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Off to China
Miranda Devine –, Wednesday, January, 16, 2013, (10:16pm)
Shanghai looks pretty fine, smog and all.
Hold the fort!
See you in a couple of weeks.
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Aussies have weathered nature's extremes before
Miranda Devine –, Tuesday, January, 15, 2013, (7:44pm)
CLIMATE alarmists have waited a while for a good heatwave to press their case that human activities are causing unprecedented catastrophic global warming. This summer the weather delivered.
Right on cue, after a record string of hot days across Australia, the ABC, The Guardian (UK) , the Climate Commission, the CSIRO and the UN's IPCC (coincidentally meeting in bushfire-racked Tasmania) all trotted out scary climate statements.
The Bureau of Meteorology even added an extra colour to its heat scale, even though previous charts have included temperatures over 50C, and there have been hotter days in the past.
Yes there have. There really, really have.
Take the 50.7C at Oodnadatta Airport in South Australia on January 2, 1960, or the 50.3C the next day. Hot stuff.
Australia has always had extreme heat, droughts, bushfire and flooding rains.
To prove it, let's go to a contemporaneous source.
Sir John Henniker Heaton kindly recorded it all for us in 1879 in the Australian Dictionary Of Dates, which a reader has provided.
It is an invaluable primary resource, as you will see. (I have translated temperatures from fahrenheit to celsius).
December 27, 1790: "Great heat in Sydney, 39C in the shade. Settlement visited by myriads of flying foxes, birds dropped dead from the trees."
February 10 and 11, 1791: "On which days the temperature at Sydney stood in the shade at 41C, the heat was so excessive at Parramatta, made worse by the bushfires, that immense numbers of the large fox-bats were seen to drop from the trees into the water, and many dropped dead on the wing."
Heaton quotes from The Sydney Gazette of November 29, 1826: "The heat and hot wind of Saturday last excelled all that we ever experienced in the colony. On board the Volage man-of-war (a naval vessel), in the shade, the thermometer was 41C, and on the shore it was, in some parts of the town, 38C, and in others 40C.
"To traverse the streets was truly dreadful, the dust rose in thick columns, and the northwest wind, from which quarter our hot winds invariably proceed, was assisted in its heat by the surrounding country being all on fire, so that those who were compelled to travel felt themselves encircled with lambent flames. Sydney was more like the mouth of Vesuvius than anything else."
Again from The Sydney Gazette, February 21, 1832: "Saturday was one of the hottest days ever remembered. The recent rains having saturated the earth, the atmosphere was impregnated by an aqueous vapour not unlike steam issuing from a boiler, while the sun poured down all the fury of his heat. It was dreadful.
"Man and beast groaned beneath the oppression, and numbers of working oxen dropped down dead on the public roads."
The bullocks were even worse off on Saturday, March 18, 1832, which The Sydney Gazette reported was "insufferably warm. At 1pm, the thermometer was 54C in the sun. The cattle suffered much. Working bullocks dropped dead."
Of course it was much hotter in Central Australia.
Heaton records explorer Captain Charles Sturt's account of November 11, 1845: "The wind, which had been blowing all the morning hot from the NE, increased to a gale, and I shall never forget its withering effects.
"I sought shelter behind a large gum tree, but the blasts of heat were so terrific that I wondered the very grass did not take fire. Everything both animate and inanimate gave way before it.
"The horses stood with their backs to the wind and their noses to the ground, the birds were mute, and the leaves of the trees fell like a shower around us.
"At noon I took out my thermometer, graduated to 53C, and put it in the fork of a tree, and an hour afterwards when I went to examine it; the tube was full of mercury and the bulb burst."
On January 11, 1878, Heaton reported that, on the Lower Macquarie River, at 2.30pm, a thermometer registered 47C in the shade. At 5.30pm it was still 43C.
He records the fate of one Lieutenant Lowe, in January, 1840: "at the floods on the Namoi, [he] was perched on the trunk of an uprooted tree ; the rains had ceased, the thermometer was at 38C, a glaring sun and a coppery sky were above him; he looked in vain for help; but no prospect of escape animated him, and the hot sun began its dreadful work.
"His skins blistered, dried, became parched and hard like the bark of a tree and life began to ebb…
"He was literally scorched to death."
There were "disastrous bushfires throughout the south and west of NSW in January, 1870, fires burning on each side of the line on the southern railway, the railway porters and others beating it out with bushes, and waiting at the stations with water for the passengers to drink, and a truck on the Goulburn train catching fire near Liverpool on January 18".
He records years of drought (interspersed with floods), including the three-year drought from 1825-27: "One of the most severe droughts ever known in NSW, with great scarcity of water in Sydney and suburbs, only two months' supply being left in the Botany dams, and water being sold at a very high rate in Parramatta."
In January and February 1791, wrote Heaton, there were "several weeks of excessive heat, hot winds, birds dropped dead from trees and everything burnt up, stream of water supplying Sydney nearly dried up".
And so on.
Australians were religious about their climate in the past as well.
Heaton wrote they prayed for rain on November 2, 1858, and "for breaking up of drought" on November 2, 1876, and on March 1, 1878, with a fast day and "day of humiliation".
Australia has never had a mild and easy climate.
Whatever is the extent of global warming and any human contribution to climate change, exaggerating the 2013 heatwave is just another green lie which will blow up in all our faces.
NSW hit a high of 48.3 degrees on Saturday at Bourke, according to the Bureau of Meteorology, and Sydney hit 42.3 degrees last Tuesday.
But we haven't come close to the highest state temperature on record, (BoM records have been kept since 1910) which was 49.7 degrees in Menindee on January 10, 1939.
Or even to the 48.9 recorded at Brewarrina on December 9, 1912.
And in the 19th Century, long before BoM took notice, there were hot days recorded in Sydney, and elsewhere, by Sir John Henniker Heaton in his 1879 Australian Dictionary of Dates. Here is a sample which should throw cold water on climate alarm enthusiasts trying to seize the latest temperatures for propaganda purposes.
1826, November 29, in Sydney: 40C in the shade
1832, March 18 in Sydney: 54C in the sun
1833, February, in Bathurst: 41C (sun)
1835, January 31, in Sydney: 43C (shade)
1837, February 23 in Sydney: 56C (sun)
1839, January 29, in Yass: 49C (sun)
1845, January 21, Central Australia: 55C (shade)
1845, November 1, Central Australia: 53C (shade)
1848, January 1 on the Paterson (Hunter Valley): 53C (sun)
1848, January 3 on the Paterson: 43C (shade) (At 10.30 p m. it was still 33C)
1863, January 5, in Sydney: 42 (shade)
1866, January 8, in Lochinvar (Hunter Valley): 42 (shade)
1867, January 2, in Lochinvar: 42 (shade)
1867, November 16 ,in Lochinvar: 40 (shade)
1867, December 25 in Lochinvar: 41 (shade)
1870, January 3, at Sydney: 41 (shade)
1871, December 22 at Sydney: 40 (shade)
1878, November 21 at Sydney: 55C (sun): "Glass burst, and the temperature must have been over 55C to do this."
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Freedom to offend the Right, not the Left
Miranda Devine –, Tuesday, January, 15, 2013, (1:51pm)
A left wing lobby group is offended by a politically incorrect column Julie Burchill writes in the supposedly liberal UK Observer.
A UK government minister calls for her to be sacked. Within 48 hours the Observer removes the controversial column about transexuals from its website and apologises for the "hurt and offence".
And this is before the Leveson inquiry proposals are implemented.
Her friend Toby Young has the whole story here:
It cannot be said often enough that freedom of speech, if it means anything, must include the freedom to say things that some people find offensive.
I imagine the Observer's decision to oppose Anthony Eden's invasion of Suez in 1956 caused a great deal of "offence", yet David Astor, the editor at the time, would never have dreamed of censoring any of his journalists for that reason. Or is it okay to offend the Right but not the Left? The Guardian, the Observer's sister paper, has published plenty of things that I've found deeply offensive in the past 12 months – such as this piece on paedophilia or this anti-Semitic Steve Bell cartoon – yet I wouldn't dream of petitioning its editor to remove them from its website…
This isn't merely a black day for the Observer. It's a bad day for journalism.
It cannot be said often enough that freedom of speech, if it means anything, must include the freedom to say things that some people find offensive.
I imagine the Observer's decision to oppose Anthony Eden's invasion of Suez in 1956 caused a great deal of "offence", yet David Astor, the editor at the time, would never have dreamed of censoring any of his journalists for that reason. Or is it okay to offend the Right but not the Left? The Guardian, the Observer's sister paper, has published plenty of things that I've found deeply offensive in the past 12 months – such as this piece on paedophilia or this anti-Semitic Steve Bell cartoon – yet I wouldn't dream of petitioning its editor to remove them from its website…
This isn't merely a black day for the Observer. It's a bad day for journalism.
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Pants on fire
Miranda Devine –, Tuesday, January, 15, 2013, (9:53am)
THE Greens love to rewrite history. They must think we have amnesia.
Here is Tasmanian Greens leader and cabinet minister Nick McKim claiming last weekend:
"The Greens, in all the history of our political party, have never opposed a fuel-reduction burn, ever."
Here is his party in a post on their website this week: "The Greens have supported, and continue to support, fuel reduction burns as a vital tool in protecting lives and property in all land tenures including National Parks."
And here is the Tasmanian Greens press release of June 15, 2012:
The Tasmanian Greens today said that residents in and around Maydena deserved better than the intense smoke pollution from commercial forestry burn-offs that they were subjected to this week.
This practice has simply got to stop. It puts people's health at risk and every time the state is swathed in commercial forestry smoke, our valuable 'clean, green,' brand is diluted just a little bit more.
"Greens strongly believe Tasmania must free itself from this smoke taint and end commercial forestry burn-offs . . . attempting to burn forest waste at this time of year is highly likely to have this unacceptable result.
"We're all better off when this Neanderthal practice stops and disposing of forest by-products is done far more responsibly.
"The future's bright without forestry's smoke pollution," said Greens Treasury spokesperson, Tim Morris MP.
The Tasmanian Greens today said that residents in and around Maydena deserved better than the intense smoke pollution from commercial forestry burn-offs that they were subjected to this week.
This practice has simply got to stop. It puts people's health at risk and every time the state is swathed in commercial forestry smoke, our valuable 'clean, green,' brand is diluted just a little bit more.
"Greens strongly believe Tasmania must free itself from this smoke taint and end commercial forestry burn-offs . . . attempting to burn forest waste at this time of year is highly likely to have this unacceptable result.
"We're all better off when this Neanderthal practice stops and disposing of forest by-products is done far more responsibly.
"The future's bright without forestry's smoke pollution," said Greens Treasury spokesperson, Tim Morris MP.
And what about this, from the Tasmanian Greens' health spokesperson, Paul 'Basil' O'Halloran MP on March 15, 2011: "FORESTRY BURN-OFFS CONTINUE TO THREATEN HEALTH AND WELL-BEING: COMMUNITIES, ANIMALS AND PLANT LIFE BEING THREATENED BY FORESTRY BURN-OFFS."
It is a matter of public record that green groups have long opposed systematic prescribed burning, as is evident in their submissions to bushfire inquiries from as far back as 1992.
They complain of a threat to biodiversity, including to fungi, from "frequent burning" regimes and urge resources be spent on water bombers and early detection, as well as on stopping climate change - good luck with that.
The WA Forest Alliance, for instance, lodged a submission to the NSW parliamentary inquiry into the 2001-02 bushfires, claiming: "Frequent fires have a disastrous effect on many species of flora and fauna and their habitat structure."
WWF Australia's submission claimed: "Inappropriate fire hazard regimes can damage biodiversity leading to the loss of native species, communities and ecosystems."
The NSW Greens stated on their website in 2002 as part of their bushfire risk management policy: "There is an urgent need to correct the common misconception that responsible fire management always involves burning or clearing to reduce moderate and high fuel loads…"
As I wrote in a previous column, in 2003, lightning strikes in fuel-rich national parks in NSW and the ACT sparked bushfires which swept into Canberra, killing four people.
Days later, the NSW Nature Conservation Council's then chairman, Rob Pallin, described calls for increased prescribed burning as "futile" and a "knee-jerk reaction".
"People who claim that hazard reduction burning is a cure-all for bushfire risk are either fooling themselves or deliberately trying to fool the public."
It is another clever tactic of those who oppose broadscale prescribed burning to claim that it is not a "cure-all" for bushfire risk. No one has ever claimed it is.
The icing on the cake is that the NSW Department of Environment and Heritage has list controlled burning, or what it called "too frequent fire" as a "key threatening process to biodiversity" under the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act.
Six years before the deadly Black Saturday fires in Victoria in 2009, David Packham tried to warn Nillumbik Shire, where so many people were to die, about the "very dangerous fuel loads".
Nillumbik Shire council was committed to reducing carbon emissions in its so-called "green wedge" area, where restrictions on removing vegetation around houses reportedly added to the dangers.
In St Andrews, where more than 20 people are believed to have died, surviving residents have spoken angrily of "greenies" who prevented them from cutting back trees near their property, including in one case, a tea tree that went "whoomp".
Dr Phil Cheney, the former head of the CSIRO's bushfire research unit and one of the pioneers of prescribed burning, said yesterday if the fire-ravaged Victorian areas had been hazard-reduced, the flames would not have been as intense.
Kinglake and Maryville, now crime scenes, are built among tall forests of messmate stringy bark trees which pose a special fire hazard, with peeling bark creating firebrands that carry fire five kilometres out.
"The only way to reduce the flammability of the bark is by prescribed burning" every five to seven years, Cheney said. He estimates between 35 and 50 tonnes a hectare of dry fuel were waiting to be gobbled up by Saturday's inferno.
Fuel loads above about eight tonnes a hectare are considered a fire hazard. A federal parliamentary inquiry into bushfires in 2003 heard that a fourfold increase in ground fuel leads to a 13-fold increase in the heat generated by a fire.
Remember the Sheahans, fined $50,000 for clearing a firebreak around their house… which became one of the few in the area to survive Black Saturday's inferno.
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Stop telling bushfire victims to shut up
Miranda Devine –, Sunday, January, 13, 2013, (8:38am)
WHENEVER a major bushfire catastrophe occurs in Australia, the victims are essentially told to shut up.
It happened after Victoria's Black Saturday fires in 2009. It happened after the Canberra bushfires, 10 years ago on Friday. And it's happening now in Tasmania.
"Now is not the time for that conversation," says the Tasmanian Minister for Emergency Management, David O'Byrne, avoiding questions about why adequate hazard reduction burns were not done in cooler months to remove fuel from the path of inevitable summer fires.
It's just too early, claims Premier Lara Giddings, presiding over Tasmania's ALP-Greens coalition.
But the residents of Dunalley, whose town was overrun, and the farmers whose properties and livestock have been wiped out, want that conversation right now.
Now is the time for farmers to complain that they could never get a permit to burn off excessive ground fuel on their properties.
Now, while public attention is focused, and before the truth can be buried for years.
Now is the time to point out, perhaps, that a fire which begins in a national park carrying negligently heavy loads of ground fuel can become an unstoppable inferno which will eventually burst out into the Canberra suburbs and kill four people and consume 500 homes.
Now is the time for people who understand the bush to tell the rest of Australia what fools we are.
"Fuel reduction burns make it possible to fight and control a fire; what happened here was uncontrollable," Dunalley farmer Leigh Arnold told The Australian.
Greenies who oppose such burnoffs, "care more about birds and wildlife than they do about people and farms," he said.
"But what's the point of that now when the hills and trees they told me I couldn't burn off, because there were protected eagles and swift parrots there, are now all burned and the fire it created was so hot we had dead swans dropping out of the sky?"
No, the only permissible comment on a bushfire catastrophe is to say it was caused by "climate change" - that convenient get-out-of-jail free card for greenies, governments and the obstructive bureaucracies they jointly create.
But we've heard it all before, and we're not buying it.
"It's really simple," says Brian Williams, captain of the Kurrajong Heights bushfire brigade, a veteran of 44 years of firefighting, in one of the most extreme fire risk areas of Australia, on a ridge surrounded by 0.75 million hectares of overgrown national park between the Blue Mountains and Wollemi.
"Fires run on fuel. Limited fuel means limited fire."
Green tape and heavy-handed bureaucracy has made his job harder today than in 28 years as captain. Rather than needing six people to perform a controlled burn in the cooler months, now 40 are involved, to oversee biodiversity and so on.
Williams managed to conduct just two of the five hazard reduction burns he planned before this fire season.
But don't blame greenies. All week they have been claiming they support hazard reduction. Really?
No matter what legalistic and linguistic ploys are now used to rewrite history, green hostility to proper bushfire management is on the record, from the light-green NIMBYs who object to smoke, to green lobbyists who infiltrate government decision-making, taxpayer-funded green activists who embed themselves in government agencies, the bureaucratic green tape which makes the job of volunteer firefighters so difficult, the green NGOs who strongarm politicians, right up to the political arm of green ideology, The Greens.
It is true The Greens have developed a new set of "aims" including a caveat-studded "effective and sustainable strategy for fuel-reduction management".
In practice, on the ground, it amounts to covert opposition. Williams scoffs at the Orwellian sophistry: "They publicly say they support it. The reality of how it pans out is nothing like that. Greens have two faces and underneath they are undermining everything."
While there have been improvements under a new state government, Williams says hazard reduction is still inadequate across NSW, reaching just 1 per cent rather than the 5 per cent minimum recommended by the Victorian bushfire inquiry.
At least in the hard-won patch of Volunteer Fire Fighter Association president Peter Cannon, around Dubbo, Parkes and Forbes, hazard reduction is complete this year and he is confident any fires will be controllable.
He says it is a credit to hard-working firefighters that Tasmania-scale destruction has not occurred in NSW despite extreme fire conditions.
Another bright spot is the latest Rural Fire Service annual report which says more than 80 per cent of planned hazard reduction was achieved, and the area treated should increase by 45 per cent over three years.
It's not enough but it's a welcome change from the dark days of 2003, eight months before the Canberra inferno, when former RFS Commissioner Phil Koperberg told a NSW parliamentary inquiry that widespread hazard reduction was "an exercise in futility".
Fast forward to last month and blame for that fire has finally been laid where it belongs, at the feet of Koperberg's RFS and the green-influenced National Parks and Wildlife Service.
Brinadabella farmer Wayne West, whose property was wiped out in the fires, sued the two agencies. Last month in the ACT Supreme Court, Chief Justice Terrence Higgins found them negligent.
The episode demonstrated how green pressure on decision-makers filters down into a cascade of subtle bureaucratic obstructions which disempower firefighters on the ground and disregard their expertise.
The result in 2003 was that a small fire at McIntyre's Hut in the Brindabella ranges was allowed to rage out of control through the national park to emerge 10 days later, and burn lethally through Canberra's suburbs.
Unfortunately for West and his insurance company, the government agencies are protected by statute and don't have to pay compensation.
But West won a moral victory. We all are in his debt because he fought for the truth and refused to shut up.
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Bob can't handle the truth
Miranda Devine –, Sunday, January, 13, 2013, (7:42am)
I can't say I was surprised when Bob Brown had a shot at me in the Sydney Morning Herald last week. Still, even though he is a Green, you'd think he'd have more integrity than to lie about me.
In a paean to tepee-dwelling eco-terrorist Jonathan Moylan, who admitted creating a false ANZ press release which briefly carved $340 million off the value of Whitehaven coal, Bob likened the young man to himself. And Ghandi, Mandela, Martin Luther King, Jesus Christ. Jonathan, like Bob, is Saving the Planet. "Business as usual in coalmining is a high crime against humanity".
Actually, the only real crime alleged here, which The Greens are irresponsibly championing, is Moylan's.
Which brings us to me. Australian eco-activists are "committed to non violence", wrote Bob. But no such commitment exists on "the other side".
"Just read Miranda Devine's advocacy of violence against environmentalists in the Daily Telegraph."
It's not true, Bob. I have never advocated violence.
But Bob did try to get me sacked for a column I wrote in the Herald four years ago, a week after Victoria's Black Saturday bushfires killed 173 people.
It wasn't climate change or arsonists which killed those people, I wrote.
"It was the unstoppable intensity of a bushfire, turbo-charged by huge quantities of ground fuel which had been allowed to accumulate over years of drought. It was the power of green ideology over government to oppose attempts to reduce fuel hazards before a megafire erupts, and which prevents landholders from clearing vegetation to protect themselves.
"So many people need not have died so horribly. The warnings have been there for a decade. If politicians are intent on whipping up a lynch mob to divert attention from their own culpability, it is not arsonists who should be hanging from lamp-posts but greenies."
At the time, a lynch mob against arsonists was being egged on by politicians and the media, a tradition begun by Bob Carr in 2001. When a "fragile loner was charged with arson, vigilantes called for him to be burned at the stake.
No reasonable person would have read my column as advocating violence, or literally hanging greenies from lamp-posts.
Of 330 responses, not one reader mentioned lamp-posts.
It took ten days for Bob's perverse misrepresentation to get traction. Four months later the Press Council dismissed the complaint brought by his supporters.
But Bob persists because shooting the messenger is his only answer.
UPDATE: A reader provides an example of green "non-violence".
"I grew up in an area that had logging as one of its major employers. There are still many trees that can be harvested in that area but most sawmills have closed because of protest groups.
"It got so bad that protesters were hammering spikes into trees at a height where a person using a chainsaw could easily be killed or seriously wounded if the saw contacted the metal spike.
"Some of the sawmills had been in families for generations and this was only possible because trees were carefully chosen to minimise the environmental impact.
"The Greenies would have us believe that contractors moved in, stripped the forest, took all the profits and moved on to do the same in other areas.
"Nothing could be further from the truth.
"Should we want to live in houses and not in caves, most houses are built using products provided by Mother Nature.
"The timber is from trees, the bricks are from clays dug up and fired using heat generating carbon monoxide.
"The mortar is from cement mined in various areas and so on.
"Of these, trees are perhaps the only renewable source if managed correctly."
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Green arrogance burns fiercely
Miranda Devine –, Tuesday, January, 08, 2013, (6:45pm)
WHEN Julia Gillard toured fire ravaged parts of Tasmania on Monday she couldn't resist opportunism - using the calamity to push a climate change agenda.
"As a result of climate change we are going to see more extreme weather events," she said.
But the fact is Australia gets hot in summer - sometimes very hot - and if there is fuel on the ground it will burn. The more fuel, the wilder the fire.
Tasmania is a petri dish, demonstrating the consequences of green ideology run rampant. No jobs, the forestry industry on its knees, and bushfires feasting on fuel built up over two mild fire seasons. Yet, instead of facing up to their errors, the Greens conveniently blame climate change. They pretend imposing a carbon tax or destroying the coal industry will prevent bushfires, while reducing the actual fuel which powers the flames is "futile".
Despite the lessons which should have been learned in Victoria in 2009, the fuel in Tasmania's forests has been allowed to build up because of green opposition to fuel reduction burns, which they call "outdated, old school" and a "horrible blight".
The state's largest landholder, the Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service, last year planned 36 fuel-reduction burns on 10,000ha, according to the Department of Primary industries 2011-12 annual report. That would have been less than 4 per cent of the 2.6 million hectares it manages.
But it only managed to conduct 27 burns on 1927ha - less than 20 per cent of its target. In other words, prescribed burns were conducted on less than 1 per cent of land managed by the Parks and Wildlife Service.
"If I pulled my hair out any more I wouldn't have any," laments Phil Cheney, Australia's foremost expert on bushfire behaviour, now retired from the CSIRO.
"It drives me to total frustration (that) governments are reluctant to spend money on preventative measures. They are great on helicopters flying around because it looks good. But they're better off having a bit more smoke in the sky in autumn."
Cheney says to manage fire you need a scientifically prescribed regimen of strategic light burns in cooler months.
That will reduce fuel loads which in turn reduces the power and intensity of bushfires. Cheney's submission to the Victorian bushfires royal commission advocated strategic burning of 10 per cent of public land annually. The commission recommended an "annual rolling target of 5 per cent minimum of public land" - better than nothing.
Forestry Tasmania and timber company Gunns used to carefully manage their bits of forest and ensure fuel loads were kept at reasonable levels in order to protect their investment. When fires inevitably broke out their logging contractors had the equipment, know-how, and manpower to lay firebreaks and control the flames.
But the two organisations have been virtually destroyed by greenies determined to lock up forest as wilderness, ironically, all the better for total destruction by bushfire.
Forestry Tasmania has been under fierce attack from Tasmania's Labor-Greens Coalition government, which plans to split it in two and bring it under the control of the Environment Department.
This victory for the Greens led to the resignation of Forestry Tasmania senior executive Ken Jeffreys last year after he sent a fiery email to staff saying the government planned "a public execution for Forestry Tasmania".
Gunns, once one of the best performing companies in Australia, has suffered an even worse fate, entering into voluntary administration in September after a relentless campaign of eco-terrorism and greenmail that led institutional investors to dump the shares - and Japanese customers to flee Tasmania.
It's been a complete victory for the Greens. Last year's Tasmanian forestry "peace deal" was effectively their final triumph, and leaves in doubt the future of 200,000ha of plantation timber, most of which was owned by Gunns, which used to manage fire and pests in the forests.
Ironically, as timber families are forced out of work, their bulldozers and excavators, which are so crucial to building firebreaks to contain and control bushfire, are being repossessed or sold - and Forestry Tasmania has none of its own.
"You can fly around all you like in these helicopters, which lay a drop (of water) and go away," says Cheney.
"But after a point, a bulldozer is about the only effective way to contain fires."
In the end, the Tasmanian bushfires are a metaphor for the Green philosophy.
Misguided virtue, carried out with ruthless disregard for fairness, property rights or human consequences, leads to a totalitarian mindset in which the original goals are abandoned. Saving trees? Nah. More trees and wombats have been destroyed in the past week in Tasmania than ever were turned into floorboards for Tokyo.
It was all about destroying Gunns, and seizing political power. Well, congratulations Tasmania. Your Greens have delivered blackened graveyards where proud forests once stood.
UPDATE: In the comments below, on twitter and on Facebook, various readers have been attempting to run the line that Greens are not opposed to hazard reduction.
No matter what legalistic and linguistic ploys they now use to rewrite history, the record is clear.
Green hostility to hazard reduction is on the record, from the light green nimbies who object to smoke, to the green lobbyists who infiltrate government decision-making, to the green activists who embed themselves in government departments and agencies, to the obstructive bureacuratic green tape which makes the job of volunteer firefighters trying to perform cool fuel reduction burns impossible, to the green NGOs who pressure politicians and private companies and greenmail institutional investors, right up to the political arm of green ideology, The Greens Party.
There is plenty more. All recorded. All remembered.
Pointing to some airbrushed policy platform of The Greens Party as proof of green support for hazard reduction is positively Orwellian. But of course it is.
Thank you for so many brilliant comments below, some from volunteer rural firefighters and bushies who understand the nature of fire.
Here is just one;
"I am a volunteer Rural fire fighter, Now, you will never stop a bush fire from occurring. However, you can minimize the damage caused both environmentally and financially.
"Firstly they need to perform hazards reduction burns. These are burns that do exactly that. Cold burns in cooler months that remove the main trash from the ground and move slowly to allow for animals to retreat. These are controlled burns with limit impact on people and environment.
"Now the best way to stop a bush fire, if not the only way, is to back burn. This is done with the establishment of control lines and burning off these into the wind to create a buffer of burnt material so the fire cannot proceed and burn out the fuel that is causing the massive flames.
"Personal protection for property is best achieved by removing the most threatening material away from the home. Secondly fit large sprinklers over your home to create a down of water with a large water supply and a pump to provide the water. This will save your home with a high degree of certainty.
" Next if you cannot do this get some good detergent and make lots of foam and spray your house covering it with foam and water. this will provide a barrier and better protect your home.
"Just my advice from an actual fire fighter."
And another, from Burnie, Tasmania, on the consequences of green control freakery.
"Tasmania is on the scrap heap due to the labour/Green Government when it comes to the forestry.
"There are so many families hurting and in liquidation due to the greens wanting forestry closed down, all because the greens are blackmailing the Labour Party into closing the timber industry and locking up more productive timber land or they will bring them down.
"Now they are looking at locking up rich mining land, Tasmanias will be living on handouts from other states that have these industries."
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Grand Mufti's agenda not very unifying
Miranda Devine –, Wednesday, January, 02, 2013, (6:45am)
AUSTRALIA'S Grand Mufti, Dr Ibrahim Abu Mohamed, presents himself as a moderate, with the unity of Muslims and non-Muslims as his priority.
But his Christmas vist to the Gaza strip, which he called "the land of jihad", and his support for Hamas, suggest unity may not be the first thing on his mind.
The visit reportedly was hailed as a publicity "coup" by Hamas, whose militant wing has been listed as a terrorist entity by Australia since 2001.
Mohamed met Hamas senior leader Ismail Haniyeh, who is on record praising Osama Bin Laden as a "Muslim and Arabic warrior"
"We came here in order to learn from Gaza," Mohamed said.
Learn what?
Egyptian born Mohamed is smoother than his most famous predecessor, Sheikh Taj al-din al-Hilali, who once described women who dressed immodestly as "uncovered meat".
But, like Hilali, he does not speak English fluently and gives interviews through an interpreter, which tends to cloud his meaning.
Previously he has alluded to the Israel-Palestine conflict as a factor in any potential threat of homegrown terrorism. He has indicated that Australia having troops in Afghanistan might inflame passions in the community. And he has defended Sharia law as misunderstood and wholly consistent with Australian values.
Even interpreted with maximum diplomacy, when seen with his Hamas visit, his agenda looks pushy, and not exactly unifying.
Another worrying sign that Australia's moderate Muslim community may become less laid back was the fatwa declared against Christmas by the Lakemba mosque.
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But the fact it appeared at all is troubling, as was the excuse given that it was posted by an overeager "youth worker" who had copied the text from another Islamic website.
The fatwa warned Muslims it is a ''sin'' to wish people Merry Christmas, and followed a lecture by Lakemba's head imam saying much the same.
Moderate Muslims have always said that Islam sees Jesus as a prophet, born of the virgin Mary, so there should be no inconsistency with Christmas greetings.
But we cannot view our own relatively minor issues in isolation from the radicalisation of Islam elsewhere in the world, and the increasingly dangerous predicament for Christians persecuted in lands where they have lived peacefully with the Muslim majority for generations.
On Christmas Eve, for instance, in Nigeria, the al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group, Boko Haram, attacked two churches, including an evangelical church in which people were burned alive.
An upcoming book, Persecuted: the Global Assault on Christians, points out that Christians are the most persecuted group in the world, modern martyrs being murdered for their faith every day in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and former Soviet nations.
We are not immune from the ideological forces sweeping the world, and as a Christian country we should be prepared actively to discriminate in favour of persecuted Christian refugees, who understand the threat of radical Islamism better than most.
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Star's star illuminates airport curfew stupidity
Miranda Devine –, Tuesday, January, 01, 2013, (7:18pm)
WHY did The Star casino spend upwards of $600,000 to fly Leonardo DiCaprio and pals to Sydney for New Year's Eve?
The only good thing to come out of the exercise in celebrity pandering was that it highlighted the absurdity of Sydney airport's archaic curfew - but more of that later.
As far as Leo's fleeting visit to Sydney went, the casino got almost zero kudos, with international news sites either not mentioning its expensive hosting role or simply identifying the Django Unchained star's digs as the "luxury Darling Hotel".
Newspapers did report the stars were celebrating New Year's Eve at The Star's nightclub Marquee, but even then the casino was tightlipped on details.
Leo and co-stars Jamie Foxx and Jonah Hill, and assorted hangers-on, were jetted in to Sydney and squired around town in luxury yachts and limos, no expense or carbon footprint spared. (For an ardent greenie constantly preaching eco restraint, Leo likes to burn up the carbon miles.)
Obviously it's the casino's business, but what was the point? Is it really worth so much to have your gambling den vaguely associated with an actor?
Leo didn't even seem particularly to enjoy himself. Considering he was flown out here simply because he is a celebrity and had lunch at one of the most high-profile restaurants in town, Icebergs Dining Room, at one of the most paparazzi-dense spots in Australia, Bondi Beach, why was he pulling his cap down and covering his face with his hands in an irritated way like some sort of Greta Garbo? He might be a great actor but he makes a crummy celebrity.
Nor did he seem particularly impressed by the bevy of bikini-clad, and not so clad, beauties aboard the 37m superyacht Masteka II assembled for his viewing pleasure on Saturday.
At least not compared to Jonah Hill, who looked positively gobsmacked by his good fortune.
"What most people would call the time of their life, Leonardo DiCaprio calls just another Saturday," E! Online reported.
It was publicity of a sort for Sydney, showcasing the beautiful harbour. But perhaps we don't want to be known as the destination for jaded Hollywood lotharios to pick out beautiful women from a line-up as if they were a set of cufflinks.
It's not as if Leo paid any respect to Sydney. As soon as the fireworks were over he couldn't wait to hightail it out of here to Las Vegas for another New Year's Eve.
By 1.20am yesterday he was at the ExecuJet centre at Mascot waiting for a small plane to take him on the first part of his journey back to Las Vegas, crossing the international date line so he would have about three hours left of partying left before midnight, Nevada time. Nice work if you can get it.
By 2.50am, Leo and his entourage were on the casino's private jet on the Canberra Airport tarmac, ready for the 15 hour-plus flight to Vegas.
Yes, you read that right. Canberra.
The ridiculous kicker of this story is that celebrities or not, Sydney Airport's antiquated noise curfew meant Leo and friends had to fly a small plane from Sydney to Canberra to get aboard their chartered jet home.
Passenger jets are banned from take-off or landing at Mascot between 11pm and 6am, and aircraft movements are limited to 80 an hour. Thanks to people whining about noise from an airport that's been around longer than most of their houses, only small propeller planes and freight planes can fly overnight.
The curfew was put in place by the Howard government shortly after the 1996 election, as a result of complaints about noise from people living under the flight path of the new third runway.
The Keating government had previously launched a noise insulation program to double-glaze whingers' windows, which ended up costing almost half a billion dollars. In the almost two decades since, aeroplanes have become much quieter, and the curfews are strangling the city's potential, with one estimate putting the cost to the state economy at $600 million a year.
Rather than Joe Hockey's thought bubble this week about a new airport at Badgerys Creek, decades in the future (and since when did he get to announce Coalition policy on the hop?), we should be maximising the potential of Sydney Airport first, bringing it into line with any proper city in the world.
It is a jewel in the crown of Sydney. Instead of seeing it as a liability we should realise it is an asset to have an airport so close to the city.
That way, it will be easier for freeloaders like Leo to come to town.
On second thoughts ...
UPDATE: A reader with inside knowledge has filled in the blanks on the absurd and wasteful logistical effort required to get some spoiled celebrities back to Vegas for three extra hours of partying.
"Yes, Sydney is hopeless as a major international airport as a consequence of noise curfew 'red tape'.
"The example of Leonardo DiCaprio's recent visit bears testament to this. Simply flying out of Canberra at 3am was a huge logistical effort
"1. The chartered Boeing 747 had to relocate to Canberra on Monday morning. Canberra Airport Terminal cannot handle B747 aircraft so the aircraft was parked on an apron by the ATC control tower.
"2. The B747 could only land in Canberra with 67 tonnes of fuel due to landing weight restrictions. The aircraft required 157 tonnes of fuel to fly to Las Vegas. It took nearly 12 hours to refuel the aircraft with multiple trips made by fuel trucks from the airports fuel farm. Canberra Airport does not have an underground hydrant refuelling system which would have allowed the aircraft to be refuelled in 40 minutes.
"3. The baggage for the 50 plus passengers had to be collected by a chartered Metro Liner aircraft (which incidentally broke down after the first trip) which was contracted to make two return trips to Sydney to complete the task. The two private Embraer jets chartered to fly the partygoers after the Sydney fireworks spectacular were unable to carry the baggage due to weight restrictions.
"4. Upon arrival in Canberra the A-class celebrities had to endure an amateur makeshift airport security check in procedure in the basement of the ATC tower complex, which does not have a security scanning machine that all normal travellers have to pass through.
"Apart from departing 1.5 hours later than scheduled, the fortunate travellers were in Vegas by 9.30 pm to witness their second New Years' celebrations."
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$1.87 - $2.35 looks to be the new short term trading range for TEN. It has hit the $1.87 area twice, and the $2.30 area 3 times in the past couple of weeks.
If it breaks $2.35, $2.48 will be the next test. If it breaks below $1.87, $1.73 will be the next pivot point. After $1.73, $1.31 is the next support.
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Well if you and / or possum know what you're talking about then why don't you indulge us all and tell us where TEN will close on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of next week? Heck why not just give us the stock price every day for the next month so we all know how to play it?
Don't you get just how little value you are adding to this INVESTMENT MESSAGE BOARD!
If you're supremely confident that TEN is truly heading to BK, why not just shut your trap and short it to the ground! I normally find it is only the scared shorts that run around yelling the sky is falling.
Go ahead you idiots - throw good money after bad. Big difference in what was going on back in the early 2000 and now - mainly TEN had plenty of "excess" assets they could turn into cash to retire debt and avoid bankruptcy. This isn't the case this time around. This ship is sinking fast. You should listen to Possum - he maybe "cranky" sometimes, but he still knows what he is talking about!
considering we're moving in the right direction on no news, I would say there are blue skies ahead. If we get the next close above 1.7 - 1.75 I will start loading on dips from there out.
There was some strong volume on the move from $1.52 to $1.77 today. TEN surged .27 cents in about 20 mins, got close to the 15 day moving average, and backed off.
IMO it was people buying heavy, or short sellers covering there postions. A short squeeze would be nice.
As I type, the DOW is starting to sell off. Hopefully TEN holds on to this nice gain.
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It's crazy how a few hours in this market changes everything! When I saw the reversal on the indexes the last 30 minutes, and the heavy volume the last 45 minutes on TEN on the uptick, I decided to go all in at the close.
I'm 25% in at $1.85, and 75% in at $1.43. I'm hoping to ride this to atleast the 13 day moving average ($1.80).
This is either going to be extremely fun, or extremely sickening with no in between.
I've changed my mind. I may buy some near the close to averaged down from $1.85, but I'm more concerned about the S&P 500 breaking down. 800 is a important level to hold for the S&P 500.
I'll probably be cautious here and keep some cash on the sidelines. I lowered my rating from strong buy to buy. Accumulate shares may be the best idea here instead of all in.
It should be a good day to load up. TEN is being very oversold today (IMHO) based upon some stupid rating drop by some jerkoff rating agency that probably has 15 million shares of SIRI they bought 4 months ago still sitting in their portfolio! Besides, with the market having a three day weekend on deck, I'd be willing to bet we're in for a nice rebound tomorrow across the board.
It looks like a market retrace is occurring right now (bear in mind, I'm an investing idiot). I would guess shorts have started to cover their positions and will be covering throughout the afternoon in anticipation of tomorrow.
Well, $1.30's has arrived. This is the very last support area for TEN. IMO we bounce up to the 13 day moving average from here. TEN is at $1.35 as I type this.
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$1.73 is a key support area for TEN if you look back the last few months. After $1.73, $1.30's is the next support area (all time low, and intraday low of 11-21-08). That's all I base my info on.
Actually as of now TEN is $1.75 (back above $1.73) which leads me to beleive that the sell off to $1.64 today was due to yesterdays day traders getting out. If that's the case and we stay above $1.73 today, we may be ready for that up move you're talking about.
Closing above $1.73 give or take a cent or two is very crucial IMO.
i am wondering what the new trading range will be now. i am guessing the bottom of it to be around 1.75ish any thoughts on this?


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Good product, but hard to connect to wireless network.
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I have not used this brand or model before and only have limited use of this one; however, it works well in my configuration. I am accessing it with EvoCam v3 on Macintosh. EvoCam is a network camera server application.
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|Mfg Part#
|Wansview NC541-B
|Alarm Mode: motion detection alarm and I/O alarm
|Audio compression:ADPCM
|Base T Network Protocol:TCP/IP,FTP,SMPT,HTTP,ICMP,PPPoE
|Data rate:802.11b:11Mbps (Max.),802.11g:54Mbps (Max.)
|Ethernet:One 10/100Mbps RJ-45
|Format: AVI Network
|Horizontal Rotating Angle: 0 to 270 degree
|However,browser must be run under Firefox.To choose your browser,please enter into the IP camera home page and select Firefox"
|Illumination:0 LUX Video
|Image Compression Format:M-JPEG
|Image Transfer Velocity:30fps
|Interface:Wi-Fi/RJ-45 10-100
|Light frequency:50Hz,60Hz or Outdoor
|Monitor Mode:Firefox
|Operating System:Windows 2000/Windows XP/Windows 7 and Apple MAC
|Package includes:1 x IP Camera,1 x Antenna,1 x Base,1 x Power Adapter,1 x Network Cable,1 x CD Driver Screws Review Works under both Apple MAC and Safari
|Password Setting:administer,monitor
|Power Adapter:DC5V/2A,50/60Hz
|scrutiny Working Condition: negative 10 degree to 50 degree,20% to 80%PH
|Security:User management system,password protection
|Sensor:1/4 inch CMOS,300,000 Pixels
|Software Upgrade:Automatic upgrade
|Standard Image Resolution:VGA(640x480),QVGA(320x240)
|Vertical Rotating Angle:0 to 120 degree
|VGA Image Display:single/quad Minimum
|Video Display:Microsoft Media Player
|Viewing angle:67 degree
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Cristiane 'Cyborg' Santos vs. Gina Carano
Strikeforce: Carano vs. Cyborg Results:
Cris Cyborg def. Gina Carano via TKO (punches) — first round, 4:59
Gegard Mousasi def. Renato "Babalu" Sobral via TKO (punches) — first round, 1:00
Gilbert Melendez def. Mitsuhiro Ishida via TKO (punches) — third round, 3:56
Fabricio Werdum def. Mike Kyle via submission (guillotine choke) — first round, 1:24
Jay Hieron def. Jesse Taylor via unanimous decision (30-27)
Scott Lighty def. Mike Cook via TKO (body punch) — first round, 2:05
Justin Wilcox def. David Douglas via submission (rear naked choke) — third round, 3:16
James Terry def. Zac Bucia via TKO (strikes) — first round, 1:23
Alex Trevino def. Isaiah Hill via submission (side choke) — first round, 3:56
Brazilian brawler Cris "Cyborg" Santos made history becoming the first Strikeforce female MMA champion crowned.
Strikeforce: Carano vs. Cyborg Fight Videos:
Renato 'Babalu' Sobral vs. Gegard Mousasi
Gilbert Melendez vs. Mitsuhiro Ishida (Round 3)
Fabricio Werdum vs. Mike Kyle


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1st Offroad Trip! (Core Banks/Cape Lookout)
Recently purchased my 1st Jeep (2000 heavy modified Wrangler), and will be taking our first offroad trip next weekend. We are headed from Greenville, SC to the NC outerbanks. Plan on taking the 9:00 am ferry from Davis, NC to Core Banks. From there, we will spend the day exploring and fishing up and down the coast. The kids and I can't wait. It should be a blast!
If anyone has any special tips about heading that way, please let me know.
Thanks in advance!
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