Pollies’ survival guide: avoiding difficult questions
Watching pollies and company spokespeople operate at CSG-related “community consultations” and “forums” (fora?) is such an education. After only a few events, I feel qualified to offer this 10-point...
View ArticleCSG Bull*&^% Detection 101
I’ve got so much use out of the term “legitimating story”, that I realised I’d really like to know terms for other ways in which media, miners or politicians try to frame people’s opinions. So I went...
View ArticleAlban Elued – Samhain (Mar 20 – May 1) 2012
Autumn! Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness! Root vegie soups! Harvests Greens: ruby chard and some remnant silverbeets, red giant chinese mustard, rocket, lettuce, mizuna Beans: Cherokee Wax...
View ArticleRoot vegie soup
My turn to cook for a change, so I raided the garden for ingredients for vegie soup. Actually, the grey pumpkin isn’t ours – we swapped some bananas for it. Clockwise from the grey pumpkin – another...
View ArticleArrowroot
When we first built the summer garden fence, there was a non-edible variety of canna lily going bananas where we wanted to plant food. I spent a fair bit of time digging it out and throwing it to the...
View ArticleEdible oils
Why is our food supply becoming increasingly tampered with? Why are the regulatory bodies - whose job it is to safeguard the public from dangerous food items - actually endorsing them while demonising...
View ArticleCSG – APPEA tries it on again Part 1
This blog seems to have become a CSG activist blog, instead of a self-sufficiency blog. We’re still working towards self-sufficiency (the latest projects are setting up the bees and hatching chickens)...
View ArticleCSG – APPEA tries it on again: Part 2
If you haven’t already, best to read this first: APPEA tries it on again Part 1 I drew the second “myth” to address out of a hat (actually, out of a mug – my hat’s too floppy). APPEA says: Myth: …...
View ArticleCSG – When town came to Brad Hazzard (Lismore)
I’ve just read a couple of media reports about last Wednesday's Brad Hazzard Lismore SRLUP* gathering. What a complete misrepresentation of the meeting! Continue reading →
View ArticlePolice conceal identification at CSG blockade
As local CSG blockades gather momentum, and numbers swell at blockade camps, I’d just like to draw attention to something that happened at the Glenugie blockade, in the hope that by “calling” it, it...
View ArticleA word from the Leard
It's hot, hot, hot at Leard State Forest protectors' camp. I'm slumped in a comfy chair, snatching some down time to watch the bees attracted to the wet hessian on the Coolgardie safe. It's probably...
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