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Archive for November 2010

Waterproofing the Nation

Posted by: pointofviewsa on: November 13, 2010

From AdelaideNow, today Nov 13 “FEDERAL Regional Minister Simon Crean has criticised the Murray-Darling Basin Authority for being “one dimensional” with the way it prepared its controversial plan to cut water allocations and save the basin. The Australian Conservation Foundation has also attacked the MDBA for a lack of adequate modellng in its plan …..” [...]

I’m 80 and Getting a Bit Tired.

Posted by: pointofviewsa on: November 12, 2010

With Apologies to Robert Hall who plays the Coroner in the TV Series CST who set this soliloquy in motion and who is or was a 5 times US Senator. I’m 80. Except for a six-month period many years ago when between jobs, but job-hunting every day, I’ve worked on the farm hard, since I [...]

Bullying in Schools? Smile,You’re on Camera

Posted by: pointofviewsa on: November 9, 2010

The SA Government is being pushed to install CCTV in schools to deal with the bullying but it will make little difference to the reality of school life that finds ways and means without being seen or the chorus,”It wasn’t any of us” An objectionable little prick stealing pencils in the class in my school [...]

The Doomsday Cult and The Changing Seasons

Posted by: pointofviewsa on: November 6, 2010

It is a fact .Indeed a truism that climate changes. Why then is it suddenly Earth shattering information? For as long as I can remember and I am over 80, it changes 4 times a year and that change has been going on for eons, since records were first found as carvings by the Neanderthals [...]

Are We Waterproofing the Nation?

Posted by: pointofviewsa on: November 6, 2010

Imagine Dear Reader, the money spent to rein in the human requirement of water from the Murray Basin to get some enviroflow to the Lower Lakes, a severe trauma for the population dependent on the River as shown by the reception at the meetings to explain. But not any practical action to waterproof the nation, [...]

Energy for the Extra 2.8 Billion in 40 Years

Posted by: pointofviewsa on: November 6, 2010

The former Defence Force Chief. General Cosgrove, says that Climate Change has forced the issue for Nuclear Power and criticized the constant scrapping over the need to build them.(The Australian,Feb 4 2010) Well, Dear Reader, he is not alone. Nuclear Power, from small reactors, a new trend.(Article from: Agence France-Presse Tokyo October 24, 2009 02:03pm) [...]

The Truth is the First Casualty – Part 1

Posted by: pointofviewsa on: November 5, 2010

This State Labor Government has run the state into a debt so large that our grandchildren will be paying for it. The ruling junta will go to great spin to divert attention from the responsibility for the truth. Barely 800,000 of the total population of 1.58 million provide the revenue by their personal and corporate [...]

Excuses and More Excuses to Save the Planet

Posted by: pointofviewsa on: November 5, 2010

The UN has held another Green Summit in Nagoya, Japan to save the wild species—again. The planet’s temperatures have failed to increase for 12 years, and the public is losing interest in man-made global warming. So, back to the cuddly wild animals as the excuse for shutting down the modern world. The UN’s problem is [...]

Energy and the Greens

Posted by: pointofviewsa on: November 5, 2010

Greens MP Mark Parnell says there is no safe way to mine uranium with the insitu acid leach process and this method should be stopped. Well, there is no safe way to process gold either with the cyanide heap leach process on the surface but typical of the Greens, Mark Parnell has no idea. Would [...]



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