Woolnorth Falls Into Communist Hands

CHINA AN ENEMY IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA BUT AN ALLY IN TASMANIA?
HOW CAN A MAOIST STATE CREATE BILLIONAIRES AND SHOULD WE CARE?
Australia's treasurer Morrison has allowed the Chinese company Moon Lake to buy the VDL company 'Woolnorth'. We saw Senator Erich Abetz hit-out at a 'bizarre almost xenophobic campaign' against the Chinese purchase. So what are Abetz's thoughts on the artificial islands in the South China Sea armed with missile bases? Not a problem eh Erich? We are used to Abetz undermining Australian sovereignty but to be promoting Communist ownership of his own electorate is more than bizarre. It's actually 'treason'.

Communist take-over of NW Tasmania image from Woolnorth Tours

The Chinese Maoists have now got a strategic military and economic foothold in Tasmania and we have the Liberal Government to thank. Tasmania's gutless media the Examiner and Mercury blocked comments on stories about the takover.
So whats the difference between Woolnorth being in New Zealand, Australian or Chinese hands? NZ and Australia are not totalitarian states with an unsustainable population of 1.4 billion. And how can a regular Chinese citizen become a billionaire in a Maoist dictatorship unless he is also corrupt? Maybe their entire system is corrupt and if so why are they allowed to buy parts of Australia? Would we let a Mexican drug cartel buy Woolnorth and if not why not Eric Abetz, Brett Whiteley and the rest of you Liberal cash-addicts?
Next time you hear a Liberal whinging about Chinese expansionism in the South China Sea remember, the Liberals supported the Chinese buying Cubbie Station, the largest irrigated property in the Southern Hemisphere. Now they have sold the largest dairy farm in the Southern Hemisphere to China.
Liberals like Abetz are out to destroy a successful Tasmanian business Ballamy Organics who were doing well exporting infant formula to China. That was too much for Abetz who wanted to destroy another locally-owned business by allowing the Chinese to export their own milk protein from Tasmanian soil.

Ta Ann In Tasmania - The Untold Story

HOW THE ASIAN TIMBER MAFIA OPENED A TASMANIAN BRANCH
People often ask 'how did the Asian Timber Mafia get a Tasmania Branch'? The notorious 'Taib Cartel' from Sarawak has made a multi-billion dollar fortune from cronyism, corruption, tax evasion, money laundering and converting jungle to palm oil plantations in the Malaysian state of Sarawak. Taib is allowed to run Sarawak on the island of Borneo as his personal kingdom in return for keeping the ruling party in power in Kuala Lumpur.

Rolley on the left, Sepawi on the right, local politicians in the middle.

It had gone unnoticed that Evan Rolley and Ta Ann owner Hamed Sepawi had both attended the Australian National University (ANU) School of Forestry at the same time in 1975. Their paths were to cross again years later to the benefit of both foresters. Sepawi is Taib's first cousin and business proxy.

Evan Rolley studied for a bachelor of science degree in forestry at the ANU between 1971 and 1975. Sepawi was doing the same course at the same  university at the same time. Rolley graduated in 1975, and Sepawi was there for the year '74 to '75. Sepawi had a science degree from the University of Malaya and was majoring in forestry at the ANU. That placed both of them in the same lecture rooms. Another forester who was studying forestry at the ANU at that time said they must have known each other. Sepawi later obtained a master of science degree from Oregon State University and Rolley got an arts degree from UTAS Launceston.

Evan Rolley started work with the Tasmanian Forestry Commission after he graduated in 1975. He spent most of his working life at Forestry rising to the top job in 1990. He continued as CEO after it became Forestry Tasmania and spent a total of 14 years running government Forestry in Tasmania.

Rolley resigned from Forestry Tasmania in June 2006 after 31 years. His resignation came six months after contracts to supply immature trees to the Sepawi-owned logging company Ta Ann had been signed. The Ta Ann supply contracts expire in 2021 and 2022.

A year later and Evan Rolley was appointed by Premier Paul Lennon to run his department. This was one of the best paid government jobs in Tasmania.

In April 2012 Evan Rolley became Executive Director of Ta Ann Tasmania. He was now processing timber under the supply contracts he had personally signed 6 years earlier, for a man he had attended university with 40 years ago.

In December 2015 Evan Rolley released a right of reply to calls for a Royal Commission into Forestry Tasmania made in the Australian Parliament by Tasmanian member Andrew Wilkie. Rolley stated that Ta Ann had participated in a 'competitive expressions of interest process' to develop timber manufacturing in Tasmania. No documentation to substantiate that claim has been produced by Rolley. Did Forestry Tasmania issue multi-million dollar contracts with no paperwork at all?

The relationship between Tasmania and Sarawak has been extensive and controversial. At one time Hydro Tasmania were building dams for Sarawak Energy Berhad (SEB) chaired by Hamed Sepawi. Ta Ann has mills in Lonnavale and Smithton and Sepawi joked at the time they were in the electorates of the Premier and Deputy Premier. Sepawi publicly called Evan Rolley 'Captain Rolley' due to his willingness to take calls 24 hour a day. Many millions of tax dollars have been directed into the Ta Ann mills even though they are owned by one of the wealthiest families in Asia and Tasmania is the poorest state of Australia. Liberal politicians Eric Abetz and Paul Harriss have also made the pilgrimage to Sarawak as guests of Hamed Sepawi.

THE TA ANN-FORESTRY TASMANIA REVOLVING DOOR
It was not only Evan Rolley that moved between Forestry Tasmania and Ta Ann. Greg Hickey went from Forestry Tasmania as a forester, Gunns as senior forester, Ta Ann as Senior Manager and then back to Forestry Tasmania as Assistant General Manager. It was discovered Greg Hickey actually wrote the letter signed by The Wilderness Society and the Australian Conservation Foundation to the Japanese customers of Ta Ann in 2012*. Rolley was Executive Director of Ta Ann when Hickey wrote the letter for the ENGO's to sign.
David Ridley was Executive Manager of Business Development at FT in 2006 and played a key role in the construction of the Huon Ta Ann rotary peeler mill. Ridley moved to Ta Ann when both veneer mills were up and running and became managing director. Ridley retired from Ta Ann in March 2012 and was replaced by Evan Rolley, ex-managing director of Forestry Tasmania and now Executive Director of Ta Ann Australia.

*Greg Hickey leaves his name on the TWS/ACF letter to Ta Ann's customers in Japan.

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US National Debt Hits $19 Trillion

'Nothing to see here move on'

 This is US government debt. Personal US debt is currently at $17 trillion. Total US debt is $64 trillion or $793,000 per family. The problem is the debt is accelerating. Inevitably what goes up must come down. But how? It will either be cataclysmic or it will be gentle. How much faith do you have in human nature?
Pete Kasperowicz
 The national debt hit $19 trillion for the first time ever on Friday, and came in at $19.012 trillion.
It took a little more than 13 months for the debt to climb by $1 trillion. The national debt hit $18 trillion on Dec. 15, 2014.

That’s a slightly stepped-up pace compared to the last few $1 trillion mileposts. It took about 14 months for the debt to climb from $17 trillion to $18 trillion, and about the same amount of time to go from $16 trillion to $17 trillion.
The federal government has been free to borrow as much as needed for the last several years. Years ago, Congress passed legislation to increase the debt ceiling to a certain level of debt, and borrowing had to stop once that limit was hit.

But increasingly, Congress has instead allowed more borrowing by suspending the debt ceiling for long periods of time. That allows the government to borrow any amount it needs until the suspension period ends.

Back in November, the debt ceiling was suspended again, after having been frozen at $18.1 billion for several months. As soon as it was suspended, months of pent-up borrowing demand by the government led to a $339 billion jump in the national debt in a single day.

Under current law, the debt ceiling is suspended until March, 2017, meaning the government can borrow without limit until then. Obama is expected to leave office with a total national debt of nearly $20 trillion by the time he leaves office.

Lambie Calls On Australian Of The Year Morrison To Resign Over Military Abuse

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Independent Senator Jacqui Lambie has made a dramatic call for former Army chief David Morrison to step down as Australian of the Year, claiming he has helped cover up abuse in the military.
In a speech to Parliament on Tuesday night, Senator Lambie raised two long-running cases involving former soldiers who claim to have suffered abuse and said retired General Morrison had been involved in covering up both.
Australian Federal Police officers visited Senator Lambie's office on Wednesday in response to her speech.

One case was SAS Trooper Evan Donaldson, who says he was sexually and physically assaulted, and then had his records manipulated to falsely show he had never actually qualified for the SAS.

The second was former officer Marcus Saltmarsh, whose rifle discharged accidentally in East Timor, killing his friend and fellow soldier Corporal Stuart Jones.
Retired Lieutenant Saltmarsh was cleared by a court-martial but claims he was sent 28 photos of Corporal Jones' autopsy in an effort to intimidate him.
Senator Lambie said General Morrison "should resign from his Australian of the Year position" over these cases and "his appalling advocacy for ordinary diggers and veterans".
A spokesman for the AFP said: "The AFP can confirm it has received a letter from Senator Jacqui Lambie regarding a number of matters.
"As a result, two AFP members attended Senator Lambie's Parliament House office today.
"The AFP will continue to liaise with Senator Lambie's office regarding the issues raised."

COMMENT

This story broke on the same day as an ex-Australian Governor General Peter Hollingworth made another apology for his failure to report pedophiles operating in the Anglican Church. Hollingworth called his own actions 'misguided and wrong'. Hollingworth who resigned as Governor General over his mishandling of sexual abuse in the church was appointed by NeoCon Freemason John Howard.

Tasmania Where Idiots Elect Idiots

70 or 80 bushfires, water restrictions, water contaminations, drought, extinctions, mismanagement and rampant corruption. This is the hellhole Tasmanians have created for themselves in 2016.

Tasmania And The 'Godzilla El Nino'

Three months ago the drought situation impacting Tasmania had been called the 'Godzilla El Nino'. What's it like on the ground in Tasmania? Hot and dry with some disturbing long term effects observed on our native bush. It hasn't been totally rain-free, but falls have been light, often only 4 or 5mms. Hay is already scarce just weeks after harvest.

Current water level in the high altitude Great Lake Tasmania

At the start of 2016 the situation had become serious because water in Tasmania's highland dam system, used to generate electricity, for irrigation and residential supplies had dropped significantly. The storage dams are now at 21% and losing 1% per week.
To make matters worse, on December 22, 2015 the undersea Basslink cable failed. The government had been importing 40% of the islands electricity from Victoria through the cable. Now the shrinking dams have to generate the entire load. They have an LNG-fuelled power station but it takes a month to start it. No wonder the dams are losing 1% per week?
Is anyone to blame? Climate change is bigger than Tasmania but we had been generating 100% renewable electricity before the politicians (Hydro Tasmania) started draining the dams to sell 'clean' power to the mainland. Then they used electricity generated by residential solar panels to prop-up the logging company Forestry Tasmania. The government-owned Forestry Tasmania is causing climate change by removing native forests that evolved over millions of years. They have been doing this at a criminal rate. Sanctioned by the quasi-academic and corrupt Institute of Foresters Australia the forest removal is a continuation of the genocide of the Tasmanian Aboriginals and the rape of a diverse ecosystem. The forestry crooks are releasing the carbon stored in trees that are up to 600 years old. They wood chip them and selling them into the voracious Asian pulp an paper market.
The problem is the Liberal governments in Canberra and Hobart want their cake and to eat it too. They want to keep cashing-in on the colonial invasion of Australia without giving anything back. Now the climate is slapping the bastards down.
Both major parties in Australia are as greedy and stupid as each other. We desperately need leaders who can relate to the Australian bush rather than the drawing rooms of Washington, London and Beijing. Right now, the bush in Tasmania is slowly dying. Wet sclerophyll forests are turning into dry sclerophyll forests and dry forests are shrinking in size. Politicians don't notice trends like this because they are only focussed on money and nothing else. Our economy, our climate and our ecology have merged into one big problem but the corrupt vested interests have not accepted that reality.
Will they get slapped harder by the Earth's climate? Probably. It could get worse before sanity prevails and responsible ecologists are put in charge of the ecosphere.

Turnbull's 'Dumb Ideas Boom' For Australia

At the end of 2015 Malcolm Turnbull unveiled a $1.1 billion 'ideas boom' package to promote business-based research and innovation. What could be wrong with that you ask? What's wrong with it is, Turnbull expects business to innovate while his government sits on it's fat bum in a broken economy, with a broken tax system, a broken constitution, and the idiotic notion that somebody else is going to innovate them out of the hole they are in.

3 months ago we depicted Turnbull with car wrecks because that's what the debt-ridden economy he wanted to lead looks like.
Previously, we had pointed out Australia's 3 most pressing structural problems.
Turnbull needs to know that repairing the Australian economy will take more than farmers using drones. It will take more than the 'patchwork' NBN or looking at 3D graphics of something that can only be built in China.
Australia now has 70% of its work force engaged in 'service' industries. That's 70% of the workforce polishing each other knobs while layers of parasitic governments live off the left overs. Where in the world has that economic model succeeded?
We say Turnbull is all spit and polish and no brains. Just because he's rich means nothing. It just means he didn't mind trashing a lot of people on the way to managing his basket case economy. He didn't mind stealing timber from the Solomon Islands, or letting Gunns corporate crooks dump dioxin into a fishery. He doesn't mind bleating about climate change while he sells coal to any bastard that will buy it.
2016 is going to be a good year for Inside Tasmania because we have nothing to loose and plenty of pictures of Aussie wrecking yards. Pictures of a past 'golden age' in Australia when Monsanto hadn't turned our children into bisexual androids. When we didn't have phuktards building Sharia Law temples amongst the gum trees and we had a future we could believe in.
Inside Tasmania's simple message to Malcolm Turnbull. Clean-up your own backyard before you use innovators to prop-up your lazy, corrupt government. How many good ideas did you Liberals have invading Iraq? It looks like your economy is running out of illusions to sell to it's brain-dead consumers. How about selling real intelligence for a change and not trying to be everything to everybody?

Monsanto Sued For Crimes Against Humanity

Monsanto sockpuppet claims Roundup safe to drink - freaks out when offered a glass.  Watch the video here.

from Hang the Bankers.                                                          

If you’ve been waiting to finally see Monsanto – one of the most hated companies in the world – to pay for its ecocide, knowing harm of human life, and devastation of our pollinators, then you won’t have to wait much longer.

Several activist groups joined by food and farming experts are suing Monsanto for their crimes against humanity.

Finally, Monsanto, the US-based, transnational company responsible for introducing multiple genetically modified crops and numerous toxic chemicals into our environment – including saccharin, aspartame, polystyrene, DDT, dioxin, Agent Orange, petroleum based fertilizers, recombinant bovine growth hormones (rGBH), Round Up (glyphosate), Lasso (an herbicide used in Europe), Bt toxic plants, and more – will have to answer to the world for its reign of terror. Monsanto has acted with severe negligence, and the hubris and supremacy of a corporation given personhood, but no longer.

The Organic Consumers Association (OCA), IFOAM International Organics, Navdanya, Regeneration International (RI), and Millions Against Monsanto, along with dozens of global food, farming, and environmental justice groups announced at the United Nations conference held recently in Paris that an international court of lawyers and judges will assess Monsanto’s criminal liability for their atrocious acts.

The court, in The Hague, Netherlands, will use the UN’s ‘Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights’ developed in 2011 to assess damages for Monsanto’s acts against human life and the environment.

The court will also rely on the Rome Statute that created the International Criminal Court in The Hague in 2002, and it will consider whether to reform international criminal law to include crimes against the environment, or ecocide, as a prosecutable criminal offense.

This International Criminal Court, established in 2002 in The Hague, has determined that prosecuting ecocide as a criminal offense is the only way to guarantee the rights of humans to a healthy environment and the right of nature to be protected.

Speaking at the press conference, Ronnie Cummins, international director of the OCA (US) and Via Organica (Mexico), and member of the RI Steering Committee, said:

“The time is long overdue for a global citizens’ tribunal to put Monsanto on trial for crimes against humanity and the environment. . . Corporate agribusiness, industrial forestry, the garbage and sewage industry and agricultural biotechnology have literally killed the climate-stabilizing, carbon-sink capacity of the Earth’s living soil.”

The proceedings will take place on World Food Day, October 16, 2016.
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How Australia Lies About Renewable Energy

In Australia we often hear some bloated politician telling us we need fossil fuels to maintain 'base load' electricity. It's a lie and here's why:
From the Guardian.
In less than 10 years, Uruguay (population 3.4 million ) has slashed its carbon footprint without government subsidies or higher consumer costs, according to the national director of energy, Ramón Méndez .
In fact, he says that now that renewables provide 94.5% of the country’s electricity, prices are lower than in the past relative to inflation. There are also fewer power cuts because a diverse energy mix means greater resilience to droughts.

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Small nations, renewable giants
Uruguay gets 94.5% of its electricity from renewables. In addition to old hydropower plants, a hefty investment in wind, biomass and solar in recent years has raised the share of these sources in the total energy mix to 55%, compared with a global average of 12%, and about 20% in Europe.
Costa Rica went a record 94 consecutive days earlier this year without using fossil fuel for electricity, thanks to a mix of about 78% hydropower, 12% geothermal and 10% wind. The government has set a target of 100% renewable energy by 2021. But transport remains dirty.
Iceland has the advantage of being a nation of volcanoes, which has allowed it to tap geothermal sources of 85% of its heating and – with the assistance of hydropower – 100% of its electricity. This has made it the world’s largest green energy producer per capita.
Paraguay has one huge hydropower dam at Itaipu, which supplies 90% of the country’s electricity.
Lesotho gets 100% of its electricity from a cascade of dams that have enough spare capacity to export power to South Africa.
Bhutan’s abundant hydropower resources generate a surplus of electricity that accounts for more than 40% of the country’s export earnings. But over-reliance on one source can be a problem. In the dry season, it has to import power from India.

The Catholic Church Should Not Have Tax-Exempt Religious Status

Previously IT has called for the Moslem 'religion' to lose it's tax-exempt status due it's use of extreme violence to propagate it's idiotic message.
Now we are calling for the Catholic Church in Australia to be no longer regarded as a 'religion' due to their systematic sexual abuse of children.

Yesterday we read that just the Catholic 'archdiocese' of Melbourne has paid $16.8 million in compensation to 454 victims over 35 years. So how many Australians in total were sexually abused by the Catholic Church over the same period? And why is the Australian taxpayer essentially funding the sexual abuse of children using the church's tax-deductible, tax-free religious status? We note that while the brain-dead Liberal government wages endless Jihads against Centrelink welfare recipients, they happily allow catholics to rape children at taxpayers expense.
When you put together the contradictory policies of the Turnbull government, you realise they have no hope of defeating religious extremism while they are bankrupting the nation by funding it.