BLOCKADE CONTINUES, FAMILY FUN DAY PLANNED AT FULLERTON COVE

Fullerton Cove Blockade Against CSG (Photo credit: lockthegate)

Update from Fullerton cove ....Media Release 23rd August 2012, 3.50pm

BLOCKADE CONTINUES, FAMILY FUN DAY PLANNED AT FULLERTON COVE

Sunday 26th August, 10am onwards.
Fullerton Cove Coal Seam Gas Blockade (397 Fullerton Cove Rd, Fullerton Cove)


The Fullerton Cove Residents Action Group is inviting all members of the public to a Family Fun Day this Sunday, at the site of the community blockade against Dart Energy's coal seam gas drilling project.

Fullerton Cove Blockade Against CSG (Photo credit: lockthegate)

The blockade has continued through a fourth day today and two local women at the blockade, Julie Wood and Lisa McDonald, have now been locked to a tractor at the site for more than 24 hours.

“Our family fun day will include rides, music, food, and balloons. Local Fullerton Cove business OFA Showstar will donate a jumping castle and a small Ferris wheel for the event. Osborne is one of many Newcastle and Port Stephens businesses who have overwhelmed us with their support for our cause”, said spokesperson Lindsay Clout.

“This is a great opportunity for people to come down and visit our blockade, and talk to the Fullerton Cove residents about the the threat that coal seam gas poses to the community and the environment.”

The public is also invited to attend a talk on the impacts of CSG tonight, at 7pm, at the blockade site. “Peter Martin, former CEO of Rothschild Australia Asset Management and now convenor of the Southern Highlands Coal Action Group, will visit the blockade site tonight to discuss his recent tour of United States, where he witnessed first hand the toxic legacy of the coal seam gas industry.” said Clout.

“This issue is much bigger than Fullerton Cove. Coal Seam Gas has left a trail of destruction in the United States, and will do so in Australia if State and Federal governments continue to ignore community demands,” said Mr Clout.

“The support for our blockade has been huge. Every day dozens of new people visit the site. Every day we get more donations from businesses around Port Stephens and Newcastle.

We would like to thank the following businesses for their valued support during the week: Stockton Family Meats, Rudders Cottage Bakery Stockton, Stockton Family Fruits, Browns Butchers Raymond Terrace, McDonalds Williamtown, Stockton IGA, Metro Garage Williamtown, Hunter Organics, Natural Tucker, The Fresh Ingredient, Merewether Food World, Festival IGA Stockton, Domino's Pizza Raymond Terrace, Hunter Meat Wholesalers Stockton” he said.

 English: Advertisement for sale allotments for "Port Stephens City", on the site of the modern day North Arm Cove, New South Wales (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Want to know what is really happening in the world?

The world we live in today is a very different world to the times of the past.  We are so hooked up to all of this technology we talk about and use in our daily lives, ie the internet.  If you are reading this, then at this point we still have internet.  I get increasingly concerned about the space weather knocking the entire planet off the electricity grid so to speak.   Well wouldn't that change things around the world dramatically.  Think about this for a good while.  Think what a modern world with no electricity would be like.  Something from a horror movie is what I expect.

Strangled on South Arm

I feel prepared in a way.  I guess it is because I have lived a lifetime without this stuff and therefore I understand.  I grew up in a house that never had an electric stove, we had a wood fire.  The fire heated the hot water.  We had no washing machine either.  I watched Edith do the washing each day faithfully and do the big stuff in the Copper once a week over the fire.  Oh yes I remember this well.  I remember my green hula hoop and playing with it while Edith did the washing. 

So does this mean we may re visit this again in this lifetime of mine?  Who knows but some very educated amongst us say we will.  I have my seeds,  and amazingly enough I still have my many boxes of real books.  So many times I was tempted to lose these.  A voice inside tells me to hang on to these for now.  I often wonder will the kids love my books the way I have loved my books!  I do hope that Montana is set up in her own home when my passing time comes.  She will love my books but if she isnt set up it will become a burden to her.  So for her I hope she is settled.

West Coast Acid: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/06/a-rising-tide-of-acid-off-calif...
Temperature Extremes: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120614131059.htm
China Spy: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/15/us-china-usa-espionage-idUSBRE85E06...

REPEAT LINKS
Spaceweather: http://spaceweather.com/ [Look on the left at the X-ray Flux and Solar Wind Speed/Density]

HAARP: http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/data.html [Click online data, and have a little fun]

SDO: http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/ [Place to find Solar Images and Videos - as seen from earth]

SOHO: http://sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/soho_movie_theater [SOHO; Lasco and EIT - as seen from earth]

Stereo: http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/images [Stereo; Cor, EUVI, HI - as seen from the side]

SunAEON:http://www.sunaeon.com/#/solarsystem/ [Just click it... trust me]

SOLARIMG: http://solarimg.org/artis/ [All purpose data viewing site]

iSWA: http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov/iswa/iSWA.html [Free Application; for advanced sun watchers]

NOAA ENLIL SPIRAL: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/wsa-enlil/cme-based/ [CME Evolution]

RSOE: http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php [That cool alert map I use]

LISS: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/operations/heliplots_gsn.php

Gamma Ray Bursts: http://grb.sonoma.edu/ [Really? You can't figure out what this one is for?]

BARTOL Cosmic Rays: http://neutronm.bartol.udel.edu//spaceweather/welcome.html [Top left box, look for BIG blue circles]

TORCON: http://www.weather.com/news/tornado-torcon-index [Tornado Forecast for the day]

GOES Weather: http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/ [Clouds over America]

INTELLICAST: http://www.intellicast.com/ [Weather site used by many youtubers]

NASA News: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/

PHYSORG: http://phys.org/ [GREAT News Site!]

Always Check the Foreign News Sources as well!!!
Iran: Mehr News, TehranTimes
China: Xinhua, China.org, Chinadaily
Russia: Ria Novosti
Israel: Jerusalem Post, Israel National News, Haaretz
M/E: ArabNews, AlJazeera

Image by Mezza - A strangled tree on South Arm Road Raleigh South /  http://www.flickr.com/photos/melonpopzdropz/7188961449/in/photostream/

The wetter the day, the drier the humor"

It is like this on wet day's.  Especially wet public holidays,

I get totally enthralled with social media and research.  I find many fine people there to talk to and communicate ideas and knowledge.  I am not the polished individual though.  I am me.  As I said I am M E  or Emmie some call me.  I love to joke with others and I love to banter for fun.  All just for fun and to bring a smile.  I smile a lot so I want others to feel this as well.

Well I haven't done much today either except study as much as possible like each other day has been for months now on end. Day and night has been a constant search.  We are experiencing strange weather once again in Australia, lots of strange cloud formations up and down the east coast.  Earthquakes in Australia has to be considered weird.  This sort of thing is usually  reserved for other continents.  I experienced an earth tremor when I was a child in Stanthorpe and the window's rattled but that is it for me.   Tamworth felt this one though it was only 3.5 on the Richter scale.   The south of Western Australia is experiencing the most violent storms in fifteen years and the south of here has been having record winds. Here in Urunga  we are just wet (and weird)  here.  The town is half torn down and looking like a bomb hit the place.  This is due to lots of rebuilding on the agenda.  But all of this looks worse wet.

It is Helen's birthday today, she is 64 today.  I called her to wish her happy birthday and to thank her for my birthday wishes also.  It is always good to talk to Helen.  She was having a fine day of food and friendship and staying tucked up and dry.  We are all going to get together soon for our birthdays as usual as we do each year.

Tamworth Earthquakes: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/two-earthquakes-shake-northern-nsw/story-fn3dxity-1226389605377

Club Urunga Opens:
http://www.bellingencourier.com.au/news/local/news/general/club-urunga-opens/2547887.aspx

Image by Mezza -  A sign in a window, very nice