G’day Petals…..
Well, we were planning it and it has happened.
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| Solar array with some pruning needed. |
It’s a 5KW+
system and should make us almost self sufficient for electricity.
Which made us think about what it may have been like here in Victoria before
it became the “Tardis” State (Where-All-Goes-Backward)
and Bully-Boy Kennett tore the State Electricity
Commission to pieces, corporatised and then with Little Johnny Howard’s help,
privatized it.
Owned by the people of Victoria the SEC actually made a profit and was
putting part of that profit into re-newables research like Solar and Wind
generation.
This research was one of the first things that “Bully-Boy” Kennett
halted.
So now, thank to the imagination and forward thinking of the Liarbrils
at both State and Federal levels we, in the Tardis State have a multiplicity of
both generation and supply companies.
Where before there was a single
State monopoply with the standardization
and efficiencies of a single standard, each company now “does its own thing”
in terms of infrastructure and attempts to make as much profit as it can to
send back to its shareholders in either Singapore or Hong Kong!
Could our electricity have been cheaper and less polluting? You bet!
Well we now know, we were really “Jeffed”.
Once services like Telephone, Gas, Water, Electricity,
Education and Health have been privatised we have to become complicit as part
of the “Market".
We have to “get-our-share” because it’s not a service that
is offered any more it’s the opportunityof profit.
“However,
the price exacted from the community
for
these achievements—reduced government services, declining
health
and education facilities, a relatively disappointing employment
performance
and the impression of growing social problems stemming
from
gambling—has figured in attacks on the government by
its
critics. So, too, have allegations of governmental impropriety, particularly
in
its relations with certain business interests and in the behaviour of ministers
and bureaucrats supplied with publicly funded credit cards.”
However not unlike the present “Tardis State” of play,
it didn’t matter what the media might criticise .. the public’s was not listening…..
http://www.sisr.net/apo/kennett.pdf
Economou and Costar
Sound like today but in fact was more than15 years ago
when “Bully-Boy”Kennett (The
Dorian Gray of Tardis State Politics) was raping anything of value in the State.
Aye, and that's because the lid there's a sounding-board;
and what in all things makes the sounding-board is this --there's naught
beneath. Herman Melville “Moby Dick”
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| Mourners, early C15th..... or bankers looking sad over profit. |
Announced this week….pay-outs to top(?) executives who are
”moving or-have moved-on”…
Marius Kloppers, BHP Billiton: $75,200,000.00
Allan Moss, Macquarie Bank: $80,000,000.00
Chris Cuffe, Colonial First State: $33,000,000.00
John E Flint, Santos: $16,800,000.00
John Alexander PBL: $15,000,000.00
Chip Goodyear BHP: $60,000,000.00
Brian Gilbertson BHP(again): $12,000,000.00
Total $292,000,000.00
So, that seven individuals and some, allegedly not very good at
their jobs, can pocket monies sufficient for funding a school or small hospital
is a gross obscenity.
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| Banker's response (left) to criticism on profits... ( Eglise, Mortemart, France) |
Advance Australia Fair(?)….or is it toward a new feudal
system?
Legal Aid Victoria can’t fund assistance as it has a
$3,000,000.00 deficit and a lot of the money went on the defence of drug dealer
Mokbel and another crim, Dupas!
So “Tardis” State “Big-Bird” Baillieu (Genus: Silvertail
Incompetens) changes the eligibility rules for aid for youth and
mental health crime and happily lets them fall through the cracks.
“….thing of naught….” Midsummer Night’s Dream W.
Shakespeare
Matthew (What subdivision) Guy has pissed off Yarra Valley
residents bypassing an appeals process and allowing another golf course to be
built…
It seems that some 40,000 speeding fines are going to be
overlooked beacause
Big Bird, Baillieu (Genus: Silvertail Incompetens) in
slashing the number of Public Servants to save money finds there are not enough
staff to process these fines and is losing millions in revenue.
Another nail in the coffin of the “better-economic-credentials”
of the Liarbrils and more proof that ideology instead of common sense produces
silly outcomes !
You Don't Have to be Buddhist to Know Nothing: An
Illustrious Collection of Thoughts on Naught packs in an intriguing collection
of thoughts on the nature of ?. Nothing. The idea of nothing is explored by
some of the finest minds in a collection of reflections on the spirit and
nature of nothing? new age collections especially will relish this Buddhist
approach. Joan Konner, Editor.
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| Greendale panorama |
Greg Hunt (Liarbril) Federal shadow Minister environment… he of
limited (should we say naught?) imagination and of being terminally and factually incorrect, raised a laugh on ABC’s
“Q and A” when he boldly stated that “… I can guarantee you that China will
never have a Carbon Pricing System!”
Two days later China announces it’s going to institute a
Carbon Pricing Scheme to assist in tackling pollution and global warming. Odd that this stupidity doesn't get the run it deserves in the press as this bloke will likely be on the front bench when the Liarbrils win the federal election in September.
"Naught is your science of man, naught is your science
of the stars," said the archdeacon, commandingly”. Notre-Dame de
Paris, Victor Hugo
On a foot-note:
Shaun Micallef’s “Mad–as-Hell” has returned on ABC TV and given its
political insights I’d like to suggest a program switch to ABC management…..
…drop Micallef’s time-slot back to 7:30pm and put “The 7:30
Report” on at 3:30!
Whether it's a.m. or p.m. really doesn't matter, particularly after L.Sayles' hideously inept interview with Bob Brown over "Sea Shepherd" and the Japanese Whalers in Aussie waters....perhaps a look at the competence of E. Alberici or T. Fullerton might suggest another approach?
Whether it's a.m. or p.m. really doesn't matter, particularly after L.Sayles' hideously inept interview with Bob Brown over "Sea Shepherd" and the Japanese Whalers in Aussie waters....perhaps a look at the competence of E. Alberici or T. Fullerton might suggest another approach?
Is there naught that we may do to save her? At
earth’s Core E.R.Burroughs.
Cheers Possums,
Shane
