Tomorrow the world needs to stand up for whales

Humpback Whale breeching off the Perth coast from PerthNow

On Monday 22 June 2009 the International Whaling Commission will commence holding a series of meetings in which those nations wanting to break the international moratorium on commercial whale hunting will seek to prevail.

As I write, the annual whale migration on the east coast of Australia continues and the migration up the West Australia coast has begun.

Phone, email or Twitter the Australian Prime Minister now and let him know that you do not want to go down any concession path which would result in more whales being killed each year by those nations which have sufficient access to protein for their citizens as it is.

The Hon Kevin Rudd MP
Prime Minister
Parliament House
CANBERRA ACT 2600

(02) 6277.7111 (main switchboard)
Direct email link here.
Twitter KevinRuddPM

Sign the World Society for the Protection Of Animals NZ anti-whaling petition here.

PerthNow whale photo gallery

Whale breeching off the Kimberly coast

Yes, Iran is sexy news - but what about Fiji?

The widespread national election result protests in Iran are eye-catching, politically compelling and happening right now.
Consequently the mainstream media is all over the subject even though getting hard news out of that country is currently difficult.
Without wanting to talk down the situation in Iran, it does place into stark relief the media's attitude to Fiji which earlier this year had its democratic institutions and processes stolen away by a military dictator.
After a week or so of intermittent news coverage of the Fiji coup the matter effectively slipped into newsprint oblivion.
In recent days it has only rated a few low-level mentions of Australian and New Zealand plans to lobby for the UN to remove Fiji military personnel from its peacekeeping forces.
Over to you Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon.

Something to ponder at the end of the week

You know you're getting older when.......

.......most of the thespians named on the back of DVDs lining racks at the local video store are actors that a) you've never even heard of before and b) all look younger than your kids.

Picture: Google Images

FEHVA 2009 Bangalow Art Prize winner

Bangalow Art Prize 2009 winning painting
ROADS AROUND BANGALOW
by Helena Maughan

Other FEHVA 2009 entrants and winners can be found here.

Dirty tricks or dirty politics?

Is Kevin Rudd prevaricating over Ute-gate or is it Malcolm Turnbull who is telling pork pies?
Well..................ask yourself who was it that recently had a merchant bank pay an out-of-court settlement on his behalf, after the liquidator took them to court over the HIH collapse amid accusations of of deception?
With software freely available on the Internet which allows anyone to produce and send a genuine looking email as someone else, I would also be asking for access to the Libs' computers to double-check any 'proof' the Coalition might present.
Fer gawds sake - I could send a fake email as the PM tomorrow and have any reply routed to another address entirely.
So could most Internet users on the NSW North Coast.
I have a sneaking suspicion that Truffles may not have been as smart as he thought.
A small clue might've been the fact that the mate didn't get financial help after all.
But then, maybe I'm a bit biased 'cause I'm plain terrified of the idea of that drongo (who when he was last in government tried to rip-off our North Coast water supplies) ever getting back in the saddle again.

Lost in translation..........

This turned up in the blogosphere recently. It seems to be a case of lost in translation for this look at North Coast Voices by Sustainability Definition.

North Coast Voices: It's crack 'em when they're down despite it at Fiscal Star

Hi! My personage is Boy. I'm a manful bi-coloured tabby cat. Ever since I discovered that Malcolm Turnbull's dogs were allowed to blog, I be subjected to been pestering Clarencegirl to okay me a petite place on North Coast Voices. Departed blue-eyed boy musing: The deddie scintilla has raised its CEO in a blog. The Orstrahyun mentions hearing more a fortune-teller who charges at least $100 an hour crusade of speaking to departed pets and conveying messages. I don't regard as we would be less chatty than beforehand - I'm dependable we would also utter "Let me in", "Let me out", "Just up to snuff behind my consideration intention you", "Why is the dog in my bed?", "Take it away - it's not up to my culinary standards"and "Is Malcolm Turnbull STILL moaning?"An Easter Bunny musing: It was a tittle of a petrify to the Easter Bunny when on Easter Sunday the ABC TV Landline program ran not one but three stories on rabbits - involving profit as good as poisoning, trapping, blowing up burrows and preparing crusade of the gut. ......This entry was posted on Freitag, Mai 29th, 2009 at 15:17 and is filed under Allgemein.

Sometimes those free 'translate this' sites on the Web are just not up to snuff.

A classic WTF?! concerning the Rudd-Conroy internet censorship scheme

The laughs just keep on coming. Screenshot by Mark Newton posting on Twitpic.