It is wryly amusing that Donald Rokke has had threats against his life for exposing the dangers of DU - as if his life isn’t already under threat as a result of those hazards from his military career.

Of course the US has denied they use DU in war games in Australia - but they also deny torture of detainees et al, hence their word means nothing.

Geewizz - No comment on Abbott’s other policy positions?

David Hand - “It will be interesting to see if the paid parental leave idea survives into the election campaign and if it does, it will probably be part of a package designed to stimulate economic growth.” How is increasing company taxes stimulating economic growth? And how much stimulating do we need?

” vote Liberal for quite different reasons than the current rhetoric of the leader.” So you believe Abbott is not telling the truth about any of his policy positions, they will all change just before or just after the election and you need not give it any thought because a Liberal govt makes sense no matter what the policy position? Very Enlightened1

But what is truly scandalous is that the NSW government is bowing to the pressure of the Quixotes and ignoring the scientifically verified dangers of CSG. For the latest on that front look for the Bamberger and Oswald report on impacts of gas drilling on human and animal health, an American study released in January. That is real and scary.

Not really … one reason and one reason only - cheap, endless electricity. There was apparently a lot of it about 50 years ago. State Governments used to just leave the stuff lying by the road for investors to pick up. So it’s worth dragging raw materials all over the country to get into a subsidised energy handout. And despite all that added cost - the cut-rate power made the deal too good to miss. This apparently used to make good economic sense. It did????

Not any more and a good thing too.

Thoroughly recommend the subsistence farming … any time I feel the need for another bout of QE I just go and pick another bucket of strawberries. My fruit trees seem to be spectacularly indifferent to the screaming value of the AUD while the watermelons regard the funding costs problems facing the banks with at best a casual contempt.

The hard part is finding enough dirt to grow something that won’t attract the attention of a mining company.

Don’t we make life difficult?

Can you offer up anything better or remotely on a par with Greenleft that will at the very least give the other side of the story and cut through the mainstream media’s clone like reporting on issues?

Our mainstream media operates within a very restricted framework that regards Labor as one extreme and Liberal as the other. Very seldom do they allow themselves to stray outside the frame. They are more concerned with sensationalism than truth as it’s all about profits and ratings and only incidentally about the facts. This is reflected in their reporting of the Tent Embassy events.

To these megaliths :-“The free market” means their free to do what they like & free to use taxpayer resources to achieve it.

There is no such thing as the free market, it is a monopoly as nearly all these multinationals are joined at the hip through subsiduaries & financial institutions, who launder money through them for take-overs & tax evasion.

It was the so called freemarket that caused this economic meltdown because they are not regulated. De-regulation started back in 1980s under Reagan & Thatcher & has ballooned further out of control ever since.

The reason there is little money in government coffers for the people is the secret deals & handouts being chewed up by these magots, You see “Corporate Law” was instigated to financially overthrow the sovereignty of every major Western country.

Corporate & financial multinationals need “Regulating” & Joe public needs “De-regulation from bureaucracy & our ever disappearing civil rights”

“The Price of Liberty is eternal vigilance” :- Benjamin Franklin

I meant to add Alcoa got the “Norwegian” Government to destroy its own eco system!!!

Perhaps they have discovered nobody likes drinking out of Aluminium cans anymore, because it poisons them & causes Alzheimers, motor neurone issues just to name a few.

What really grates me about the secret deals done between government & Alcoa is that the government is paying millions to Alcoa for “sodium fluoride & hydrafluorasilic acid” waste from their pollution stack scrubbers to be dumped into our water supplies. It is an S7 poison & is causing so much sickness & cancer, but apparently its good for our teeth!!!

http://www.firewaterfilm.com/

Alcoa got the Government to destroy its own country’s eco-system by damming its Fiords to supply Alcoa hydro-electric power. They seem to know just who to pay off in Government everywhere in the world!!!

There’s a bloke called Donald Rokke, a US retired military person who was asked by the US authorities to clean up the trucks etc that had been used in Iraq. He was lauded in high places until he was laid low with cancer and had connected this with exposure to these vehicles. He was not lauded any more. In fact, he’s had all sorts of threats against him, including his life. He has several cancers. He made a documentary called, ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’. Also worth a look!

If you put Depleted Uranium into your search engine you can follow the link and see the hideous deformities caused by this stuff! Horrific!

I tell you what, with all those lawyers on the opposition benches, I feel pretty uneasy about our system of justice. Surely somebody has mentioned to them that they’re not doing ‘their cause’ any good. Perhaps they’ve already planned to drag him out of Parliament House???With the new Speaker wearing his cloak, bow tie, and add the wig - nice touch! There’s probably a structure around to use for the public hanging!

Notice that Pyne didn’t add the Royal Commission into the AWB scandal! Those fine upstanding politicians who didn’t see or send any memos, emails or couldn’t remember nuffink!

The usual suspects have convenient lapses of memory! One can only hope that they find themselves in the same position, not too far down the track1 Then we’d hear them squeal! Justice and equality they’d cry!

Anyway - as you say - stealing money from “nurses” scrubbing floors - spending it on wine, women and song…. this guy doesn’t deserve a trial. We don’t need a trial. Hang him high! Who’s got a rope?

Incidentally, not that you should be getting hung up on facts or nuffink, but nurses are members of the Nurses’ Federation … not the HSU. Still I can feel your outrage and your yearning hunger for justice to be done.

Now where can we get our hands on some good sized gravel?

“you know he’s guilty - not exactly sure what but he’s obviously guilty as sin. “

Well I would consider taking hundreds of thousands of dollars of union members money… people like nurses scrubbing bed pans for a living…. taking that money…. and spending it on sex services, vintage wines and personal spending sprees to be an act of fraud. But of course I’m being silly, we all know in the teachings of Marx everyone is treated equally, but some more equally than others.