 56 I believe - and I was there when you discussed this with local Member Troy Bell and he conceded/concured that that's exactly what that section says-Ed)...yeah, that's all lookin'a bit like Fascism as well isn't it?...can't wait for the New Democracy...
(And the St Martins stuff?-Ed)...ah yeah, I found the letter from the Family and Youth Services from July 2003 (attached) and it is just a letter and it just says so little but it is the writing on the wall behind that letter that tells the real story of what was happening with St Martins...the FAYS office in Mt Gambier initially told myself and a coupla' other parents when we went in there (June/July 2002) that they were horrified about the abuses our kids had been subjected to, etc, but when we went back only a week later, a genuinely terrified Sheila Holloway stated manically that they weren't responsible and quite literally pushed us out the door...
Just another official body/authority/bureaucrat/politician who said 'not my responsibility, not my problem'...at the very least FAYS Mt Gambier should have acted as mediator/mentors to us parents in directing us to the appropriate authorities...(what about their responsibility to do a Mandatory Notification?-Ed)...well exactly...FAYS should have taken the whole case off us parents and directed it to the appropriate authorities themselves, reported it all themselves...'not our problem' in June/July 2002, and then sending me a bloody letter showing that yes they are bloody involved thanks very much...
And then of course the Teachers Registration Board, at the un-challenged request of Glyn Dorling's lawyer Stephen Lieschke (Premier Jay Weatherill's business partner) subpoenaed the full Flinders Child Protection Service reports (of our children's and our (parent's) statements) and handed them to teacher Glyn Dorling whom FCPS had described to me as a "text-book grooming paedophile"...the TRB, who claim it was on advice from the Crown Solicitor, subpoenaed the full, un-edited reports and handed them over to Dorling, the paedophile that abused our kids...
And then I was aggressively cross-examined re the reports of my son, his mum, and my own statements, all whilst Dorling sat there reading them over Lieschke's arm...when I protested to the TRB/CSO members present that it was inappropriate for me to be questioned re a document I'd never seen or read, I was told to 'just answer the questions'...(shreckin' charming-Ed)...shreckin' corruption to protect a paedophile...
And further news that a 60 year old local man has been charged with 4 counts of Causing Death By Dangerous Driving re the accident at Hatherley...I don't apologise for stopping here today because I just reckon that we've all got better things to do than waste another day wading through my dire dirgings and pent-up purgings surging forth...and there's a half-price Turducken awaitin' in the oven and some roast vegies to boot...and then I'm going to have a small chunk of fruit cake with Brandy custard...
Tomorrow: The Next Frackin' Installment
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...
Monday, December 1, 2014
Well Frack Me A Frackin' Well
Hello Macedonia (FYROM-Former Yugoslavian Republic of), Indonesia, France and the United States of America and welcome to the blog...and terrible news just on the ABC Radio news that there's been a bad car accident earlier this afternoon at Hatherley just North of Millicent, with 4 people from Mt Gambier killed and 3 others with minor injuries...road safety ads, programs, etc are just getting started for the Xmas (Christmas) season, but road safety is a daily, moment-by-moment responsibility...
With only 3 weeks and change to Christmas, may I just say to all the availees of this 'ere blog, and all the 'contributors'...(what, even me?-Ed)...yes Ed, even you...may y'all have a bangin' Season whatevs ya' motivations and desires, and may all of these gremlins of daily existence give ya' a wide-berth for at least a little while...(bloody hippy-Ed)...but back in the real world...
A Picture Painted Of A Mountainous Turd:...if you want to see what a truly soul-less, selfish, smug prick looks like, just Interweb any footage of...(our charming Federal Liberal Treasurer Joe Hockey?-Ed)...yeah, how did you know that I was referring to him?...(just an educated guess based on the clues you've given me there-Ed)...nice...indeed, find any picture of him from late last week, any footage, any brazen image cravenly created and crafted in the likeness of, any...(yeah, yeah, get on with it, we do have all day but I've gotta' tunna' paperwork to get sorted-Ed)...alright, alright, you and me both...I am of course referring to 'Smokin' Joe Hockey...
(Yeah, and "Mountainous Turd"?...I thought we were working hard to improve the tone of the blog?-Ed)...indeed, but I apologise not for sharing with y'all the bilious belligerence brewing to rabidly foaming, spewing to steaming anger billowing all about, and all as a result of merely catching a brief but highly disturbing glimpse of that prick's smug chubby pug-mug on the news, espousing the Liberal's view that there's other ways to slug the peasantry a $7 per visit GP Co-payment (General Practitioner) than running it through a hostile Senate where any such legislation would be duly slaughtered...
Poor Joe has looked a little peeked lately, occasionally bobbing up to angrily sling offensive ideology at people who largely can't defend themselves, before disappearing for a week or two to avoid the fall-out...but Joe-boy has turned that frown upside down as he attempts to do the same to millions of people's lives...returned again now has that sneeringly leering, jeeringly cheery smeer of a smile that Mighty Joe had wrapped around that big 'ol cigar when he and Finance Minister Matthias 'Always Blue' Corman first launched the Budget...
Going by what I saw late last week, from the smug self-satisfied look on Joe's face, the Liberals have already decided to go 'round the democratic inconvenience of parliament and just put it through as a 'conventionally uncontested' Monetary Bill or some such...so full of his own wondrousness, wallowing in his own self-congratulation, apparently fuelled by a seething contempt for people who aren't Joe Hockey...whatta' piece of work...
(A thought...if it turns out that Matthias is himself an "Economic Girly-Man", as indeed he has mimicked Arnold Shwarzenegger in referring to others, eg, Labor Opposition leader li'l 'Bouncing' Billy Shorten...if Matthias is himself an EGM, would that make him therefore the 'Financy-boy Minister'?-Ed)...I'm assuming there's some sort of ironically witty undertone to the rank offense of 'Financy-boy', an undertone high-browedly highlighting the crass offense of the original statement?...(no, not really, I'm way shallower than that...I just wanted to say 'Financy-boy'...3 times now-Ed)...clever...
(And another thought...by Matthias's definition, would that make Helen Riddout or Christine LeGarde, et al, would they be 'Economic Girly-Women'?-Ed)...that Ed, is a fascinating study in bloody hell whatevs...come on, we have bigger fish to fry, namely a toxic Joe-fish that's already well on the nose...(note: I don't know why, but locally the magnificent Mulloway - Argyrosomus japonicus - is called a Jewfish, hence the 'Joefish' bit)...
Whilst everyone in the Libs reckons their Budget is just a super-dooper necessity due to the perpetual fiscal yoke of pre-September 2013 Labor decisions/actions/whatevs, pretty much everyone else thinks it stinks, and is in reality just a manifestation of the class-structured, born-to-rule mentality of the Liberal Party, being lived large as they seek desperately to re-establish a feudal underclass of impoverished serfdom...and tell me it's a coincidence that the week after we are signed away in a 'Free Trade' deal with China, the Aussie dollar tanks on plummeting resources demand from our newest Eccy Bestie...and that 'Eccy' is for 'economic', I'm not suggesting we're getting our collective glow-sticks way up in the air...(whooop whooop-Ed)...
Turf The Serfs: is my considered synopsis of the Budget...it effectively attempts to rule a line through/across the top of the Social Services Sector and write-off anyone beneath said line...(but I thought that the SSS was the 'bottom-line' for our society and if you ended up in the SSS it was because you'd effectively fallen to there and it's meant to either provide ongoing basic support, or help those whom can to get back above that defining line between poverty and properly paid participation?-Ed)...well indeed...
(But having said that, what about all those people who exist at or below that 'societal poverty line' of approx $400 per week, and are either 1) working hard to earn their wage that then doesn't even cover the basic costs of living for their family, and/or 2) those who are in the SSS but still participate via volunteer work, etc?-Ed)...you bloody hippy...(ci-Ed)...alright, yes, there are they...(and furthermore-Ed)...oh boy...(I'd ask you to consider that you yourself have stated that you feel as though you're in the employ of the society that supports you via the Disability Support Pension-Ed)...yeah, yeah, whatevs...
(And more furthermore, there are many people who owe their living in public service positions like the SSS to the many people they service as their clientele...there are many people who do very nicely thankyou very much running businesses and programs and various bureaucracies, and as someone whom himself has on frequent occasions been severely 'spoken down-at' by people who were being paid very nice wages to help me, I have intense personal experience of the deplorable attitude displayed by our glorious Treasurer-Ed)...nah, fair point...
(Deadset...I can recall with unwanted clarity several very unpleasant occasions when I was berated at volume by Centrelink personnel, eg, when trying to get help for my trauma re the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up and the devastating effect that I knew it was having on my life but couldn't control...one time the woman stated at volume "we're sick of hearing the same old story"-Ed)...deadset, you're trying very politely whilst suffering massive mental trauma to get help for those issues, and she abused you?...(yep-Ed)...that's unacceptable...(I didn't-Ed)...
(I very politely and quietly put it to her that if she was sick of hearing it all again, 'I'm sick of saying the same old thing whilst none of it is resolved and if someone takes this St Martins Cover-up bullshit off my hands, I'll happily get back into having a life, my own life back being a great place to start, thanks very shreckin' much-Ed)...and the response?...(stony silence and a thin-lipped glare and then hand-balling me off to somewhere/someone/whatevs else...no apology, not nuthin' but contempt and disrespect, and it only got worse when I used the truth to make her look like the bigotted ignoramus that she was and still is-Ed)...still is?...(yeah, I run into her sometimes, eg, when volunteering at the Mt Gambier Show...and there it is, the same lip-less sneer, only now I pity her rather than wear her ignorance as my problem-Ed)...that would've been my advice...
Joking aside, I can remember this particular exchange clear as a bell, and it does define some other 'exchanges' I had with Centrelink staff...whilst these people were the exception and as a rule I found most staffers polite if somewhat impotent re my situation, I understand now the very effective campaign of character assassination that has stalked me re the St Martins Cover-up, and with the benefit of such hindsight I can see where this stuff has manifested itself in my life in this very small, very broken, very corrupt town, and Centrelink was clearly one of those places...
This sort of treatment had a devastating effect on me, contributing massively to my Depression/Agoraphobia stuff...I couldn't even go to Centrelink without copping a gobful of abuse about the traumas in my life...(yeah, it was pretty bad, even if it wasn't nuthin' to do with St Martins, it's just a woeful way to treat someone who is sitting there asking for help-Ed)...ta, but it ain't ultimately all bad because with the fathomless gift of hindsight I came to understand that despite how unpleasant these many exchanges were across 2002-04, eg, abuse in the supermarket, on the bus, etc, I always behaved quietly, respectfully, controlledly...but I digress...
ICAC Spy With The OPI: apparently no problem whatsoevs at Robe District Council...(how do you know that?-Ed)...it was discussed at length on the ABC Local Radio with RDC CEO Roger 'Tout' Sweetman that there'd been some supposedly 'anonymous' complaints to the Office of Public Integrity re some shenanigans at Robe Council...(is he allowed to discuss that? I thought you had to have Special Double Secret Probationary Dispensiary Dispensation Documentation (permission in writing) from the Über-Commissioner at ICAC?-Ed)...indeed, Roger The Dodger cited said document whilst gushingly quoting the relevant outcome that everything's fine...(fine-Ed)...just fine...
(Was this related to the $1million Council 'loan' to the Robe Marina, a loan that was reported in The Border Watch as having somehow 'gone missing' from Council's books one Audit to the next?-Ed)...I think so...(and is that the same Auditor who does Mt Gambier's books?-Ed)...same name...(figures-Ed)...and yes, despite the fact that $1million has apparently disappeared, Robe Council has been given the all clear by the Office of Public Integrity and/or the Independent Commission Against Corruption...(wow-Ed)...indeed...
Sorry that I've posted-out for today and never even reached the topic, so you know the drill,
Tomorrow: WFMAFW Part II
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...oh, and by the way, apparently my mate John Alexander, St Martin's Principal from 2002-2010, a key player in the Glyn Dorling/St Martins Abuse Cover-up, well he was back in Mt Gambier last week to play Satan for the kiddies at St Martins...and yes I don't mean Santa...
With only 3 weeks and change to Christmas, may I just say to all the availees of this 'ere blog, and all the 'contributors'...(what, even me?-Ed)...yes Ed, even you...may y'all have a bangin' Season whatevs ya' motivations and desires, and may all of these gremlins of daily existence give ya' a wide-berth for at least a little while...(bloody hippy-Ed)...but back in the real world...
A Picture Painted Of A Mountainous Turd:...if you want to see what a truly soul-less, selfish, smug prick looks like, just Interweb any footage of...(our charming Federal Liberal Treasurer Joe Hockey?-Ed)...yeah, how did you know that I was referring to him?...(just an educated guess based on the clues you've given me there-Ed)...nice...indeed, find any picture of him from late last week, any footage, any brazen image cravenly created and crafted in the likeness of, any...(yeah, yeah, get on with it, we do have all day but I've gotta' tunna' paperwork to get sorted-Ed)...alright, alright, you and me both...I am of course referring to 'Smokin' Joe Hockey...
(Yeah, and "Mountainous Turd"?...I thought we were working hard to improve the tone of the blog?-Ed)...indeed, but I apologise not for sharing with y'all the bilious belligerence brewing to rabidly foaming, spewing to steaming anger billowing all about, and all as a result of merely catching a brief but highly disturbing glimpse of that prick's smug chubby pug-mug on the news, espousing the Liberal's view that there's other ways to slug the peasantry a $7 per visit GP Co-payment (General Practitioner) than running it through a hostile Senate where any such legislation would be duly slaughtered...
Poor Joe has looked a little peeked lately, occasionally bobbing up to angrily sling offensive ideology at people who largely can't defend themselves, before disappearing for a week or two to avoid the fall-out...but Joe-boy has turned that frown upside down as he attempts to do the same to millions of people's lives...returned again now has that sneeringly leering, jeeringly cheery smeer of a smile that Mighty Joe had wrapped around that big 'ol cigar when he and Finance Minister Matthias 'Always Blue' Corman first launched the Budget...
Going by what I saw late last week, from the smug self-satisfied look on Joe's face, the Liberals have already decided to go 'round the democratic inconvenience of parliament and just put it through as a 'conventionally uncontested' Monetary Bill or some such...so full of his own wondrousness, wallowing in his own self-congratulation, apparently fuelled by a seething contempt for people who aren't Joe Hockey...whatta' piece of work...
(A thought...if it turns out that Matthias is himself an "Economic Girly-Man", as indeed he has mimicked Arnold Shwarzenegger in referring to others, eg, Labor Opposition leader li'l 'Bouncing' Billy Shorten...if Matthias is himself an EGM, would that make him therefore the 'Financy-boy Minister'?-Ed)...I'm assuming there's some sort of ironically witty undertone to the rank offense of 'Financy-boy', an undertone high-browedly highlighting the crass offense of the original statement?...(no, not really, I'm way shallower than that...I just wanted to say 'Financy-boy'...3 times now-Ed)...clever...
(And another thought...by Matthias's definition, would that make Helen Riddout or Christine LeGarde, et al, would they be 'Economic Girly-Women'?-Ed)...that Ed, is a fascinating study in bloody hell whatevs...come on, we have bigger fish to fry, namely a toxic Joe-fish that's already well on the nose...(note: I don't know why, but locally the magnificent Mulloway - Argyrosomus japonicus - is called a Jewfish, hence the 'Joefish' bit)...
Whilst everyone in the Libs reckons their Budget is just a super-dooper necessity due to the perpetual fiscal yoke of pre-September 2013 Labor decisions/actions/whatevs, pretty much everyone else thinks it stinks, and is in reality just a manifestation of the class-structured, born-to-rule mentality of the Liberal Party, being lived large as they seek desperately to re-establish a feudal underclass of impoverished serfdom...and tell me it's a coincidence that the week after we are signed away in a 'Free Trade' deal with China, the Aussie dollar tanks on plummeting resources demand from our newest Eccy Bestie...and that 'Eccy' is for 'economic', I'm not suggesting we're getting our collective glow-sticks way up in the air...(whooop whooop-Ed)...
Turf The Serfs: is my considered synopsis of the Budget...it effectively attempts to rule a line through/across the top of the Social Services Sector and write-off anyone beneath said line...(but I thought that the SSS was the 'bottom-line' for our society and if you ended up in the SSS it was because you'd effectively fallen to there and it's meant to either provide ongoing basic support, or help those whom can to get back above that defining line between poverty and properly paid participation?-Ed)...well indeed...
(But having said that, what about all those people who exist at or below that 'societal poverty line' of approx $400 per week, and are either 1) working hard to earn their wage that then doesn't even cover the basic costs of living for their family, and/or 2) those who are in the SSS but still participate via volunteer work, etc?-Ed)...you bloody hippy...(ci-Ed)...alright, yes, there are they...(and furthermore-Ed)...oh boy...(I'd ask you to consider that you yourself have stated that you feel as though you're in the employ of the society that supports you via the Disability Support Pension-Ed)...yeah, yeah, whatevs...
(And more furthermore, there are many people who owe their living in public service positions like the SSS to the many people they service as their clientele...there are many people who do very nicely thankyou very much running businesses and programs and various bureaucracies, and as someone whom himself has on frequent occasions been severely 'spoken down-at' by people who were being paid very nice wages to help me, I have intense personal experience of the deplorable attitude displayed by our glorious Treasurer-Ed)...nah, fair point...
(Deadset...I can recall with unwanted clarity several very unpleasant occasions when I was berated at volume by Centrelink personnel, eg, when trying to get help for my trauma re the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up and the devastating effect that I knew it was having on my life but couldn't control...one time the woman stated at volume "we're sick of hearing the same old story"-Ed)...deadset, you're trying very politely whilst suffering massive mental trauma to get help for those issues, and she abused you?...(yep-Ed)...that's unacceptable...(I didn't-Ed)...
(I very politely and quietly put it to her that if she was sick of hearing it all again, 'I'm sick of saying the same old thing whilst none of it is resolved and if someone takes this St Martins Cover-up bullshit off my hands, I'll happily get back into having a life, my own life back being a great place to start, thanks very shreckin' much-Ed)...and the response?...(stony silence and a thin-lipped glare and then hand-balling me off to somewhere/someone/whatevs else...no apology, not nuthin' but contempt and disrespect, and it only got worse when I used the truth to make her look like the bigotted ignoramus that she was and still is-Ed)...still is?...(yeah, I run into her sometimes, eg, when volunteering at the Mt Gambier Show...and there it is, the same lip-less sneer, only now I pity her rather than wear her ignorance as my problem-Ed)...that would've been my advice...
Joking aside, I can remember this particular exchange clear as a bell, and it does define some other 'exchanges' I had with Centrelink staff...whilst these people were the exception and as a rule I found most staffers polite if somewhat impotent re my situation, I understand now the very effective campaign of character assassination that has stalked me re the St Martins Cover-up, and with the benefit of such hindsight I can see where this stuff has manifested itself in my life in this very small, very broken, very corrupt town, and Centrelink was clearly one of those places...
This sort of treatment had a devastating effect on me, contributing massively to my Depression/Agoraphobia stuff...I couldn't even go to Centrelink without copping a gobful of abuse about the traumas in my life...(yeah, it was pretty bad, even if it wasn't nuthin' to do with St Martins, it's just a woeful way to treat someone who is sitting there asking for help-Ed)...ta, but it ain't ultimately all bad because with the fathomless gift of hindsight I came to understand that despite how unpleasant these many exchanges were across 2002-04, eg, abuse in the supermarket, on the bus, etc, I always behaved quietly, respectfully, controlledly...but I digress...
ICAC Spy With The OPI: apparently no problem whatsoevs at Robe District Council...(how do you know that?-Ed)...it was discussed at length on the ABC Local Radio with RDC CEO Roger 'Tout' Sweetman that there'd been some supposedly 'anonymous' complaints to the Office of Public Integrity re some shenanigans at Robe Council...(is he allowed to discuss that? I thought you had to have Special Double Secret Probationary Dispensiary Dispensation Documentation (permission in writing) from the Über-Commissioner at ICAC?-Ed)...indeed, Roger The Dodger cited said document whilst gushingly quoting the relevant outcome that everything's fine...(fine-Ed)...just fine...
(Was this related to the $1million Council 'loan' to the Robe Marina, a loan that was reported in The Border Watch as having somehow 'gone missing' from Council's books one Audit to the next?-Ed)...I think so...(and is that the same Auditor who does Mt Gambier's books?-Ed)...same name...(figures-Ed)...and yes, despite the fact that $1million has apparently disappeared, Robe Council has been given the all clear by the Office of Public Integrity and/or the Independent Commission Against Corruption...(wow-Ed)...indeed...
Sorry that I've posted-out for today and never even reached the topic, so you know the drill,
Tomorrow: WFMAFW Part II
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...oh, and by the way, apparently my mate John Alexander, St Martin's Principal from 2002-2010, a key player in the Glyn Dorling/St Martins Abuse Cover-up, well he was back in Mt Gambier last week to play Satan for the kiddies at St Martins...and yes I don't mean Santa...
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