I have been watching with great interest the rise, then rise, then rise of petrol in Australia, with the current price of diesel is hovering around $1.87 per litre. Good thing I don’t own a truck or Turbo diesel 4WD.

I have abasic understanding of how the price of crude oil is set and I also understand that demand for oil is greater than supply. But what I dont understand is, why OPEC dosn’t increase production and release more oil?

Is it because the greedy oil barrons want even higher prices for their oil? Is it because they have shareholders that want even better Dividends? Or is it really, that the reserves of crude oil are low and OPEC has the ration it? I’m a bit sceptical and beleive that BIG BUSINESS is taking us all for a ride and shareholder dividends and Million Dollar CEO paydays are the reason I am paying $1.62 a litre for ULP.

I have no answers to the fuel price problem except to say, “Screw the rest of the World”! Lets find our own oil, refine it and sell it at a price we can all afford in our own country. If we have any left to trade with, then and only then we export it.

From what I can see, as the Corporations and BIG BUSINESS gets richer and richer in our growing economy, the poorer are getting screwed on fuel and food prices so that profits and enormous incomes are increasing. The price of fuel and food only effects the poor. The rich, earning $150,000 plus per year are not going to worry about fuel prices or that the price of prime steaks are going up in price.

Publishers Note: I get emails form this website and I found this article interesting. So interesting I wanted to add it to Snappa.

Written by Citizens Electoral Council Research Team

Prime Minister John Howard has presented legislation to the Parliament, authorising the Federal Government to seize control of all of the water of the Murray-Darling Basin from the states, and to put it under a new Federal agency with dictatorial powers. Just before Victorian Premier Steve Bracks and his Water Minister John Thwaites suddenly resigned on Friday, July 27, Bracks charged that Howard’s actual intent was to privatise all of the Basin’s water. Caught, Howard bellowed that Bracks was “desperate, stupid, inaccurate and just totally wrong.”

It is Howard who is desperate. The global financial system is now crashing down, and the financial oligarchy which owns Howard is attempting to grab control over such vital assets as raw materials, food, and water, so as to maintain their political power when their paper, and even their banks vaporise. Howard’s legislation will give his owners control over the Basin’s water for which they will charge whatever they want, and, by bankrupting most of the farmers there, in Australia’s food bowl—as this legislation assuredly will—will make us dependent on multinational agribusiness for our food.

See the full story at the Citizens Electoral Council Research Team website

This letter was sent to me a couple of days ago from a visitor to snappa.com.au who gave me permission to publish his thoughts. He will remain anon but his views are very similar to those of many blue collar workers in our community.

I was recently issued a standard government form outlining our new intended workplace agreement, listing the government web site, for further details.

From the forwarded material, it struck me as un-fair that salaried earnings over $75,000 pa are excluded from a fairness test, and I asked via the governments web link, to explain this disparity, and outline any other rights are excluded based on a level of salary.

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I don’t know about you, but I am an avid watcher of Big Brother on Channel 10 and I recon this years group are the best so far.

Now I am expecting to cop and ear full from a lot of your, but look at the characters in the last 4. Four people with as a diverse lives you wouldn’t find anywere. Each with their unique personalities adding to the attraction of watching the show.

• Aliesha is a bubbly, busty country blonde with an infectious smile and a personality that would light up a city. No doubt she would like to pursue a longer relationship with Billy except for his aloofness and non committal attitude. If she was my daughter I would be so proud and if I was 30 years younger ………….mmmmmmmm.
• Billy is a born leader. He is respected in the house with a air of honour and adventure that allows him to make tough decisions but suffers later when he realises his manner of arogance has hurt someone. The Star task showed what this man is made of. Billy is avery loyal person and having him as afriend would be an honour.
• Zak is as camp as any poof can be, but don’t ya just love him. I am slightly homophobic, but this bloke is so happy with himself and out there, you have to think this bloke has what it takes to win Big Brother and he has worked his way into the hearts of everyone I know. He has done the poof movement a great service. Hail to Zak.
• Travis will win big brother! He is the picture of an aussie bloke with compassion, respect and loyalty all built into a tanned hulk of a man, not afraid to lay his feelings on the line. Even with his “bloody, “bloody, “bloody, “bloody, really starting to piss me off, I will still vote him as the Winner of the 2007 Big Brother.

All in all I have enjoyed this years show and have watched it since the Bum Dance and I suppose I will keep watching it. Mr Howard, keep ya hands of Big bros.

June 2008

Wow its hard to beleive its been 12 months since I wrote the above post. I havnt really got into it this year. Apart from Travis, Nobbi and Bianca it been pretty boring

I was watching an SBS program last night, which was a forum about Work Place Agreements introduced by the Howard Government. It sickened me to see some business representatives standing on thier ivory towers sprooking propaganda on how good the Australian work force has it now.

One representative of the Chamber of Commerce said “most workers now have more money in their pay packets, since the introduction of a new work place system last year”. Nearly every academic in the forum laughed and said “lies! the average hourly income has actually come down by 3 to 4%”. And most of these academics had studies and surveys commissioned by the Government to back them up.

Now, I am a business owner and I wouldn’t for a second put any of my employees and a AWPA which took all their entitlements away. Wages and conditions have been fought hard for by my father and his work mates. Going months at a time striking to get a fair days pay. My people can expect me to think of them first when making a profit. But the big end of town does not have those sorts of thoughts.

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Anzac Day, 2007 and my family wanted Pizza for dinner. I had noticed on the voucher that a surcharge of 10% of the total cost of my pizzas would have to be paid. It was a public holiday and paying an extra 10% was a fair thing to pay. The guys and gals working today, deserved the extra pay, so I was quite willing to pay Pizza Huts Public holiday surcharge.

I ordered 3 $4.95 Large pizzas from my local Pizza Hut (Christies Beach, South Australia), I had ordered them online and my wife and I had gone down to pick them up 20 minutes later. It was quite busy and while waiting I asked Lisa(my wife) “do you think these young people get a penalty rate today?”. “I don’t think so, not since the new Industrial Relations laws introduced came in” she replied.  “Well, then why are we paying a surcharge”? I responded. She went on to say she wasn’t sure, but thought it was a ripoff, if the staff didn’t get the extra money, seeing the surcharge was charged.

Mmmmmmm, I might ask the guy at the counter, do you get more money today?

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Gangs of youths roam our streets at night, rolling innocent people, robbing and injuring them for money, jewelery and mobile phones. Not content to rob them of money, these gang members take great pleasure in bashing a near killing their victims.

I was watching the telly the other day and on Channel 9’s A Current Affair they ran a story on the growing problem of young thugs who were members of violent gangs in Sydney or Melbourne, I’m not sure what city they were in but, it doesn’t matter much because the gangs are in every state of Australia. The guys they interviewed were from two rival ethnic groups. One being from the Pacific region and the other from a middle easterm origin. Read the rest of this entry »

I was reading the Sunday Mail(Adelaide Sunday newspaper) and came across a story claiming that a convicted murderer serving a life sentence was given Ciallis because he was having problems getting it up.

Ban Spencer von Einem, was prescibed this impotence drug for a sexual functionality problem he had. This sexual predator was having problems getting an erection in goal? What the? Why would you give such a man a drug that would make sex possible for him. Wouldnt you be wanting to actually cut his dick off?

People! von Einem is one of the worst sexual predators this country has ever produced and it boggles my mind as to why he would want the drug in the first place. He is in goal. In a gaol full of men!

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As a follow up to my topic on cyber bullying, a rumour is spreading around Adelaide mental health circles that a group of Adelaide youths have made a suicide pact and so far 6 teenages have committed suicide.

Kept hush, hush apparently there are fears a group of eastern suburbs youths have rallied together and made an oath to kill themselves. An anonumous source said that a number of mental professionals know of this secret pact and are now investigating the rumours. If true, one has to ask ones self, why would a number of youths give such a pact and what frame of mind were the six deceased pact members in when they made that fatal decision. Read the rest of this entry »

Most days Im always on the lookout for some scam, anti-social behavour or anything obviously unjust. And we all know that those pretty faces on the womens magazines are some of the most beautiful women in the world.

Unblemished skin, long soft silky hair, eyes you would kill for and body proportions only God could have made. Well my friends it’s all a lie I now have proof that even a miss average can become a professional model, earning millions a year on the covers of fashion magazines all over the world.

I found a website that will blow your perception of a covergirl model. Infact, this stuff is so contraversial they nearly shut the website down. Do yourself a favour and have a look at this evidence.

Women of the world don’t feel bad, with the help of of Photoshop and a couple a’dozen makeup artist and hairstylist, I could have your face on the front cover of Vogue. Click here and have a look yourself.

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