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Australian Government Climate Adviser Wants Beef & Dairy Herds Gone In 2 Years
Professor Barry Brook explain to the Supreme Master TV vegetarian viewers how Livestock Methane Emissions are a greater threat to Global warming than all the coal powered fire stations in Australia put together. He believes Australia should phase out cattle production completely in just the next couple of years. Is that what Tony Burke has up his sleeve for livestock producers?
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The World According to Monsanto – Video Series Part 7 of 10
Shocking stories from USA farmers about Monsanto’s tactics against farmers to enforce their gene patents. USA farmers tell how Monsanto employs their own private investigators to spy on US farmers.
In rural America these people are known as ‘The Gene police’ Monsanto even runs a 1800 Monsanto number so neighbours and others can anonymously ‘dob in a farmer’.
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Every Dollar You Spend Makes a Difference – One Way Or The Other.
If you could choose, what sort of Australia would you want to leave behind for your kids and your grand kids? Foreign owned companies control Australia. They plunder our abundant natural wealth and take the profits back to their country and pay tax on it to their government. Think about it?
This video graphically demonstrates that the vast majority of companies in Australia are foreign owned.
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Foxes In Charge Of The Hen House
The World Wildlife Fund has revealed plans to accredit beef and set up supply agreements so consumers can choose ‘greener’ products. Australian cattle producers can be sure of one thing, the only outcome of a WWF sponsored accreditation will be less cattle and less cattle producers.
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I bet you wonder how we knew...
Heard It Through The Grapevine.
Here is the tip offs and rumours that have arrived this week.
Great Southern Landlords worried, Nat Pollies Fed Up, Is Tony Windsor a secret Greenie, AWB Landmark in trouble, Rural Lenders Closing on Farmers, ANZ Bank sponsoring Greenies war on farmers, 80 year old lady farmer in wheelchair arrest by Vic gov on her property.
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Agmates – Contributors Articles
Establish Our Own Rural Bank
QLD farmer, Chairman of Agricultural Finance Co-operative Limited and Agmates member Bob Yabsley writes:
Its time those of us who live and work in rural Australia started to look after ourselves. We believe the establishment of a banking institution designed expressly to fund, support and service rural and regional financial needs is possible and imperative to the ongoing financial well being of rural Australia.
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The World Wildlife Fund and Why Livestock Producers Should Be Worried
Agmates member JeffT exposes who WWF really is and whats behind the organization: WWF is the largest conservation organization in the world. WWF works in 100 countries on more than 2,000 conservation programs it has 1.2 million members in the United States and nearly 5 million supporters worldwide and employs over 4,000 staff. They are huge, well resourced and extremely well funded. Anyone who takes WFF lightly is very foolish.
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Gladstone Workers are Meat In The Sandwich in Rio Tinto BHP Billiton Deal
A fog of uncertainty still surrounds Gladstone’s Rio Tinto workers after the company last week finally rejected the Chinese bid to acquire a $27 billion slice of the action. ….unfortunately at this stage, the Gladstone workers seem to be the meat in the sandwich in what otherwise could be seen as a good deal.
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Has Tony Burke Mislead Parliament Saying Wheat Growers $30 a Tonne Better Off Under Deregulation?
QLD grain grower and Agmates member Rowell Walton writes: Nevertheless their (NNF) loss of direction and removal from the mainstream farming community seems to be just deserts for failing their people and it brings me to the question of why Tony Burke would stand in the Australian parliament and assert wheat growers are $30.00 a tonne better off? The Question is Tony, where is your study, who did it and lets have a look at it.
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If we do not increase the size of the economy how do we repay the debt?
Senator Barnaby Joyce writes: This is chapter and verse of Mr Rudd’s loopy economics. We borrow money off people from overseas to buy products off people from overseas and later to pay the interest and principle back to overseas. The goods have no resale value, do nothing to help the Australian economy in the long term but we do take our Nation one step closer to the international bailiff who will change the locks on our nation’s doors.
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Pamper our farmers enough and they will fix global warming
Author, inventor, businessman and Agmates member Allan Yeomans writes: So to eliminate Australia’s past contribution to global warming, and do it quickly, we do two things. First we make chemical fertilizers a non tax-deductible farm expense. Secondly and simultaneously we pay cash to farmers who increase the humus and organic matter content of their soils. Soil carbon tests are now cheap and easy.
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Banks Behaving Badly – Case Study #1 AWB Landmark
Agmates member Roger Crook writes: Australia’s banking culture is rife with corruption and standover tactics and according to one academic, farmers bear the brunt of it. I believe my story is testament to that and I feel compelled to share it.
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Surviving When Debt Turns Bad Part #1.
I have been contacted by Agmates to write a series of articles to assist all members of the Agmates community in these difficult economic times.
The purpose of this series of articles is to provide important information to assist the growing numbers of farmers and business owners who find themselves under serious financial strain.
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Kevin Rudds ETS Means Australian Workers to take 10% Pay Cut to Keep Their Jobs
South Australian Liberal Senator Mary Jo Fisher writes:Treasury confirmed in Senate Estimates on Wednesday that real wages will be 10 per cent lower under Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) modelling by 2050.
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Agriculture Saves Australia From Recession – So Why The Hell Is Kevin Rudd Kicking Us To Death?
Central West New South Wales farmer Rob Wass writes: If “Agriculture” has kept Australia out of recession amidst the biggest global recession since the “Great Depression” then why is it that our politicians, in searching for preferences, along with the greens, why are they kicking agriculture to death ?
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