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Consumer watchdog asked to investigate MasterChef ‘renewable gas’ claims

Claims that ‘renewable gas’ is making MasterChef 'greener' are under scrutiny following a complaint to the ACCC.

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Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: It’s a Sign

Someone is taking down signs. You know who you are. Right now, I bet you are sitting at home with a bunch of corflutes from the Byron Comedy Festival, and a bunch of other local events, feeling powerful in your sad fight against fun.

Is Kyogle Council misrepresenting changes to Private Native Forestry approvals?

The Kyogle Environment Group has challenged Kyogle Council’s presumption thatapplying for a Private Native Forestryplan from both Local Land Services and Council ‘essentially duplicates the assessment’.

Gas

Living in a modern world I see on social media, etc. world melting, CO2 production associated topics. So having recently...

Danny’s world

Danny Wakil would have us believe that Israel is a sweet little peace-loving ‘sister democracy’ that can do no...

Mullum Road upgrade

Construction is expected to commence in December to improve the flood-prone Mullumbimby Road near Uncle Tom’s corner.

Let’s dive deep into potholes!

Main Arm residents were disappointed to hear from Byron Council’s senior staff at a public meeting last Thursday night that their dangerous and rapidly deteriorating roads might not get repaired until the end of 2025 at the earliest. 

Language is a living and ever-changing thing.

Israel is currently under the thumb of ‘ultraorthodox’ forces (usually called ‘extremist fundamentalists’) and these need to urgently modify the basic text on which they rely, being the Old Testament.

For example, ‘a tooth for a tooth’ has become ‘30 teeth for a tooth’ while ‘thou shalt not kill’ should be qualified to include the words ‘except in the case of Arabs’. As for not coveting thy neighbour’s assets, that particular provision should clearly exclude assets owned by Palestinians, sorry Arabs, which someone called Jahweh long ago gave to Jews ‘in perpetuity’ i.e. forever, no ifs, no buts.

Similarly the term ‘antisemitism’ should now be explicitly defined as any criticism whatsoever of Jews or the Jewish state, regardless of their actual behaviour. Sad times indeed we live in.

Fast Buck$, Coorabell


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  1. I have to admit that criticism of any Israel policy is now seen as being antisemetic. One hears about the slogan “ from the river to the sea” as calling for the genocide of Jews but correspondingly political parties in Israel including West Bank settlers use the slogan “from the Nile to the Euphrates” in their goal of a greater israel ( seemingly represented on the national flag by two blue lines) at the expense of who?

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