Tired From Laying Sleepers, Let Lying Dogs Sleep - Part II

Hello Iran, France, United Arab Emirates, and Germany and welcome to the blog for today, Easter Sunday...I was going to go with Thank Good It's Friday (on Good Friday) but instead went for a quick drive East and then another quick drive West again, fetching The Fletchling, picking-up Child: Quantity One (1) from off the bus...(yay-Ed)...absolutely...and because I've a cracked windscreen I had to hire a car 'cos I wasn't goin' to risk Victorian roads shattering it out at 100kph...(they are deadset shockers some of them roads, like being in a tinny/dinghy at speed on a choppy sea-Ed)...absolutely...also celebrating the support of family whom allowed me the relative luxury of gettin' a hire car for the day...even in a new car it was a confronting drive...

(I think Victorian authorities are trying to improve driver attention by making the roads so deadly dangerous that drivers have to be 100% alert or wind-up bouncing/slewing/ricocheting onto the other side of the road or off into the trees-Ed)...obviously I take your rather facetious point in the manner it is intended, which is to highlight the dangers of those roads, even at the standard allowed 100kph limit...there are sections of that road that have 'Rough Road' and/or '80kph' signs, and they've been there for years in some places...also moves afoot in Sow Straya to lower limits rather than make roads better/safer, more later...anyhoos...

Yesterday (Satdee) spent many hours plowing through some of all the work that needs doing in my fabulous garden...(and there's plenty-Ed)...yes, well, and it was fabulous, it's been a dryly rough Spring into Summer and continues to be very dry...and the Flouridated/Chlorinated/Limestone-saturated tapwater has been devastating on anything smaller than a fruit tree, despite my best efforts, eg, leave water stand to for several days in my 240ltr recycling bin before bucketting onto the garden, etc, etc...not forgetting the absolute luxury of having running 'potable' (drinkable) water...(let alone steaming hot water-Ed)...well indeed, hot water, but what's the point is it's virtually only good for washing in...

(Even then it's an iffy call, remember that 2 loads of washing you did about 6 weeks back?-Ed)...oh yeah...(and it went on the clothesline smelling like you'd just dried yourself-off at a public pool, a very heavily chlorinated pool-Ed)...yeah, like after school swimming carnivals and you'd get home and drag it outta' ya' bag and it'd just reek...and then when ya' water on a warm evening and there's that wonderful smell reminiscent of paint thinners meets tubed-caulking agent...(yummy-Ed)...indeed...

Another Email Scam: has hit my Inbox...last week it was supposedly 'E-Z Pay' emailing me about an alleged Toll Road Invoice...this week it's apparently 'FedEx Ground' who need me to open/download a "Delivery Label attached to this email"...(sounds just like The Border Watch newspapers laughably biased reportage of your 'Court hearings'-Ed)...how so?...(well it refers to you as simply 'Fletcher', not 'Mr' or even 'Nick', just 'Fletcher'-Ed)...ah yes, and TBW has done that repeatedly, referring to me in the manner that the media report blaggards* and criminals, either with full name and alias in brackets, or as just 'Fletcher'...(*my dictionary has 'braggart' as in one given to bragging, but I've always known it as 'lards' with a 'l' and a 'd'...whatevs)...(it also has 'bragard'-Ed)...whatevs I said...

The Rail Lands Retail Agenda: has been well-ly defined in many previous posts, and if one hasn't read them already, then shame on one...(orrr come on fella', ease off-Ed)...nah nah, just jokin', go' bless go' bless...(yeah yeah, go' bless-Ed)...serrrrrrrrriously though, all the maps/plans for the massive Retail Expansion of the Lakes/Centro/Whatevs Plaza, and the detailed explanations of why Council's lies about their intentional inaction on the site for more than 8 years are, well, lies...(there-in lies the truth, in that there, in Council's lies, lies the truth that Council lies-Ed)...exactly, all this is all already run and done in previous posts, yet still Council persists with their lies...

1)  It is now a decade that Council has had that site...be it gifted by the Rann/Weatherill Labor state government or 'bought' for $1.00 from them, whatevs, it's a full 10 years...right from the off, Council has presented formal plans for massive Retail/Commercial development on the site, and has only pursued works to that end, eg, moving the Rail Easement, but in recent years has flatly denied this agenda...

2)  Council has repeatedly publicly stated that there were mitigating/unresolved issues of "contamination", "the Rail Easement", "the Deed", issues of cost, etc, etc...and all of it bollocks...now Council is apparently disseminating info that they (Council) are not allowed to do any Commercial/Retail development on that site as per the original gift/purchase agreement...this also is absolute bollocks...(by crikey Council's gotta' lotta' bollocks, don't they?-Ed)...indeed they do...Council re-zoned the site to 'Commercial/Retail' back as early as 2007, and it currently sits labelled as "Commercial" in Council's latest 2014 Master Plan debasco (debacle meets fiasco)...

3)  Contamination:...bollocks, the site was completely open for nearly 2 decades since it ceased formal rail usage...and there were no drainage/pooling/flooding problems either...all that needed to be done was topsoil and landscaping some ups-and-downy bits, etc, and some decent trees...(with a fully renovated Old Station building/museum thingy-Ed)...absolutely...(and a skatepark-Ed)...yes, that...(and a sound shell/shelter-Ed)...yep...(with proper Amphitheatre thingy...and access through to Margaret St and the Aquatic Centre, tennis courts, etc, all over there-Ed)...absolutely, and all things that have found themselves on the recently Council-conjured 'Stage 4'...I note that these articles have '4' in one place and then '3' in another, 'stages' that is...   

3) This is neither a "new committee" nor is it 'steered by new Councillors'...(bollocks! he cried-Ed)...again, I know virtually nothing of Councillor Greco (as pictured), nothing at all about Mark Lovett or Sonya Mezinec, but I'm way, way familiar with the exceptionally dodgy work of the other clowns involved, namely Ian Von Stanke, Frank Morello, and the non-pictured former Mayor Steve Perryman...what I have already seen (at Council meetings) of Ms Mezinec, wife of the Tennyson Woods (Catholic) School Principal, is that she's someone playing very politically, playing very, very much straight down the line with Council agenda, policy, and attitude...

4)  Frank Morello acted as an A-grade Council/Vested Interests stooge in his position as Editor of The Border Watch and in that context has been a defacto Councillor for a decade and has profitted very nicely from it for his troubles, made director of the Sir Helpmann Theatre...now he's just a stooge that is also a Councillor...Steve Perryman is a 'Conflict of Interest' looking for somewhere to happen, and has profitted massively from his position on Council/as Mayor via multiple COIs, Insider Trading, etc...not least of all the dodginesses is the collusion between Steve and Frank re acts/performers from the Sir Helpmann staying at Stevo's motel...(charming-Ed)...sickening...

 5)  The title bit 'Tired From Laying Sleepers' segues beautifully into the second part, 'Let Lying Dogs Sleep' bit, and it's all one lovely description that stems from the issues allegedly within 'the Deed'...('in the Deed' it does sir, indeed it does-Ed)...indeed Ed, apparently/allegedly in the famous Deed of Many Delays, it supposedly says that Council and hence Ratepayers are 'liable for the cost of replacing anything Council removes', that something being rails, sleepers, etc...Council has repeatedly alleged that the Deed and issues with it were delaying any work on the site, and one of the key reasons repeatedly presented was the Rail Easement and the immediately attached/relevant issue of the requirement for Council to replace any removed rails, etc, should a Rail Service return through that site...

Despite years of using this repeated excuse for doing nothing, Council then proceeded to rip-up the rails and sleepers whilst publicly acknowledging/claiming that a) the Rail Easement must remain, but b) that they (Council) still didn't know whether they/Ratepayers would be liable for the cost of replacement...(so they offered 'not sure about us paying to replace stuff' as an excuse not to act, but then act to remove exactly what they now claim they're still not sure about having to replace?-Ed)...exactly, so which is it? was it a complete lie to start with? or is it a convenient excuse conveniently ignored when it suits Council but at great potential cost to Ratepayers?...

(I see your point, but I think it's somewhat redundant-Ed)...how so?..(well with the moving of the Easement from straight through there into now one long, tight curve, where is Rail ever going to return there? you gunna' have a curved bloody train pulling-up to a bloody curved station?...it's all an absolute load of bollocks, the only genuine Easement on that site is the original one, which actually still exists-Ed)...well you've stolen my thunder a bit because my next point was in fact...   

6)  The Rail Easement:...and as you stated Ed, it's a wall-to-wall bollockthon as you have already so aptly described...so's that's that one done...what else?...ah yes, these articles...there is no 'budget' and no 'formal plan' that I'm aware of or have found...Council borrowed $2million, received 2 grants totalling another $2m, and have spent the lot achieving sweet bugger all to a none-existent timetable as and when they feel like it...as above, multiple promised features have not even eventuated...

7)  The drainage issues (as below) I've covered previous, including the very concerning corruption of Council's Minutes re their Meeting March 17th 2015 where-in it has Council's Operations Director Daryl Sexton quoted as responding "Yes" to the questions about drainage, when in the actual meeting he responded "No"...this is confirmation of what I've claimed re Steve Perryman's allegations and Daryl Sexton's reply...

8)  Followed by claims of 'on budget, on time', claims actually preceded by a long list of unfinished 'major elements', and in trots 'Stage 4' for it's inaugural run...previously and as stated in the last article, it's been only 3 'Stages', but Council wants to claim finishing 'Stage 1 and 2', which leaves things they haven't done in the now impending 'Stage 3'...(but Council don't want to do those 3 things-Ed)...sure, that's why they've now invented the mythical 'Stage 4', to push those things to a place/time where/when they ain't never gunna' happen...

9)  The final article is so vastly bollockness that it deserves and indeed gets a post all it's own, so...

Tomorrow: TFLS, LLDS - Part III

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

Tired From Laying Sleepers, Let Lying Dogs Sleep - Rail Lands Stuff

Hello Spain, Kenya, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom...and welcome to a fairly lengthy, fairly cut-and-paste post, but it's unavoidable again given the many Rail Lands issues covered in this extensive coverage (attached)...anyways, as the travelling pastry chef said, 'let's get this choux on the road'...

WARNING: that fake 'E-Z Pay Toll Road Invoice' emails are being used to send 'Malware'...if you receive an unusual or unexpected email from/re 'E-Z Pay' then don't open the email if you can help it and definitely don't open the attachment because it's highly likely a 'Malbot/Spybot/whatevs'...instead maybe ring the company...I got an 'email' with an 'attachment invoice' but I didn't open that, and instead Interwebbed the company, and there on the first menu was the 'malware warning'...

WADA Hell Is Goin' On?...as the AFL (Australian Football League)/Essendon FC 'Drugs Scandal' goes squashed-pear shaped with everyone pointing blame at everyone else...caught a bit of an interview with WADA (World Anti-Doping Authority) President, former New South Wales Premier John Fahey stating quite rightly that the current lack of prosecution doesn't excuse the fact that Essendon were shooting-up their players...(and it appears no-one's sure exactly what was given to players because there weren't any proper records kept, if at all, and the 'doctor/vet' involved, Stephen Dank, hasn't/won't/whatevs give evidence as to what he injected into players-Ed)...super...

I Have Wood For Beavers: is a self-constructing, hippy-writing hilarity derived from yesterday's alleged 'April Fools Joke' on ABC Local Radio re beavers being trialled as a bio-control measure to deal with all of the waste product left behind after felling of pine-trees, including 2 interviews, one with a man whom claimed to have smuggled 2 beavers into Australia (Mt Gambier) several years ago and now had 6 in his backyard, but needed to give them away because he'd run out of wood to feed them...not knowing what day I was in, it was the story that led me the fact that it was April 1st...

Rail Lands Stuff:...please find attached just some the extraordinary coverage of the latest bollocks from Council...because this is so long, I'll continue tomorrow with plans for a proper dot-point review of the Rail Lands Retail Agenda and the multiple lies spewing from Council via a completely complicit The Border Watch...front page after front page, lie after lie, perpetual deceits, a fortune (approx $3million) needlessly pushing dirt in circles whilst pursuing the real Agenda, the RLRA, the massive expansion of the Lakes/Centro/whatevs Plaza right across the site...

No ego, no pride, no debate, the matter is resolved and defined and does not need further discussion or justification...it is just what it is, it is the Rail Lands Retail Agenda and it is an undeniable reality entirely lied about and denied by Council, lies and denials as knowingly supported by TBW...(and?-Ed)...and yes, it is my squishy and I love it...I take no joy in being completely right about the RLRA because it's just another corrupt disaster for Mt Gambier...and 'correct' as I am about the RLRA, I take no pride because it's so immediately obvious if you are aware of the basic facts...(fair enough-Ed)... 

And this is what makes the RLRA so easy to explain to people, it's just so fundamentally obvious, clear the space for the building and construct a massive drainage pond for the run-off of that huge roof area...(is that 'The Death Pit of Stupidity'?-Ed)...yep, that be it...

I had family visitation last time that there was a burst of reportage in TBW re Council's alleged plans for the Rail Lands...reckon I posted about it at the time...the reader read it, twice, then with a puzzled frown said to me, 'I just read that twice and it don't make no sense'...(so hilarious if it wasn't so sad...such a screamingly indicative indictment of a wholly corrupt Council running rampant, assisted by a complicit TBW, and what that corruption has cost Mt Gambier and it's citizens-Ed)...indeed...

I know I constantly bang-on about this corruption stuff and what it has cost Mt Gambier, but I don't know how else you're supposed to engage in genuinely seeking to improve the society you live in if you don't address the pro-paedophile institutionalised corruption that pretty-much defines it...(sorry, is that a question or a rant, albeit a fully justified and accurate rant-Ed)...yeah yeah, whatevs, that second one...

Just some quick points re these articles,
1)   I don't really know Councillor Greco, only met him a coupla' times, and I've already posted about my concerns that newby Councillors will be/are being used by/shoved out in front of the corrupt structures/Councillors behind them as stooges/crash-test dummies to try and paint a positive picture on a rotted canvas;
2)   I do really know Cr Greco's clown-headed book-ends in the attached portraits...there's my mate Cr Ian 'Come Near My House Again, Mate' Von Stanke whom dropped the threatening letter to my home (in 2011, previous posts)...and my other mate...(geez you've sure gotta' lotta' mates-Ed)...well certainly at Council I do...my other mate Cr Frank 'The Jellyfish That Grew A Spine And Roared Like A Mouse From It's Ivory Tower' Morello...(I thought he was 'The Ghost' due to his habit of going a pastey-shade of translucent in your presence?-Ed)...well he's both...(ah, a man of many talents-Ed)...

I won't go further because it gets very complicated from there...if you've availed yourself of previous posts re the RLRA and associated issues, the conflicts, deceits, etc, are immediately obvious...other than that, a dot-point go at all this tomorrow...and I'll try to find that other stuff as well...

Tomorrow: More Rail Lands

It never rains but it pours...

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

The Penis, Mightier Than The Sword

Hello Lebanon, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Italy and welcome to the blog...still trying to get to doing a post a day but them damn meeses have had their wicked way all about the spare room as well, and there's (was) half-chewed dog food and mouse pooh all through everything in the laundry...extra loads of washing, etc, etc, and much more cleaning to be done yet...(yay-Ed)...apart from that, the house is a complete mess, including 2 spare desk thingys I now don't have room for...(yay-Ed)...and whilst I'm whinging about all of that, I'd also like to acknowledge my life of extraordinary privilege witnessed by having all that stuff...

Truly though, it's already the end of another long day and blogging ain't in my heart this eve...I'll keep it real but real brief because I ain't got no humour in me tonight and none of us needs another angry St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up rant...so's I'll just mention it for good form, to maintain form, to not disappoint those whom expect me to just so predictable as indeed I just have been...(I didn't see that coming-Ed)...quite, as indeed the St Martins Cover-up has come to dominate and corrupt my life, so It is also what has ultimately driven me to this 'ere blog, and is so much a part of so much that I impart that I cannot dis-weave It from the tapestry of this narrative...nor would I even try...

(And nor should you...every day that the St Martins Cover-up remains unresolved, every day that It Is, so should It be said out loud and with passion and anger and bitter, driving resentment and brooding impending vengeance and so to the Pacifist the only right course this verbose discourse and Middle Class First World Whiteboy whinging dancing amongst the surgical scythings of the well-run pen-Ed)...albeit a keyboard, not a pen...(well yeah, obviously, that goes without saying, it just didn't suit my poetic idiom thingy I was going for there, ya know? 'the pen is mightier than the sword'? a pacifist picks up their weapon of choice, words-Ed)...     

In many previous posts I've regularly acknowledged the support of the society I live in re the Disability Support Pension and Housing Trust (Housing SA), and whilst I haven't changed my genuine position, that time has passed and I feel entitled to say, passed quite some time ago...I haven't just earned the support I receive, Ive poured myself, my heart and soul, into trying to do what I consider is right, and I have paid a great price for it...after 18 years of living in Mt Gambier I feel more distant and isolated than in 1997 when I first started coming here and used to sleep in my car at the caravan park, etc...at least at that stage I could have some sense of optimism about the future, whereas now it's just a wall of abuse and vilification and bias and corruption and deeply cynical pessimism ...(yay-Ed)...

Not quite a full Rail Lands post but here's some of the latest stuff...again I've been availing people of the Rail Lands Retail Agenda (as per previous posts) and explaining the truth about Council moving the Rail Easement and building the $650,000+ drainage pond, namely, that this is to clear the site for a massive expansion of the Lakes/Centro/whatevs Plaza, and provide a drainage option for the huge roof area because Mt Gamboer's drains just couldn't handle the extra flows...I explain the truth that all Council has done with the $4.2million spent on the site, is employ Gambier Earth Movers, who also have direct links to Council, to keep them sweet with $millions of entirely unnecessary earthworks...

If necessary I explain the many other issues involved that confirm the RLRA...for those people whom aren't immediately convinced by the explanation about moving the Easement and the pond, it usually don't take much more convincing than being presented with the completely neglected but iconic Old Rail Station and the Lady Nelson Bus Shelter fiasco, etc, and how these issues demonstrate that Council is keeping the site clear of any other real development and has no intentions what-so-ever of renovating the Old Rail Station...further proof? Council's putting toilets in the Old Signal Box but not renovating the large ones already part of the main Station building and accessible externally...that could be open all hours...(for the Bus Terminus that should be located there already?-Ed)...exactly...

Again I can only apologise for such a stunted version of this post re the RLRA, but there's just so much going on here...(particularly in the deceit department-Ed)...indeed, particularly there, so's this post will morph into a straight dot point post still to come tomorrow...for those locals whom have been sprayed with this bullshit at a constant volume from relatively close range, namely via The Border Watch and local ABC Radio, it doesn't take a lot of work to convince them they've been wholly and routinely lied to by Council, with the complicit support of TBW and the ABC...again again, the corruption and the deceits and the financial realities of what Council have done re the Rail Lands will take a full dot-point post, tomorrow...

You Put Ya' Funding In:...ya' pull ya' funding out...(you put ya' funding in and ya' shake it all about-Ed)...I've completely lost track of what Council is actually doing with their $100,000 budgeted for the 'Public Artwork' that's going on the Railway Tce/Bay Rd corner of the Rail Lands...first it was in of course, then they withdrew it...(I withdraw Madam Speaker, I withdraw-Ed)...indeed...then it seemed to be back in as part of expenditure explanations/costings, then it wasn't, and now I think it is again, back in I mean...gourd knows...what I does know is that Council has done some sort of decisionny thingy and coughed-up 3 designs for this 'art'...

Please find attached the letter by Peter Clarke from TBW Tuesday 24th March 2015 because, 1) it conveniently contains pictures of the concepts/designs/whatevs, and 2) it perfectly encapsulates what I think and a few opinions I've heard...putting aside discussions about 'what is art and what is crap?', Council has given Ratepayers the choice to choose from 3 choices chosen for them by Council, and in my personal perspective, none of them are any good, it's 'noughts', 'crosses', or 'lego land'...I agree with the idea of Option 4) None of the above, thanks very much, let's keep lookin'...

I'll just segue suddenly into the comparison with the recent letter/post re the 'kelp harvesting' at Beachport and the pleasant stream of public awareness re the environmental importance of that seaweed on the beach, let alone the stuff still all at sea, and hence public opposition...not so amusing, the info coming from a Flinders Uni Professor working with the Chinese company who recently bought the seaweed harvesting license, and his observations that 'there's a huge resource here to be utilised', and even when questioned about the food chain reliant on that weed, he babbled about appropriate monitoring, etc...(that's 2 letters in 2 weeks that agree with your thinking on these issues-Ed)...indeed, and I'd thank others to keep my opinions to themselves in future, or I'll have nuthin' for this 'ere damn blog...and back to...

(I believe that the issue of non-local talent being short-listed was addressed in the last Council meeting by former Mayor Steve Perryman with the not-at-all ridiculous observation that the Sydney Opera House wasn't designed by an Australian-Ed)...yes, comparing this to the Sydney Opera House, not at all ridiculous...(also, I think the $100k is Council's budgeted contribution and that there's also $250k attached to the 'Public Art' as part of the government funding agreement-Ed)...yeah, that's true...(but I don't know whether that funding money is committed to this project specifically or has been chewed up on that ridiculous 'activated play space utilising natural aspects'-Ed)...you mean the logs and rocks they've dumped on the site and called a playground?...(yeah, that's it-Ed)...

It's not even the Rail Lands specifically that is the issue here, it's the broader dysfunctionings of Council and this latest round of pseudo-consultation bullshit...there continues to be a storm of words from Council about all the 'Public Consultation' they do, eg, there's apparently to be heapsa' 'PC' re Council's alleged future plans for the Old Station, both of which are of course lies...I'll nail this one down,  

Tomorrow: A Dot Point Railing

I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...and I very much appreciate availee's patience and support as I struggle forward with some of my own issues...I don't have regular contact with many availees as such, the occasional path-crossing at most, but any feedback has been relatively positive and supportive...and twice this year people have observed to me that I'm the calmest, gentlest person they've ever met...(and that despite all of this bullshit what is here in this 'ere blog-Ed)...indeed...cheers and laters...

Post Post Haste: Men-0 Mice-Everywhere

Profusest apologies one and all for non-postage across the weekend, and tonight's very quick (post haste) effort's not gunna' be much better (than none at all) 'cos I am Knackered with, as you can see, a capital K...been unwell for a week and then got a new desk and then there was/is a mini-mouse plague in my house...I was just crackin' wise the other day about the best laid plans of mice and men, yeah? well careful what ya' wish for...(now, when you say "a mini mouse plague", does that mean, 1) a plague of miniature mouses/meeses/mice, or 2) a plague of copyright acknowledged Mini Mouses as per Uncle Walt (Disney), or, as I suspect, 3) that it was a small/mini plague of normal sized meeses-Ed)...you suspect correctly...

And I will have a whinge thanks about being so crook I literally couldn't move...some fluey thing that really 'got into me' as it were, really sore joints, aching all over, either lying down or standing up...I really wasn't that crook overall, just hurt like 17 bastards...I believe this is in part the (possible) rheumatic-backlash that is the result of my having all that lovely Chemo a decade ago...I can't say for sure, nuthin' to compare it to really, but I understand some of the more toxic chemicals can 'residue' in your joints, etc, and then manifests later as rheumatic pain...and then that combined with a few months of poor diet and sleep patterns, etc...(I told ya', didn't I? I said, look after ya'self a bit better-Ed)...and you're not the only one...cheers...anyhoos, I haven't, and I've paid for it and no excuses but an explanation of sorts...

(Was it the Agoraphobia stuff at all? or the Depression stuff? just not eating propers?-Ed)...oh it ebbs and flows and often overlaps, but certainly and obviously, physical pain/unwellness/whatevs can impact on state of mind, and/or depressive states can affect diet/fitness/etc, and these all interweave, affecting each other...must admit, have been struggling for a few months and not eating propers, etc, and eventually it will take it's toll...

Then I was given a proper second-hand desk, which forced moving of piles of paperwork, etc, off the 2 small card-table style thingies I've been using for the last 2 years...crap everywhere, but at least I've a real desk in place now and am happily clacking away on it...(yay-Ed)...and that was today gone and a fair chunka' tomorro' too I'd wager, lookin' at this bloody mess...and then yesterday was the plague-petit de meeses...happily discovered Zantar the Wonderhound's dry food scattered about the laundry amid a healthy amount of mouse crap and spent 3 hours vacuuming and then re-bagging due to the mouse-head sized holes in the 3 large thick plastic bags...3 hours cleaning all that up and then realised that I had to 'address' the root cause of the problem...(so?-Ed)...

So I put out 2 traps and within an hour had scored 4 poor mices and bugger just remembered that I forgot to reset them traps and I'll just go do that......and I'm back...don't really enjoy this traps stuff...(you bloody ol' hippy-Ed)...I know...but anyhoos, there's my last week all but gone and much of it lost to laying about feeling sorry for myself...which brings me to this...   

I've been advised, again, that I shouldn't expose my weaknesses/sufferin's/whatevs, but it's a big part of doing this 'ere blog that I, 1) choose to do this to help myself address many of the issues covered in this 'ere blog, my own Mental Health issues included obviously, and 2) because I have no choice but to address the malicious and often deliberately erroneous public discourse about my Mental Health and who I am and what I do and how I conduct myself, etc, etc...to my credit I have twice this year had people state to me that I'm the calmest most peaceful, gentle person they've ever met...(for a large angry hippy-Ed)...and that's my response, I'm a very angry person who is trying to deal with it all in a relatively peaceful and appropriate way, because that's who I am...

It also serves to offer up the realities of what it costs me personally/physically/mentally/whatevs, and take from that what you will...if people whom dislike me take pleasure in that, whatevs, I ain't having some sort of taxpayer-funded holiday, I'm fighting back, clawing my way back after a series of deeply distressing events/issues, many of them ongoing, and doing that fighting/clawing with the relative support of the Disability Support Pension and Pubic Housing (Housing SA/Housing Trust), albeit 'support' that hovers right on the poverty line (for Australia)...(right on it?-ed)...right on it...

So, if I own my failings/weaknesses/whatevs and then dismantle the realities and stigmas that do inevitably result, etc, it addresses most if not all of the scuttlebutt being spewed about town to discredit me and by association my opinions and by extension this 'ere blog...and that strong foundation allows me to hurl back the odd piece of mild gloatage, but still discuss with balance and authority what effect I consider that this ' ere blog is having, eg, Council suddenly reversing their ludicrous 'No Recording of Council Meetings' legislation, introduced only in November 2014...I am unawares of any airing of this issue that wasn't me and/or this 'ere blog...more on this laters...

I refer as example to the extraordinary recent efforts by The Border Watch newspaper re my alleged charges and associated Court appearance, etc, where they (TBW) are clearly demonstrating a desire to maintain a dialogue about how I'm a bad person and I'm the problem, etc, by knowingly failing to report the truth re those bizarre Court proceedings, even after said truth was established in the Court, with the TBW 'reporter' sitting right there..(whatta' joke-Ed)...absolutely...the truth be hanged, agenda reigns supreme...but by the Laws of Beautiful Irony, by their (TBW's) actions, all they've done is make themselves, the Court, and SAPol (police) look like idiots, and given me and this 'ere blog massive credibility...

Pulling Out All The Stops:...(Can I just say though, before we go, how truly pleased I was to see our very Catholic PM Tony 'The Mad Monk' Abbott engaging in debate in the Federal Parliament on the contentious issues of contraception, planned parenting, abortion, and population control-Ed)...what are you on about?...(although I was a bit taken aback with his rather brazen declaration on the floor of the parliament-Ed)...you've completely lost me...(you know, when he proudly stated his preference for and utilisation of the Catholic contraception method-Ed)...sorry, no idea...(you know, you've seen it, that footage of him at the Dispatch Box/microphone thingy, waving his arms about, grinning inanely-Ed)...you'll have to narrow it down a bit..(fair enough...it was just recently, and he was waving, smiling and loudly declaring,
      "I withdraw...I withdraw...I withdraw Madam Speaker...I withdraw..."-Ed)

But what's even more hilarious, is that that footage, of PM Abbott grinning, gesticulating, and "I withdraw"ing repeatedly, that was in response to Labor's immediate protestations re PM Abbott's comment comparing some Labor stooge to the Nazi, Herman Goering (*April 2nd 2015-apologies, it was 'Goebbels', not 'Goering')...and availees please do go Interwebbing to find footage of this from just last week, and check-out the disingenuous smirk and the arrogance and the pantomime carry-on...what a disgraceful embarrassment...(he looked like one of those car-yard inflatable blower-people who bob and weave and wave their arms about...one of those crossed with a table-tennis ball addicted sideshow clown-head-Ed)...that sir, is exactly what he looked like...

And SNAP!: scrap another mouse for all through the house not a creature was stirring but the air was whirring with the clappy snappin' of a freshly set trap...(well, nuthin' stirrin' 'cept a hippy going to reap the dreadful harvest-Ed)...poor mouses...and that was all of 10 minutes, yeah? since I set that..(not even 10...I'd suggest this suggests further rodentation to be addressed-Ed)...indeed, back in another 5......and done again...

Just in closing, saw a bit of a doco about seabirds that tied in with a long piece on the ABC/BBC Radio re habitat destruction, eg, swamp drainage, and how that sort of development/destruction can (and does) fatally interfere with migratory bird species whom may fly 1,000kms only to find that last season's food source is now a carpark or such, and therefore cannot re-fuel and therefore perish further along their route...there was some stuff about an Irish Tern of some description that Winters on cliff faces in Southern Africa or somewheres, building up their reserves on the abundant and massive sardine shoals, before returning North to nest on the Irish West Coast beaches because the cliffs are just too precarious...they go back to Ireland to breed with security and surety, to be shorebirds, to be shorebirds...(that is just atrocious-Ed)...ta'...

Tomorrow: The Rail Lands, I Hope.

(And good luck with that-Ed)...fair enough...and deadset, I just kicked the power cord out and lost half the post and have just re-done it, including this bit...it's been a very long day and I'd forgotten that I had to shift where the cord sits when I moved the desk, etc, and pop! it's gone...(yay-Ed)...

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

Meta-Data Bollocks Rates High

Howdy y'all in Singapore, Slovenia, Italy, and the United Kingdom...(what was that?!!-Ed)...what was what?...(who's there?!-Ed)...who's where?...(I feel like someone's watching us...who is that?!-Ed)...well, when it comes to being watched, I'd suggest that that is availees of this 'ere blog doin' what they do, avail themselves of said blog, which by definition involves 'watching us'...(yeah, no, I mean someone else...or something else-Ed)...ohh, that'll just be the exciting new raft of Fascism that the Abbott Liberal government are jamming through parliament in the name of 'safety from terrorism'...(oh I feel safer already-Ed)...

**apols no post yesterday...best laid plans Of Mice and Men and all that...(how surprising, not!-Ed)...and Rail Lands tomorrow...(ohh, come on!-Ed)...yeah, sorry, but from now on, promise, now there'll be a post every day...honest...trust me...I'm a pseudo-politician...**

These new 'Meta-Data Laws' include such sweeping restrictions on free speech that I cannot see that anyone doing a blog, other than a 'registered journalist', will be able to continue...(but you put your name on everything, you go to all the meetings, well some at least, when you're able...and when, for example, the cops want to find you to raid your home re this 'ere blog, they know exactly where you are, same place you are 95% of the time-Ed)...correct...regardless, my crime will be talking about criminality...

For example, with these new laws, authorities can come to me and say 'who told you that stuff about that rank institutionalised corruption?', and when I politely respond 'get stuffed', I'll be goin' to gaol for it...and not for defamation or treason or threats or anything other than merely pointing at stuff and saying 'surely that can't be as corrupt as it appears', and then not shoppin' 'n' droppin' others right in it for telling me...prove me wrong about someone else's allegations/claims/whatevs, and hold me to account for that, fair enough...but what ain't appropriate is punishing me for genuinely trying to improve my society in a relatively calm and appropriate manner, and furthermore, thus knowingly hangin' myself out to be hammered by a hail of official abuse, eg, from Council...

Go Directly To Gaol:...do not pass an opinion...do not collect fundamental 'Human Rights' to express an opinion...do not act with genuine intent because it won't matter...etc, etc, blahhhhh...I don't care what other 'bloggers' are doing and if they intentionally defame or won't name themselves or threaten someone, etc, then they should be held to account...apart from that, this new legislation is unquestionably an attempt to monitor and shut-down dissenting opinions and/or exposure of institutionalised corruption...

Please Note: that I see nuthin' much being done about any of the many deeply concerning issues I raise on this 'ere blog, other than a continuing attack on me for saying it...it would appear that the official position is that official corruption up to and including the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up is officially acceptable and officially condoned...kinda' rips the rug out from under the alleged pillars of our community, shanks their collective credibility, and generally gives the populace good cause to say 'stuff you buddy, sit in judgement of me will you, I'll do whatevs I bloody want, you do'...

Again, I ain't no Constitutional lawyer with no book-learnin's or nuthin', but I do believe that this new legislation is the Capitalist Party utilising the lack of protections of personal freedoms in said Oz Constitution...there are no protections, you/I have no rights to 'freedom of speech', and that is being pushed to it's logical Fascist conclusion by the wholly socially immoral Capitalist Party...(alright, who the shreck is the Capitalist Party?-Ed)...oh yeah, just continuing on the debate as raised by the death of former Liberal PM Malcolm Fraser, and the thread that his increasing recent criticisms of the Liberals were a result of the Party changing, not him...it was discussed that Labor have slewed so far to the Right that they are now effectively the Liberal Party, and the Libs are now 'the Capitalist Party'...(ok, yes, I can see that, the CP-Ed)... 

And what really concerns me is the direct parallels between this 'Anti-Terrorism' legislation and the entirely Fascist legislation of our (South Australia's) version of an 'anti-corruption authority', the Independent Commission Against Corruption...as per various previous posts, the ICAC Act 2012 specifically states that no-one can ever discuss corruption because it might end-up in the ICAC...(I think that's a slight exaggeration-Ed)...really?...check it out for yourself, just Interweb 'South Australian ICAC Act 2012, section 56, and check it out...

It is effectively illegal to ever discuss corruption, and the critical word there-in is "may"...one little 3 letter word that makes it illegal to ever discuss any corruption, ever, in any context, because it (the corruption) "may" be subject to a future SA ICAC hearing...and it certainly cannot be reported via 'the media', and bloggers et al, are rooted...(but how are you meant to expose corruption and resolve it, etc, if you can't even talk about it?-Ed)...you tell me...

And that segues beautifully into the latest episode being also the inaugural...(whaaa?-Ed)...it's just the first one...(oh right, please carry on then-Ed)...certainly Matron oooooooh...(homaging the Carry-On series?-Ed)...yep, and the Shaun Micallef show, and now you've taken us right into the Dead Joke Zone, again, so's best we jump straight to our exciting new comic-strip...welcome to the birth of a legend, the dawning of a new age of public corruption and spineless self-indulgence, the rise of a new superhero, Jellyfish Man, the story of a mild mannered newspaper Editor bitten by a radio-active jellyfish, immediately gaining wondrous super-powers...more in coming issues... 

Just Some Council Corruption: and it's business as usual with Councillor Des Mutton's nepotistic gravy train pullin' outta' the station again for a $10,000 romp at Ratepayers expense, namely $10,000 to a 'Consultancy group'...(more Cash for Consultancy Corruption, yeah?-Ed)...absolutely...at Mt Gambier City Council's meeting Tuesday 17th March 2015, when this matter came-up for review and voting, Cr Des Mutton gets up, mumbles something about how his 'grandson/godson/whatevs' was the Manager/Director/whatevs of one of the companies who tendered, and walks out...then the vote was taken and bingo, I think the same company won the tender as named by Des mate...(maaate-Ed)...I'll check that and get back to you...(just have-Ed)...what, already?...(yep-Ed)........and?!...(oh, yeah, Council's Minutes match your notes in saying "Quark Consulting" and "grandson"...charming-Ed)...I'll cover this in a Council meeting post soon...

Batch Of A Sun Panels: are goin' in/on all over town now apparently...(why was this all not done during the original/recent renovations/revamps?...'solar power' has been around for a few years ya' know-Ed)...I know, I know, but I don't know why these panels weren't fitted during those works...and confirmed also that 90 'solar lights' are going around the Blue Lake...to a grand total of 'approx $450,000', to be ready apparently by the end of April 2015...(wow, that's not corrupt much is it?...I thought there were 'official complaints' afoot and to hand?-Ed)...gourd knows, that's what I was told...and I believe when you say "corrupt much" you're referring to the fact that Council allowed 2 tenders from Stuckey Electrical, granted the contact at the lower, and then immediately 'negotiated' back to the higher...(said it before, wow-Ed)...

(It's the Lady Nelson Bus Shelter corruption all over again-Ed)...how so?...(well with that project, Council rejected all local tenders as being far too expensive, and then awarded the contract to a Queensland company, for what turns out to be half the project local companies bid to do-Ed)...ah yes, the Great Wall of Where The Shreck Is It?...(correct, the original plans were for a high wall right the length of the structure, providing shelter from the South, a wall that was never built-Ed)...that 'bus station' remains an absolute embarrassment for 'the second largest city in SA'...(so sick of hearing that too, 'second largest', blah blah-Ed)...yeah I'm hearing you on that...  

Which reminds me, speaking of embarrassment, Council also plan to get in some 'external consultants' to tell them how to 'activate the Rail Lands' and 'utilise the precinct'...there was some other stuff, but I missed that because I was laughing so hard into my briefcase that my ears where ringin'...$4.2 million spent and now they're thinkin' about how to use it...after they've done the works...disgracefully incompetent and hilariously typical of Mt Gambier City Council...

Tomorrow: The Rail Lands Stuff...All Things Being Equal...And They're Not...Equal That Is.

(Ya' think ya' pretty funny don'cha?-Ed)...both actually...(both?-Ed)...I'm real perrrty and real funny too...(oh boy-ED)...which segues beautifully into this...

The Greatest Dad Joke Of All Time:...(if you do say so yourself...it is pretty funny but-Ed)...and we were driving along Jubilee Hwy (6-7 years ago) when, during a discussion about the Red vs Blue franchise (a spin-off of the very popular Halo shoot-'em up computer games) I observed to said child of mine that my favs character was a certain 'Mr Bollickwraites'...child responds, 'there ain't no such character', and I says 'yeah there is, think about it'...and this is the genius of this particular Dad joke...I could have presented the punchline, just slammed it down, like ripping off a band-aid quickly...but I didn't...(you bastard, you beautiful bastard-Ed)...ta...no, I sent the child on a journey to discover the truth...and they did...and thus...

The Grimace Of Dawning Realisation: on said child's face as they quickly mentally scroll through all the characters before finally coming to the character called, drum roll please, The Meta...(you are one sick puppy-Ed)...that look will remain with me forever...such sweet nectar to a Dad...and goodnight...

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

Some Self Justification For The Good Of Humanity, Sort Of

Hello and welcome to the 'all-the-same' The Mount Gambier Independent...I was goin' to go with something 'all-new', but apparently I'm not capable of change...(who said that?-Ed)...no-one, it's just the way it appears it is...therefore I have decided that my li'l sortta' break I've been having for a few months...(breakdown more like it-Ed)...many a true word Ed, many a true word...(spoken in jest? fair enough-Ed)...well that break is now over, and we (that's you and I dear availee) are going back to a full-time blog with posts every day...(alright!-Ed)...is that sarcasm?...(no no, I just reckon that it's the right thing to do-Ed)...fair enough...

I acknowledge that I've been saying much the same thing for several months now, but in my own defense, it's not like the blog is the only thing I've got goin' on, and yet somewhat ironically, so much of what's goin' on is related directly to this 'ere blog...(which itself is a creation spawned from the shizzle that you've been goin' through, where that shizzle was other people's to deal with and they refused to and hence dumped it all onto you, and then of course blame and attack you when ya' actually try to do something about it, and despite the fact that you've always done that calmly and respectfully, etc, etc, then they blame you for the way they attack you...geez, no wonder you're so angry-Ed)...and trying to turn that anger to a positive outcome not just for the sake of my health...(but for the good of humanity?-Ed)...well, sort of, but mostly just because...just because it's there to be done...  

Its kinda' hard to explain, but yesterday I didn't do a post and didn't feel at all bad about it, so as far as I'm concerned, now's the time to re-commit, re-focus, and re-iterate and fulfil my previous promises to continue and even expand TMGI...this also conveniently allows me to draw a line under all the issues that I've promised to cover and then forgotten/failed to do so...(dude! and ya' can't get through a post without randomly changing the subject to the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up-Ed)...yeah, not sorry 'bout that...(fair enough-Ed)...'cos the St Martins Cover-up ain't nuthin' but The Thang...(indeed, The Thang that brings us all here today-Ed)...absolutely...

I am not a politician or an anti-corruption campaigner or a lawyer or a journalist or an accountant or a media-monitor or not nuthin'...I have no formal qualifications in anything and little if any training in anything else...for the greater part of my life I didn't give/haven't given a stuff about anything much, certainly not politics/activism/etc...(weren't you a member of Greenpeace back in the day?-Ed)...orrr yeah, sort of, but even that was a only attending a few marches, etc, nuthin' even close to what I'm doin' now, albeit doing now as a matter of necessity...(yeah, and what is it exactly that you're doin' now?-Ed)...great question...

I am just a parent doing what I'm sure any parent would do when they find themselves parent of a child whom was in a class of grade 2, 7 year old kids whom were systematically groomed and abused by their teacher Glyn Dorling at St Martins Lutheran School in 2002, only to then have the Lutherans, SAPol (the police), state Premiers Rann and Weatherill and their wholly corrupt Labor Party, the equally corrupt Liberal Party, ahh heck, the entire South Australian Parliament, the Judiciary, alleged Child Protection Services, etc, etc, etc, by their actions and/or inaction, act so as to cover-up those abuses...(oh, one of those parents-Ed)...

And the media are absolutely complicit in the St Martins Cover-up, particularly the ABC, The Border Watch, and The Advertiser...the Sow Strayan media are nearly as pathetic and self-serving as the Canberra press-pack and entirely subservient to the paedophiles that clearly run South Australia...everyone me included uncomfortably accepts that there will always be paedophilia in society because that's just what we are, semi-insane, self-realised, self-aware, mutant apes with no real self-control, but I'll be shrecked if I'll live in a state that is run by child-abusers and their supporters...and that's clearly where we are now, living in SA, a state run by paedophiles for paedophiles...

It is my personal experience that every highly-paid professional in SA operates in the paradigm that you just ignore this pro-paedophile reality and go about your life, your career, etc, getting what you can for yourself and hopefully you never have to deal with any of this institutionalised paedophilia stuff...(yeah, 'cos that's a real career-killer that one, taking on the paedophiles who run SA-Ed)...indeed, and what a searing indictment of the reality of what we are in SA, spineless cowards who willingly subjugate ourselves to the rule of paedophiles, and so obviously to the detriment of our children and our society in general...

And now new rules from Labor to dump juveniles into the adult Court system, at the same time they are axing plans for a new Courts building and closing Courthouses around Adelaide...(along with hospital/ER closures-Ed)...indeed, and this change to the Courts obviously places vulnerable young people at great risk, but that's ok because that's what we do in SA, make our children vulnerable and then prey on them...I note that the entirely corrupted pro-paedophile 'system' constantly ignores/attacks the victims of high-level abuse and protects the perpetrators, for example, the St Martins case or the current local case I can't directly identify because the (schoolchild) victim is the one being harassed and intimidated by SAPol, etc, whilst the paedophile teacher remains untouched...(what a disgrace South Australia is-Ed)...indeed...think I'm just gunna' randomly change subject now...

Jazz Stuff: is popular in Mt Gambier at the moment...(and why not, said as a statement of fact-Ed)...indeed, why not, it's potentially a great thing for Mt Gambier...(potentially?-Ed)...exactly, potentially...unfortunately there's a raft of shonky half-wits involved and as their collective greed and incompetence have thus far proven so drastically damaging for Mt Gambier, so corruptly costly, that it'd be a small miracle if they don't root this up as well...(fair enough-Ed)...I mean, for gourd sake, look at the city, what a retrograde mess...

This is what can go horribly wrong when corrupt people start making promises about 'whatever you want mate', and 'nuthin''s too difficult', etc...(sounds like mouths are writing cheques that the chequebook isn't even being told about-Ed)...well quite...and so's when I hear Mr Morrison proudly stating that he's always been told by Mt Gambier officials 'whatevs you want, whenevs, no probs maaate', it immediately gives me cause for concern about just exactly whom has promised exactly what...(and at what cost to Mt Gambier Ratepayers?-Ed)...exactly, Ratepayers have been shoved out of their own Town Hall without any consultation, etc, and are financially supporting the Academy 'cos Ratepayers pay for the maintenance/running costs of that entire 'precinct', being the Old Town Hall, the Institute, and the farcical Main Corner thingy...

(At least it could be argued that at least Ratepayers get some return for their investment re the Jazz Academy 'cos of the exposure for Mt Gambier re tourism, etc, some income via the students, etc, etc, where-as the Main Corner is just a $600,000+ burden for Ratepayers, with any income largely going to the private business that has the very cheap lease-Ed)...good points Ed, and you're right re our 'off-post' chat earlier, it is important to keep a firm distance between what has proceeded the Academy, Council's decisions re that site, etc, etc, and the positives of the Academy...which brings me back to these concerns...  

In my reality, Mr Morrison/the Jazz Academy have already been 1) stiffed $750,000 of promised funding, and 2) royally rooted around with their student housing...I maintain that, at the original October 2014 Adelaide press conference/launch of the Jazz Academy, Premier Jay Weatherill stated that there was "$750,000" for works to re-fit the Old Town Hall building, etc, and then, alleged Minister for the Regions (whatevs?) Geoff Brock, he stepped up and clearly said, 'and I'm chuckin' in another $500,000 from the RDA (Regional Development Australia)'...he clearly stated "another $500,000" as in extra, not as in 'and part of that $750,000 is made up of $500k from the RDA', or 'including from RDA', or whatevs...which gives us a grand total I'd reckon of $1.25m...(are you sure? 'cos all the recent reportage keeps stating/identifying only $500k-Ed)...my point exactly...

Yes I'm sure it was a like totes of $1.25m because I remember spitting chips about the Forestry Sale stuff...(wood chips?-Ed)...indeed, when our charming former (then still) Mayor Steve Perryman, when he took to the microphone and grinningly stated to Jay Weatherill. 'you promised to help the South East after the Forestry Sell-off, and with this money you've made good that promise'...(how the hell does $1.25m compensate for selling-off a multi-billion dollar industry/resource that is/was the cornerstone of the whole SE economy?-ED)...well it doesn't, obviously, not even close, and that's my point...I remember thinking exactly that, 'how does $1.25m make-up for the $billions lost? you idiot'...

There was clearly stated a total of $1.25m of state government funding for the Academy and that has dropped suddenly to only $500,000...and then there's the stuffing-about with the student accommodation that had students reportedly supposedly moving into brand new homes in one estate that would be furnished from local stores, etc, but those homes were/are actually public housing, and so then when that inevitably went pear-shaped, it was reported that Mrs Morrison was left to rush about and re-organise that accommodation and those students are now in various homes/houses around town...

Please note that I don't just lash-out randomly at people/authorities/whatevs, or at least I try very hard not to, and I offer as example 1) the rank corruption of the Main Corner Commercial Kitchen Lease that gives the leasee effective control of the entire Main Corner/Town Hall/Institute complex...(all of which is supposedly publicly owned and definitely publicly funded-Ed)...indeed...well just maybe the people running that now have absolutely no idea of the rank corruption/nepotism/whatevs that define the entire Main Corner project, not least of all how it is they came to be running it...they may just be genuinely hard-working, motivated people whom are completely unawares of the corruption that sees them possess an un-challengable perpetual lease for the Ratepayer subsidised facility...

Please further note that 2) I haven't named the realtor whose very large 'For Lease' sign was out the front of those public homes that were stated as being for Academy students, because for all I know they knew nothing about the specifics and were unwittingly caught in the middle of what looks exactly like the usual dodgy Council shenanigans...the realtors have been identified to me as the people whom 'stuffed that up', but there was no specific proof provided...(but how was there a large 'For Lease' sign out front of those homes if they were/are public housing?-Ed)...dunno, dunno, sorry...so many questions and so few actual answers...

Gourd Help Us: to get over watching that chronic betrayer former Liberal leader and now Labor Minister Martin Hamilton-Smith mouthing-off about 'the Premier's ANZAC Spirit School Prize' or some such bullshit, about sending '22 of our young people' to Gallipoli for the ANZAC stuff coming up in April...1) absolutely hilarious to hear Marty the Turn-Coat Moose dribbling on about 'loyalty' and 'comradeship', etc, etc, having so thoroughly betrayed his Party and the people of his electorate and the people of SA, and 2) we are the Child-Abuse State, so I always find it so very amusing to hear these pricks talk about the great work they're doing for the kiddies...(and that 'so very amusing' is said in the most furious and vengefully sarcastic tone, yeah?-Ed)...indeed...

And good ol' Back-Stabbin' Marty, just another wholly corrupted public official to whom I've personally explained the St Martins Cover-up case, only to have them turn away and either ignore or even defend that Cover-up...(and wasn't he Liberal leader at that time, when you spoke to him in the then Library carpark, when he was in the company of Member for MacKillop, Mitch Williams?-Ed)...yep, to the pair of them, and then nuthin', absolutely nuthin'...

Good Bad News: about a fire yesterday (Sunday) morning at Whiteheads Timber Sales here in Lé Mount de Gambierré sur le Coté de Many Colours...(whaaa?-Ed)...sorry, just bein' stupid...(well can I just say you're very good at it-Ed)...well I've never known you to 'just say' anything, but ta'...(and the news?-Ed)...oh, yeah, $200,000 damage but the business was more or less saved...so, real bad news about the fire, but hopefully increasingly good news about the saving of the main infrastructure and therefore hopefully the future of the business, etc... 

Tomorrow: Rail Lands Stuff

I know I keep promising this Rail Lands Retail Agenda stuff but I've already established the reality/veracity of the RLRA,  and the stuff that Council is spewing out at the moment is largely in complete self-contradiction, so's there's no real sense of rush, but come tomorrow, look out...

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

Demolishing Democracy Aussie Style

Hello Malaysia, Lebanon, Poland, and Israel and welcome to the blog...apologies for no post yesterday, but still going forward and the World cup (Cricket) is on today so's I'll be watching some of that and whacking-up a coupla' posts...cheers...(**and now further apologies that that didn't happen...no Interweb yesterday, at all, and still cannot access my emails...it's not saying wrong password or anything, just won't connect...gourd knows**)...

Well Blow My Whistle: because alleged human-being Federal Liberal Attorney General George Brandis is in the news stating that "bloggers aren't journalists"...(oh, what a lovely thing to say about you, that you're not a journalist-Ed)...well indeed, but it means that therefore I won't be covered by the special new provisions for said alleged journos...(what new provisions?-Ed)...well with this ludicrous Metadata Retention shizzle that's just been rammed through federal parliament under the guise of 'anti-terrorism' laws, it's open slather on Mr Joe Average blogger, whilst the entirely complicit, pathetic, herd of self-important automaton half-wits that are the Canberra press pack, well they get 'special provisions' to 'protect their sources', etc, etc...

('A herd of halfwits'?...it's always about the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up with you isn't it?...always about the pathetically gutless 'roll-over to have ya' belly scratched' attitudes of Australia's media...the pathetic, immoral, sanctimonious self-serving stuff-pigs who flap about self-aggrandising because they think they know who stabbed the latest PM in the back or whatevs, but refuse to expose the St Martins Cover-up?-Ed)...um, I'm not exactly sure what the question is, but I'll hazard a 'yes'... 

These laws are clearly about clamping down on freedoms of speech...(freedoms we don't actually have in the first instance-Ed)...well indeed, obviously said 'freedoms' are not included in our Federal Constitution as they are in the USofA, if our illustrious leaders can just introduce laws to block them...(wow, and you thought that Fascism was a peculiarly South Australian form of governance, hence the political descriptor 'Fascocracy' what you done pen to encapsulate the psuedo-democratic processes that allow us plebs to vote for which one of two pro-paedophile Partys, namely Labor or Liberal, which one will get to lord it over us with rank incompetence and institutionalised corruption-Ed)...again, is that a question or a statement?...  

Fast Tracking Fascism: may well occur in other states, eg, these exciting new federal 'Get The Bloody Blogger' laws, and it's just possible that I notice it better here because here is where I is (Sow Straya), but by crikey we're royally screwed in SA because it appears that all these nasty Interweb rumours about Nazi paedophiles running the state have lived themselves large in the protective shadow of the Child Abuse Royal Commission...(and whatta' cynical piece of political posturing to present this Commission as being the picture that something is actually being done to address the institutionalised paedophile corruption that defines the  political system in Australia, let alone SA-Ed)...indeed...

And as for the SA Liberal Party...entirely complicit in the St Martins Cover-up, just as many paedophiles sitting there in their ranks if not more than the Labor Party, and all singin' from the same sick songbook when it comes to protecting their own best interests, and that means officially covering-up Child Abuse...and they do...and the Adelaide media are just as complicit...and when some poor idiot...(cue you-Ed)...indeed, when some idiot dares to stand-up to the vilification and police harassment and intimidation and social Pariahtisation, etc, etc, then everyone from the Premier there-on down gets on board with attacking said 'idiot'...

Now just this week, SAPol have granted themselves/been granted by parliament/whatevs, the power to force random finger-print scans for no reason, just the cop feels like it at the time...(sorry what? random instant fingerprint checks? so exactly like their own self-granted, open-ended, undated, anonymous, go anywhere, do anything wherevs/whenevs they feel like it, Search Warrants?-Ed)...so yes, exactly like that, only better...(better? than open-ended Search Warrants?-Ed)...absolutely, because you can also get gaoled for refusing to comply...(gaoled? for refusing to be randomly finger-printed in the street without having committed any crime/having been charged/arrested/whatevs?-Ed)...yep, welcome to the New Democracy...

New Democracy: of course being the company that ran the ludicrous 'Public Consultation via a Panel' process re the repair/maintenance of the South East Drainage System...why do we have government when we're doing their work for them? why aren't the Labor government simply taking responsibility for the maintenance of public utilities, namely roads, bridges, artificial drains, etc?...how many times in future will we get this ridiculous 'New Democracy' pantomime, not an exciting new age of public input but rather a case-study in political 'buck-passing'...but I digress...

Y'all will excuse me please if I feel a little bit like this legislative 'Fascocracy' stuff is aimed at me, and if not at me specifically or even with me directly in mind, then certainly at my ilk...(and you would define that as what? your ilk is...?-Ed)...just a father who was delivered the responsibility for resolving the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up by a raft of rankly corrupt, pro-paedophile public officials in SAPol (police), local and state government, official authorities, etc, etc...from Premiers Mike Rann and Jay Weatherill, local Members Rory McEwen and Don Pegler, former Mayor Steve Perryman and the entire previous City Council, the Lutheran Church, the Federal Child Abuse Royal Commission, etc, etc, etc...

Life's A Dazy Chain: where not a day passes in my reality that I do not encounter one of these sad shrecks and they scurry away and there ain't not nuthin' good about any of that...not one day passes that the Royal Commission doesn't get pissed in my ear by the ABC or whoevs...only yesterday it was more bollocks from City Council, via the ABC, about whatevs bloody initiative that's related to Council's extraordinary Children's Charter...(it was about some works at a playground somewhere-Ed)...whatevs, the Children's Charter and the associated shreckin' catch-cry 'it takes a village to raise a child'...everyday I live with my failure to resolve the outrageous situation at St Martins...(shall we move on to something equally depressing?-Ed)...yes please...

Just A Thought: that encompasses some of the very confronting issues involved with 'illegal immigation', usually referring to travel by fishing boat via Indonesia...forget arguments about whether theses people are 'asylum seekers', or 'refugees', or 'illegal immigrants', how ever they came to be there, there has been some recent reportage re the Manus Island Detention Centre 'detainees' and the riots that occurred there only months ago...for those unawares, Australia currently either 'turns-back' theses boats, or puts those people on commercial emergency lifeboats as seen on oil tankers, container ships, etc...we take people off one shitty boat, put them in a bright orange one, then point them back in the direction of Indonesia, and give them a parting kick in the seat of the pants, 'get back whence you came'...

We have also given 2 patrol boats to the Sri Lankan navy to help them intercept any boats from there as people flee the ongoing but officially denied violence and discrimination in that country, and have already handed people back over to the Sri Lankans via 'at-sea' exchanges...leaving aside the debates about genuine refugees, our national obligations toward those seeking asylum, global population problems, etc, etc, it was the situation at Manus Island during those riots that was so bizarre...please excuse the humour inherent in this following observation because there's nothing here that I find funny, please feel free to be ill-at-ease...

The 'detainees' in the Manus Island Centre protested against conditions, the time to process 'asylum applications', etc, and did so by barricading themselves in the centre, blocking access by guards/officials/whatevs...(so they've barricaded themselves into a centre they're already locked in?-Ed)...yep, forcing the authorities to break into the centre and arrest the alleged ring-leaders...(so detainees barricaded themselves inside the detention centre, forcing authorities to break into their own centre, and then some detainees were further 'detained' as punishment?-Ed)...yep...nothing funny about any of that, just bizarre upon bizarre...

In a similar vein, I was half-watching Aljazeera News and/or other international news services whilst doing the blog the other day, and the footage was of a war-ravaged, rubble-strewn city somewhere in Syria...when I glanced up later the footage was still of a large destroyed building, but the wording at the bottom was no longer in Arabic, but looked more 'Eastern European', possibly Russian even, and with a sense of dawning disbelief, I realised that this was the shattered remnants of the Donetsk Airport in Ukraine...it was clearly the shell of an expansive 2 story building, that could have once been a shopping mall/factory/carpark/whatevs, but was otherwise unrecognisable...and this amid ongoing reports of spasmodic fighting and deaths even though yet another ceasefire is supposedly operating...again, I just don't have a commentary for this but felt it needs to be acknowledged...

Radio Rortals: apparently make half their profits from 'finance deals' set up with Social Security recipients via the Direct Pay option attached/available to some SS clients/payments...this sees people who cannot afford new stuff, eg, a fridge, taking the only finance option/deal they have access to, and then winding up taking years paying-off $1,000s more than an items actually worth (due to interest payments)...I ain't the only one suggestin' that this is yet another crass and completely inappropriate manipulation and defrauding of often very vulnerable people, as per the various dodgy Job Search/training providers whom have recently (finally) been exposed as rorting funding for training of unemployed people...

Today's Attempted Humour: is courtesy of Zantar the Wonder Hound (not his real name) whom has invented an exciting new game we play when I go to give him a treat/snack of a 1/4 handful of muesli/cereal, a game called Scatter Snacks, whereby he bunts my hand outta' the way as I put his reward/snack on the floor, thusly sending bits everywhere and leading to a quiet and now extended frenzy of snuffling and licking across the kitchen floor...(hilarious-Ed)...and to the tune of 'She Sells Seashells by The Seashore', a brief ditty that perfectly describes his latest excretionary expeditionings, namely, 'He Sits Six Shits By The Screen Door'...and this occurred to me the moment I encountered said turds neatly and expertly excreted only feet from the back step...given that this sentence happened in an instant, it is also an insightful sunning of the frightful punning running in my head throughout any given day...

Tomorrow: More Of The Rail Lands Stuff And Council Also

(Wow, you've worked really hard on that witty title haven't you?-Ed)... it's a work in progress...and still better than the other day where I forgot to title a post and then retrospectively called it 'The Post With No Title'...(clever-Ed)...more 'obvious' really, than clever...(well, you'd be surprised at just how many times just how many allegedly clever/intelligent people can  miss the bleedin' obvious-Ed)...yes, but is that 'miss' or deliberately ignore because it's careerially expedient?...(hang on, are we back to the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up again?-Ed)...well if you're looking for a better example of the soulless, sanctimonious, selfish, self-focussed shambles that is the South Australian Child Protection System, and how all officials involved have chosen to refuse to see the pro-paedophile corruption that they condone and perpetuate by their in-action, and just so's they can continue in their precious shreckin' jobs...(their precious shreckin' jobs they get paid a relative fortune to do-Ed)...exactly, and paid to do exactly what it is they they fail/refuse to do...

Condemned By Their Own Actions: is every single person involved in the St Martins Cover-up, from the other teachers/staff whom failed to come forward and tell authorities what they'd been telling us parents about what they'd witnessed of teacher Glyn Dorling's behaviours towards the 7 year olds in his care, many of whom still work there, right on up to the current Premier Jay Weatherill, Speaker Michael Atkinson, all of the alleged Opposition Liberals, etc, etc...(well, look, I do agree that these failures have happened, it's a bit unfair to pick on everybody in the same way, to condemn them all for different failings-Ed)...how so? whoevs did or didn't do whatevs, we are where we are and we have the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up...

(Yeah, fair enough, but please consider you're own previous thoughts on this...there is a world of difference between, for example, a teacher/staffer who tries to help and is immediately taken to Adelaide by/with Principal John Alexander and forced by senior Lutherans to sign a Confidentiality Agreement that directly threatens that persons employment, etc, and one whom repeatedly states to parents and SAPol (police) that they saw Dorling in the classroom with an erection, but then withdraws that statement and is duly promoted well above their abilities-Ed)...okay, when you put it like that...(I do put it like that-Ed)...

No apologies for straying onto the St Martins stuff again, because it's really only a matter of time before laws are introduced to finally shut-down this 'ere blog, and that's exactly the sort of issue that will again be buried deep...

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