Australia: 200+ Burnt to death in Victoria, a million plus native animals dead, New South Wales citizens and wildlife now a target of Labor and their Green Loon preference sluts "environmental policies"
What a flaming disgrace - half of NSW's burnoffs cancelled
EXCLUSIVE by Gemma Jones
The Daily Telegraph
February 19, 2009 12:00am
A DECISION to cancel almost half the burn-offs planned for NSW bushfire zones has put thousands of lives and properties in danger.
Frustrated volunteer firefighters yesterday lashed out at bureaucrats and greenies for preventing them from protecting communities.In one outrageous case, a woman was told by the State Government her fire escape route would remain an overgrown mess because it was a corridor for native flora and fauna.
More than 2100 hazard reduction operations planned by the Rural Fire Service were abandoned last year, the organisation's annual report reveals.
Editorial: Trees grow back and we die
Deputy Captain George Bennett said firefighters were so frustrated by bureaucratic hurdles they were finding legal ways to complete small burns "undercover" on private property.
He said it took some brigades 12 months to gain approval for hazard reductions. The RFS admitted one burn-off on Mona Vale Rd in Sydney recently took several years to be approved.
"There is very little hazard reduction happening because of the bureaucratic processes, quite often it gets to the stage where brigades don't do it because of the paperwork," Mr Bennett said.
"We have got a very, very dangerous situation looming here. There are no areas you could use for fire containment, we have got a situation where there is an enormous build-up of fuel.
"It will be frightening if we get harsh conditions in October. There is the potential for loss of life and property."
A firefighter from a brigade in northern NSW, who declined to be named, said his firefighters had stopped asking to do burns: "We don't bother doing it any more, it takes up to 12 months, you are only allowed to go and put fires out."
Thursday, February 19, 2009
USA. Clinton snubbs Australia and sucks up to Obama's souel mates in Indonesia
Hillary Clinton snubbed by Obama's soul mates in Indonesia
The Spin......
Hillary Clinton taps Indonesia for leading role in new US vision
News.com.au
February 18, 2009 11:41pm
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has tapped Indonesia - as a democratic and mainly Muslim country - for a key role in the new US administration's foreign policy.
"Building a comprehensive partnership with Indonesia is a critical step on behalf of the United States' commitment to smart power," she told a press conference alongside Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda.
She said it was important "to listen as well as talk to those around the world, to support a country that has demonstrated so clearly that Islam, democracy and modernity cannot only coexist but thrive together".
In her first visit to a Muslim country as secretary of state, she said President Barack Obama's administration "wants to reach out to the entire world" and Indonesia would be an important partner in that effort.
"Certainly Indonesia, being the largest Muslim nation in the world, the third-largest democracy, will play a leading role in the promotion of that shared future," she said.
"So we are looking forward to deepening our cooperation on a number of shared issues," she added, referring to areas such as the global economy, climate change, security and human rights.
Mr Wirajuda said Indonesia - where Mr Obama went to primary school for a few years in the late 1960s - looked forward to US support as the countries of the region seek to shape a "new architecture" of diplomacy in Asia-Pacific.
Mrs Clinton later met leaders of the Jakarta-based Association of South-East Asian Nations - a 10-nation bloc comprising around 500 million people.
She will meet Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono tomorrow before completing her four-nation trip through Asia - her first outing as secretary of state - with visits to South Korea and China.
I am an Australian, I cannot tell you Guys in the USA how comforting it is to know that Hillary Clinton is appeasing, sucking up to Obama's former masters, Australia's biggest security threat Indonesia, the worlds largest (radical) Islamic population.
President G W Bush was far from perfect (and what endeared me more to the man was the fact that he would be the first to agree with me on that point) I knew that he had a commonality of interests and purpose with my country, as had been the case for over a hundred years between our two nations. Australia is the only nation to have fought side by side with the United States in every major conflict that the USA has required help of her friends there is no other nation that can lay claim to that fact.
"That bravery breeds affection in America for another reason as well. Australia is the only country that has fought with the United States in every one of its major conflicts since 1914, the good and the bad, the winning and the losing."
Charles Krauthammer "Why I love Australia"
The Goose that is now in the office of the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd is an Obama apologist and groupie par excellence,and sided with Obama attacking the previous PM John Howard at every opportunity prior to his election to the office of Australian Prime Minister and before the election of the now President Barack Obama.
What's a useful idiot?........... ask Australian PM Kevin Rudd.... Kevin who?
The Spin......
Hillary Clinton taps Indonesia for leading role in new US vision
News.com.au
February 18, 2009 11:41pm
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has tapped Indonesia - as a democratic and mainly Muslim country - for a key role in the new US administration's foreign policy.
"Building a comprehensive partnership with Indonesia is a critical step on behalf of the United States' commitment to smart power," she told a press conference alongside Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda.
She said it was important "to listen as well as talk to those around the world, to support a country that has demonstrated so clearly that Islam, democracy and modernity cannot only coexist but thrive together".
In her first visit to a Muslim country as secretary of state, she said President Barack Obama's administration "wants to reach out to the entire world" and Indonesia would be an important partner in that effort.
"Certainly Indonesia, being the largest Muslim nation in the world, the third-largest democracy, will play a leading role in the promotion of that shared future," she said.
"So we are looking forward to deepening our cooperation on a number of shared issues," she added, referring to areas such as the global economy, climate change, security and human rights.
Mr Wirajuda said Indonesia - where Mr Obama went to primary school for a few years in the late 1960s - looked forward to US support as the countries of the region seek to shape a "new architecture" of diplomacy in Asia-Pacific.
Mrs Clinton later met leaders of the Jakarta-based Association of South-East Asian Nations - a 10-nation bloc comprising around 500 million people.
She will meet Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono tomorrow before completing her four-nation trip through Asia - her first outing as secretary of state - with visits to South Korea and China.
I am an Australian, I cannot tell you Guys in the USA how comforting it is to know that Hillary Clinton is appeasing, sucking up to Obama's former masters, Australia's biggest security threat Indonesia, the worlds largest (radical) Islamic population.
President G W Bush was far from perfect (and what endeared me more to the man was the fact that he would be the first to agree with me on that point) I knew that he had a commonality of interests and purpose with my country, as had been the case for over a hundred years between our two nations. Australia is the only nation to have fought side by side with the United States in every major conflict that the USA has required help of her friends there is no other nation that can lay claim to that fact.
"That bravery breeds affection in America for another reason as well. Australia is the only country that has fought with the United States in every one of its major conflicts since 1914, the good and the bad, the winning and the losing."
Charles Krauthammer "Why I love Australia"
The Goose that is now in the office of the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd is an Obama apologist and groupie par excellence,and sided with Obama attacking the previous PM John Howard at every opportunity prior to his election to the office of Australian Prime Minister and before the election of the now President Barack Obama.
What's a useful idiot?........... ask Australian PM Kevin Rudd.... Kevin who?
You can take the man out of Islam but you cant take Islam out of the man.
American President Barack Hussein Obama