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The possibilty of ‘fracking’ Governments.
by Gerard Oosterman
They, many eminent scientists say that when you put pressure on something the results is often a release of pent-up energy. It is now used to release gas locked up in rock formations. It is called fracking. Geologists come home tired and their wives now ask; Did you do some good fracking today dear?
Go and ‘frack’ yourself is an expression waiting to raise its head in parlance of the progressive world of slinky board riders and depressed gloomy hoodie wearers. I bet you it will take over from the ‘awesome’ and ‘oh, my god’. I think ‘stuff like that’ has now sunk into the furnace of lost expressions, the same as ‘bodgie and widgie’ did some many decades ago. It was used during the period when as a teenager I used to linger around Parramatta Delinquent Girls home. Friday night was ‘curler-night’. I remember seeing girls in trains wearing curlers! Men used to perv on Pix magazine girly photos showing knees and total naked feet.
I have just brushed up my very limited knowledge on Islam and ISis with all that goes with it; I can’t say I am much wiser. Previous knowledge did not go much further than Ali Baba and forty thieves. On the way over from Holland our boat stopped at Port Said where we all went off the ship. I was fifteen then and bought a fez and a small whip used for camel driving. I kept those mementos for years. Now they are lost the same as those past popular expressions. Forever gone!
I do know that bombing always ends up killing. With the latest be-heading no doubt the reaction will be more bombing more killing and more incomprehension by many, not least myself. Isis seems to have unlimited funding and an expert PR machinery going for it. Perfectly English translations of their web-sites and IT magazines beamed and downloaded all-over. It is there within seconds as did the latest beheading video, done by the same man speaking in a thick London accent.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-16/what-is-islamic-state/5748646
I don’t know what goes on. The last major conflicts in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan were all undertaken at the behest of the US. All three conflicts seemed to have achieved nothing but hordes of refugees and endlessly ongoing murderous campaigns. We were lied to by our governments as never before. Vietnam did not result in hordes of yellow peril. Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction. Afghanistan with the Taliban were Americas friends during that period they were fighting the Russians.
And now…again, Australia goes to another war. And talking about expressions, our Government calls this…not going to a war but… ‘a humanitarian MISSION’! Can you believe it?
Governments need fracking I reckon. Get fracked Mr Abbott.
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Good suggestion Gerard. I can use that instead of f u c k o f f when in company of people to whom I never say that ! Actual fracking is far more forceful and dangerous than drilling a water bore.
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I did see a news report of an American town affected by fracking. The water table was contaminated with many dozens of toxins (Christ knows why they were pumped down the ‘frack hole’), and not a single plant survived, a whole forest died, as well as every garden plant. All of the children had been sent away, so only the retired, who couldn’t afford to move stayed.
Death by fracking.
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An American town in Texas has banned it. They already have hundreds of the bloody things right in town.
I’ve done research on CSG as part of my part time semi-retired work. It should not be allowed anywhere near underground water and that includes the GAB. We don’t need it. Stop flogging the natural gas off (remember the deal Howard did with China) and keep priorities at home. We are being screwed left right and centre and pricing is madness. Tony and his fracking Team Australia can go get fracking well fracked.
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Yes, the bloody stuff bubbles up by itself in most of Australia, in fact, most coal mines periodically pump it out.
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Yes, Gez, I’d imagine that farmers and viticulturists around here are terrified of sinking a new bore for fear of frack gases escaping and poisoning the land.
One would assume that a ‘humanitarian mission’ would involve bandages, pretty nurses and penicillin shots, not SAS troops, bombs and military drones. Perhaps they should all be told to ‘frack off’?
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Agree wholeheartedly Gerard
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Thanks for putting it up Hung.
A town in North East Holland now gets earthquakes after, for many years, gas was extracted and exported to many European countries. There are no free rides in fossil fuel.
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You are welcome Sire
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