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elidaaussie
Wednesday, 20 September 2006
Quick hello
Mood:  cool
Topic: blog or not to blog

http://www.myspace.com/aussiepod

 

Then there is blog city where I have link blog page were 

there is an entry for here..

http://bluffitamy.blog-city.com/linkblog/


Posted by aussiepod at 11:25 AM EADT
Updated: Wednesday, 20 September 2006 11:32 AM EADT
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Friday, 25 August 2006
One Click
Mood:  cool
Topic: blog or not to blog

“Thought I would click on the box that leads to godknowswhere.. Majorityrights I deleted from my e-mail list, not that they don't have intelligent comment. Just I get flooded with 'out there' bit like the 'shadows who followed me,' yes, but they were cunning, came in hire-car. Guess they got what they were looking for, and backed off..

Still we get the 'census,' they say is not personal, nor invasive. Who is kidding whom? Name, address, income, mortgage & 'can you feed yourself, do you need help getting to the toilet'...Isn't a bit too prying? Especially when I get an overseas call with a woman enquiring, "can I speak about your mortgage!" In future it will be the "Answering Service," that answers these calls, as I am sick of paying the extra 12dollars a month just to have number of who is calling, overseas calls an exception, comes up “unknown,” You may get hundreds of nuisance calls, a month, but to me, one is too many.

 I agreed to on psychology student's homework questionnaire, then got flooded with weird O's ...Wanting answers, to all types of questionnaire. I tracked back to my work-supervisor, a social worker & her associates...She did one day, in the street, call out something about 'sorry,' like the  half-hearted gesture a politician would say.

Back to the psychology department, as I can fathom, calls came from Melbourne, Australia which is not even my States Capital.”
 
This was the start of a letter to a fellow blogger that I did not send, but left here to consider, at a later date. Now on reflection, I won’t send by e-mail to any particular blogger instead, post it to one or more of my blogs.

Well there is some sense in not studying persons in your own state, and there is no rule in what you tell the ‘client,’ at the other end of the phone, your reasons why you are really asking her all these “survey” questions.

I am on the internet, most everyday, yet the only surveys I get are from ‘graham Young’ of the online opinion forum I am involved with most days. I have eased off getting the daily mon. to fri. postings of around 6 to 8 different topics.

 There are the overseas news media, as well as capital city papers that also have a forum each. One edition that did not publish any of my comments is the Australian broadcast commission.
I do not have to return there, as there are plenty of other television & radio outlets in Australia, and more out there in the whole world.

Plenty of activity & opinions. People with too much, and others with too little. Some have much and strive for more, yet miss the everyday cuddles from their spouse, because he/she is impeded by something in their past life, or their goals are not met, or something much deeper in their psyche.

Getting back to my  previous work supervisor  from my work in local age care, just why was she calling “sorry,” what was ment by it?  We would have to go back to the times when I worked under her supervision & was required by the ‘employer origination “  who were not really the boss, but the state & federal government that require those employed in any age care, be it an establishment where they house the elderly in hostel accommodation, an age care unit for the frail & dying clients and also what I was doing, home care, but not live in as a carer but give assistance to the clients in their home with bathing,  & other personal care, as well as clean their home.

With these requirements they the government of today, require one to do a course called “age care three” which is do modules in a course that is both theory and practical.

I could manage the theory ok, re correspondence, but the other requirement, my supervisor said she was not qualified to train,!
I would have to move either to the big city, which is 180klm from my home, or to a country hospital. Eh?  For something like eight hours per week.. My pay from this was going out in fees for the course!

Back a time to 1998, I resided in that city, tried a course for a fortnight in care of the intellectual disabled persons. [that is what they have been calling it…disabled or impaired] 

To be continued at a later date as I am not that good at compiling a piece at one sitting  & include all I wish to say in a readable well presentable manner.


Posted by aussiepod at 9:22 PM EADT
Updated: Friday, 25 August 2006 9:29 PM EADT
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Tuesday, 1 August 2006
Fear of Man, not Good State to Be In.
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: the ole yellow cat

 

 

How things come back to haunt us if we do not deal with them at the time of happening.

"Much of my life, I had a fear of MAN  not all, just the ones who claimed they had God on their side..  If you forgive, but don't forget, that is power to you. If we don't forgive, that gives them the power..

Now, See neighbours cutting down trees, gums that break in storms.. suck up moisture! we water our yards, then dry because neighbouring trees are gums..

Other, Thiess, is the company working on the Westfarmers Currah Project, mining the river at Jellinbah. I have put some pictures on my  fotka or what ever it is called, site.

Now I have told them who I am, re sign up for Thiess e-news. Probably can't do much except warn others, mainly farmers etc. that they are not all that they seem to be...Giving awards for water projects, saving water, great ideas... BUT  once you alter the flood plain, and river course you are playing god, or DOG...GOD.... what ever... This is a project encouraged by our State Government, but one must suspect the Federal & Local ones too, as no environmentilist has questioned what has and is happening to the river and the present murky waters, as well as permanent damage to the flood plain.

Of Course, dear readers, you already understand, Farmers, Graziers and others working the land have been held accountable for what they do to the land. If they pull scrub [term we use to clear land of trees etc.] But by the same yard-stick, Mining Companys and their many contractors, are allowed, encouraged and expected to 'rape the land,' of what minerals that man can get the best price for, at this time.

I will nowgive you a few references that I have found in my search to how the official explainamation is put to the public, not the official reports in the local paper, that is watered down, no this is industry news, matter of fact, where no one in his/her right mind will, or would question.[apart from the damage already done, what is your job worth, or prospective employment if you go against big mining business??]

http://www.industrysearch.com.au/news/viewrecord.aspx?ID=15413

“The civil infrastructure will include a range of site infrastructure support facilities, an access road from Curragh North to the existing mine at Curragh, and a levee bank adjacent to the McKenzie River, it said.”

Question "Why the need for levee bank, why not have the same pronciple as applied to the 'wild river rules?'

This is old hat, already almost complete, that is, damage has been done, all I can do now is point!

http://www.minebox.com/story.asp?articleId=5748

"$290M Curragh North Mine Project For Queensland!"

Money in your pocket for now, who gives a sh**it  about the future of the River!

"Barclay Mowlem Construction has been awarded a contract for the design and construction of a 2500tph materials handling system for the Wesfarmers Curragh North project.

Barclay Mowlem general manager engineering David Hukins says the company was involved in the design and construction of the original coal preparation plant at the Curragh North mine site in the early 1980s."

eh...that is end of Quote/s

My next project or topic, I hope to do on wild rivers of Qld, of course as this is where the comparison is, where the mainly northern rivers of the state, no development is welcome, any where near the river, so why the fffff is it allowed on the McKenzie,  part of the great Fitzroy basin river system!

 


Posted by aussiepod at 7:17 AM EADT
Updated: Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:10 AM EADT
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Saturday, 1 July 2006
Progress in My Home Town
Mood:  chatty
Now Playing: Morning Song
Topic: Home Town Activity

I went for my walk around town with my trusty digital camera which is now 6 months old as I gave myself it for Christmas, only reason there is pictures on my photo site, as well as on page.To view, you will need to check out my pictures.

While I am here I can give you an update on what we have been discussing on our aussie forum called onlineopinion, which my pseudonym is "ELIDA" here is the URL.

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/

 This will take you direct to the forum topics. At the top where you log in, it will take you to where to regester, like most sites on the web. Also there is provision for your web page, one only, so if you have more to say on your favourite subject,  this will take the frustration out of having to post or repeat the same stuff time after time, if like me you visit & have blogs in other areas. Cheers for now,  and don't be shy at leaving a comment, there or here on my page, as I cannot bite.


Posted by aussiepod at 8:14 AM EADT
Updated: Saturday, 1 July 2006 9:14 AM EADT
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Saturday, 17 June 2006
This One
Mood:  chatty
Topic: change of view


Subject: Work permits in Mexico

The following from a director with SW BELL in Mexico City.

“I spent five years working in Mexico.

I worked under a tourist visa for three months and could legally renew it for three
more months. After that you were working illegally. I was technically
Illegal for three weeks waiting on the FM3 approval.

During that six months our Mexican and US Attorneys were working to secure a permanent work Visa called a FM3. It was in addition to my US passport that I had to show each time I entered and left the country.
Barbara's was the same except hers did not permit her to work.

To apply for the FM3 I needed to submit the following notarized originals (not copies) of my:
1. Birth certificates for Barbara and me.
2. Marriage certificate.
3. High school transcripts and proof of graduation.
4. College transcripts for every college I attended and proof of graduation.
5. Two letters of recommendation from supervisors I had worked for at least one year.
6. A letter from The ST. Louis Chief of Police indicating I had no arrest record in the US and no outstanding warrants and was "a citizen in good standing."
7. Finally; I had to write a letter about myself that clearly stated why there was no
Mexican citizen with my skills and why my skills were important to Mexico.
We called it our "I am the greatest person on earth" letter. It was fun to write.

All of the above were in English that had to be translated into Spanish and be certified as Legal translations and our signatures notarized. It produced a folder about 1.5 inches thick with English on the left side and Spanish on the right.

Once they were completed Barbara and I spent about five hours accompanied by a
Mexican attorney touring Mexican government office locations and being
Photographed and fingerprinted at least three times. At each location (and we
Remember at least four locations) we were instructed on Mexican tax, labor,
housing, and criminal law and that we were required to obey their laws or face the
consequences. We could not protest any of the government's actions or we
would be committing a felony. We paid out four thousand dollars in fees and
bribes to complete the process. When this was done we could legally
bring in our household goods that were held by US customs in Laredo Texas.
This meant we rented furniture in Mexico while awaiting our goods. There were extensive fees involved here that the company paid.

We could not buy a home and were required to rent at very high rates and under contract and compliance with Mexican law.
We were required to get a Mexican drivers license. This was an amazing process. The company arranged for the licensing agency to come to our headquarters location
With their photography and finger print equipment and the laminating machine.
We showed our US license, were photographed and fingerprinted again and issued the license instantly after paying out a six dollar fee. We did not take a written or driving test and never received instructions on the rules of the road.
Our only instruction was never give a policeman your license if stopped and asked. We were instructed to hold it against the inside window away from his
grasp. If he got his hands on it you would have to pay ransom to get it back.

We then had to pay and file Mexican income tax annually using the number of our FM3 as our ID number. The companies Mexican accountants did this for us and we just signed what they prepared. I was about twenty legal size pages annually.

The FM 3 was good for three years and renewable for two more after paying more fees.

Leaving the country meant turning in the FM# and certifying we were leaving no debts
Behind and no outstanding legal affairs (warrants, tickets or liens) before our
household goods were released to customs.

It was a real adventure and If any of our senators or congressmen went through it
once they would have a different attitude toward Mexico.

The Mexican Government uses its vast military and police forces to keep its citizens
Intimidated and compliant. They never protest at their White House or government
Offices but do protest daily in front of the United States Embassy. The US embassy looks like a strongly reinforced fortress and during most protests the Mexican Military surround the block with their men standing shoulder to shoulder in full riot gear to protect the Embassy. These protests are never shown on US or Mexican TV. There is a large public park across the Street where they do their protesting. Anything can cause a protest such as proposed law changes in California or Texas“.

Please feel free to share this with everyone who thinks we are being hard on illegal
Immigrants.


Posted by aussiepod at 2:12 PM EADT
Updated: Saturday, 17 June 2006 2:16 PM EADT
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Saturday, 3 June 2006
Bren Carlill
Mood:  special
Now Playing: Rachael Corrie, by Billy Bragg
Topic: having wrote the hand


“Anti-Israel worms? Too dumb and lazy? Critics of Israel all anti-Semitic believers in conspiracy theories?

Is this the stuff sensible public discourse is made of?” quote by Ifran…


Answering Bren Carlill piece at the forum, online opinion.

Bren starts the piece off by insulting anyone who opposes the great USA pet Israel!

Sort of puts off commenting on the forum with persons writing such, makes me wonder if she/he did read my earlier piece on Rachel Corrie's demises & others who lost their lives reporting on the brutal force the Israel uses against anyone who opposes them.. It has nothing to do with a 'God of Love!'


It is JUNE when the case of Diane Brimble resumes
Please go back and read my earlier entry. I will be following this Court Case.. and report back here, so watch this space!

Posted by aussiepod at 5:53 PM EADT
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Friday, 19 May 2006
Do we need more foreign workers
Topic: Mad in Queensland
I have created this blog to encourage visitors to comment on what they perceive as 'fair-go-mate,' regards your visitors status in a country, not your normal home country or one you have legally become a resident. I do not know enough regards the immigration status regards my own country, Australia, let alone anyone else’s. In recent years the Australian Federal Government has imprisoned those who do not have the correct papers to say they have permission to stay. The do-gooders could be correct in saying these people do not belong in jail, just to make themselves popular with the rest of the world. We have had freedoms or appear to have freedoms that the rest of the world may not...like women having a freedom in a marriage to seek, and have, work outside the home, and actually keep some of the earned money for her own personal use. I had to hide money to pay for needs such as food, clothing, and school requirements, from my Spouse, or it all would have gone on his 'beer, smokes, and needy mates!' My children learned from my behaviours, not to broadcast to the world, if you have a little money left over, invest it so as the money will work for you, not against you. This is the case with loans from 'credit cards,' 'banks that keep adding extra charges,' and last but not least, 'loan sharks!' I have worked in fruit-packing sheds, in the field, on the shop/grocery floor, and for an exporter of sheep and goat meat. side by side with local born or legal immigrants, as well as visitors, both legal and illegal. At times the labour shortage gave the employer a headache, but he/she soon found a solution with back packers willing and waiting to fill the positions. Some Asian workers protested that the British Back Packers had an unfair advantage, but I could not see that, as the Ladies who were claiming this 'unfair advantage,' were 'sponsored migrants.' Put in a nut shell, the ones who spoke to me had come to Australia with their Spouse/Sponsor, one husband was Canadian, other New Zealand, with jobs first one in the mines, and other self-financed & hustler who sold 'shares in a dodgy Tea-Tree Oil Company! Strange to say, when the 2 year waiting period was up, they got their 'citizenship,' then the young lass, under 40 years of age, separated from her then 'Spouse,' claiming he had moved to the spare room etc.. and it was shortly after that she was able to claim a pension, as she had young daughters in her care, as well as our government's subsidised housing. Couple of years later she had found a new partner who had been born here. They got along well, & prospered financially as both were hard, diligent workers, last time I saw them, six years ago now. Boy, time flies. This is my limited experience of immigrants who I have met & mingled with, now many more have take on the jobs in our 'foreign owned,' meat processing plants. "A news report just posted today, "Israel to import more live cattle from Australia!" I will leave that for you, dear reader, to comment on....

Posted by aussiepod at 2:57 PM EADT
Updated: Thursday, 8 June 2006 8:43 PM EADT
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Friday, 12 May 2006
Illegal Arms, Trade
Mood:  irritated
Topic: Who Makes to Spread
Scrap Iron Bob, the Late Bob Menzies was a Business man. Sold scrap metal to the Japanese, who later sent it back in way of bombs.** Well, we have worse traders now, this 'contract,' game has spread to others. "Hundreds of thousands of weapons and millions of rounds of ammunition from Bosnia and Herzegovina's war-time stockpiles exported clandestinely under the auspices of the US Department of Defense; the shipments, supposedly to Iraq, used a chain ofprivate brokers and transport contractorsincluding an air cargo company that violated a UN arms embargo on Liberia;A huge shipment by a Dutch-UK firm of ammunition and explosives from a Brazilian manufacturer to Saudi Arabia and Mauritius seized by South African authorities because it had no transhipment licence; Brazil authorised the arms export despite the pattern of grave human rights violations committed in Saudi Arabia; The sea freighting of large quantities of arms to Liberiafrom China by a Dutch arms broker in contravention of a UN arms embargo on Liberia and despite evidence of the widespread killing, rape and displacement of thousands of civilians. The report also highlights a number of cases where the services of private contractors who have been involved in illegal arms shipments have also been employed to support UN peacekeeping missions and deliveries of humanitarian aid at tax-payers' expense." This is an extract of a long report from Amensty International which can be reached at:- http://amnesty-news.c.topica.com/maaeMW1abqsXmbd7M6Jb/ ALSO:-Past and current Amnesty news services can be found at . Visit for information about Amnesty International and for other AI publications. Contact amnestyis@amnesty.org if you need to get in touch with the International Secretariat of Amnesty International.**

Posted by aussiepod at 8:52 AM EADT
Updated: Friday, 12 May 2006 8:55 AM EADT
Thursday, 11 May 2006
More on the subject
Mood:  loud
Topic: having wrote the hand
www.ifamericansknew.org

Check it out for yourself. I could write reems here.
Post Billy Bragg's song on Rachel Corrie, but look for it yourself..open your eyes to what is going on.. we hear all about those wretched Palastinians bombing. and bombing, useing their own lives/bodies to take others..It is more than Religion. So many Israel really believe that bit of dirt in middle east is Their God Given Inheritance..

Gee, is there a bit of Scotland that is mine, where the Pomms threw out my ancestors to graze sheep.

0 Israeli homes have been demolished by Palestinians and 4,170 Palestinian homes have been demolished by Israel since September 29, 2000.

Fair crack of the whip, mate. Hey you Aussie Jews, where do you get off, supporting a resume that does this! ??Don't beleive me! Check the above web site, and more, hundreds more to tell you the truth.
I get books shoved in my face re brave women of 60 years back, bring up Hitler's atrosities, but fair is fair, what do you call this??

excerpt from http://www.ifamericansknew.org/stats/homes.html

#During the course of the al-Aqsa intifada, which began in September 2000, Israel has implemented a policy of mass demolition of Palestinian houses in the Occupied Territories. In that period, Israel has destroyed some 4,170 Palestinian homes.

“The IDF carries out three types of house demolitions. Most are carried out in the framework of what Israel calls ‘clearing operations,’ which are intended to meet what Israel defines as ‘military needs.’ These operations take place primarily in the Gaza Strip: along the Egyptian border, which passes through Rafah and its refugee camps; around settlements and army posts; alongside roads used by settlers and IDF forces; and in the northern part of the Gaza Strip [...]

“The second type of demolition are administrative demolitions of houses built without a permit. These demolitions take place in Area C in the West Bank, where Israel retains authority over planning and building even after the establishment of the Palestinian Authority, and in East Jerusalem. [...]

“The third kind of house demolitions are those intended to punish the relatives and neighbors of Palestinians who carried out or are suspected of involvement in attacks against Israeli civilians or soldiers. These punitive demolitions are intended for the homes in which these suspects lived. However, in many cases, adjacent homes are also destroyed.”#

See for yourself, and the vidio, will it be seen, or have they AP, deleted this one. There is a strong tow of israeli influence in the Media, one way bias.
JUST WHO ARE THE BULLIES NOW. WHO HAS REPLACED HITLER, STARLIN, THE RUSSIAN REDS.

I CAN TELL YOU WHO, THE USA BACKED ISRAELI HOONS!


Posted by aussiepod at 6:45 AM EADT
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Saturday, 6 May 2006
Why the Big Stick, OH ISRALIE?
Mood:  loud
Topic: change of view
"At the hospital pharmacy, the shelves are becoming bare."WHERE/ PALASTINE OF COURSE..According to the "CONSERVATIVE VOICE" ...you may hear more of their news here in future!

MORE"I swear there is none of that medicine, not even one pill," Laura Menawi, an exasperated pharmacist, told a patient looking for CellCept, a drug used to prevent the rejection of a transplanted organ.

With little anesthesia left, the hospital is limiting surgery to emergencies. "I am afraid that after two weeks, we won't even be able to do these," said Dr. Juma Al Saqqa.

The financial crisis started when the Palestinians' Jan. 25 parliamentary elections were won by Hamas, which refuses to recognize Israel's right to exist or to renounce violence.

In response, Israel halted the monthly transfer of roughly $55 million in taxes it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority, and the United States and European Union froze hundreds of millions of dollars in annual aid to the regime....."

NOW ...who gave this bunch of hoons the power over the Palestinian People? Decendants of Europe's Rabble, the dregs of world war two who could not live anymore in Europe..they had BIG CHIP on SHOULDER! They had more right to God's Right than Jesus himself.

EVERY CHRISTIAN and PROCLAIMED CHRISTIAN gets an EARFUL how we OWE THE JEW! Well, go back to your scripture, oh SHEEP who has lost his MASTER, and instead is moved by IMPOSTERS OF TRUTH!

Did not Jesus explain a 'Parable' or Story, where the MAN who owed HIS MASTER, BIGTIME was forgiven, and his debt removed as if it never existed.
A week later the MASTER comes across the MAN hassleing another laddie who owed him a few pence.
Well, you tell me what happened next!!

I recall in "Readers Digest, magazine," some 30 years back, where the poor Israels could not pay their bills. 'HOUSEING,' was the adjenda of the day!
What would have happened if UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
did not come to their rescue. Did some Deal, squeezed the balls of every Manhattan Jew, who had warm slippers, a fire place, and a paid up mortgage, because his mother taught him to be frugle, and also be kind.

NOW...BECAUSE NEW PALASTINE LEADER won't cow chow to Israel Right, they cut out their medicine, money, etc. What RIGHT DO THEY HAVE to rule over the palastine people........Aussiepod.................

http://www.goutwell.com/kidney.html

An advertisement, yes.. Herbal remedy for Kidney so desperate people need natural remedy, not all these drugs and equipment that can be withheld at a dictator's resume.

Who taught us to be frugal with water? They had made so much progress, had Kabuts, where foreign workers side by side with their own citizens lived in type of Hippie Commune, where they shared. Had roof over head, food, companionship. and hard work.

Our aussie citrus grower used similar tatics, well he copied some where the missus let him, we called him god, and the missus, god's boss. It was all going well for him, until the 'canker got in the orange!'

Well folks, the Canker is set in the Jew's brain,
be warned, as there is always someone watching. I should know, as they did it to me! Every move you make there is a camera there. Made in China, made in Japan, made in Vietnam, where ever, they have a camera in hand. They are not always visible, could be up in the SKY. GOD IS WATCHING YOU, OH ISRALIE...

Posted by aussiepod at 11:00 PM EADT
Updated: Monday, 8 May 2006 7:24 AM EADT
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