Melbourne - Worlds worst traffic jams

The news of late is that Melbourne in the state of Victoria, has made it into the headlines for all the wrong reasons.

Some examples are:

• Recently the government has been exposed as it provided fraudulent figures into the state of crime in Melbourne.

• Melbourne's desalination plant is a government scam, that will cost the tax payers billions.

• The public transport myki (pronounced my key) card system is another failed money for mates deal.
  

• Melbourne is one of the vigorously policed states with respect to speed cameras / speed for the SOLE purpose of Revenue Raising.

• The mass media say the Muslims live in fear in Melbourne.

• Melbourne's traffic is rated at one of the worst in the world given only a population of 4 million.
  

Some of the above stories brought to you by a biased mass media are true other grossly exaggerated to push a government agenda, which is NOT made public, BUT well known to the law makers and business and political community.

Melbourne's worlds worst traffic is a result of deliberate government lack of planning for the construction of roads according to population needs.

The mass media 'only' focuses on the results and how the people are suffering, but NOT how this has led to this sort of state.

Previously Victoria's roads were also planned by the MMBW (Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works), which was also responsible for the supply of water to the general populous.

One of the unwritten policies of the MMBW was to work in the rears with respect to the building of roads, and NOT for the future generation.

Only when the traffic would be at a standstill and the masses would be screaming then new road projects would commence. This can be confirmed with the documentation from the road works done by the MMBW.

Current interviews from Town Planning Engineers to Road Works Engineers confirms that the policy still today is to provide inadequate quality and supply of roads, so that there will be always work for the people involved in the projects, i.e. a constant supply of work or money for mates, as the road works are contracted out.

In NO UNCERTAIN words the despicable state of the roads and traffic conditions is a DELIBERATE government policy.

BMW cheap but expensive car for Australia

As the years go by the Automotive industry apparently moves forward.

There are new improvements in technology, manufacturing methods that make their way to every day cars or "shopping trolleys" as referred to by many.

Some brands are well known for implementing 'state of the art' features that are years ahead of the 'every day car' car manufacturers. Some of these cars are made by Mercedes, Porsche, Ferrari

Styling is also a very important aspect of motor vehicle design, as the market identifies the style to the manufacturer without having to read the badge.

There are specific 'eras' of car styling, for example the 'finned' cars of the 50's, the 'muscle' cars of the 60's and early 70's, the box shape cars of the late 70's to early 80's and the like.

(The number plates have been changed to protect the innocent parties concerned.)

In today's market, the hatches of the Mazda MPS, Mitsubishi Lancer, Subaru's Impreza and the BMW 1 series all look very similar, from just about any angle. The only real differences are the subtle changes that each marque carries.


Another aspect is the quality of the vehicle. For example comparing a BMW X5 to a Toyota Lexus shows that the two cars are worlds apart.

From the inside the BMW looks like a cheap Ford Taxi, whilst the Toyota looks and feels like luxuriously designed interior.

In this example corpau has taken photos of the current model 5 series BMW, and also the current model Toyota Camry.


A BMW 5 series vehicle with a 3.5 litre engine has a list price of approx $113,000, and on the road in Victoria it is worth $142,000

A Toyota Aurion with a 3.6 litre engine has a list price of approx $50,000 and an on the road price of $55,000.

Toyota's Camry is the same shape as the Aurion, but come with a smaller 2.4 litre 4 cylinder engine. a Camry can have a list price of approx. $30,000.


From these illustrations the $140,000 BMW looks like a cheap $35,000 Camry.


BMW is also so cheap that the current advertisements on Australian TV show an overseas model, i.e. that being a left hand drive.

BMW has gone to the extent of cutting back costs on advertising.

Truly becoming a cheap marque.

Fukushima 'much bigger than Chernobyl'

JAPAN'S unfolding nuclear disaster is "much bigger than Chernobyl" and could rewrite the international scale used to measure the severity of atomic accidents, a Russian expert says.

"Chernobyl was a dirty bomb explosion. The next dirty bomb is Fukushima and it will cost much more" in economic and human terms, Natalia Mironova said.

Ms Mironova is thermodynamic engineer who became a leading anti-nuclear activist in Russia in the wake of the accident at the Soviet-built reactor in Ukraine in 1986.

"Fukushima is much bigger than Chernobyl," she said, adding that the Japanese nuclear crisis was likely to eclipse Chernobyl on the seven-point international scale used to rate nuclear disasters.

Chernobyl, which a 2005 report by UN bodies including the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) called "the most severe in the history of the nuclear power industry", was ranked a seven on the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES).

But Japan's ongoing crisis, triggered by a massive earthquake and tsunami three weeks ago which took down the main electricity and back-up power supplies needed to power cooling systems at several reactors at Fukushima, could be "even higher" on the INES scale, she said "Chernobyl was level seven and it had only one reactor and lasted only two weeks. We have now three weeks (at Fukushima) and we have four reactors which we know are in very dangerous situations," she said.

Japan's nuclear safety agency has maintained its rating of the Fukushima accident at four, while a French watchdog has upgraded it to six.

Chernobyl's death toll is hotly debated. UN agencies estimate up to 9000 people could be expected to die as a direct consequence of the accident, and the disaster will end up costing hundreds of billions of dollars.

Environmental groups such as Greenpeace say up to 100,000 people could die.

Ms Mironova is touring the United States with other Russian anti-nuclear activists, including Tatiana Muchamedyarova and Natalia Manzurova, who worked as a "liquidator", or emergency clean-up and recovery worker, at Chernobyl.

Their visit was originally planned to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl meltdown, which occurred on April 26, 1986.

But in the wake of the disaster in Japan, Ms Mironova and her colleagues rewrote their presentations to compare the accident at Chernobyl with Fukushima. - From correspondents in Washington

ninemsn.com.au 2 Apr 2011

'Won't clean up nature, will clean wallet'

THE carbon tax Prime Minister Julia Gillard promised never to introduce will cost average families $860 a year, Federal Government modelling has revealed.

Based on a carbon price of $30 a tonne, families would pay up to $218 more for electricity, $114 for gas, $187 for petrol and $88 for food, The Daily Telegraph reported.

Treasury documents, released under FOI, revealed households would pay the fixed price for between three and five years (before moving to an emissions trading scheme), leaving families with a bill between $2589 and $4315 over that time.Heavily censored documents claim price rises would "drive household behaviour change, with households substituting to less carbon intensive goods over time".

But it was acknowledged in a Treasury executive minute last October that low-income families would suffer the most because they spend more on things like electricity and are least able to afford low emissions technology.Treasury also raised fears the tax would reduce people's wealth.

"A carbon price will also affect wealth as the change in prices flows through to the value of financial assets, including shares, and reduces the real value of savings," the minute states

"This just demonstrates that the Government has known all along that its carbon tax won't clean up the environment but it will clean out your wallet," Opposition Leader Tony Abbott said.

Climate Change Minister Greg Combet dismissed the claims today, arguing they were based on a now aborted emissions trading scheme.

"We haven't yet settled all the design elements, including the starting price for carbon, so what these figures are are various scenarios based upon the design of a previous emissions trading scheme," he told ABC Radio.

Mr Combet said it was "perfectly appropriate" to model different carbon price scenarios.

"They are not the modelling that would reflect the Government's current approach," he said.

The Government is reportedly considering tax and welfare breaks of between $600 and $1500 a year.

It comes as an exclusive survey by The Daily Telegraph reveals why voters are so angry about the proposal.

A quarter of the 2500 households surveyed said they were already struggling to make ends meet and almost 9 per cent said they didn't have enough money to pay bills.

"I think it might be an unnecessary tax, I could probably do better with the money in my pocket and make a concerted effort to reduce my carbon emissions, rather than be taxed," Greg Hudson, 32, from Neutral Bay, said yesterday. - By Gemma Jones and Andrew Carswell

news.com.au 2 Apr 2011

Speed Kills, Smoking does not

According to government propaganda (TV advertisements) speeding kills an alarming number of people on Australian roads.


From what we are told officially, by the same source (government) reality actually could not be further from the truth.


The advertisements are aimed at justifying the speed cameras existence on freeways (where there are NO fatalities), and the huge amount of (police) resources used to catch speeding motorists rather than fighting crime.


In the above illustration, in 2011, on a packet of cigarettes sold in Australia, the Australian public are treated to information dating back some 13 years from the ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics).

It states that:

Causes of death in Australia:

19,019 - Tobacco
2,831 - Alcohol
1,731 - Motor Vehicle Accidents
831 - Illegal Drugs
203 - Murders

From the above information there is a ratio of 10 to 1 of Tobacco related deaths to Motor Vehicle Accident related deaths.

• If the government was REALLY serious about preventing its citizens from dying, then it would address the sale of tobacco and ban it.

At the end of the day it is about the money the government MAKES from tobacco, and NOT the dollars it saves in health care.

According to tobaccoinaustralia.org in 1998 $2.746 billion has been raised from tobacco taxes.

see article : 13.6 Revenue from tobacco taxes in Australia

When it come to drugs:

• Marijuana causes impairment, and it is illegal,

• Alcohol causes impairment and kills 60% more people than speeding, but is legal for sale,

• Tobacco kills 10 times more people per year than speeding, but is legal for sale.

It is not about the well being of the masses but rather how much money is made by the multinationals from the peasants.

South Africa - The place to rape women

Article:

Former rugby star charged over axe rampage

A former South African rugby star has been charged with three axe murders allegedly committed to avenge the gang rape of his daughter.

The 34-year-old former Blue Bulls player faces three charges of murder and one of attempted murder after one of his victims escaped, the Afrikaan newspaper Beeld reported.

The murders happened after the former player found out his daughter had been infected with HIV during a gang rape in Durban.

Khangelani Mdluli, 27, from Durban told the Argus newspaper in Capetown he narrowly avoided becoming the fourth victim of the axe attack.

Mdluli said a man stopped his car and approached him saying, "Did you know we would ever meet? You think I'm stupid, you infected my daughter with HIV". The murder suspect then allegedly lunged at Mdluli with an axe.

Mdluli said he tried to avoid the swinging axe, which grazed his stomach, and was able to run away from his attacker.

After the failed attack on Mdluli the former rugby player allegedly killed 46-year-old Paulos Hlongwa, a security guard at a KFC.

Hlongwa's body was decapitated, with his head found in a rubbish bin 2km away from his body.

Another victim was found last week with the head only being attached to his body "by a nerve," police said.

No information is available on the third victim.

Durban police spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Vincent Mdunge said the former provincial rugby player was arrested after a tip-off from a member of the public.

Lt-Col Mdunge said police found the accused with an axe which they believe to be the murder weapon as well as clothes with blood stains.

Police have alleged the former Bulls player stalked his victims around Durban before going on the axe rampage.

This is not the first time a Bulls player has been in trouble with the law, another player, Jacobus Roux, is awaiting trial after allegedly beating a police officer to death last year.

31 Mar 2011

From the above mentioned article, the player has alleged that his daughter had been gang raped.

If this was true, then there should have been some court time for the perpetrators. From the information in the article, there is NO mention of any court time. If there was then could the courts have let them go free?

If so, then the Bulls player has taken justice into his own hands after no satisfaction from the legal system.

If there has been court time, and the people involved set free, then does this mean that the courts support gang rape?

In Australia, there have also been many cases where gang rape has occurred, by Middle Eastern or Muslim men against 'western' (Australian nationals) women, and cases have been dismissed.

Authorities know what apps your using on your iphone

The iphone is one of the MOST marketed mobile phones in recent history.

It is touted as a phone that 'you' can do anything with, and as the global marketing kings say: "There's an app for that".

What the general populous may NOT be aware of, is that the telcos (hence authorities) also know what apps are on your phone and most importantly where you are EXACTLY.

Many might say "so what!!!", or "I have nothing to hide!", but that is not the point, but rather you are losing your Civil Liberties.

The iphone has an onboard GPS (Global Positioning System), that is accurate to within meters. It has been long known within the telecommunications industry that a general location of a digital mobile phone can be established.

There have been cases where mobile phone users have called for help in life threatening instances, BUT have received NO help from authories, as they claimed they did not know where the caller was. This is done deliberately in order to not let the general populous know that the technology exists to track people. As a result lives have been lost needlessly.

In an article recently (19 Mar 2011) posted at redmondpie:

AT&T knows you are using a jailbroken iphone

illustrates this fact.

CorpAu has also reported (in 2009) that Golden Circle (Australia) tracks their workers unbeknown to them (illegally - a jailable offence), via their Motorola GPS enabled smartphones.

see article:

http://corpau.blogspot.com/2009/06/golden-circle-tracks-drivers.html

Nothing has been done, and Golden Circle has not seen court time even though they have acted illegally.

Again, the same law applies differently to the masses and to the corporations.

Authorities learn to 'tweet' in disasters

Emergency authorities and media experts will meet in Brisbane next week to learn how to better use social media in disasters.

Websites such as Facebook and Twitter played a notable role in recent natural disasters including the Queensland floods and the Christchurch earthquake, but they also circulated misinformation.

Queensland University of Technology researcher Dr Jean Burgess said the symposium would bring together media and emergency authorities to examine what could be improved.

Dr Burgess said Twitter was more effective during the Christchurch quake than in the Queensland's floods, as a hashtag denoting official information was agreed on sooner.

"Within two to three days, there was a coordinated flow of recovery information among local residents, including everything from accommodation to port-a-loos," she said.

The symposium will be held at the State Library of Queensland on Monday.

30 Mar 2011

Surely this has got to be a JOKE right?

Allegedly some of the greatest minds are employed by the government, and 'they' do not know how to 'tweet' i.e. use a computer and type 140 characters.

Surely this has to be a secret agenda to use the tax payers money to fund a lavish dinner with lots of alcohol.

Await the next headline from the government:

Minister Sends Fax (all by himself) in Emergency.

Twitter has been around since 2007.

Is this what Australia has really become?

Global Warming - Companies Profiteering

There are many catch phrases of the 21st Century, and depending on the individual the first thing that comes to mind will vary.

One of the undeniable catch phrases is:
"GLOBAL WARMING".

There is undeniable evidence and proof that the less material resources we use the better for everyone in terms of financially / economically and environmentally.

The general order of the day is for governments to introduce taxes on the masses which punish them for using the resources they need to survive, that being electricity or gas for heating and cooling and various other resources.

The governments spend millions in propaganda (advertising) to brainwash the masses that it is for their BENEFIT that they get taxed heavily, but where the finances go from the taxes are the government secrets.

Corporations are some of the worlds GREATEST offenders in terms of environment destruction.

In this example some of the world's largest mobile phone manufacturers, the likes of :
Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, LG, Apple, Sony-Ericsson, HTC

will be taken into the spotlight.

These companies sell millions of mobile phones of each model they produce.

For example, LG sold 27.5 million mobile phone in the 3rd quarter of 2010.
By the end of 2007, Nokia managed to sell 440 million mobile phones.

Together with this comes one accessory that the mobile manufacturers are profiteering, i.e. ripping off the public, and in general creating a huge waste. This accessory being the humble wall adapter or charger.

Most phones work around the 3.7 volt battery, which can be recharged from a voltage of 5V from the adapter.

Each company brings out its own adapter, with its own plug, sometimes with every new model, in order so that the customer must purchase their expensive ($40) adapter for the company to achieve maximum profits.

USB (Universal Serial Bus) has been around for quite some time, designed in 1996, has made its way into Personal Computers, gaining popularity with the advent of Windows 98. The voltage used in USB is 5V

Mobile phone manufacturers could have universally utilised phone charging by USB, BUT chose NOT to, in order to sell their chargers at a high profit margin.

Enter the year 2011, some 15 years after the advent of USB, and there is some sort of move to standardise one adapter for all companies concerned.

This initiative is called One Charger for All from the European Union.

Road Works when there are No Works Scam

Here is another typical scam run by the government of Australia.

There are too many numerous sites around that have the same identical circumstances as illustrated in this picture.

Road works signs are set up and barriers put up to inform motorists that there are works being carried out during this time.

Most importantly speed limits are reduced.

Survey carried out across a wide variety of sites indicates otherwise.

There is NO road works present, and there are NO workers on that particular stretch of road barricaded, as indicated.

One of the results of this is the deliberate slowing down and congesting of traffic, where there is absolutely NO NEED for this.

The other main reason for this is to trick motorists in the speed signage and obtaining revenue from the lowered speed limits.

Another revenue raising initiative brought to you by the Australian Government.