I AM A SMOKER AND I VOTE AND I BELIEVE I AM A VICTIM OF DISCRIMINATION:
Under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 I believe a class action could be taken by smokers:
Grounds of unlawful discrimination
Physical, intellectual, psychiatric, sensory, neurological or learning disabilities; physical disfigurement; disorders, illness or diseases that affect thought processes, perceptions of reality, emotions or judgement, or results in disturbed behaviours; presence in body of organisms causing disease or illness (eg HIV virus).
Areas covered
Employment; education; access to premises; accommodation; buying or selling land; activities of clubs; sport; administration of Commonwealth laws and programs; provision of goods; and services and facilities.
If we smokers want to get picky we could claim that we are victims of a disorder (addiction to nicotine) and that we have an illness that affects our thought processes (we are told we will die yet we continue to smoke).
We are denied accommodation or have to put up with ‘non-smoking’ accommodation, we are denied services and facilities at pubs, clubs, restaurants, hotels. Coles Supermarkets refuse to allow you to buy cigarettes at the normal check-outs. The government targets us specifically to increase taxes every budget and the list goes on …
And bear in mind that we are now told that Obesity is the biggest killer in Australia – yet Malls are banning smoking but not fast food outlets!!!!
If you are a smoker or you just hate discrimination order your sticker here: dii@hereticjournal.com
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In the run-up to Copenhagen, Naomi Klein made her point against carbon trading quite clearly in an article penned for The Nation:
Climate-justice activists in Copenhagen will argue that, far from solving the climate crisis, carbon-trading represents an unprecedented privatization of the atmosphere, and that offsets and sinks threaten to become a resource grab of colonial proportions. Not only will these “market-based solutions” fail to solve the climate crisis, but this failure will dramatically deepen poverty and inequality, because the poorest and most vulnerable people are the primary victims of climate change—as well as the primary guinea pigs for these emissions-trading schemes.
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Here is an interesting explanation on the so-called Super Tax on Australian Mining that came across the Heretic’s desk today that I thought I’d share …
A number of clients have asked me to explain how the Resource Rent Tax will work – most are under the mistaken impression that resource companies will pay 40% tax instead of the 30% other companies pay (actually not a bad idea!)
This is how it works:
Let’s say you are a mining company, and after getting back all your set up costs, you make $100 profit:
The Rudd Government, being the generous soul that it is, says you are entitled to earn a return on your invested capital – at the Government Bond rate. ( I am unaware of any investor this side of Alpha Centauri who puts capital into a mining development in the hope of a 6% return!). The good news is you won’t pay any tax on your first $6.
On the $94 remaining – you pay 40% RRT – $37.60 to Kev and Wayne.
You now have $62.40 ($6 of it tax-free) rattling around your pocket – you then pay the 30% normal corporate tax rate everyone else does – $16.92.
Great work – you made $100, and you now have $45.48 in your pocket – And Wayne and Kevin have $54.52 to spend on pink batts to set your ceiling on fire.
Jokes aside, the danger in this sum is that there are other countries in the world who actually want mining investment in their countries, and will offer incentives to miners to develop projects there. Projects = jobs, funds recycling in your economy, and future taxes. Ask yourself as the CEO of a mining company – where do you want to go?
Canada’s Finance Minister said yesterday:
TORONTO, May 4 (Reuters) – Australia’s proposed new mining tax could prove advantageous for Canada by attracting investors seeking lower tax jurisdictions, Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Tuesday.
“I quite frankly need to review it further. I want to make sure I understand exactly what they’re doing,” Flaherty told reporters.
“If it is what it appears to be, a significant tax increase, that’s another competitive advantage for Canada. We’re reducing our corporate taxes.”
So !!!! This is why Australia’s market is down.
The Heretic thanks John P BE Mining for this enlightening information.
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… definitely worth talking about because it is so very easy for each of us to actually do something worthwhile for very little cost or effort. I came across this today “9 Ways to do Good with 5 minutes or $25.00″.
These guys are trying to do it right and what a wonderful concept it has been for so many. And then of course my favourite people (not!) the wanker bankers just couldn’t keep their hands off it … see article below. Not a day goes by that these double-breasted suits don’t find another way to feather their nests at the expense of the worst off in all societies.
Shame on them …
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The Heretic has just returned from a wonderful holiday in the USA … wonderful people, awesome (yes the old-fashioned meaning of the word 
) scenery. The Grand Canyon is just that – Grand! and I learned lots about a history I’d previously known little about through the imagination provoking ruins of the Ancestral Puebloans while wandering through the Mesa Verde and Canyon De Chelly.
What a country of such massive contradictions! It has left me with a feeling of deep respect for these ancient people and their culture. The horrific devastation of the American Indian culture has also affirmed my view that we, ‘The White Man”, with our arrogance and greed, destructive insensitivity, modern technology, have still much to learn and put right. We also encountered outstanding service, welcoming and open friendliness and warm delightful people from LA to Phoenix to Miami and all other spots we visited.
Sadly though everywhere we went the evidence of waste and greed was overwhelming - paper cups, plastic plates, plastic cutlery, over-packaged food, condiments – the “Throw away society”. Everything in one-person portions.
I was offered an explanation by our companion – a long term resident of America – that the water and energy and manpower required to wash crockery and cutlery, put stuff into sugar bowls and dispensers had been reduced by producing biodegradable, recyclable STUFF. Oh dear! The logic is simply lost on me. What about the energy required to produce all this rubbish, the pollution of the environment by the factories producing them and and and …
Advertising for drug companies and solicitors promising to sue for all manner of personal injuries caused by said drug companies and the plethora of magazines pushing clothing and cosmetics at exorbitant prices ($1300 for a shredded pair of jeans!) just left us shaking our heads. $1300 would feed a whole family for a year in many places on this planet. Sorry I just don’t get it – no matter how much money you have, can anyone really justify a $1300 pair of jeans or $500 for a T-shirt????
Climate Sceptics, take heart, as the facts are starting to overtake the left wing rhetoric…..
Climate Alarmists, read it and wake up to what big brother is doing…..
A Cool Look at Global Warming (1)
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
R. Buckminster Fuller
1895-1983, Architect, Author and Inventor
The Heretic’s life has been hectic! Hence no posts, but life is now getting back to some thing that vaguely looks like ‘normal’. This one crossed my desk recently and I just had to share …
A logger sells a truckload of timber for $100.
His cost of production is 4/5 of the price.
What is his profit?
2. Teaching Maths In 1980
A logger sells a truckload of timber for $100.
His cost of production is 80% of the price.
What is his profit?
3. Teaching Maths In 1990
A logger sells a truckload of timber for $100.
His cost of production is $80.
How much was his profit?
4. Teaching Maths In 2000
A logger sells a truckload of timber for $100.
His cost of production is $80 and his profit is $20.
Your assignment: Underline the number 20.
5. Teaching Maths In 2005
A logger cuts down a beautiful forest because he is selfish and inconsiderate and cares nothing for the habit of animals or the preservation of our woodlands. Your assignment: Discuss how the birds and squirrels might feel as the logger cut down their homes just for a measly profit of $20.
6. Teaching Maths In 2009
A logger is arrested for trying to cut down a tree in case it may be offensive to Muslims or other religious groups not consult ed in the felling licence. He is also fined a $100 as his chainsaw is in breach of Health and Safety legislation as it deemed too dangerous and could cut something. He has used the chainsaw for over 20 years without incident however he does not have the correct certificate of competence and is therefore considered to be a recidivist and habitual criminal. His DNA is sampled and his details circulated throughout all government agencies. He protests and is taken to court and fined another $100 because he is such an easy target. When he is released he returns to find Gypsies have cut down half his wood to build a camp on his land. He tries to throw them off but is arrested, prosecuted for harassing an ethnic minority, imprisoned and fined a further $100. While he is in jail the Gypsies cut down the rest of his wood and sell it on the black market for $100 cash. They also have a leaving BBQ of squirrel and pheasant and depart leaving behind several tonnes of rubbish and asbestos sheeting. The forester on release is warned that failure to clear the fly tipped rubbish immediately at his own cost is an offence. He complains and is arrested for environmental pollution, breach of the peace and invoiced $12,000 plus VAT for safe disposal costs by a regulated government contractor.
Your assignment: How many times is the logger going to have to be arrested and fined before he realises that he is never going to make $20 profit by hard work, give up, sign onto the dole and live off the state for the rest of his life?
7. Teaching Maths In 2010
A logger doesn’t sell a lorry load of timber because he can’t get a loan t o buy a new lorry because his bank has spent all his and their money on a derivative of securitised debt related to sub- prime mortgages in Alabama and lost the lot with only some government money left to pay a few million pound bonuses to their senior directors and the traders who made the biggest losses.
The logger struggles to pay the $1,200 road tax on his old lorry however, as it was built in the 1970s it no longer meets the emissions regulations and he is forced to scrap it.
Some Bulgarian loggers buy the lorry from the scrap merchant and put it back on the road. They undercut everyone on price for haulage and send their cash back home, while claiming unemployment for themselves and their relatives. If questioned they speak no English and it is easier to deport them at the governments expense. Following t heir holiday back home they return to the UK with different names and fresh girls and start again. The logger protests, is accused of being a bigoted racist and as his name is on the side of his old lorry he is forced to pay $1,500 registration fees as a gang master.
The Government borrows more money to pay more to the bankers as bonus’s are not cheap. The parliamentarians feel they are missing out and claim the difference on expenses and allowances.
You do the maths.
8. Teaching Maths In 2017
أ المسجل تبيع حموله شاحنة من الخشب من اجل 100 دولار. صاحب تكلفة الانتاج من
الثمن. ما هو الربح له؟
This is not new or original but I thought it worth sharing ‘cos whoever wrote it was spot on in my book …
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn’t get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no child proof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank Kool-aid made with sugar, but we weren’t overweight because,
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day.And we were OK.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ridedown the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo’s, X-boxes, no video games at all,no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD’s, no surround-sound or CD’s, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or chatrooms…….
WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not poke out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend’s house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn’t had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!
If YOU are one of them CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good. While you are at it, share it with your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn’t it?!
According to Natural News editor, Mike Adams here is the latest …
“The Daniel Hauser family surrendered to law enforcement officials today.
Watch NaturalNews for updates on this breaking news situation…
In the mean time, Daniel Hauser isn’t the only teen who had to flee the law in order to save his own life from aggressive chemotherapy doctors: Another young man named Billy Best also had to flee authorities fifteen years ago! And guess what? Today he’s alive and thriving, living on superfoods, herbs and natural remedies! (So much for the myth that if they don’t take chemo, they’ll die, huh?)”
Read that astounding story here:
http://www.naturalnews.com/026329.html
(Contains a link to a video featuring Billy Best…)
Just when are Americans going to stop thinking that they live in the “Land of the Free”?
Their health system stinks, their justice system stinks and their financial system stinks. All they can really do is pray Obama turns back the clock – or wake up and take personal responsibility to change things. TV shows like “House” just appalls me with its glorification of what is simply blatant legalized torture. The total reliance of a supposed medicinal genius who is only capable of diagnosing a patient by sick scientific procedures is probably closer to the truth of what modern medicine is now about than anyone would like to believe. Any society which rates this a ‘Top’ show really has a problem.
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