LtE's 26/11 - Sunday Edition with Updates

The Editor
The Sunday Mail

Residents of Malanda (not Miranda) in FNQ have fallen victim to a speed camera that clearly wasn’t calibrated correctly – despite police assertions to the contrary, (Slow down on speed fines, 26/11).

A relative of mine copped a fine despite never getting within a bull’s roar of a speed limit in her entire slow-motion driving career.

There was nothing “hidden” about this camera, (Speeding fines may not be fine, 26/11), it was a big yellow trailer parked on a wide green mowed roadside.

It was unmissable, which supports the local view that it was faulty - as so many of the Qld government’s tech systems seem to be.

If detecting speeding was about safety and not revenue, we wouldn’t have fines – we’d have driver education.

Fines hurt the poor but not the rich – but everyone has the same number of hours in their day.

If it’s about safety, swap the fines for driver education: spend two hours in a course learning why exceeding the posted speed by 6 km/h at that location was dangerous.

That won’t happen, of course, because it really is about revenue.

(184 words)

Peter Campion
Tolga

The Editor
The Sunday Herald Sun

A savvy nation that took a long-term approach to weakening nearby countries it might like to take over one day could adopt a multipronged strategy to do so.

It could subvert unelected supranational bodies like the UN’s IPCC to loudly and repeatedly assert that a trace gas can control the planet’s climate despite that being impossible under the known laws of gas physics, (New hope among all the hot air, 26/11).

It could use that baseless hysteria to make their enemy’s domestic energy ridiculously expensive to suck the life out of their economy, (Gas hike fuels billing blues, 26/11).

It could ensure weak-minded, disloyal, and/or compromised politicians got elected in their enemy’s parliaments who would then squander trillions on swapping an electricity generation system that provided cheap and abundant power for one that didn’t work at all, (Energy madness will send the country back into the dark ages, 26/11).

It could subvert the UN’s WHO to make unprovable but highly publicised claims about the products of combustion of the hydrocarbon fuels that power the enemy’s economy killing hundreds of thousands of people, (Pollution kills 250,000 in EU, 26/11).

It could push all these stories on an unsuspecting enemy public by buying controlling interests in the investment companies that own majority shareholdings in the enemy’s media.

It could strengthen its own economy by maximising its own use of the fuels it demonises through its proxies, by only giving lip service to UN agreements, and by selling its enemy the components for the electrical generation system which won’t work.

Which country might like to own and control clean Australia outright having polluted its own homeland?

Aussies who aren’t stupid know. 

The only people who appear not to know are those who would still vote for the Labor-Liberal-Teals-Greens CCP UNiparty.

(304 words)

Peter Campion
Tolga