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Cnr Tweed St & Booyun St Brunswick Heads Next to IGA supermarket Mon-Fri 10am-5pm Sat 9am-1pm byrondogrescue.org • Ph 0447 927 600
Khentrul Rinpoche Renowned Scholar and Teacher of Tibetan Buddhism Khentrul Rinpoche will give a public talk on
The Knowledge Necessary to Know Peace and Happiness Sunday July 7, 4 – 6pm, $10 Byron Theatre, 69 Jonson Street, Byron Bay
WEEKEND TEACHING:
Taming the Wild Horse of the Mind Saturday 13 July and Sunday 14 July 10am – noon, 2 – 5pm, both days Marvell Hall, 37 Marvell St, Byron Bay Limited space, pre-register online: katogcholing.com/thekey. Chairs are provided, but if you prefer to meditate in a traditional sitting posture on the oor, please bring your own cushion. Questions: email juliabevins@hotmail.com.
n America today, three mega-billionaires – Bill Gates (Microsoft), Jeff Bezos (Amazon), and Warren Buffett (an ‘investor’) – combined, have more than the collective wealth of the poorest half of Americans. Those three guys’ net worth is $248.5 billion, compared to $245 billion for the bottom 160 million of the United States. This is the kind of society USA-groupies like Morrison, Frydenberg and Co want in Australia. The ‘ideology’ behind this scam is called ‘neo-liberalism’. It’s ‘liberal’ in that the wealthy are at liberty to do whatever, and it’s ‘neo’ in that the resultant economic inequality beats anything we ever saw before. The agenda of these neos is to eliminate taxes on wealthy people and corporations while buying the rest of us off with occasional tax breaks, and to dismantle social spending except for the bits that benefit the wealthiest. So, abolish public health, publicly held spaces, and public education, while piling on the funding for waging war on the few foreign countries actively resisting the Agenda, and the even fewer homeland citizens who dare to say No. The Agenda’s ultimate goal is to demolish governments in favour of no-holdsbarred Capitalism in the name of Freedom. It is the dream of American ‘libertarians’ such as Trump’s 2016 guru Steve Bannon, who these days travels the world flogging the Agenda – especially in Europe, where the white people are.
Red Nose Day Charity Event at the Mullum Leagues Club
Saturday 3 August Golf (4-person Ambrose) 9.30am registration • Jumping castle• obstacle course • face painting• fishing competition • barbecue
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For Trump, Bannon, Morrison, and their henchmen (very few women buy this shit) saving our environment and our species is all a plot to deny them their right to trash the joint – any and every joint anywhere. All of which brings us to the bald-faced con job of the ‘tax cuts’ just passed by Morrison’s mob and the Coalition of the Spineless in the Senate, with only the Greens calling them out for what they were really up to. Morrison, recently described by former Liberal justice minister Michael Keenan as ‘a complete arsehole’, described his tax con job this way: ‘This is a win tonight not for the government, not for the Liberal or National parties; this is a win for those hardworking Australians quietly going about their lives’. So should we knock back the tax cut of between $255 and $1,080 that will come to those of us earning under $60K, which is most Australians? Of course not! Get it while you can! But all the joy over this ‘tax break’ and the ‘win’ bullshit Morrison berated us with – this bloke berates in every sentence he utters. Berating his fellow Australians is his way of life; he’d berate even if he was announcing it was raining beer – all misses the point
that the people who are going to pay for these taxday pay-offs are US. We will pay because the $158 billion in taxes Morrison and his henchpersons are proposing to cut – over the next 10 years – will be paid for by taking money out of that social spending we all depend on, well, all of us in the lowerincome half of Australians earning under $60,000. Morrison, Albanese, and even Jacqui Lambie, who all voted for this Agenda, won’t go hungry when pensions are cut, won’t be forced to send their kids to increasingly under-funded schools, and won’t be smothered by the incomprehensible jargon and fiendishly ill-designed websites of Centrelink and the other essential programs doomed to death by a thousand funding cuts that will be inflicted on us in the next decade of flourishing Fuck You Capitalism. Is there any consolation in this dismal vision? Well yes, the fact is that the exponential upcurve of ecosystem disruption we are on right now – not just climate madness but also ocean-species extinctions by a billion plastic bags, plagues and epidemics rising up from the inundated sewers and down-sliding garbage mountains, and all the toxic excretions from all the orifices of our infested body-social – all that and the rising tide of
Q Phillip Frazer advocates a tax on every use of natural resources, and no other tax, at coorabellridge.com.
When oils aint oils
I was invited to a DoTerra workshop run by a beautiful, but unqualified, woman in Brunswick Heads last year. I went to see out of curiosity and to smell the quality of the oils. It was when a participant asked the presenters about using a certain essential oil when pregnant and the presenters went blank that I got
quietly fired up. Education is the key. When one is really trained and has practised for years in the correct use of essential oils, as I am, the profound respect for the power of the oils is immense. Peace. Respect. Understanding. Iris Ray Nunn Ocean Shores â–ś More letters on page 19
I would never, ever sell homeopathy or naturopathy products as an unqualified person, so why are unqualified people selling essential oils as if they are aromatherapists? I’ve watched the DoTerra, Young Living essential oil multi-level marketing ‘push’ for a few years and now I feel I have to push back.
our outrage and our instinct for survival will surely blow away the fantasies of the men with The Agenda, along with their Ferraris. They will go down with the rest of us if we fail to turn the planet around‌ and if we succeed they will wish we hadn’t because their roles will not be forgotten. By now you may be reaching for a shot of Bourbon, or strychnine, on account of the somewhat down vibe this commentary on a tax break has taken – and I wouldn’t blame you for that – but this bleak prospecting is not a new thing, not as much a product of our 21st century times as we all may think. Consider this prediction from a writer in 1902 looking ahead: ‘The energies of our system will decay; the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which has for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit and all his thoughts will perish.’ Those were the words of Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 until 1905. Yes he was a dour Scot, and usually I’m not.
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