It has been a while since North Coast Voices ran a post on Monsanto, the US-based biotech giant which dominates around 95 per ce Read more »
It has been a while since North Coast Voices ran a post on Monsanto, the US-based biotech giant which dominates around 95 per ce Read more »
There's a site called Website Outlook which will quote a dollar value on websites indexed by the large search engines.
I've just run the Federal Leader of the Opposition's own www.malcolmturnbull.com.au through the mix and Truffles'little blog is worth around US$5635.6 in today's values. Read more »
"Australia Day, January 26, is the biggest day of celebration in the country and is observed as a public holiday in all states and territories. Read more »
Vatican says: the pill is polluting the environment & is responsi Read more »
According to GlobeLife on 31 December 2008:
They called it a "virtual nurse-in."
Earlier this week, 11,000 mothers who use Facebook changed their profile pictures to photos of themselves breastfeeding children to protest against the social networking site's decency standards. Read more »
Tourists waiting to flock to the Clarence Valley's newest tourist attraction have been told to be patient. Read more »
While browsing the Internet for references to Tai Chi, I stumbled across a rather familiar face from long, long ago.
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While criticising GetUp! at every opportunity, Jennifer Marohasy (Chair, Australian Environment Foundation) is requesting donations to oppose the Rudd Government's emmissions trading scheme: Read more »
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From everyone at North Coast VoicesFor their active support of climate change denialism in the face of evidence that anthromorphic global warming is occurring:
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The Poor Man Institute is having a bit of fun with a poll at the expense of climate change sceptics.
Here are the candidates for the 2008 Creamy Baileys Nobel Peace Prize for Science:
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Desiderata
Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
they are vexations to the spirit. Read more »
Which NSW North Coast resident is mischievously spreading a story thatthe local newspaper's reporting is biased and North Coast Voices is being written by the police and **** *******; in an effort to bolster his chances of obtaining a change of venue in the criminal court proceedings which has him as defendant?
Tsk, tsk......
Our rivers............
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Australian Law Reform Commission President, Professor David Weisbrot, welcomed the Government's positive response to the ALRC's report Fighting Words: A Review of Sedition Laws in Australia (ALRC 104, 2006), announced today by the Read more »
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Because the Australian Government's live trial of its mandatory national ISP-level filtering scheme is fully functional from tomorrow, North Coast Voices Read more »
US ABC News has highlighted an interesting aspect of American political life - how Obama is finessing political donors' expectations of influence.
He's banned lobbyists from the transition team and stopped companies from giving money to the effort – some of the boldest limitations on money in a presidential transition Read more »
From Times Online and Wikileaks this month on the folly of pollies.
"JACQUI SMITH, the home secretary, has suffered fresh embarrassment from a new Whitehall leak disclosing that ministers are seeking new powers to search the homes of staff working on ID cards. Read more »
It would appear that it isn't only the Federal Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy who wishes to censor content on the Internet.
At least one failed local candidate for political office also has a personal list of 'unwanted content', if a comment recently posted on North Coast Voices is any indication.
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Here's an email scam with a slight difference - a very famous surname.
The American Embassy in Ouagadougou is bound to get a call or two about this one, if the gullible latch onto the Obama name.
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I came across a copy of this Northern Rivers open letter at Write Across Media:
Dear Prime Minister, Read more »
On 15 December 2008 the Australian Attorney-General circulated amendments to the Same-Sex Relationships (Equal Treatment in Commonwealth Laws - General Law Reform) Bill 2008.
Amendments cover many aspects of legal discrimination against same-sex couples and addresses some rights and obligations, including those of children of the relationship. Read more »
This has to come under the subtitle Only In America:
West Point airdrops Army propaganda on Naval Academy
Psychological operation rattles midshipmen before big game
Recordonline.com, December 06, 2008
WEST POINT — Army cadets and aviators from West Point waged an aerial ambush over hapless midshipmen and sailors at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis this week. Read more »
Excerpt from Stephen Conroy's 11 December 2008 media release:
Today the AFP announced the identification of 22 Australian men following a 12-month investigation into an online child abuse image and video-sharing network. The AFP's Child Protection Operations Teams seized more than 15,000 videos and 500,000 images of child abuse. Read more »
About the only decent timeline in the Rudd Government's white paperCarbon Pollution Reduction Scheme: Australia's Low Pollution Future is the one indicating that the main mechanism to reduce national carbon emissions will start in about July 2010.
The white paper's foreword disappointingly states: Read more »
"Investment manager" (and that term is used very loosely) Bernard Madoff, the former Nasdaq chairman, was charged on Thursday with massive fraud. Read more »
With around one hundred and eighty-seven countries represented at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Poland this week predictably at loggerheads about the details on how to proceed to combat the worst effects of climate change through an enduring treaty, I take some comfort from the voice of youth. Read more »
Wikileaks reported on 16 November 2008:
Between Friday night and Sunday morning, a massive deletion operation took place at the European Internet address register (RIPE) to scrub references to a cover used by Germany's premier spy agency, the Bundesnachrichtendienst, or BND. Read more »
The Borowitz Report this week takes a light-hearted approach to the way politicians of all persuasions are said to do business in the Windy City: Read more »
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd wants everyone who receives his extra welfare payment this week to go forth and spend for Australia and so help out the national economy.
Sorry, no can do.
The North Coast Community Housing Company put my rent up this week by more than $100 a week, with little thought as to how this will be paid or whether my welfare benefits will increase to meet this huge impost. Read more »
I have to say that I breathed a sigh of relief when I read that Telstra was not participating in the Rudd Government's live trial of a mandatory national ISP-level filtering scheme.
The Age reported last Tuesday: Read more »
There is one thing that I can say of Australians after reading the Australian Press Council's complaints figures for the last financial year and factoring in how general readership has grown with the Internet - we are not a nation of wingers.
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The NSW Government budgetary bottom line really must be crook, if Premier Rees and Minister for Housing David Borger are turning a blind eye while Community Housing parts pensioners from a big slice of their meagre Centrelink benefits.
All in the name of propping up the government's own underfunding of the public rental sector. Read more »
Photo from the Byron Shire Echo
John Philippides has taken out the major prize with his drawing entitled Portrait 2. The work is a portrait of the artist’s mother who has been the subject of many of John’s works.There has been much speculation in the media this week about whether Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Julie Bishop, is about to lose her position.
I'm just surprised that it has taken this long before talk surfaced.
After all, in the boys club atmosphere of the Liberal Party of Australia, her elevation to deputy leader was more a case of PR value in 'matching' Labor's move to place a woman as deputy prime minister.
Such PR always has a use-by date.
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When I opened yesterday's newspaper one of the first things I would normally have expected to see wouldn't have been a piece on Nats MP for Coffs Harbour Andrew Fraser shoving a female colleague in the NSW Parliament on Tuesday night.
Though I have to say there was little surprise in reading that policial argy bargy had again turned to biff.
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At least 32 new lobbyists went onto the Australian Government Lobbyists Register since 1 November 2008.
Edelman Public Relations Worldwide Pty Ltd registered on 17 November.
Edelman has a small but seemingly innocuous client list named for the register. Read more »
The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Stephen Conroy, has previously stated that his national mandatory ISP-level filtering scheme will rely on the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) for a black list which lays the foundati Read more »
I have to say that few people in the Northern Rivers region would be surprised with the observations on regional hospitals found in the Garling Report released this week.
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NSW Maritime has extended its trial of web-cam vision of the coastal bars to help boat owners in preparing for a voyage offshore.
This is just one part of a suite of measures being pursued by NSW Maritime to address bar crossing safety in this State. Read more »
With summer starting to break out all over and Christmas looming, the river and ocean water around Yamba and Iluka is looking so inviting - it reminds me that now is a good time to get out and get moving. Read more »
At hisnew blog Pollytics Possum Comitatus gives Andrew Bolt a lesson he deserves in the post; Of race and crime and Andrew Bolt.
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Because North Coast Voices has been silent on the subject of President-Elect Barack Obama lately I take this opportunity to present the Borowitz Report on this prominent politician.
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This has to be one of the strangest pieces of political advertising by the Liberal Party of Australia and Brian Loughnane. Read more »
I'm fed up with that Labor Government mob sitting in Sydney and deciding that the Northern Rivers should pay for past Iemma-Costa mismanagement of the state coffers.
We're told that the North Coast Area Health Service now has to save $20 million over 4 years to help Premier Rees and NSW Health Minister John Della Bosca out of a budgetary black hole.
Jaysus wept! Read more »
I've always found US presidential pardons a fascinating subject - Jimmy Hoffa, Richard Nixon, Deep Throat, Caspar Weinberger, Marc Rich and Patty Hearst received them to name just a few.
Outgoing presidents often hand out these pardons as they pack their bags to leave the White House for the last time.
Already George Dubbya is getting a request or two according to media reports and Conrad Black, Michael Milken, Marion Jones, John Michael Lindh, Scooter Libby have all been mentioned as possible lucky dip winners. Read more »
The issue of a national mandatory ISP-level Internet filtering system being introduced in Australia is of more than passing interest to North Coast Voices and many others in rural and regional areas.
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The Australian wool industry appears to have suffered a nervous crisis last week when Australian Wool Innovation elected a board which might be perceived to be against the 2010 industry deadline for abandonment of the practice of mulesing sheep.
Now I can sympathise with the graziers frustration at trying to keep to this timetable in the middle of the longest Australian drought in living memory. Read more »
Hi, no_filter_Yamba.
Kevin Rudd (KevinRuddPM) is now following your updates on Twitter.
Check out Kevin Rudd's profile here:
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Somewhere in the digital Dardenelles: Read more »