USE of a Carriage Laws

Man charged over allegedly posting racists comments on Nova Peris Facebook page https://t.co/J1OZ2RM7PO

— Guardian Australia (@GuardianAus) May 30, 2016

There have been times when I firmly had the self destruct button on fast because in the past I had hoped to be locked up for abusing politicians who don't do their jobs. I am a citizen of this land.  I have paid the high price of having government as a parent.

I just don't make the grade though. I often say they are idiots and deserve a bully ants nest to make them wake up. Is that abusive? Gosh I don't know anything anymore.

 I feel like I am caught in a really bad dream.

I felt sorry for Nova because I knew this would happen to her eventually. I knew this from the onset and I wrote about how she would be chewed up and spat out because she is not one of them.

Quite frankly, I felt she was being used as the Captains pick. I believe now that with the aid of hindsight I was absolutely correct because she sobbed as she said goodbye and afterwards she was viciously attacked on twitter by an osteopath from the Central Coast with racial slurs.  I thought osteopaths were higher minded than he showed.  There is definitely hope for me yet.

Incredible Twitter handle @AbbottLovesAnal

One has to have a great Twitter handle, mine is Mrs Bricee.  I have had Twitter for awhile now, about five years and I thought it was great back then. But this twitter handle has been manufactured for this show and this show only. 

I felt it was a vain attempt to kick a goal against the pig headed prime minister who would be better served tied to a bully ants nest than tied to our parliament.  He is an embarrassment to say the least. 

I, unlike most other Australian's have worked out the Catholic angle here being thrust on us by a bunch of loose goose Jesuits in suits acting like politicians bum holes. 

Their game is up as far as I am concerned.  In the mean time I have to suffer their 'mean' time which they have created for everyone in Australia with so much garbage politics it beggars belief they still stand.

But this twitter handle took the cake.   Of all the funniest ones that could be chosen this is the most appropriate for an episode of the ABC's Q & A.   The handle @AbbottLovesAnal went across the bottom of the screen and Australia just rocked in their seats with laughter. 

  Of course now the show is in hot water again.  But who at the ABC would have known this was going to happen.  I say this very tongue in cheek.  Who indeed?    Well it is a possibility that it was planned this way.  It would not be the first time media has copped it by those who are smarter than the said media.

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The Use of Homeless Spikes

Homeless Spikes! I had never heard of them and I was horrified at such a lack of humanity.  I could barely believe what I was reading and the attitude people have toward those who have fallen on hard times in life.

The image was widely shared on Twitter (Andrew Horton/Twitter

From the Telegraph

Homelessness charities said the use of metal studs to prevent rough sleepers is widespread and they have been installed on ledges and in doorways for more than a decade.

I am going to keep my eyes open for this happening here in Australia.  I would not put it past Abbott and his heartless cronies to bring in such a law.  Perhaps they have already and I don't know about it yet.  Its like they bring in new laws now faster than any of us can keep up with.   I tend to think that even the most law abiding person would break the law these days unwittingly, its just that legislated.

Security spikes protect a gated community in the East End of London. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Its hard to believe that the world can treat their fellow man in such a degrading humiliating way in front of their peers by their peers for what?  Being poor?

Sydney has many homeless people, I respected their dignity and didn't photograph them.

 

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Australia says No to Abbott!

NATIONAL GENERAL STRIKE : This Call-Out is a totally grassroots initiative that has been organized by ordinary, indignant citizens just like yourself & is not endorsed by or affiliated with any political party or organization nor has it been endorsed by any of the union organizations, although it is hoped that eventually the union movement will come on board.

 https://www.facebook.com/events/733848279991874/

Australia says NO MORE

 There are events being organised around the country and here are some links to the marches being organised.  Read more here

BENTLEY TRENDS ON TWITTER

Barry O'Farrell at Flag Day in Sydney. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

We knocked the budget off the front page! Metgasco project referred to ICAC as links to Obeid family emerge.   Said Mark Anning on Facebooks Lock The Gate page. 

A story was aired in the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD that details the corrupt links in business and mining and the connection to New South Wales with Queensland with these corrupt deals.

ARTICLE WRITTEN BY
Sean Nicholls, Nicole Hasham, Kate McClymont May 15, 2014

Resources company Metgasco's gas drilling operation on the NSW north coast was referred to corruption authorities as links emerged between its largest shareholder and the family of disgraced former Labor powerbroker Eddie Obeid, and controversial businessman Nick Di Girolamo.

On Thursday, NSW Energy Minister Anthony Roberts announced he had suspended Metgasco's exploration licence at Bentley, near Lismore, due to a lack of community consultation. Mr Roberts also said he had referred the project to the Independent Commission Against Corruption "following receipt of information concerning shareholdings and interests in Metgasco Limited".

The chairman of Metgasco's largest shareholder, ERM Power, is Tony Bellas, who is in business with Eddie Obeid's nephew, Dennis Jabour. Both are shareholders in the Queensland company Gasfields Waste Water and Services, of which Mr Jabour is the sole director.

Until March last year, Mr Bellas was also a director of Australian Water Queensland, a subsidiary of infrastructure company Australian Water Holdings, whose activities are the subject of current ICAC investigations.

Eddie Obeid jnr, the son of Mr Obeid, worked for Australian Water Queensland. The ICAC has heard that from 2009 Mr Obeid jnr led AWH's push into the Queensland market. Among Mr Bellas's fellow directors on the Australian Water Queensland board were Mr Di Girolamo, a former lobbyist and Liberal party fundraiser who was chief executive of AWH.

Mr Di Girolamo's gift of a $3000 bottle of Penfolds Grange Hermitage to former NSW premier Barry O'Farrell led to his resignation after Mr O'Farrell gave false evidence about it to the ICAC.

Australian Water Queensland was shut down due to negative publicity about the involvement on the board of a Queensland lobbyist, Wayne Myers. A new company, Gasfields Waste Water and Services, was set up early last year.

Former Gasfields shareholders include Mr Obeid jnr, Mr Di Girolamo and the current director-general of the Queensland department of premier and cabinet, Jon Grayson, who only ceased to have an interest two weeks ago.

On Thursday, Mr Bellas said he was "incredulous" about the referral to the ICAC if its was due to his links with Mr Di Girolamo and Mr Obeid jnr. "We have nothing to do with Metgasco's operation, we're just a shareholder," Mr Bellas said. Asked about the nature of his association with Mr Di Girolamo and Mr Obeid jnr, Mr Bellas replied: "I'd prefer not to comment on either, because they are before the ICAC."

Metgasco's license to explore for coal seam and conventional gas resources in northern NSW was first granted to Carlita Holdings in November 1996, when the Carr Labor government was in power.

Peter Gray, a high-profile stockbroker, was a director and secretary of Carlita Holdings and was later revealed as an investor in Cascade Coal, a company at the centre of an ICAC inquiry involving Mr Obeid snr and another former Labor resources minister, Ian Macdonald, last year.

The ICAC found Cascade Coal paid $30 million to the family of Mr Obeid to buy out part of their stake in a mining joint venture over the Obeids' Bylong Valley farm. ICAC found Mr Macdonald acted corruptly in creating a mining tenement at Mount Penny in the Bylong Valley over land owned by the Obeid family.

In his final report, the ICAC found Mr Macdonald expressly reopened a tender to enable Cascade Coal to put in a bid, which it subsequently won. Mr Gray was not accused of any wrongdoing.

In August 1999, the north coast exploration license, known as PEL 16, was transferred from Carlita Holdings to Metgasco, when Mr Obeid snr was Minister for Mineral Resources.

Mr Obeid renewed the licence in 2000 and it was again renewed by Mr Macdonald in 2006. The licence was most recently renewed last year, under former Liberal resources minister Chris Hartcher.

Mr Hartcher is currently the subject of an ICAC inquiry involving Australian Water Holdings. He and fellow state MPs Chris Spence and Darren Webber are accused of soliciting donations to an alleged slush fund, including from AWH, in return for political favours.

Metgasco shares went into a trading halt on Thursday morning. In a statement, the company said it was "confident that it is in compliance with the PEL 16 licence conditions and is seeking to demonstrate this to government". `
SMH

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