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Username: Verity
Date: 2020-01-07 02:51:56
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I'd also add the greenies were successful in preventing back burning.
This is huge.
To call someone (like a group...) green is to call them immature, infant, juvenile, maturing, unripe, callow, half-formed, puerile, pliable, ungrown, unseasoned. (Thanks to the online thesaurus.)
ABC news pulled some stories pertaining to the effective greenie back-burning protests, held in case any baby birds got burnt. (Please note Dear Aussies; Pauline Hanson is not my kind of leader, this is a random meme);
The forests have developed a huge mass of tinder waiting for ignition, the aboriginals and old farmers knew the secret to controlled cool-burning to avoid precisely what has happened.
There are so many stories and angles on the truth of this but we all know the one which will keep rearing it's head, "Cloimit change, moite."
I've heard one local anecdote of some volunteer firemen having to buy basic fighting supplies at Bunnings out of their own pocket.
Arsonists have been caught locally too, I heard it through a friend at the farmers market, but they never make headlines because muh cloimut.
A quote from this article on the
private dams being built with
tax-payers cash;
Dam Shame: the New Dams Politicians Won’t Talk About
Just two of the new dams in the Murrumbidgee received nearly $30 million, while dam-related projects in the wider Murray Darling have received over $200 million in taxpayer funding.
“The reason politicians won’t talk about these dams is that they do nothing for drought-stricken communities, the health of the river or struggling farmers,” said Maryanne Slattery, Senior Water Researcher at The Australia Institute.
“These dams have been built on private land and are for the exclusive use of corporate agribusiness, such as Webster Limited.
“Politicians are reluctant to talk about why millions of taxpayer dollars have been spent subsidising dams that make the problems of the Murray Darling Basin worse.
The government also purposefully neglected upkeep of fire-roads access too, so they're overgrown and useless, in spite of using the more expensive and less effective helicopter dumping of water- and not even sea water at that- because the salt 'hurts the trees'.
Diabolically head-spinning lack of logic.
Section 100 of the Constitution: The Commonwealth shall NOT BY ANY LAW, or REGULATION of TRADE or COMMERCE , ABRIDGE THE RIGHT of a STATE or of THE RESIDENTS to the REASONABLE USE OF WATERS of RIVERS for CONSERVATION or IRRIGATION...
Not only that but the definition of treason was recently (legally) changed too, in 2018.
So they sold off the waterways to China, put in private dams built with tax-payer dollars and ostensibly made treason 'legal' and back- or controlled cool burning illegal.
Quotes below are cherry-picked from here- I've forgotten where the original article was;
Sweeping changes to espionage, treason and secrecy laws as foreign interference bills pass
Labor originally opposed the bill but offered its support after the government made hundreds of amendments.
Shadow attorney-general Mark Dreyfus said the amendments, which reflected recommendations by parliament's cross-party security and intelligence committee, had allayed the opposition’s concerns around criminal sanctions for journalists reporting on national security.
“By making it a crime to hold the Australian government to account on human rights, this bill will help shield government from accountability,” Amnesty International’s Claire O’Rourke said.
“These draconian laws proposed will make Australia more like the authoritarian countries this bill is supposed to protect us from.”
I also thought, seeing as these fires are really about control and killing as many birds with as few stones as possible by the usual suspects (imho), I'd throw in a bonus that I found when going through some old memes. It mentions a weirdo Roman Law pertaining to Oz. Not 100% on how relevant it is, but it struck a cord when scrolling through a KD pagan gods thread yesterday.
Back to fires proper, the best angle I've heard yet is from the volunteer firemen site, where an interview with a former State Fire Chief told it like it is;
Scientist David Packham on what’s really causing the bushfires
