Mangled Thoughts

Still to finish this item, having put out several parts already, but here we digress by turning to the topic of `psychics’. Psychics seem to be harmless, who merely make a fat living off the gullible who might be as well served if they just picked up the telephone and say, “Hullo, hullo, anybody there? Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo ( ad infinitum).” It is just as likely the believers would, after half an hour repeating cuckoo, would hear strange, profound noises directly. Rather like staring at a statue or portait, 5 minutes of that and, lo, it moves.Psychics aren’t, however, harmless, to the contrary, in playing upon the gullible, and the pyschic business, summed up, is better than corporations engaged in large scale ventures, and risk free, for no capital required. In Oz, a `pyschic’s’ `consultation’ ranges up to $400, some might be more. In the U.S., up to $700 a fling. Some such as Allison Dubois, James van Praagh and John Edward are amassing fortunes out what is nothing less than fraud, fraud because, of course it is rubbish.

The two techniques used are `cold reading ‘ and `hot reading’. The second is when a `psychic’ has either been prepared by supply of sufficient details about a subject that the guessing game involved in `readings’ is reduced to a minimum. `Cold reading’ the psychic prompts either an individual or a number of people with assertions which are voiced as true statements and highly generalised, open catch-all assertions, or assertions delivered as questions. `I’, for example, `hear a name beginning with the letter L’ , is a typical open ended assertion. All such statements are based on probability, which can be refined further by, for example, if subject(s) are , say 60 to 70 years of age, running letters for the most common Christian names for the period in which they were born. A nod of the head is sufficient to cue the `psychic’ in, or a shift in voice over the telephone. What happens often enough is, a subject jumps in and `validates’ the statement by supplying the name. The psychic jumps in by saying, for example, `Yes, that is who I’ve been picking’.

That is when the psychic claims to have contact with the dead. The same, however, holds for `predicting’ some-one’s future.What the psychic does is lift enough information from a subject to arrive at a generalised prediction, so loose that it will be `true’. Take a single male, early 20’s, starting out , perhaps as an engineer, a barrister, an entrepenuer and already the psychic has enough information to deliver a prediction which will amaze the gullible. `I see two young ladies who will come into your life. You will foind it difficult to decide which one to marry. Each has strenghts which will complement yours, and will compensate yours. You will marry one of them and have children. It won’t all be easy going, you will have to work at the marriage but it will prove a blessing to you into your old age.’ The psyhic will throw in no less pedestrian statements about career, finances and so forth. The psychic can narrow it down further as, each `validation’ not only reduces the guessing game which is , the Pyschic prising out information about the subject(s) to what to the gullible seems like amazing details no-body else could `know’.

A couple of weeks ago, The Australian Pyschics Association announced its Psychic of the Year Award, a Miss Charmaine Wilson. The association advertises itself as a `professional’ association, which excludes `charlatans’ pretending to be psyhics. Pyschics are pre-occupied with rebutting, they are nothing but charlatans. That some might believe they are possessed of amazing powers is delusion and unfortunate, nothing worse than a true believer, because garbage so beleived is the stuff of cults. Thus we have one parallel between psychics who do believe the bilge they are addicted to and those who believe in the bilge of AGW. As well as another telling one, both are very proiftable to the boosters of each: AGW is highly profitable for politicians , bureaucrats, and shysters and shysters selling junk to `govts.’ such as windmills and `water desalination plants’, to the misery of real taxpayers.

The Association has a `code of ethics’. Socialistos as much as cranks called psychics just lurve codes of ethics, they are piddle, rubbish, and resorted to when, though what, say a govt. has done is odious they cite, nonethless, but it was all done in accord with the code of ethics. In other words, an escape clause for politicians, bureaucrats, and assorted charlatans to escape having their croimes sheeted home to them. Bracksie Wacksie is fond of inventing codes of ethics and appealing to them, and the explanation why he is so is stark birthday suit naked. This is its code of ethics, from the Association’s website :

1. You are to give your psychic readings as accurately as possible.

2. In the process of your readings, you are not to give legal or medical advice. You are to refer clients to suitable people in the above professional categories if the need should arise.

3. At no time will you offer to cast spells or incantations for a fee.

4. Promises to bring lovers together by psychic means for a fee will not be tolerated. Where either partner does not will such an event to occur you are infringing on their rights of free will.

5. Generally fees are around $60 per hour. Naturally those with many years experience will charge more. However, the association will not tolerate any members asking for exhorbitant sums in return for services that fall outside the normal psychic advice. Reference is particularly made in regards to the use of magic or witchcraft.

6. At no time should professional members promise to be 100% accurate. Allowing for an error margin in predictions and the like is quite reasonable. Making ridiculous claims does not increase your standing in the clients` eye. Honesty, on the other hand, will always serve you well.

7. Members are required to hand in statutory declarations signed by a Justice of the Peace from three (3) clients who indicate in the above document that they are satisfied with the work done for them by the respective member. Under no circumstances will a Certificate of Professional Membership be bestowed on anyone who does not fulfil the above requirement.

Number 7 is mystifying. J.P.’s witness documents for the purpose of law. A statutory declaration attesting, we like Jo, or we like Bill’s work is meangingless, nothing more than there are at last three who are willing to act as character referees for a psychic, and who are gullible enough the pyschic has done something for them. Oh, wait a moment, the psychic has done something for them, slimmed their wallets in return for nothing at all.

To rule 6, a successful prediction, if it is specific and thus falsifiable, has a probility of random chance , and that probalility is so low that, unless mistaken, it can’t be calculated: noting the probility of an event is the sum of the probalities of the events of which it is compose and each of those events are composed of events which renders calculation of the pr. of a psychic’s prediction coming true impossible, complete rubbish. Accuracy of prediction, conversely, soars according to the generality of the statments as illustrated above, but such statements do not admit of falsification and moreover, even only a slight semblance between the `prediction’ and events `predicted’ will be counted as confrimation, which, again, is meaningless, not that believers will be convinced otherwise. So, we have another parallel between the junk purveyed as science by boosters of AGW and psychics.

Charmaine has been feted, for example, A Current Affair, and 3 AW, and several newspapers. Since 3AW advertised she would be a guest on Sundays, following the Faris Q.C. show, I stayed tuned the last two Sundays. The first Sunday, she mentioned she had discovered her amazing ability to converse with the dead, soon after a family tragedy, she heard voices, that started her off. She mentioned that she watched John Edward and his Crossing Over show, and studied what he did, saying she had learned much from Edward. Well, if you plan to profit from a magic show, it pays to study the best, except , Edward is bad very bad, not a good magic man at all.

Shooting for each episode takes a whole day to produce enough material to put on about 20 minutes of T.V. What is never shown is the hours of footage cut and wiped because, though running both hot and cold reading, his successful guess are actujally very few. It is only the final edited film which makes Edward a stunningly accurate guesser. Worse, as Randi has related, when confronted by subjects who refuse to oblige with the cuing in , having been prepped so as to not make any replies which do that, Edwards fails entirely and, on failing double blind, Edward was furious against Randi. The producers edited out those spectacular disasters. Here’s one exposure of the fraud in action and caught red-handed but the damning evidence was, surplise surplise edited out:

Edward will merely switch gears and continue to perform in-person for those with enough money but not enough judgment. You know, some time ago, several computer-crashes before the last one, a reader wrote me detailing an account of an in-studio experience with Edward where he inadvertently gave out some information which was then fed back to him when he was part of the studio audience ? and though that data was wrong, the spirits whispered that wrong material to Edward to hand out. Another reader who recorded a studio session in person, found that the program as broadcast did not agree with his recording, since “creative editing” was resorted to. I’d like to hear from those folks…

The nasty `Sensing Murder ‘ occasional serious is made using the same deceitful practices as used to make the `Cossing Over’ Show, as the Victorian Sceptics Society has related in telling, dripping detail here,Taking a look at “Sensing Murder” - a shabby and insulting TV show

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Despite Channel Ten billing “Sensing Murder” as a show in which psychics work with police to solve murder cases, the police are not involved with the show, and the section with the psychics only lasts for about a third of the hour-and-a-half show.
A contact from the crew of “Sensing Murder” has revealed another part of the reason why the psychics did so well at sensing details from the murders. Apparently the psychics were filmed while they were picking up ?vibes’ about the case and then their comments were matched up against the known facts. The show was subsequently ?improved’ by editing out the mistakes. The correct statements were left in, as well as those mentioned by both psychics. The crew member was very unimpressed by the psychics’ abilities and claimed to feel “morally bankrupt” for having worked on the show.

Especially in the Phillip Island episode, there was real scorn for the police work that had gone before. For Scott Russell-Hill,

The above indicates the extent the medja is prepared to lie about `psychics’ in order to promote them, which is what the medja are actually doing. Another example of the vile decietful conduct of the medja, is illuminated by this exchange,2003, between the Australian Sceptics and the lying woo woo buffoons responsible for A Current Affair:

The plain facts about Australian Skeptics’ testing of Dennis Puffet on A Current Affair

TV viewers who saw a story on A Current Affair (ACA) on Tuesday, June 17 might have been left with the impression that Australian Skeptics (AS) had “backed-down” from testing a “healer”, one Dennis Puffet. That impression, fostered by ACA both in its advertising and on air, is wrong. At no stage has Australian Skeptics ever had an agreement with Dennis Puffet, nor with anyone else, to conduct a formal test of his alleged paranormal abilities. Any charge of our backing down is blatantly untrue and neither Mr Puffet nor A Current Affair has any reason to suppose otherwise.

Trying to be scrupulously fair to ACA, they might have initially convinced themselves (mistakenly) that they had the rights to run a test for the Skeptics $100,000 challenge under their own rules (but using AS money) while ignoring any sort of controlled conditions. However, long before this segment went to air, ACA was left with no legitimate excuse for continuing to so believe.

Since the first story was shown, and before the offending segment, AS engaged in voluminous correspondence (telephone and email) with ACA in which we explained the rules, in great detail, under which such a test could take place. The first such rule is that a claimant must make a written submission to AS, clearly defining in detail precisely what it is that s/he believes s/he can do. We must know this before we can even begin to decide whether the claims are testable and, if so, how they can be tested. It hardly needs stating that waving one’s hands around on TV and apocryphal testimonials do not constitute such a claim.

At this point the issue entered the realm of pure farce. ACA told us that as Puffet would not agree to being tested by a scientist (who would be biased), they had approached Bond’s English Literature department. Seldom have our ghasts been more flabbered.

It appears that not only is the claimant allowed to nominate his own (very open ended) criteria for success or failure, he is also allowed to dictate who can supervise the testing and the right to veto anyone who might be expected to be capable of designing a scientific test. Not for our money he isn’t.

The only story that interested her, and the one to which she directed every question, was that “the Skeptics are backing down”. Clearly this approach had been decided long before the interviews and no inconvenient facts were going to be allowed to interfere with the story.

The Skeptics Challenge is NOT a game of chance, a bet that someone can put one over the Skeptics, nor one that can be decided on purely subjective criteria. The Challenge is a serious attempt to investigate whether or not popular paranormal beliefs have any substance. It something that requires testing, objectively, by rigorously using the tools of science, not because it makes an entertaining story.

Barry Williams C.E.O Australian Skeptics Inc
Richard Saunders President Australian Skeptics Inc

In a nutshell, the liars at who are responsible for ACA showed a willingness to defame others in order to protect frauds and their advocacy and promotion of bunk. This is another parallel with the AGW rubbish, the medja conveying attacks on many scientists whose crime is to point the AGW claim is false and that amny of its boosters are oi fact committing fraud in science in order to `prove ‘ AGW.

In America and Oz, and in Britain, the television refuse to admit any sound testing of psychics for the very reason,. they will be shown up for what they are , charlatans. Is this an exception, from Channel 7,

Caught on hidden camera, a psychic has ‘communicated’ with three people’s dead relatives, who never existed.

Channel 7 didn’t let that demonstration of charlatanism stand in the way of promoting the charlantan and her non-existent speical powers. No, they let the bilger bilge on, and on about how belief is essential, where-as scepticism interferes with the spooky things she taps into.

On the first Sunday, Charmaine failed, badly. The first caller to the 3 AW promo of voodoo, did not cue Charmaine in by her answers, and with no visual cues, she floundered and how. To each assertion, the first caller answered as follows: No. No. That’s not the name at all. You’re not describing whom I wish to contact at all. This is wrong.

In response to each denial, her stock response is, after a short pause , to sort out, no doubt, how to continue with, in fact, not conversing with the dead but interrogation of callers: `This doens’t matter’ ,or, `that’s o.k., we can move along and fnd out what is going on.’

That first caller became quite angry - that’ll teach her to patronise charlans. Charmaine was beginning to panic, becoming desparate to make even just one successful guess. To cover herself, she blurted, `I usually need more time , I can’t work this fast, give me time work with me.’

The first was complete failure, the disk-jock covered for Charmaine by announcing an ad break and getting the offending caller of the linbe quickly. Nearly the same thing happened last Sunday morning, again first call, again a woman, seeking contact with her dead son. After a number of failed guesses, the caller was becoming angrier and angrier but, the caller made a mistake, a slip of the tongue, she was that angry, delivered more than a cue:

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Never believed they’d work and, the notion that they’d at least inhibit a dangerous criminal from perpetrating another violent crime, rubbish.

Appeal to expose incurable pedophile
Mark Buttler and Geoff Wilkinson
31jan06

A PEDOPHILE dubbed incurable by a judge has been arrested for preying on a family and loitering at a shopping centre.

But the criminal, who has a three-decade history of sex offending, cannot be identified because of a court order.

Police who charged him are alleged to have found the clothes at his flat and that he was wearing an electronic ankle bracelet as part of his order.

What the report doesn’t mention but a distraught and, understandly, ropeable mother did relate on radio yesterday was, the scumbag had been caught by neighbours prowling in the family’s property, fondling children’s clothes on the washing line a number of times previously and when they family was out. He told a neighbour who, having spotted one morning doing that, confronted him:
`What are you doing here?’
He told the neighbour, `Get out of here, none of your business’, in a threatening voice.

So, the scumbag had been preying upon the family, the children in particular with some regularity, breaching the `curfew’ several time. Criminals could be released into dah commoooooooooonity early or, at the end of a risibly low prison sentence, the Junta asserted because, eletronic monitoring and tracking would ensure police would be able to prevent a scumbag doing something nasty.

Well, it clearly hasn’t, certainly not in this case. Then, there is the problem, in any case, assume a scumbag has been detected somehwere he shouldn’t be, in the time it would take to despatch police and their arrival to wherever a scumbag is, presuming a scumbag could be reliably tracked, the scumbag might have murdered someone or, in the case of an inveterate peadophile, raped another child. This confirms rather this very point:

Corrections Commissioner Kelvin Anderson said when the man’s electronic tag alarm went off on Sunday morning, authorities were instantly alerted. He was found to be at home soon after.

The aalrm went off, so what, big bloody deal. The bastard had prowled and back in the residence well before the police were knocking on his door. In that time, he cold have grabbed a child, assaulted the child, and raped the child, and back indoors by before the the time the police rapped on his door. Big bloody deal Commissioner Kelvin Anderson, the alarm goes off, my alarm clock goes off at 5 each morning and , roast the tootsies until 5.30 It is easy to imagine the scene, the dipsticks , including Anderson, the Police Ministah and Bracks congratulating themsleves saying, `See, it works, and what a lovely alarm it is’ and, just as Anderson has done, write up a medja spin to the effect: `See it works’.

Lost competely on the dropkicks is, it didn’t work at all. The scumbag was out and back in before the police arrived. He had had time to assault and rape a child. He has done it not once, he as several times prior preyed upon the family. How much longer, if undetected , would it have been before he did commit a hideous crime against a child again? and, clearly, undetected. It failed Anderson, failed absolutely, it doesn’t do the damned job Bracksie Wacksie claim dit would., to protect those in the neighbourhood in which the scumbag had been located incognito.

It is something worth considering, more so, Bracksie Wacksie has turned Victoria into a dumping ground for peadophiles from other states, and who have been released early.

Along with other types of violent crims who have been released early, or given risibly short sentence, particularly in view of how dangerous some of them are, Victorians run the risk of being forced to live next door to dangerous crims . Dah Department of Corrections does not advise residents that they are about to place a vile rotten thug next door, in a real taxpayyer kept house of course. Understandably, when residents make discovery, they are tempted to march upon Spring St. and give the ministahs of dah Cabinet a bloody good fllogging. They should.

Some more unfortunate Victorians are soon to wake up one morning to this very danger. A criminal who has completed his sentence of 11 years, no parole, is about to be released on the same basis, bracelet, monitored, curfews. The scumbag is classified as highly dangerous the Herlad Sun report merely states `feared ‘. The scumbag is worse than feared, he is highly dangerous :
` offender Robin Fletcher was likely to be the next placed on a supervision order when he is released from prison in a few months. ‘

This is not a joke?

A spokesman for Corrections Minister Tim Holding said that publicly naming such suspects could place them in danger from vigilantes.

That `spokesman’ and dah Minstah, the whole damned cabinet, might reflect, the possibility of decent men and women turning vigilante if, soft cock judges and the bloody Stalinist Junta weren’t such soul mates to vile, evil, scumbags, and on that thus kept them where they belong, bhind bars or, better still, dealt the death penalty. Then, there is no risk of such types `re-offending’ and real taxpayers are saved a fortune by not having to maintain the bastards in prison. No prospect of vigilantism would. therefore, arise. It might occur some might turn vigilante for what bloody socialisto polliers, slobs called bureaucrats and soft cock leftoid judge won’t do, remove the bastards permanently. Why should decent men and women have their lives put in danger, and their children too? What the crappers in the Junta, and sadly the Coalition, are opposed is, the freedom of anyone to defend themselves, particularly when dah govt. fails in this and only plausible reason for `govt.’ It’s not vigilantism, it is doiung what the bastards in dah govt. and on the benches won’t do, it is not vigilantism to protect one’s property, limb,life, kith, and kin.

The convicts are not `suspects’, they are convicted crims who are beyond doubt highly dangerous. As for, naming them, that it ” could place them in danger from “vigilantes” boo bloody hoo. What about residents who are placed in danger because socialisto slobs who stuff dah guvmnt. loose dangerous bastards back out onto the streets ? That’s a rhetorical question since, Victorians are under the heel of a Stalinist Junta who are nothing but criminal spivs anyway, and crims have to cling together lest the lumpenmasse pick up the surprising notion, the job to do is to clean the streets of evil, most violent, convicted criminals.

Hmmm.. if one had a young family and discovered such a scumbag prowling around, since, thanks to dah Federal Coaltion, it is a crime to own a fire-arm and weild it when required, one would take a shovel and and wrap the blade around the bastard’s face. One wouldn’t give a scumbag like that one smidgeon of a chance to try what that one above was doing, threaten my children - no bloody way hosea. The bastard would be picking his face out from within his cranium with his broken fingers.

Nothing unusual in that, as also of the rest of his cabinet. Paper Doyley produced the goods against the cabinet over the finances for the freewaytollway. Madden, the Minster for Soviet collectivised Sportz in brackistaniland has lied, according to Doyle, over an interest he had when forming a bill written to serve aprticular interest. It is in fact an offence to do as Madden did. The ALP wrote that offence into the statutes at both State and Federal Level. Taking just the finance scandal, Doyley supplied documentary evidence before parliament showing, the Cabinet lied to parliament. It is amusing that the Speaker of the Lower House acted to strike down statments using the forms of the verb to lie and the adjective and the noun, it is obvious why. Striking down the word in all its forms doesn’t detract from, that is exactly what minsters of the Bracks junta have done. The lies they told to parliament regarding the freeway made tollway involve more than the sacking offence of, misleading parliament. Bracks, this week, told another lie, it is far more serious than even the Scoresby lie, it is lie which directly bears upon the bushfires and the horrific scale of them.

A caller on talkback radio, early this week, asked Jo Stalin Bracks the question, roughly, “Does the Govt. encourage clearance on land of fuel?” I suspect the caller lives in the urbs and not in rural Victoria, nor rural anywhere else in Oz for reasons which are plain but to the sheltered.

Bracks replied: “Yes, we do encourage land owners to maintain their land, to clear potential fire fuel.”

That is a lie.

It can be a criminal offence under Local Council, State Govt. and Federal Govt. to do so. The penalities are fines into the tnes of thousands of dollars and, can include orders to restablish the scrub, trees thinned and what-knots that have been cleared in order to eliminate fire hazards. There are property owners in Victoria who have been seeking `permission’, on their own properties mind, to clear hazardous material for the last 11 years. Each year, they have been refused by little tinpot dictators of the following:

Local Councils
National parks
State Parks
EPA - local, state and federal
Department of `Sustainability and Environment
The non -govt. greeny front, the Australian Conservation Foundation but kept out of real taxpayers’ taxed property.

The A.C.F., more-over, has been given to weild, and weild it does, secret police state powers. The A.C.F. is in fact used as a police state goon squad by each tier of govt. The above listed entities weild police state coercive powers.

Those police powers have been decreed by the polticians , all parties to enforce the cult of environmentalism and the acts on which it is enforced contain articles which are nothing but an overthrow of property rights and thus too common law. To this, each of the above have police state `rights ‘ to enter private property.

As a lead in, this example: One landowner has discovered a thin layer of surface material over a number of acres is valuable. He can lift it and sell it.That will have no impact on his own land, and he certainly has no desire to cripple the long term productive capacity of his land. He can’t scrape and sell the material, because the feral animals of the A.C.F., using the police state powers to commit the crime of tresspass, had walked over his land in the search of `native grasses’ and found a some specimens . The onwer cannot now mine the material ,unless he wishes to be thrown into prison.

My view is, the owner made a singular msitake: though it is none of the business of the nasty little dictators who stuff local councils, engaging works an owner must bribe so many bastards - the `permit & licence fees’. Now, if the farmer, before registering the application for the permit umpteenth had scoured the field and, on spotting it, ripped out the obnoxious grass, he would have been on his way.

Bye the bye, my advice to any who have trees posing danger to house and limb, tap into the root and pour in round-up. Neat hole drilled in, sufficient to allow sufficinet of the poison to kill the nasty things, into the roots so that they can be concealed. A council cannot refuse a permit to cut down the trees when the buggers are dead as a dodo. In fact, you won’t need a permit, the tree is bloody dead.

It is not simply, landowners commit a crime when engaging in any works which remioves what the bloody greenies assert to be a wombat species of plant, it is a criminal offence in Victoria now, as in other states, and under local, state and federal totalitarian decrees to cut down and thin out tress and scrub full stop., unless they have been given `permission’ and subject to planting a multiple of the dynamite removed.

How bad is it? The fate of John Howard’s brother is the prospect facing property owners, irrespective of whether rural or urban for that matter. John Howard’s care-taker of a property in N.S.W. wanted a stand of trees and scrub near the care-taker’s residence removed to eliminate in fact two things:

It attracted snakes, and he, understandably, does not wish children to be poisoned by a snake. All the more understandable because, it is a criminal offence to kill snakes which attests the priorities of the greenies and the major parties which have embraced some of the major objectives of Pol Pot’s fan club, sacrifice man to the goddes of death, Mudder Nature. To mark, there has been a population explosion of snakes over the last ten years and is increasing exponentially, the upshot beoing the rotten land lice infest now towns and city in plague numbers.

National Parks `officers’ and the little stalinst bastard of mayor of the pertinent shire showed what they are, demented, rotten land lice. They frothed and foamed at the mouth, dah `mayor’ ranting, roughly `this is preciesly what has to be stopped, we have to make an example of Mr. Howard, to show you can’t do this and get away with it.’

The hypocrisy is blatant. The stalinist bastards are sure punishment is effective deterrance. How can the dipsticks entertain that for what are crimes only by imposing totalitarian edicts and yet assert, of real serious evil crimes, murder and rape, punishment is not a deterrent, with particular attention to capital punishment? It is another insight to what liars socialistos are. In fact, the lie involved is entailed in every other bit of rotten ‘regulation’ each `tier of govt.’ has rammed down,usually on businesses and property owners. On the one hand, deterrance by punishment works, but, for leftoid mush and woo woo causes, it doesn’t. All parties run the contradiction. It is a very strange thing entertaining two completely opposite propositions are both true. Theb condition being, x is true when I say it is true and y is true when I say it is true, right out of the hand-book for jackbooted totalitarians, and is a case of why pragmatism is false and a specious justification of totalitarianism ( epistemology of - those unsure read Russell’s survey of A History of W.Phil. for a quick summary).

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It is a criminal offence in Victoria to even remove dead trees, fallen limbs. The greenies via the front the A.C.F. wail, `they are necessary to provide homes’ for nasty little things , everything and anything, land lice, ants, the non-existent spinker-fonkle-gussetted-cretin lizard. Doesn’t matter much of what they wail is not even rare, it is , `save dah animals, save dah bush’ and fuck all who have to bear the burdens of compliance, the property owners.The burdens : financial; lost production capacity; threat of being arraigned on stalinist charges; the danger of devestation by bushfire; the crippling of the ability to work land on a sound basis.’

Yes, all the `laws’ of each tier of govt. are crippling the ability of farmers to work land on a sound basis. To draw this constraint out further: the `laws’ are undermining the very things which those who have imposed them sought to secure. Things which, from the 80’s, property owners were doing volitionally, until the commie bastards stepped in.

The National Party is far detached from those they claim to `represent’, certainly in Victoria. Things changed during the 80’s and that change gathered momentum during the Kennett years, the sheer numbers of farmers who grasped: Farms are not lifestyle wombat holes, they are businesses. With it, they changed how they developed land, including combining forestry, some on a commercial basis. Govt. `legislation’, each `tier’ og govt. is buggering up those developments. Amplifying it is, Beatties pol potian laws, with the upshot, forestry on farmland is not worth the effort. It is worse in N.Z., with commerical forestry plantations also being scrapped. In short, parading their `envirnmental compassionate’ navels in public the bloody politicians have achieved the opposite: why bother wasting funds on forestry, when some police state goon citing decree 9,456,078 , free to commit tresspass, will walk up up to your door and lob against you criminal charges and impose further costs.

More-over, on commons but not govt. forests, clearing sides of roads, for example, of rubbish is a criminal offence. A dangerous tree on the side of road, say a blind bend, too bad. Mr. and Mrs. Jones,with their children can cruise along and crash into it. A tree falls, down, the tree or branch might be moved to the side of the road but cannot be carried away for the wood, and too bad if the Thoimas family happen to run off road and into the obstacle.Better to have the Thomas or Jones family die on the roads than disturb mudder nature. This is just clearing obstacles form roadsides.

Forget clearing scrub and thick canopy which extend those bushfire bombsites, govt. owned parks. it is a criminal offence to clear strectches of scrub and canopy along roads: and this explosive rubbish carries bushfires out of the govt. owned `parks’ out onto properties, killing live-stock and plant and equipment, and into towns destroying assets in towns and much else in between.

Bracks told a damnable lie: property owners, anywhere in Victoria, are not free to maintain their propertoies free of dangerous fuel loads. Not even free to clear bloody nasty gum trees next to a house - the point being, next to fire, gums are prone to dropping branches, gum trees are bloody dangerous.

As for govt. owne dparks, well, as alreay well covered, they are just, in reality, gigantic packs of dynamite awaiting detonation. they should be sold off so they can be commerically worked which thus means, companies can maintain them properly. Right now, govts. and their scams calle,d reserves, parks, conservation parks, they are just rotten criminals.

The downright reality is : the bloody politicians have stripped owners of their property rights, it is unlawful for them to run their land as they see fit. They are not free to eliminate fuel loadings. It is a criminal offence to do so Steve Jo Stalin Bracks you damned fat lying commie spiv bastard. Between your goddamned `forests’ and your other totalitarian decrees, you have turned Victoria into a great outdoor bomb. All the devestating bushfires still raging were generated in govt. forests and spilled out of the forests along `lanes’ of scrub and canopy which has never been cleared because it is a criminal offence.

The bottom line , the pollies, the bureaucrats, National and State Parks,greenies are criminally liable. What they have done is deliberate sacrifice lives and property so that they can worship bloody Mudder Nature. It is deliberate: govt. forests are time bombs. It is no secret.

[Gad, I have to get off the computer, a blister of a lightening storm is moving through.]

With exceptions, Howard’s reflection on the inadequate rigour with which history is taught in schools brought out the usual demented reactions of leftoid teachers and other assorted feral animals.

History debate rages over narrative
Imre Salusinszky
January 27, 2006
AUSTRALIA’S national day of celebration was marked by a renewed outbreak of the culture wars as education experts debated the way Australia’s story is taught in schools.

The latest hostilities were provoked by John Howard’s comments at the National Press Club on Wednesday, where he claimed the teaching of history had degenerated into a “fragmented stew” of post-modernist ideas with no clear narrative thread….

next to the usual rants such as:

Australian Education Union secretary Andrew Gohl told The Australian:…”
Does it mean we can’t talk about the invasion of Australia, or the appalling treatment of indigenous Australians?”

Entirley lost on the pillock is, the `appaling treatment’ dished out to aborgines has been committed by the socilaito policies, at great burden to real taxpayers to keep as many aboriginies as possible ground into the dirt of primitive tribalism. As for invasion… what? Like Hitler’s spring-time? Gohl has to stop sucking on acid drops.

This, however,gives away how thoroughly debased the subject of history is, once a sound scholarly discipline with schools ensuring pupils walked out with at least a comprehension of the building bolcks of the subject and thus able to read sound works for their pleasure and interest,, it is now an exercise in brainwahsing young things into woo woo - pol potian beliefs. History rendered ugly, something to throw away on the instant of leaving school :

the NSW curriculum for younger students shows that, as in the other states, history is being taught as part of “human society and its environment” rather than as a free-standing subject.

The NSW curriculum also stipulates seven “perspectives” that should be applied to the subject matter: Aboriginal, civics and citizenship, environmental, gender, global, multicultural and work.

Mr Donnelly argues the relativist approach, in which no single perspective dominates, is inherently contradictory. On the one hand curriculum documents point to the subjectivity of historical understanding, while on the other mandating approaches such as feminism and environmentalism as templates for students’ understanding.

The oxymoron involved in, ‘history is being taught as part of “human society’, is wrose than a vulagrism of vulgarisms, which shows what is problematic with, States’ Govts. and their Bureaucrats dictating education and the short cut to teaching , the crapola of `bachelor of education’. Schooling is no longer , in govt. schools certainly, dominated and ordered by graduates holding real university degrees’. Of course, that is, these days begging the querstion when history in the university is dominated not by Professors of History but mythologisers inculcating the voodoo beliefs of socialistos.

Dah environment: `environmental science is bunk’. The only reason why it ha sbeen proliferated is becuase the bloody pollies have embraced woo beleifs to the hilt and thus fund charltanism to the hilt. Just consider, fir further illumination, that load of bullshit called sociologists and the derivatives, `relgious studies’ and `social work’ and such crapola real taxpayers are plundered to fund on a grand scale. Basically, those charlatans, the politicians and the bureaucrats are turning out of schools and unis ignoramuses who are useless, can’t make their own way, and reliant on bloody `govt.’ non-jobs to do what… feel good, that is all.

`Environmental science’ is the same, an expensive load of crap etnailing the corruption of science and the turning out of so many are nothing but mouths for quacks. Reading through universities’ `course’ descriptions for it alone makes plain how shoddy, what garbage `enviro-science’ is. it is nothiong more than a lie and a propaganda effort, as well as a brainwashing exercise, to justify what is another rotten cult, environmentalism and the source, Pol Pot’s bum wipes, the Greens. Jolly, how many millions, it is certainly more than a hundred per annum thrown down that sewer. The upshot: those schools, such as they are, tyurn out little totalitarian, infantile shits who, backed by the police state `environmental laws ‘ of each tier of `govt.’, turn out to be only nasty little KGB-Gestapo fingerwagging little shits.

So, in the name of history, the commie bastards of N.S.W., applies also to, say, Victoria, and Federal `Education’. called politicians and bureaucrats have corrupted botrh science and history and converted history into nothing less than nothing less than ,mystical commie shite. Now, that is a crime,for, in schools certainly, poinko arseholes such as Grohl are engaged in nothing less than corruptioon of youth as well as brainwashing pupils into tjhe garbage they plaming of as the scholarly discipline, history. If a company were to do that, they wouuld be charged of a number of offences. Why do fucking pollies, bureaucrats and `teachers’ and “teachers’ universities” get away with it and on a grand scale free!

It’s anecdotal but, someone reported, they are counting one surviving koala bear to 7 dead. Bear’s up to my point, locking up land, thus letting it turn into a mass of bonfire material actually defeats the aim of locking up land in the first place, protection of planty and beasty things. Mass incineration of planty and beastial type things is some defeat.

Yup pol pots bum pals, Greenies, hear that Steve Jo Stalin Bracks, 7 out of every 8 Koala’s barbecued, turned into dust and ashes, charcol, soil material. Extrapolate to all the other animals the mudder earth worshipper’s adore and, well, since the same believe in the woo woo crap of AGW -Co2 caused `climate change’, they can console themselves by refelcting upon, Oz has met the Kyoto `targets’, all those Co2 and methane emitters no longer emit Co2 and methane - mudder nature is saved, joy.
Oh, dang, all the burbed lumber, a century’s worth of AGW `emission’ pumped out …. damn,we are doomed by, oh no, the evil bitch herself, Mudder Nature.

Told you Mudder nature is the goddess of death and destruction, but no, the buggers stuffing local councils, states’ parlaiments and federal land just can’t come to grips with that singular telling fact..Best to put the chief high priests to the bitch into loony bins for the criminally insane, the bastards of A.C.F., Greens, Steve Bracks, Peter Garrett, other woo woo idiots, the sods in EPA etc. Worshipping that goddess is a no no, she rewards her worshippers, by a her gentle touch, death and destruction on a massive scale. How divine.