Sunday, November 30, 2014

Frank Yamma - Appearing at Hungry Head today.


IMG 0004 - Tree spirits galore
The Central Desert.
Today Frank Yamma is performing in my home place, here in Urunga on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, Gumbaynggirr lands.   I am glad he has come, I would  love to hear his songs, his voice - the resonance and the stories up close and personal.    Ginnagay Frank.  Big thanks to Bryony Taylor who with Global Vibe has booked Frank to call in here.

Poster from Bryony Taylor

 Financially I am precluded from listening to him personally (live).  I desire change to these living arrangements.  I would like to afford to Live.  Existing, paying ludicrous amounts of money for rent and adapting to eating less, generally genuinely precludes me from situations like these, seeing Frank or any other performances.   Next year will see some good changes to this for us. So for today I will be satisfied with knowing he is close by and I can listen to his music online.


About Frank Yamma:

Frank is an interesting man who has come a long way to get to here.  An extraordinary songwriter and an exceptional guitarist, Frank Yamma also has an incredible voice, rich, deep and resonant. Regarded by many as one of Australia’s most important Indigenous Songwriters, Yamma’s brutally honest tales of alcohol abuse, cultural degradation, respect for the old law and the importance of country are spine tingling.

His ability to cross cultural and musical boundaries constantly sets new standards through his music.
Frank is 51 years old and I guess that is why it is awesome that his album is called 'Uncle.'  Frank Yamma is a traditional Pitjantjatjara man from Australia's central desert.
Countryman is available to buy online:
Australia: http://bit.ly/g5Vvns
UK/Europe: http://amzn.to/gZu4qK
Digital Download: http://bit.ly/icdd4V
Countryman is available on iTunes around the world. Check your local site.
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Saturday, November 29, 2014

Digging a hole into the Snowy Hydro People to see whos who in this zoo.

IMG 9623  The Mighty Manning River
RED ENERGY is wholly and solely owned by the Snowy Hydro Limited.  A majority of Australians have felt good about ditching their filthy energy provider for Red Energy.  They say they are not involved in CSG and they say they get their power from hydro.  Hydro has also caused a lot of issues in regards to the environment.  The rivers down there are in trouble.  Australia's largest river the Murray has serious issues.  There is Geo-engineering for cloud seeding to create snow to continue with the hydro system because the rivers are drying up.  The purpose here today though is to see the dirty connections those that sit on the board of Snowy Hydro Limited have had or still have to Gas, Water and Mining.  What bothers me most is the fact they have their fingers in so many dirty poisonous little pies.   It reminds me of the stickiest spider web of sickness.
Here is a complete list of the present board from their website :
DIRECTORS

Bruce Hogan AM

BEc (Hons), FAICD
Appointed 15 May 2006
Chairman

Bruce HoganMr Hogan is Chairman of Primary Ethics Limited and a director of The Stolen Generations’ Testimonies Foundation. He is a former Joint Managing Director of Bankers Trust Australia Limited, former Chairman of Adelaide Casino and a former director of NSW Treasury Corporation, Energy Australia, Coles Myer Limited, Metcash Limited, Funds South Australia and GIO Australia Limited. He is also a former Chairman of State Super Financial Services Australia Ltd.

*** Primary Ethics, now Mr Hogan is Chairman of that committee and as far as I can see Primary Ethics is a public company teaching children THEIR ETHICS.  It is disguised as a form of common sense because there is no longer scripture classes in schools and this is meant to fill that void.  There is some merit to the idea but I would be very suspect of rich people teaching anything ethics to anyone let alone my dog even. 
From their website :

Primary Ethics Limited is a public company limited by guarantee. It was formed by St James Ethics Centre and incorporated on November 4, 2010. ABN: 28147194349.
From a standing start in December 2010 and with very limited funding from a few philanthropists, Primary Ethics has grown to 1,500 volunteers with over 1,200 teachers delivering ethics classes to around 20,000 students in more than 300 schools.
Composed almost entirely of volunteers, Primary Ethics is managed by a small group of paid staff. We intend to grow the organisation and employ a core group of professionals who will continue to drive the growth of Primary Ethics until all children in NSW who don't go to scripture classes will have the option of attending an ethics class, rather than doing nothing meaningful during that time each week.
The Stolen Generations Testimonies Foundation [SGTF] is the other presently held position held by Mr Hogan Chairman of Snowy Hydro.  This is another area of suspect nature, mainly because Rio Tinto are involved in looking like good guys documenting aboriginal testimonies with one hand and killing every last bit of living culture with the other hand.  Any mining company looking like the philanthropist is to be held with great suspicion because there is an element of looking after themselves in this equation.  Its a sales gimmick if you like.  I feel this is a slap in the face as mining companies are presently behind the tragedy of the last people being pushed off their land in the centre and the turning off of water to communities and the innability to visit traditional water holes because of mining leases taking their lands they walked for 60,000 years plus.

From the Stolen Generations’ Testimonies Foundation


The ‘Stolen Generations’ Testimonies’ project is an initiative to record on film the personal testimonies of Australia’s Stolen Generations Survivors and share them online. The Stolen Generations' Testimonies Foundation hopes the online museum will become a national treasure and a unique and sacred keeping place for Stolen Generations’ Survivors’ Testimonies. Thank you to those Survivors for their generosity of spirit in sharing their testimonies with us in our first round of interviews.

The History of the Project
The Stolen Generations' Testimonies foundation was established in 2007. Rio Tinto Aboriginal Fund financed a feasibility study which confirmed the viability of capturing the stories of Stolen Generations' Survivors on film for an online audience.
With the benefit of the study the foundation was successful in gaining financial support from the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and the Hunt Foundation.
This funding allowed the development of the online museum and the first round of interviews displayed here.
So on looking over all of Mr Hogans business dealings in the past and his present ones besides Snowy Hydro, I really don't feel as comfortable as I did before about Red Energy who are owned by Snowy Hydro.  He did well at University graduating with a Bachelor of Honors in Economics.

He is a fellow of AICD  which is nothing more than another Old Boys Club of back scratches. Having the F in the front denotes that Mr Hogan is a LIFE Fellow of this organization FAICD.  Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.  Networking networking networking.
Our Role 

To provide leadership on director issues and promote excellence in governance to achieve a positive impact for the economy and society.
Our Aim
Since our early beginnings, we have developed as an organisation recognised for quality and professionalism. By 2017, we aim to be recognised as:
  • A key influencer* in the creation of world-leading governance laws and practices in Australia;
  • A key player in achieving world-leading performance of Australian boards and directors, including the application of governance principles.
I may add that who ever does their website don't employ scruples or principals in spelling because the statement above is poor English and there is no such word as *INFLUENCER.  It is an influence. I thought this wreaked of irony for me

Paul Broad

Appointed 23 July 2013
Managing Director & CEO

Paul Broad
Mr Broad was appointed as a non-executive director of the Company on 20 June 2013.  Before being appointed as a director, Mr Broad was Chief Executive Officer of Infrastructure NSW,  AAPT, PowerTel, Energy Australia, Sydney Water, and Hunter Water.  He is Chairman of the Hunter Development Corporation and a non-executive director of iiNet Limited.


Helen Coonan

Appointed 23 January 2014
Non Executive Director

Helen CoonanMs Coonan was appointed to the Board on 23 January 2014.  As the former Australian Government Cabinet Minister for Communication, Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate, Shareholder Minister for the Telstra Corporation and Australia Post, commercial lawyer and trained mediator, Ms Coonan has a proven track record of leading stakeholders through major economic reforms and handling complex policy settings, especially where public policy and regulation intersects with business interests.  In addition to her appointment with Snowy Hydro, Ms Coonan serves on the Advisory Council of JP Morgan and the Board of Advice of Aon Risk Services Australia Ltd. She is a Non-Executive Director of Crown Resorts Ltd, Chair of the Crown Resorts Foundation, Chair of GRACosway Pty Ltd (a subsidiary of the Clemenger Group), a Trustee of the Sydney Opera House Trust and a Non-Executive Director of Obesity Australia Ltd. 

Peter Lowe MBA, BCom, FCPA, MAICD

Appointed 15 May 2006
Non Executive Director

Peter LoweMr Lowe has over 30 years experience in various financial roles including CFO of public companies in Australia and the USA.  He is currently Chairman of United Energy Distribution Holdings Pty Ltd and Multinet Group Holdings Pty Ltd and a director of Citywide Service Solutions Pty Ltd, and Tasmania Networks Pty Ltd. He was appointed to the board of Red Energy Pty Ltd in March 2007.  He has also held a board role at Southern Hydro Pty Ltd, Clever Communications Limited and GasNet Limited.

Michael Ihlein BBus (Acc), FCPA, MAICD, F Fin (Finsia)

Appointed 10 August 2012
Non Executive Director

Michael IhleinMr Ihlein was appointed to the Board on 10 August 2012.  He is a non executive director and Chair of the Audit & Risk Committee of CSR Limited and a non executive director and Chair of the Audit & Risk Committee of Scentre Group.  He is also a non executive director and Chair of the Compliance Committee of Murray Goulburn Co-operative Co. Limited. He previously spent six years at Brambles Limited as an executive director with roles as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer.  Prior to that he had a 26 year career with Coca-Cola Amatil Limited including seven years as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director and numerous senior operational and financial roles in both Australia and overseas.  He is also Chair of the Australian Theatre for Young People. 

Joycelyn Morton BEc, FCPA, FCA, FIPA, FCIS, FCSA, FAICD

Appointed 10 August 2012
Non Executive Director


Joycelyn MortonMs Morton was appointed to the Board on 10 August 2012.  She is a non-executive director of Argo Investments Limited, and Chairperson of Noni B Limited and Thorn Group Limited.  She is also a member of the Business School Divisional Board and Board of Advice of the University of Sydney.  Her former roles include being a non executive director of Crane Group Limited and Count Financial Limited and executive positions with Woolworths Limited, The Shell Company of Australia, Shell International BV and with Coopers and Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers). 

Noel Cornish BSc(Met), MEngSc

Appointed 10 August 2012
Non Executive Director

Noel CornishMr Cornish was appointed to the Board on 10 August 2012. He is currently a director of IMB Limited, director of Forestry Corporation NSW, director of TataBSL Limited, member of the Council of the University of Wollongong and National Vice President of Ai Group. His former roles include Chief Executive of BlueScope Steel Limited’s Australian and New Zealand steel manufacturing businesses, President NorthstarBHP LLC in Ohio USA and Group General Manager Whyalla Steelworks in South Australia.



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Friday, November 28, 2014

The Wealth.

When the wealth is seen in terms of money and only a very select few have this then the situation becomes very dicey,  we are heading for some very serious times because of this out come of civilization. 

Here is a meme that was posted on Facebook and it really does tell the entire story. 

Bernie Sanders

 The World Economic Forum released this REPORT
  • Almost half of the world’s wealth is now owned by just one percent of the population.
  • The wealth of the one percent richest people in the world amounts to $110 trillion. That’s 65 times the total wealth of the bottom half of the world’s population.
  • The bottom half of the world’s population owns the same as the richest 85 people in the world.
  • Seven out of ten people live in countries where economic inequality has increased in the last 30 years.
  • The richest one percent increased their share of income in 24 out of 26 countries for which we have data between 1980 and 2012.
  • In the US, the wealthiest one percent captured 95 percent of post-financial crisis growth since 2009, while the bottom 90 percent became poorer.
1065 - Surfing Barn

When wealth captures government policy making, the rules bend to favor the rich, often to the detriment of everyone else. ~  "Working for a Few"
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Thursday, November 27, 2014

AN OPEN LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER ABBOTT: From Dr D Pascoe a Darling Downs Veterinary surgeon

Dear Prime Minister Abbott,

About a week ago, the home of David Quince, a well-known Liverpool Plains farmer and prominent anti-CSG activist, was the subject of an attempted break in.

They – whoever they might be - knew that David was at home alone and tried to break into his house at 3.00 am in the morning.

From all accounts, it was an extremely frightening experience.

David Quince is one of the finest and most respected farmers not merely on the Liverpool Plains – but in Australia.

He is also one of the very toughest and the very bravest: like ourselves, he has led the charge and never taken a single backward step when it came to defending his land and what he believed to be right.

My wife Heather and I know exactly what David Quince has gone through.

We have also stood up to defend our land and do what we believed to be right in the face of what is now a virtual mining invasion.

Our home has been broken into no less than three times since September 2013.

Heather was targeted the first time, with her computers, laptops and IPads removed and her files forensically searched.

We were broken into again in April 2014, and I was the target this time: all of my computers, laptops, IPads, binoculars, cameras and tape recorders were stolen, as well as my files being searched. My Land Cruiser was also stolen.

Our house was again broken into the next night, despite being secured by carpenters and locksmiths. After putting in security and dogs, more intruders were apprehended on the next night.

Four nights later, a helicopter was sat ten metres above our house at midnight. Since then, we have been forced to move out of our family home and seek security.

We have received no satisfaction at all from local Toowoomba police.

As you know, this matter was raised by Bob Katter in Federal Parliament a few weeks ago and the investigation of Federal Police has been sought.

This matter was also raised by ourselves on Friday at the Senate Committee Investigation into the Newman Government in Queensland.

 

No Australian should be forced to endure the *terrorization and trauma that David Quince and my wife and I have been forced to endure.

Prime Minister, we would like to ask you a few simple questions.

How long can we expect to see prominent Australian citizens being treated this way, and on your watch?

When, from a Prime Minister and our Commander in Chief, will you protect the citizens of our nation and defend our prime agricultural land and scant water resources against this foreign mining invasion?

It is time for you to stand up and be counted.

The Australian people expect nothing less.

Kind regards

Dr David Pascoe

Photo: David Quince.
IMG 2148 TARA

Source: Dr David Pascoe

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Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Brian has reported an AQUIFER has blown in SE Queensland.

Brian Monk lives at #2 Hell Street in Newmans Sorcerer's  Estate.  Seriously Brian lives in South East Queensland west of Toowoomba.   He lives in a living nightmare called a Gas Field.  He and his family moved to have the  quiet life and were over run by the corporate madness of the great Gas Rush.  People are sick, crimes are committed against ordinary folks and the chemical nightmare continues on monitoring itself.  All the while the only concern is the bottom line of profit.  No body has any concern for the people in this equation. 

Recently Brian has begun to report on the state of an Aquifer and the proof that gas has breached into the underground water along with chemicals and toxic heavy metals that nature has taken millions of years to separate for our own protection.  This is serious

This is what Brian has reported
23rd November 2014
NEWS FLASH, NEWS FLASH. You wont see this in Des Houghton of the Courier mail articles, or the Chimpchilla News. Nor will you see it on lame-stream media.
There has been a major CSG incident near Chinchilla. An incident involving both Arrow and Origin so I have been told.
It involves the blowing of an aquifer, a water bore blowing out very impressively so i am told. The CSG compliant unit has attended and it is reported to me, they have told the Gas Co's to fix the problem.
Of course there is no make good for this and monetary compensation is the only solution. I have been informed the figure of $1,000,000 is the proposed compensation. But my concern is will $1,000,000 silence this issue, is that all the future of our nation is worth. Also if it is as it has been reported to me, a whole of aquifer damage, what about all the food that was going to be grown from this aquifer.
What about all the other farmers in the area who rely on this aquifer to remain productive.
My personal opinion is it is TIME FARMERS stood up and said, MONEY is not the answer, shutting this industry down is the answer. Instead I suspect the monetary value will be all that is required to silence this issue, destroy the lives of numerous productive farmers as the problem spreads, and all the while slimy no account journalists will continue to spread the co-existence bullshit.
So how much truth is in this allegation, enough for me to hear it from both the CSG industry and farmers alike. Will I pursue this, no, I don't use underground water, our bore is already poisoned, both the industry and the government have covered that up. This claim is for FARMERS who will be impacted to chase up, for any journalist if there are any left in lame-stream to follow up. It is common knowledge.
For those of you who don't live in a gasfield, you will not realize this industry leaks information at an alarming rate, my personal belief is that people working in the industry are just trying to relieve the burden on their soul by leaking information. So has anyone got the balls to follow this up, probably not, but we are talking an aquifer, not a water bore, we are talking an aquifer.

23rd November 2014 later on:


Thanks for sharing this news flash around, the CSG Compliance Unit needs to come out and deny or admit the truth of this story. No need to talk to Arrow or Origin or the APPEA. Just get the facts on the record from the CSG compliance unit, or DEHP or who ever the hell should be regulating this industry, and chase up the effected farmers.
Now it isn't my bore and I wasn't there, but i have absolutely no reason to doubt what I was told from different sources. This is real CSG news, this is the real deal, someone needs to explore this story.
Not APPEA's spin, what about the real farmers who's lives and future depend on this aquifer, could there be a link to LINC, they are stinking the place up again. I mean, investigative journalists used to do this work, WTF happened to them.
What causes water bores to explode, that was how it was described to me. What about a few souls working in the industry come clean and go on the record, even if anonymously, get these facts out there. IT'S TIME.

23 November at 15:06
Chinchilla Water bore blow out and Aquifer destruction. It is reported that this bore blew out, exploded was the term i was told and water spewed all over the landowners paddock. Is this OK Australians. Remember your breakfast probably came from these paddocks, was probably grown from irrigation water from these aquifers. Only idiot choose to poison their water, and bigger idiots allow the polluticians they vote into power to poison it for them. This is a no brainer, there are already so many bores in this area blowing gas, added to that the Condamine River is blowing gas at an alarming rate. Yet your polluticians and useless public servants tell you it is safe. I tell you what is safe, pack these bastards up, put them on a boat and send them back to where they came from. Let honest Australians enjoy clean air, clean water and clean food. Let honest farmers do what they do best, grow food. Do you need to all go to uni to do a course to understand the basic simplicity of this. Poison the air and the water and you poison the food. Deplete the water and nothing grows. WTF, are we just STUPID.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMPtWT6RsF4
OK, here is an update on the AQUIFER BLOWOUT. This blowout occurred to a bore that had sat unused for 30 years, without any indication it blew out spraying water over a paddock, this was a mix of water and gasses, it continued for around 24 hours before the water slowed but the gas continues to gurgle and blow out. I wonder how many of these water bores the CSIRO tested in their unscientific examination of emissions from the CSG industry. WHAT does this indicate?????? Clearly it shows CHANGE, CHANGE, CHANGE. It shows gas has found its way from the COAL SEAMS to the AQUIFER. NO SCIENCE or SPIN NEEDED to come to that conclusion. So how do we think the CSG industry will try to spin this, did the bore always blow gas, that is the tried and proven way to fool idiots into looking the other way. I cant see any other option for our sold out government and its puppet servants to spin this. But the thing is it DIDN'T always blow gas DID IT. FIRST the bubbling CONDAMINE RIVER, I love the way they call it a seep.

OK, about this Aquifer blow out, I want people to think of how easy it is to shut this up. If i worked for the industry, meaning if I was a total psychopathic moron this is what I would do. I would insist the farmer had no contact with the media. I would wave a juicy carrot under the farmers nose. I would delay the CSG Compliance Unit from commenting or better still get one of my bought and sold polluticians to comment on, even Candrill himself maybe. I would then cover all evidence of the crime against humanity hat is being perpetrated right here, right now.
Now I'm not a total moronic psychopath so I would beg the farmer to in fact contact every media outlet as well as the non-mainstream media outlets. I would have the guts to stand up for what is right, I would know that if i signed the bore away i guaranteed the future of my neighbors to be waterless. I would know that this gas is now escaping unchecked into the soils all around my bore, my land, my neighbors land and I would make a stand. I would know that the future of all the farmers in my region depended on crushing the insane CSG industry and running it out of our land. I would rule my actions by what I KNOW IS RIGHT, even if it not so financially rewarding.
I would also ask for support and in doing so make sure of the motives of those I asked for support.
If I was a greedy self centered moron I would in fact go for the million dollar pay out, because to silence this i would guarantee the industry will pay a million. But in taking that million I would know I sold all my neighbors and friends out, I would know that history would show me to be one of the first to sell my soul. That is not how I would choose to be remembered.
So the eyes of Australia are trained on a farmer who has experienced the destruction of his unused water bore, waiting to see if that farmer and his advising body is prepared to sell out Australia, will be interesting the next few days.
Why can I make this passionate plea, simple really, a neighbor just down the road sold around 5000 acres of his property to QGC for $8,200,000. We own 5200 acres, my cars are falling to bits, the arse is out of my jeans, but my conscience is clean. As the dirt is shoveled on my face, it will hit a smiling face because I did the RIGHT thing. We all know what the right thing is, even our sell out polluticians, our sell out public servants, our sell out neighbors, we all know what the right thing is.
This farmer should be compensated, but for the right reasons, not silenced to hide a sad reality that is sweeping across our nation. Our most precious resource is water, this farmer has the opportunity to save Australian AQUIFERS.

Further....
So think about this little fact. How many billions of tons of water are they extracting from underground. That all holds the gas down, but as David was explaining to me earlier it also hold the surface up. How many billions of tons can you extract before the subsidence begins. It was pointed out to me at a meeting ages ago, that the Murray Darling Basin will in fact change the course of the river because of this subsidence. That how important this battle is, right here, right now, before one aquifer after another falls and eventually the GAB. It is now we stop this industry and this is the evidence we need to stop it. people power, not bought and sold science.
Further...
http://water.usgs.gov/edu/gwdepletion.html  Brian quotes UGGS.
Now please read this quote form the above, and tell me how you can remove billions of tons of water and not cause subsidence. ""Land subsidence

The basic cause of land subsidence is a loss of support below ground. In other words, sometimes when water is taken out of the soil, the soil collapses, compacts, and drops. This depends on a number of factors, such as the type of soil and rock below the surface. Land subsidence is most often caused by human activities, mainly from the removal of subsurface water."

This Aquifer collapse, and i hope all the farmers near there stand up now and be counted, because there are a lot of them with bores blowing gas now. This is the gas industry and governments Achilles, this and health impacts. But this is in your face obvious. Is it enough, are there enough true blue Aussies left farming, i guess we find out over the next few days/weeks. Or is this region only full of sellouts who care not for the future generations or the land.
Come on you farmers and I know a lot of you, stand up for Australia, if you don't have someone to film your burning or bubbling bore, message me, we will do it for you. This is the TIME, they stuffed up, here is the chance to ensure water for future generations, don't let your grandchildren down.
Jane Hughes reports to Brian that is now all over Twitter... and that it is being circulated.

Quote from above from Cripps, or Creeps as i think he should be renamed. "I will make sure, as the Government will, that once the investigation to determine the cause is finalized, the appropriate action is taken," he said." Now i translate that to real English, we will kick the dirt, we will wander around aimlessly, we will do little or nothing and then when you forget it ever happened we will say it is all under control and would you please look the other way because there is nothing to see here.  (Tales from the Crypts)

Then the ABC Reported on this:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-24/bore--blow-out-investigation/5914126
Queensland's CSG compliance unit investigating bore 'blow out' on the Western Downs

FARMERS MAY CHOOSE TO LOOK THE OTHER WAY ON THIS POST. I spent a lot of the night pondering why a damaged aquifer would get such little publicity. My prediction that a bought and sold pollutician would spin the spin occurred, thanks creeps. My expectation that the farmer would not expose the full extent of damage appears to be true. My prediction that it wouldn't make mainstream appears correct. But none of this was what kept me awake last night, I was awake with this sobering thought, this rumination. It isn't the Gas Companies that allow this industry to flourish, it isn't the Government elect and public servants. No, it isn't, I bet that surprises you. And it wasn't those who signed before the full impacts were obvious. It is those FARMERS who choose the pay off, the payoff is directly proportional to the embarrassment the incident could cause. I think back to when Agforce up here, the farmers organization, went across the state telling farmers they had no choice, now all they talk of is make goods and compensation. No doubt they are involved in this little bore blow out fiasco as well. Anyway, the big bucks will go to the impacted farmer, the sad thing is, that like the bubbling Condamine River, the river that is hardly ever seen in the media, because farmers dont allow access. It is all the same really, the problem is not anyone other than the farmers who see dollar signs as more important than the future of our beautiful nation. So I suggest we stop blaming the companies and the government and start blaming the very people on whom the blame belongs. Not those farmers in the early days, none of us knew back then. But those today, who choose to add their signature of access for the thirty pieces of silver. Not one of my neighbors were forced to sign access agreements, not one, yet 10 out of 13 have. A couple were bullied and coerced, but not one was forced. That is why Coal Seam Gas will roll out over this entire nation, because FARMERS have lost sight of what they once were very good at, caring for the future, their roll is the greatest, their failure to fulfill it has the greatest impact. So when you are at meetings, look around you and see who is going to sell you out, or even if, when the price is right, you will sell out those around you. The FARMER and LAND OWNERS are the true sell outs of our nation. Now i have no intention of modifying this comment. To the farmers I have stood with and talked to who will never sell out, you are all legends, to the rest of you, you are sell outs, you are to blame, not Blighty or Candrill or a gas co, you give this industry permission to destroy our nation with your signature, no one else, no excuses. Probably loose a lot of friends with this post, but the thing is, I don't want sell outs as friends, I fight this fight at great personal cost, and I expect my friends to fight it at the same cost. This is the battle for a future, if that isnt worth the cost, then un-friend me. [Facebook]
I would like to add something here, in the early days before we knew, I would have sold to get out of the industrialization, I just didn't want people all over our land. So no saint here, and I don't profess to be one. But now no one has an excuse, everyone knows, everywhere, and those who cannot see cannot see for greed.

But now as I watch this cancer spreading over the entire nation I realize every signature not given, every pollution exposed, every failure publicized is one chip for the future, other areas and some of ours will save itself by chipping away. PLEASE DON'T SIGN, you have a future to protect.
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IMG 2338 Another Australian Shame - Tara Gas Hub QLD.
On the Western Darling Downs District of South East Queensland



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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang v. Goethe
Johann Wolfgang v. Goethe (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Listen to the Pronunciation of Goethe's name. 

A gentleman who loved to learn and who was not swayed by the establishment elite that were all over even at this time centuries ago.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Frankfurt Germany to a wealthy family.  Frankfurt was an imperial free city under the Holy Roman Empire at that time that Goethe's father married Goethe's mother.  Only himself and his sister Christina survived, it was a difficult times raising live children, their others siblings all passed away from various ailments.

Goethe's father  gave Goethe lessons in all the common subjects of their time, especially languages (Latin, Greek, French, Italian, English and Hebrew). He also had private tutors in various subjects. He also received lessons in dancing, riding and fencing.  He was afforded all the opportunities. 

Goethe had a persistent dislike for the Catholic Church. He said it was a hodgepodge of fallacy and violence".  He loved puppet shows and often had these shows at his home.  He loved the Marionettes.

He loved to Draw.  He loved to study History and Religion despite his dislike of the church.
He wrote an awesomely famous poem called the Sorcerers Apprentice.    The following is from Wiki.
The poem begins as an old sorcerer departs his workshop, leaving his apprentice with chores to perform. Tired of fetching water by pail, the apprentice enchants a broom to do the work for him – using magic in which he is not yet fully trained.

The floor is soon awash with water, and the apprentice realizes that he cannot stop the broom because he does not know how.  The apprentice splits the broom in two with an axe, but each of the pieces becomes a whole new broom and takes up a pail and continues fetching water, now at twice the speed.

When all seems lost, the old sorcerer returns, quickly breaks the spell and saves the day. The poem finishes with the old sorcerer's statement that powerful spirits should only be called by the master himself.
IMG 2313 Butterfly

“As long as you do not know how to die and come to life again, you are but a sorry traveler on this dark earth.” 

Those are  famous words in the well known work of Goethe - "Faust".  Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend. He is a scholar who is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, so he makes a pact with the Devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures.

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Monday, November 24, 2014

FRACKMAN The Trailer ..

This is a film about a bunch of ordinary people caught up in a modern day multinational "Gold Rush" to secure and exploit coal seam gas.   Out in Cinemas on February 15 2015.



Dayne Pratzky loved the quiet life on his rural block in central Queensland. Then the coal seam gas company arrived, and that changed everything. Legally he couldn’t stop them mining his land, but that didn’t mean he wouldn’t fight. And so began a David and Goliath battle against a $200 billion industry. Along the way he found love, tragedy and triumph.
More information from the FRACKMAN Website:
This is a film about a bunch of ordinary people caught up in a modern day multinational “gold rush” to secure and exploit coal seam gas.
Fracking is an issue that is presenting difficult questions for all of Australia’s political parties, but at its heart is a very human drama. What we find is that smouldering resentment has turned conservative country people to civil disobedience. Politicians with their snouts in the trough are caught off-guard not knowing who to support.
Our central character is Dayne Pratzky – a knockabout pig shooter building a simple home on his block of land in Central Queensland. One day the gas company comes calling and demands access to his land for gas mining. Dayne is told he has no right to refuse access to his land, and so begins his journey as a reluctant activist that will take him around the world.

Dayne introduces us to the people drawn into a battle that is crossing the ideological divide, bringing together a peculiar alliance of farmers, conservationists and political conservatives.  Along the way Dayne finds love, tragedy and triumph as he battles to save his community from becoming an industrial wasteland. There are laughs, tears and near death experiences, and a raft of colourful Aussie Bush characters.

But it’s the underlying theme that is critical: Who owns our land? Who owns our future? Can we balance competing claims for our water, food and energy and still preserve the environment?

One thing is certain: the rush to extract Coal Seam Gas is forcing us to ask difficult questions about our way of life and what we value.
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I will be keen to see the full edition of this story about the battle of ordinary people against the corporate giants ruling all of our lives not just on the Gas Fields of Australia.  I coined the phrase a three stringed cord as describing this make up of people who have been drawn in together in this fight to save the water and the land and for some lifestyle.   I  say it different to Dayne who forgets the first peoples and their very precious and important stake in this fight.  I like to say its the Greenie / Environmentalist, the Farmers and the Aboriginal people who have been drawn together in this fight. 

The aboriginal people have had to battle their own in this fight as mining companies seek to cause even more division within the clans of the first peoples with outrageous wages to pick up artifacts  a lot ending up in the garbage bins of Australia.  All for loss for that mighty dollar.  It would make you sick.

Any way I am grateful we have some sort of film that depicts what the heck is going on in the country at the present with the Big Mining and the Big Gas Corporations here and overseas and the politicians who are feathering their own nests by the Stolenwealth of us all.

Images @ Eminpee Fotography - Dayne Pratzky

Sunday, November 23, 2014

The Purpose of Living

~ Alan Watts ~
PURPOSE!



Life is purposeless.  The living we do.  The meaning is far deeper.  Trust is the key, we must learn to trust ourselves to the absolute unknown and to a nature which has no boss.

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The purpose is itself the purpose, it is the which to which there is no whicher!

Images @ Eminpee Fotography

Saturday, November 22, 2014

The (now) notorius PUP Inquiry in the Queensland Senate.

The Palmer United Party in Queensland has been useful in this arena, guess that makes Clive a good guy in this one instance.  He must divest from Coal to ever be truly on the money with trying to amend the mess in Queensland.

IMG 2354 Another Australian Shame - Tara Gas Hub QLD.
According to the Australian financial news publication the Financial Review, a former coal-mining tycoon was alleged to have been granted approval to amend his environmental authority for maintenance dredging near the Great Barrier Reef.   This was subsequently approved to him one (1) week after it was said he donated a whopping $150,000 to the Queensland arm of the Liberal National Party.

In another statement it was divulged that this very same mining tycoon denied any link to special treatment because of that whopping donation.  So who is he actually trying to kid.  Does he think that the public actually believe these lies from the top.

People can see for themselves and have experienced first hand the slimy tactics of the Newman government and therefore would not be fooled by this.
I think the majority of Queensland people who vote in any of the state elections would see this in a completely different light altogether.  These blatant corrupt self serving individuals are in it for the money, not for making friends.  Do you think they care who or what they destroy to get their drug. (money)

The heart breaking stories I have read over the past few years leave no other summation for me or for others.  There are many who would like to see this senate inquiry move and morph into an ICAC type body that New South Wales has in place.
Images @ Eminpee Fotography

Friday, November 21, 2014

Execution then prosecution.. for Ian Macdonald

Photo - Land Water Future
Former NSW Mining Minister Ian Macdonald is to be prosecuted for two offenses of misconduct in public office over his dealings with the Doyles Creek coal mine license.  This was revealed in the media today that ICAC has announced this morning hes done.

Well its just like the Madden Boys say, its Done Done Done.  What will be the slimy defense he is about to use to break free of ever doing jail time.  Will it be illness, some form of cancer, or will he just die at the thought of being incarcerated?
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Ian Macdonald dab (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Macdonald and Obeid and Harcher are all about to see the slide get so slippery.   Life will be wet and wild on steroids to these corrupt entities. Most of Australia will be cheering after the evening news if they have not heard of it already.
Read More about  Ian Macdonald and other corruption uncovered at the NSW ICAC website go  HERE

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Images @ Eminpee Fotography

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Media Stories of the Cold Fraccs of Csg in Australia

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Great Artesian Basin coal-seam gas ‘risk’

The Australian, 7 November 2014

The Frack Files

Danny Chivers, New Internationalist magazine, December 2013

Groundbreaking Report Calculates Damage Done by Fracking

Ecowatch.com, 3.10.13

Harvard fracking study rings methane alarm bells in Australia

Peter Hannam, SMH, 27.11.13

Bridge Out: Bombshell Study Finds Methane Emissions From Natural Gas Production Far Higher Than EPA Estimates

Joe Romm, Think Progress, 25.11.13

Crude Solution

60 Minutes, Channel Nine, 15.08.13

Alan Jones interviews Dr Richard Denniss

Alan Jones Breakfast Show, 2GB, 5.7.13

Alan Jones interviews Barry O’Farrell

The Alan Jones Breakfast Show, 2GB, 20.06.13

Alan Jones and guests discuss CSG and Offshore Petroleum Act

The Alan Jones Breakfast Show, 2GB, 19.06.13

Alan Jones interviews Tom Marland (Qld lawyer)

The Alan Jones Breakfast Show, 2GB Radio, 19.06.13

Cotton growers voice concerns over CSG

ABC TV, 7.30 New South Wales, 21.06.13

Test your bores, landholders in gas fields advised

James Nason, Beef Central (online publication), 21.06.13

Water Contamination from Fracking: Jessica Ernst Releases Groundbreaking Report

Damien Gillis, TheCanadian.org, 20.06.13

Well of Truth

GetUp and Aquarius Productions - filmmaker Richard Todd

Mining’s contribution / Water a priority

Gloucester Advocate, Dr Richard Denniss and John Ross - 1.05.13

Is the coal industry economically worthless?

Renew Economy (online publication), 1.5.13

More risks than benefits in CSG

Australian Financial Review, 4.4.13

Risky Business

Aljazeera TV 11.1.13

Meet the Frackers

ABC TV, Foreign Correspondent, 28.2.12

LNP elder calls for investigation of CSG whistleblower claims

ABC National Radio, AM Program with Tony Eastley, 2.4.13

Alan Jones discussing “Gas Leak!”

2GB Radio, 2.4.13

Four Corners – “Gas Leak!”

ABC TV, Four Corners, 1.4.13

Gas Drillers bring in the Heavy Hitters

New Matilda - 6.2.2012 - Calliste Weitenberg.

Energy use sucking up a precious resource

SMH - Paul Sheehan - 9.1.2012

The Coal Seam Gas Rush

ABC News Online - 13.1.2012

CSG company failed to report saline spill

ABC TV - 7pm News - 13.1.2012

Katter’s Qld leader joins CSG protest

Ch.Nine News - 13.1.12

‘Fountains’ of methane 1,000m across erupt from Arctic ice

Daily Mail (U.K.) Online - 13.12.2011

Media Release from Lock the Gate Walgett

Media Release - Lock the Gate Walgett

‘Corruption’ alluded to at CSG hearing

Southern Highland News - 12.12.2011

Doco reveals farmers’ coal fight

ABC TV NEWS - 17.11.2011

State opposition talk tough on CSG

The Land - 17.11.2011

US implicates fracking in pollution

Aust. Financial Review (AAP) - 9.12.2011

Warning on CSG impact ‘ignored’: report

The Australian - 2.12.2011

Resources veteran takes aim at CSG ‘cowboys’

The Australian - Anthony Klan - 5.12.2011

Coal-seam gas boom puts pressure on governments

The Australian - Editorial - 2.12.2011

Gas projects left under a cloud

The Australian - 2.12.2011

Concern builds over chemicals left behind

The Australian - Anthony Klan - 2.12.2011

Serious errors made in CSG: Heffernan

ABC TV - Lateline Business - 30.11.2011

CSG explorer takes blind NSW farmer to court

AFR - Financial Review - 29.11.2011

Government shuts down parliament to avoid Coal Seam Gas Moratorium Bill Vote

Media Release - Jeremy Buckingham (Greens) - 28.11.2011

Dirty Money – Matthew Benns

ABC Brisbane - Evenings with Steve Austin - 24.11.2011

Bill calls for moratorium on CSG mining in NSW

Alan Jones - 2GB radio - 24.11.2011

Report finds CSG water dumped in Qld river

Australian Financial Review - 24.11.11

The seam old story springs a leak

SMH - Paddy Manning - 19.11.2011

Quest for coal

Today Tonight - Channel 7 news

Win for gas blockade as Santos pulls back

SMH - Ben Cubby - 15.11.2011

Underground “Fossil Water” Running Out

National Geographic News - 6.5.10

Alan Jones speaks to Senator Bill Heffernan about coal seam gas mining

Radio 2GB - Alan Jones - 11.11.2011

Grappling with science and sceptics

SMH - Ben Cubby - 12.11.2011

Test Drilling For Gas Worries Mid West Residents

ABC TV - 7.30 W.A. - 12.11.2011

CSG makes Lib ‘a radical activist’

The Australian - Paul Cleary - 7.11.2011

Great Barrier Grief

ABC TV - Four Corners - 7.11.2011

Alan Jones speaks to Gundi Royle about coal seam gas.

Radio 2GB - Alan Jones - 4.11.2011

Energy analyst turns up heat on new gas projects

SMH - Paddy Manning - 28.10.2011

Landowners undermined by companies

ABC TV - 7.30 NSW - 4.11.2011

No royalties for five years

The Singleton Argus - 4.11.2011

English tremors blamed on fracking

Sydney Morning Herald - 3.11.2011

Chris Hartcher on mining on farm land

Alan Jones - 2GB radio

Thousands rally against CSG mining

ABC radio Sydney - 16.10.2011

Keep the gas in the bag

SMH - editorial - 14.10.2011

Land users shout loud against ‘legalised theft’ by miners

SMH - 13.10.2011

Alan Jones steps on the gas at Gunnedah forum

Northern Daily Leader - 13.10.2011

Benefits of switch to CSG may not be all they seem

SMH - Paddy Manning - 8.10.2011

Australia is selling off its inheritance, says James Dines

Herald Sun - 30.9.2011

Protecting our farmland

Alan Jones, on radio 2GB - 5.10.2011

Coal approval at what price?

Newcastle Herald - 7.10.2011

Coal seam gas will be ‘essential’ for NSW

SMH - Ben Cubby - 6.10.2011

CSG can’t possibly win farmers’ hearts and minds

North Queensland Register - 29.9.2011

Count on resource boom, but not all its benefits

The Australian - 28.9.2011

Gas Inquiry Hears Widespread Concern

New Matilda - 26.9.2011

Is coal-seam gas worth the risk?

The Australian - 24.9.2011

Mining on farm land

Alan Jones - 2GB radio - 23.9.2011

Coal Seam Gas traumatising farmers

ABC Country Hour - 22.9.2011

Coal seam gas sucks up water

Newcastle Herald - 22.9.11

Talk of no toxicity case

Daily Telegraph - Tracy Spicer - 20.9.11

Oil, gas licences ignite demands for overhaul

SMH - 19.9.2011

Coal seam gas mining story on 7 News

2GB radio - Alan Jones

Coal seam gas under renewed pressure

Lateline - ABC TV - 29.8.2011

Carcinogens found in CSG project

SMH - 28.8.2011

Coal seam gas moratorium support

Prime 7 TV News - 26.8.11

Palmer blasts ‘poisonous’ coal seam gas industry

ABC News - 28.8.2011

Protesters gatecrash mining conference

ABC TV NEWS - 18.8.2011

Put brakes on CSG, Windsor urges

news.com.au - 17.8.2011

Heffernan calls for no-go farmland zones

The Land (and AFR) - 16.8.2011

Alan Jones comments on protecting our land

Alan Jones on 2BG radio - 15.8.2011

Debate rages over coal seam gas plans

ABC radio - AM - 2.8.2011

Landholders unite against coal seam gas companies

Financial Review

The cold hard fracks

Sydney Morning Herald - Olivia Newton-John - 31.7.2011

CSG mining causes cancer, experts warn

SMH - 18.7.2011 - Petrina Berry

Rural inhabitants up in arms over wanton destruction

The Australian - Heather Brown - 16.7.2011

Fresh food for rural discontent

The Australian - Graham Lloyd, Enviroment Editor - 9.7.2011

Era of the ‘blackboot’ brigade

The Sunday Courier Mail - Daryl Passmore - 6.3.2011

The impact of coal mining in Queensland

Alan Jones, 2GB radio - 16.6.2011

Fertile plains under frack attack

Sydney Morning Herald - Leonie Lamont - 18.6.2011

Group plans to fight mining exploration

ABC TV news - Saturday, June 11, 2011

Greens and farmers fight mining land grab

The Australian - Heather Brown - 28.5.2011

Gates shut in the gas lands

The Australian - 28.5.2011 - Graham Lloyd (Environment Editor)

EPA investigates coal seam gas leak in Sydney

ABC TV news - 27.5.2011

Fracking’s toxic recipe

Business Spectator - Barry Estabrook, Salon.com 20.5.2011

Australia’s agriculture under threat from mining

Radio 2GB - Alan Jones, 20.4.2011

Coal seam gas: a sleight of hand?

Dr Shearman - ABC - The Drum, Opinion

Mine Threat to Artesian Basin

The Australian - Asa Wahlquist

Coal seam groundwater concerns

ABC Environment 22.03.2011

Get this right or we all lose

Queensland Country Life - 10.03.2011 - Letter from Anne Bridle

Gas seam mining

ABC radio - Mornings, with Angela Owen 10.03.2011

Four Corners – The Gas Rush

ABC TV - 'Four Corners' - 21.2.2011 Reporter - Matthew Carney

Coal seam gas report points to chemicals ban

SMH - Business Day - Alexandra Smith - 3.2.2011

Not enough known on CSG: experts

Queensland Country Life - 8.1.2011 (Bronwyn Farr)

Media release from Drew Hutton

Flood waters creating massive pollution from mine sites across Queensland

Fracking for coal gas is a health hazard

Doctors for the Environment Australia - 2.12.2010 article by David Shearman

Federal cave-in on gas restrictions

Courier Mail - 3.12.2010

Peak body warning on CSG

Sydney Morning Herald - 3.12.2010

Will the boom in gas drilling, ruin the country’s water?

CSG plans approved despite red flag

Queensland Country Life, 23.11.2010

Land use fury takes another steep turn

Queensland Country Life - 18.11.2010

Concerns over Queensland’s coal seam gas project

Cathy Van Extel, ABC Radio National, 4th November 2010

Methane danger in CSG, scientist says

Brisbane Times, 10.08.2010

Downs farmers challenge CSG water claims

Queensland Country Life

60 Minutes – “Undermined”

Ch. 9 - 14/5/2010

The greatest environmental threat?

ABC interview re coal seam gas - on 19/4/2010

Xenophon concerned about Artesian Basin

Timothy McDonald, ABC World Today, 21/09/09

Farmers in N.W fire up as Feds give nod to artesian sales

Lucy Knight, The Land, 26/06/2009

Alarm over auction of artesian basin water

Marian Wilkinson, Environmental Editor, SMH July 4, 2009June 2009  
Images @ Eminpee Fotography