A window in life

So we enter into a period unlike any time previous in man's time here on this beautiful planet.

Humans can now communicate unlike ever before, from the remotest corners of the planet.


Imagine Captain Cook all those years ago sending a  SMS to his queen; ?

And imagine this world without ever having had any humans ?

Imagine how the planet would look ?

Staggering ? All the animals, forests, insects, marine life - all in harmony

A world in total balance

That time again

So its that time again
Xmas
A festive time built entirely on a fantasy story
And from this story has sprung totally new and fictitious characters
Santa Claus, and many others

We tell our children these stories  - knowing full well that they are total crap
And that that child will spend his or her's entire life trying to re-capture that Xmas spirit that happened to them when they were a child.

A cynic ?
A party destroyer ?

It never happened, never will,

Commercialization  is alive and well
How many lonely people out there find Xmas just so difficult, so painful ?
All for what?

Why do we need some falsehood to create this joyous moment?

Religion
The down-fall of man

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Hi all,

Having been involved with recent election events I have become acutely aware at how corrupt our whole political system has become.

Some of you may be aware of Rupert Murdoch’s involvement in the election. Perhaps persuasion is a better word?

A group of Australian who go by the name of Getup produced an advert for TV to try and make people aware of just how RM was manipulating the Australian media. You can catch the clip here

https://www.getup.org.au/campaigns/media/murdochs-election-campaign/get-this-ad-on-the-air

Remember, RM lives in America

OK, so why was/is RM just so against the Australian Labor Party?

Well, RM owns many, many media businesses including newspapers here in Australia and in the UK. Remember the phone scandal in the UK. That was RM

Just some of the business owned by RM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_News_Corp#Internet

But why was he so against the ALP? Well RM owns Foxtel, the TV satellite channel group.

And it was the ALP who wheeled out the NBN (National Broadband Network).

Murdoch saw the NBN as a direct threat to his business. With every Australian connected to the internet with high speed fibre optic – there would be no need to have anything like Foxtel. People would leave Foxtel in droves.

RM’s empire would lose a massive value of stock.

So, this eighty year old fool, who owns half of the newspapers in Australia & the UK, gave his support to a political party who had no clear policies and a leader who, if left in the corner of a pub anywhere in Australia would be taken as the town’s piss-head.

Like can you imagine Tony Abbott on the phone to America’s President? Yeah? Really?

So, what can we do? Its three years of this idiot.

In that time, you can bet the NBN will be undermined, sabotaged more like it, so that it becomes highly expensive and therefore unsuccessful. With that, you can be sure; the LNP party coffers will grow in value, ready for the next election.

It has nothing to do with political ideals or plans or goals.

It all comes back to a few individuals who control most of what we see and do.

We need to take back control

Election 2013

Later this year we Australians must vote.

Instead of voting for either of the two main parties, consider the alternative - No - not the Greens.
Any one considering the greens should read their immigration policy very carefully.
Basically their immigration policy is to allow anyone and everyone into Australia.

So instead - there is a choice - read and research the below -


The Stable Population Party.
http://www.populationparty.org.au/

Why the refrain?

Why is it in these worrying times when we keep seeing articles in our media about all the problems we face in the world today; that no one will mention the real root of all our problems?

Over population

The underlying principle problem of all our issues is due to the fact that there are too many humans in the world. Every living creature in the planet is suffering because of our population numbers.

And why are there so many humans?

Before the discovery of oil the world's human population was less than 2 billion. This population number was perhaps sustainable, and had been at that level for quite some time.

Now, with the many, many benefits of oil and its various by-products, the world’s population has grown.

Try and imagine a world without oil?

No trucks, buses or cars. No ships powered by oil. No jet aircraft.

No tractors, no fertilizers.

No chemicals, no plastics.

Mining would be greatly reduced.

The world’s current population could simply not exist without the enhance food generation that oil has enabled.

Imagine how the great world wars would have been without the availability of oil?  No tanks, no planes, no transport, etc.

The discovery of one single component has changed the world entirely.

Our modern suburbs have been designed around the fact that we all have motor cars. What happened to the local corner store?

When I was a boy, living in Melbourne, there was a milk bar within walking distance, selling milk and bread. Now, we must drive kilometres to the nearest shopping centre.

And these shopping centres; has anyone noticed how insulated these centres make us all feel. We walk around in air-conditioned comfort with piped music, an environment which is designed to make us feel good, to encourage us to spend.

In nature, most animals will refrain from breeding if conditions are unsuitable to sustain their population.

And here we are today, living in a world of vast amounts of credit; where it is estimated that we have consumed more than what our planet Earth can support. We borrow vast amounts of money to enable some of us to live beyond our means.  Various countries are printing money like it was confetti.

Our own Prime Minister has no regard for restraint when it comes to spending other people’s money. Australia’s deficit now stands at $15 billion.

Why can't the world talk about reducing the population?

If man can fly to the moon; why can’t he control his numbers?

Life should be about quality, not quantity.

Women around the world need to be informed, to have the choice. Studies have shown that educated women will have fewer children than their sisters who never have the chance to gain an education.

This subject needs to be in the media every day, before it’s too late.

Our newly re-elected Prime Minister has been quoted saying he sees an Australia with a population of over 40 million.

Imagine the chaos?

The Greens immigration policy is basically an open border policy with little or no limit. They seem to believe that Australia has vast open plains just waiting for development and habitation. Have any of these people ever ventured inland, and seen just how arid and desolate inland Australia is?

Why should we allow New Zealanders an open ticket to come as they please?

Stop all forms of Baby Bonus and child endowment.

 Alter the tax rate so that couples who have more than two children pay a higher tax rate.

Refugees with genuine needs and documentation should be considered.

If this image concerns you, why not look to an alternative political party such as the Stable Population party.

There is a choice.

Food Security: Lessons from the Middle East

by John Coulter,

Two things stand out in regard to recent happenings in Egypt and other Middle East countries:

1.The central role that the mismatch between population size and growth, and the resource

base required for population support has played in the genesis of political unrest and

2.The failure of most of the mainstream media to investigate and explain these links.

In 1960 Egypt’s population was 27.8 million. Egypt was a net exporter of food. By 2008 population had grown to 81.7 million and Egypt was importing 40% of total food consumption and 60% of its grain requirements. Only 3% of Egypt is arable almost all along the Nile Valley and that is where most population growth has taken place. Arable land per capita is .04Ha.

Future food security looks even bleaker with population growing at 2% pa which, if continued, would give Egypt a population of 164 million in 2046.

Most readers of this Newsletter would have read then description of modern industrial agriculture as ‘the process of using land to turn oil into food’ and nothing illustrates this critical link more clearly than Egypt’s recent history. Despite declining per capita food production, Egypt was able to maintain a supply of relatively cheap food because it was a net exporter of oil. But Egyptian oil production peaked in about 1996 and since then has fallen approximately 30%. In 2006 Egypt became a net importer of oil. While Egypt was a net exporter Hosni Mubarak was able to subsidise both

food and fuel; once Egypt became a net importer of oil this was no longer possible.

In the 1980s Saudi Arabia began growing irrigated wheat across its deserts using fossil ground water and depleting aquifers which for millennia had fed desert oases. The large green irrigated circles could be seen from the window of a high flying international jet. The cost of this wheat production was approximately four times the world price and its future was clearly limited. The fossil water is rapidly disappearing and Saudi Arabia will cease wheat production in about 2015. Meanwhile, the Saudis can continue to buy wheat and other foods on international markets trading oil for

food. When their oil runs down they will be in the same predicament as Egyptians today.

Yemen is further down this road of food and water insecurity. The fossil aquifer underlying the capital, Sana’a, has been almost totally consumed and Yemen’s small oil reserves are expected to be gone by about 2017. Population has increased from ~4 million to ~24 million in the last 60 years and the population growth rate is among the highest in the world, each Yemeni woman bearing, on average, 5 children. Libya is exploiting what is often described as ‘vast deposits’ of water under the Sahara in the south of the country. But like Saudi Arabia, these are fossil deposits which, when depleted will be gone forever.

For the moment Libya can import food using revenue generated by oil exports – but these are also finite. So while the arguments and turmoil over democratisation, political freedom and social justice, discussed at length in the mainstream media are important, the factor that is little discussed but which will ultimately determine the fate of these countries is population size, water, oil and consequently food. And what are the lessons for Australia? Compared with many other countries Australia has an apparently generous supply of arable land per capita. But our land is not nearly as productive. Wheat production in the decade between 1998 and 2007 varied between 0.7 and 1.5 tonnes/Ha compared with the US and UK at ~2.8 tonnes/Ha. Moreover, production varies widely from year to year: 24.3 million and 25.7 million tonnes being produced in 2001 and 2003 respectively, but only 10 million tonnes in 2002.

Our grain production is heavily oil and phosphorus dependent. These vital resources will come from

overseas in future and be dependent on sustainable export oriented production, not on the exploitation of non-renewable and finite resources as at present. Production is very likely to be adversely affected by climate change.

Compared with most industrialised countries we have rapid population growth, the deliberate policy of Federal and State Governments of both major parties. Peri-urban productive land is disappearing under houses, roads and associated infrastructure as a consequence. Vegetable imports  began to exceed exports in 2002-3 and fruit imports exceeded exports after 2006-7.

It is not too far-fetched to suggest that within the next decade or two we shall see serious social unrest in Australia the cause of which will be the deliberate policies of our present governments to pursue rapid population growth and pay scant attention to food security which in turn is closely linked to oil, phosphorus, water and climate change.

by John Coulter

Stupid

The developed economies in the world use a system of GDP - Gross Domestic Product to measure the state of the economy.
Whilst those in big business may find this form of measure comforting and helpful it really is a stupid and naive measurement of a countries state of health.
Perhaps 200 years ago it may have been OK to continue with this type of  gauge but now with the worlds population beyond a sustainable level it is totally ridiculous to urge the planet's population into further consumption.
We have already consumed more than this planet can sustain.
What should be used as a gauge is a form of Prosperity measure - where a countries total population (and not the upper 20%) are valued against a measure of ideals considered worthy in a modern world.
For example; running fresh water, sewerage system, power generation & type, education, health & so on.

Not by how many flat screen LED televisions we own or the number of new cars sold..!

Again, it comes back to the boys in the back rooms, pushing for growth via an ever expanding population, regardless of the final cost.

Xmas

So what is Xmas then?
From a child we we're taught that it celebrates a person's birthday, and his name was Jesus.
OK...
This dude's mother became pregnant without having sex with any partner?
OK ..?
But she had a mate called Joseph- what he hung about for.. who knows.. maybe he liked boys.
OK..?
So they fell into an old barn - it was holiday season and the place was full, and Mary gave birth to Jesus.
Pretty straight forward... isn't it? Apart from the fact that no sex was involved.
What I don't understand is what did this Jesus do as he grew up.... like we are told that later as an adult he did really special things (had special powers) - but what was he doing while he was say 8 years old?
Just imagine the fun he could of had at school then - with all those powers ..... like the chalk disappearing, or the teachers dress slowly rising around her as she stood at the blackboard. Cool eh?
But hang on...... we don't seem to hear much about that period do we...
I'm sure though that some anorak some place has all the gen on this period.
Like how he had already invented a stone computer which ran on bread crumbs.

But we must'n forget... Jesus did all this for us.....Hmmm ......uhmm.... like .....what?
We are so much better off aren't we ?

What would the world be like otherwise?
There would be total chaos.... like there isn't now..!

Who could it be?

Could you guess who could be the responsible inhabitant of this planet:
Who has destroyed more life forms on this planet than any other inhabitant?
Who takes from the earth and never replaces what they take?
Who consumes more plant life than any other animal or insect?
Who pollutes the atmosphere ?
Who defecates in their own water supply?


Hmmm ..?
You know who.


Reminds me of the song by the Eagles - The Last Resort:

She came from Providence,
the one in Rhode Island
Where the old world shadows hang
heavy in the air
She packed her hopes and dreams
like a refugee
Just as her father came across the sea
She heard about a place people were smilin'
They spoke about the red man's way,
and how they loved the land
And they came from everywhere
to the Great Divide
Seeking a place to stand
or a place to hide

Down in the crowded bars,
out for a good time,
Can't wait to tell you all,
what it's like up there
And they called it paradise
I don't know why
Somebody laid the mountains low
while the town got high

Then the chilly winds blew down
Across the desert
through the canyons of the coast, to
the Malibu
Where the pretty people play,
hungry for power
to light their neon way
and give them things to do

Some rich men came and raped the land,
Nobody caught 'em
Put up a bunch of ugly boxes, and Jesus,
people bought 'em
And they called it paradise
The place to be
They watched the hazy sun, sinking in the sea

You can leave it all behind
and sail to Lahaina
just like the missionaries did, so many years ago
They even brought a neon sign: "Jesus is coming"
Brought the white man's burden down
Brought the white man's reign

Who will provide the grand design?
What is yours and what is mine?
'Cause there is no more new frontier
We have got to make it here

We satisfy our endless needs and
justify our bloody deeds,
in the name of destiny and the name of God

And you can see them there,
On Sunday morning
They stand up and sing about
what it's like up there
They call it paradise
I don't know why
You call someplace paradise,
kiss it goodbye 

Unspoken

Being aware of just how close we are to becoming overpopulated (world) I've noticed just how little the subject of overpopulation is mentioned?
Its almost as if its a taboo subject.
Why is that?
All the ancient civilizations that have disappeared before us: perhaps now it is becoming clear just what may have happened to them? History does seem to repeat itself.
We don't seem to be capable to learn or observe; we are obsessed with greed.
Man created religion to keep the masses in check; so that those in power could manipulate the masses to their own selfish needs.
With life threatening signs staring at the church,  the likes of the Pope carry on as if nothing has changed over the centuries. Keep fornicating the catholic church enthuses. Have lots of children.  


What drivel. 
You can see them now; as the winds blow away their silly hats and robes, the tides rising, people starving - and the religious praying to their god.
Just as those ancient peoples did so many years before, except their god then may have been the sun or the moon - it didn't matter,- as there was no god. 
Their time on this world ended.
And what do we do about it?
Brush it under the carpet - quick - before anyone notices!


Where's that TV guide? Whats on TV?
Nice day.

7 Billion

Towards the end of this year, the world's population will hit 7 billion.
Before WWII it was just under 2 billion
We are now consuming more than this planet can sustain.
Estimates already put us at 1.5 planets in consumption; in other words - we are consuming beyond our limits.
And the more technically advanced we become, the more devastating the fall will be when it happens. 
We must make 2012 the year we began the turn-around:- begin educating women in all countries ( an educated woman is likely to have less children)
Make contraception free


We once lived in fear of a cold war with the threat of nuclear weapons.
Now, the future will hold battles for food & water.
The movie "The Road" may be a depressing story but it could very well be a view into the future. Or even Miller's Mad Max movies.
It seems we humans prefer to bury our collective heads in the sand and hope that it will all just go away.
But while humans continue to breed then the path we take is chosen for us.


The population level of 2 billion before WWII was perhaps at an ideal level, as the planet may have been able to sustain basic resources.
At our current level we use basic resources every 12 months that take earth 18 months to replace.
Go work it out.

Carbon Tax

All this furor about the new Carbon Tax- how it will add to the cost of living, etc.

Well, I'm sorry but it doesn't go far enough, or maybe not just this tax, but the whole environment thing?

What ever -or whoever is in government needs to take the hard line, we need to take action now -not tomorrow, or next year. Now.
We need to stop encouraging people having children.
Take away child care for those with more than 2 children.
Stop encouraging single young mothers.
Put a tax on couples who have more than 2 children.
Stop advertising - we don't need it.
Make recycling compulsorily, every thing from old mobile phones, TVs, computers, bottles,  -everything. None of this stuff should be trashed.

We are the lucky one's here in Australia, but I worry that this will soon change.
We need to stop or lessen immigration to a low level.
Help the refugees - but only the true refugees.

We need to accept the fact that we can live with less - less of everything.
We don't need the great new house, with 2 hand basins in the same bathroom.
I grew-up in a simple 3 bedroom home, like I'm sure so many other people did - so why do we need all this stuff -? I had a happy childhood.

We are consuming more that this planet can sustain.
20% of the world consumes 80% of the worlds energy. And we are part of  that 20 %
Australia is the highest energy user per capita.

So much rubbish

In my trade I have reason to call on numerous residential households and I can't help but notice how so many people acquire so much stuff.
In a lot of cases the house is awash with junk - you cannot walk a straight line without stepping over stuff. Often the stuff is trash or dirty washing, food and other stuff..?
How or why do people live like this? Animals would live in a cleaner environment.
And often there are children in the house - what hope have they?
Is it drugs?

The latest and greatest

It seems the norm these days that more and more people are buying an iPod type phones....
At one time, the trend was for smaller and smaller phones - to the point that they were becoming too small - someone like me with big hands and fingers it was almost impossible to use the key pad.
But now the trend is for small tables - this flat thing with a loverly flat screen - so inviting to scratch or crack.
It makes me wonder - we have weekends and holidays to switch off - get away, take a break, wind down.. and yet I see people holding on to their small tables, like its some sort of good luck charm, or a security thing.
"Don't go any where without that phone".... like you could be walking through a really interesting store on your holidays, finding something really interesting ...and all of a sudden the phone (table) rings... Oh beaut.. and everyone else in the store really enjoys hearing you hold a conversation with Frank..."Oh Really ...did he"!

Expressions like - Fuck off - comes to mind.

Fireworks

Before last new years eve I was already to yell "Ban the massive 5 million dollar fireworks display in Sydney"
Now, as the country takes stock of the massive devastation and destruction that has occurred from the many floods across our country, any money now previously directed to such frivious pastimes should now be cancelled.
Five million dollars, up in smoke, in less than an hour.
Makes a lot of sense - not!

Why is it so?

My country, Australia is being ravaged by floods, lives are being lost.
First it was New South Wales, then Western Australia, Victoria & now Queensland, with Tasmania bracing for more of the same.
Whats going on?
They say it is largely due  to La Nina weather effects, the sea temperature is at an all time high.
Yet if you listen to the media there is no mention of Global warming?
Why?
Are we meant to just bury our heads in the wet sands?
Do we just continue breeding like there is no tomorrow?
What does it take before people sit up and take notice?
We cannot continue in this way.
We can't all live in a brand new home, or drive a brand new car.
I remember watching some show a few years ago that predicted weather just like we are experiencing now.
We can remember someones birthday, but we can't remember to turn that light off, or walk instead.
How devastating it is - our coal mines are closed because of the weather - no more coal to China for them to burn in their 100's of power stations - each one belching out tonnes of CO2. What a shame.

Rivers

The Store Rivers should be re-named the Chinese Emporium.
Everything in the store comes from China - and yet they call themselves an Australian company.
Ha
Importers more like it.

Obesity

An Article by Ross Gittins highlights what I have suspected for a long time.
The average person is getting fat.
While I lived in England I was constantly amazed at just how many over-weight people there were. I thought it was a English thing - and then I came home to Oz.


Read the article here:http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/opinion/politics/obesity-problem-is-bigger-than-we-think-despite-gdp-benefits-20101005-16630.html
Interesting how the over -weight population will provide a break to our economy, as their early demise will relieve any strain on health-care and associated services.


And what the two authors, Egger and Swinburn say about the "sweet-spot" which we have passed.
Bear that in mind with Peak Oil which we have passed also and things could be grim.
But hey - lets just go buy another house, or a car, or some shoes. Put it on debt.


It would seem that the discovery of oil could be seen as the demise of man as it was about this time that the human population started to increase and development of producing food took on a serious side.
Prior to the discovery of oil, food was produced more like a cottage industry instead of todays mass, high tech, pest free production.

Junket

Anybody - can anybody tell me why did our illustrious leader - Barge-Arse, and her side kick Tony Buck ears, see the need to go flying off half way around the world?
Like you can just imagine now the world leaders just pacing up and down waiting for them to arrive eh?
What possess these people to think it makes a difference?
People dieing in Pakistan, refugees banging on the door, salty water flowing down the Murray and they fly off to meet some snail munching tossa and discuss the price of cheese ?
And we all feel so much better now.