The Netherlands, where six per cent of the population is now Muslim, is scrapping multiculturalism: The Dutch government says it will abandon the long-standing model of multiculturalism that has encouraged Muslim immigrants to create a parallel society within the Netherlands.

Holland kills the multiculturalism that is killing it of 27 June 12 by Andrew Bolt (with 112 comments, so far - Ed)

A new integration bill, which Dutch Interior Minister Piet Hein Donner presented to parliament on June 16, reads:

"The government shares the social dissatisfaction over the multicultural society model and plans to shift priority to the values of the Dutch people. In the new integration system, the values of the Dutch society play a central role. With this change, the government steps away from the model of a multicultural society."

The letter continues: "A more obligatory integration is justified because the government also demands that from its own citizens. It is necessary because otherwise the society gradually grows apart and eventually no one feels at home anymore in the Netherlands ..."

The new integration policy will place more demands on immigrants. For example, immigrants will be required to learn the Dutch language, and the government will take a tougher approach to immigrants who ignore Dutch values or disobey Dutch law. The government will also stop offering special subsidies for Muslim immigrants because, according to Donner, "it is not the government's job to integrate immigrants."

It's time for a vote for the Australian public on multiculturalism. People should "fit in" and become Australian first of all, and then secondary perpetuating their religion and culture of choice. Globalization has diluted our cultural heritage, and assumes that we don't have a distinct culture of our own. We have our own traditional and modern music, art, dance, architecture, history, pioneers, poetry and literature. It's been overwhelmed for too long by imported values.

Holland has done that whole liberal thing, and realised - maybe too late - that creating a nation of tribes will kill the nation itself. The future of Australia , the UK and Canada may well be read here.

Stories in past months about the plans to place prayer rooms for Muslims inside Australia’s football venues provide yet another sign of the changes that are happening in our country. It has been reported that prayer rooms are to be compulsory at all AFL grounds. There's more "diversity" of crimes too. There are now separate facilities in some educational institutions for Muslims, there are swimming pools that have closed at certain times for Muslim women, there are foods with the Muslim “Halal tax” appearing in our supermarkets.

There is also pressure to introduce Sharia law. While most muslims who come here are moderate and accepting, their religion is underlyingly contrary to Australia's open values and Christian-based culture.

Of course Shell will pay the $350000 per imported worker. And before they arrive will build Hospitals Schools and public infrastructure, make Housing available and insure OHS on their multilingual (Gas sites) projects.

the original item on ABC

Oil company chief reflects on costs and outlook of 21 June at http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-06-21/oil-company-chief-reflects-on-costs-and-outlook/4085276?section=business .

Take a quick google search about Shell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejym4mKelhM

Editorial comment: Near the end of the above video, the address http://protectthehuman.com/shell is displayed. When that link is clicked it is re-directed to http://protectthehuman.amnesty.org.uk/shell . Regardless of the merit or otherwise of that particular campaign, Amnesty International, which has been funded by George Soros has shown itself to be a sham human rights organisation. See Youtube Broadcast of 21 June by the Syrian Girl, Amnesty International Helping to Kill Syrians.

And there it is, Australia to be the next Nigeria of the south pacific. Of course prosperity is always coming soon in the next century, growth will help - hospitals that you can even get into will be built, housing, respectful benefits for those in difficulty. Take a look at the vid - see an aspect of our future.

I love it when supposedly educated people put a low price on human life (baby baiting dingos). I am an animal lover but God gave dominion

over every animal to humans. And if an animal is dangerous and hurts children then that is what it is. I have problem making a place for dingos but people need to be warned and children need to be protected. A small child has no reason to be there and people who take their kids there should think: Do I want to go camping or keep my kid? Not that I like dingos, I have no love for them at all but as adults we should all have some common sense . I do hold the highest respect for the people who have lost their children in such a sad and scary way . That is why people should be warned and not allowed to take small children under the age of 12 on the island . Thank u.

From the horses mouth...

"One of the world's most powerful business leaders has applauded the Government's move to put a price on carbon, but says his company will need to import foreign workers to make its Australian operations competitive.

Peter Voser, the global CEO of Shell, says Australia's productivity is a "real concern".

'"You've got the high Australian dollar, you've got the scarce work force, and therefore we are concerned about the overall rate at which we are paying for Australian labour and clearly that needs some intervention," he said.'

Shell keen to import foreign workers of 21 June by 7.30's Leigh Sales

So there it is, the government listens to executives from multi-national corporations but not the Australian people.

One of the key drivers for immigration is to force down labor costs so that multi-nationals can exploit our resources as quickly as possible, as cheaply as possible.

What do you do with traitors and robbers?

Back in 2005, the Environment Protection Authority calculated what Victorians demand of nature to sustain la dolce vita. Each Victorian has a global "footprint" bigger than the average Australian. Only the United States, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates tax the planet more.

Earth Overshoot means that we are reducing the ability of the earth's land and water to support humans and other species into the future. If we conquer climate change without depleting other natural assets, we can rebalance our Earth budget.

The EPA was asking Victorians to peel back their profligate ways: eat one meal fewer of red meat each week, catch public transport, set up a teleconference meeting instead of flying to Sydney, buy green power and stop wasting food. However, consumption can be reduced by good "green" and sustainable living, but adding more people simply offsets any "savings". So, with an economy based on raising revenue from real estate and land releases, why bother?
National President of SPA, Dr John Coulter, says the combination of high consumption and too many people for the resources available underlie the problem.

"Our numbers and activities are placing us in overshoot with respect to the environment," says Dr Coulter. "To continue on this trajectory will lead to environmental collapse.”

It's assumed that Victorians have an estimated 30 to 40 year lot supply of land for future housing. These "developments" assume that "vacant" land is a wasted resource unless there is concrete, lawns and housing on it. "Developments" are an environmental threat, to our food and water security, and to semi-urban wildlife - and Victoria's integrity. Victoria is already in ecological overshoot. Native species are losing habitat to increase human "carrying capacity".

It seems that the free market economy will continue its rampage of growth until we hit the wall of Nature's limits, and then what? It will deprive us of locally produced food, and we will see declining productivity due to congestion on the roads, lack of power to travel to work, hunger, homelessness, crime, and poverty increasingly left to non-government charities to fix. Energy and water could end up so expensive that people will end up using lamps, candles, generators and tank water? High rise will be family hostile, and lead to more anti-social behaviour and slums. Cities and nations should be designed for people, not to derive economic benefits from amassing humans for an doomed economic model.

There's no Planning as such in Melbourne any more. It's become synonymous for growth, and liberalizing building and construction standards. The fox is in charge of the chickens - those with vested interests in growth and the property market are setting the rules, and standards on height, and the extension of our urban growth boundary. It's all downhill, and Victoria's economy is at a standstill from all the financial demands of growth.

These high rises cast long shadows, are imposing, windy tunnels and are not family friendly. How can children live in them? The residents ultimately will be forced to add to urban sprawl if they decide to have families.

These towers are about warehousing people as consumers, as economic units, to add to our customer base and GDP, not about planning human-centric living standards for Melbourne.

The carbon tax will exacerbate the high costs of power, water is becoming a luxury item, Councils keep increasing rates to keep abreast with their services, rubbish disposal costs a premium, traffic congestion drives the need for more freeways, and jobs are going offshore.

The obvious end result is that Melbourne ends up family-hostile, with more and more homelessness and crime, and closer to a divided community of haves and have-nots - like a third world city.

This week, Compassion in World Farming released new video from Indonesia, Egypt and Turkey which fully demonstrated that the Government's spin is nothing but outright lies. It eclipses even what we saw on Four Corners, and Turkey and Egypt are being targetted by the despicable exporters as 'key new destinations' for Australian cattle. In Indonesia, cattle are shown being unloaded from a ship by being winched by cranes, in threes, by their heads and dumped onto trucks. The savages have learned nothing and never will.

As well, the government knows that animals shipped from the southern ports in our winter, especially Portland, are at a massively higher risk of dying - so well-settled is it that special provision exists in the ASEL about it. But all that is is a 'tick and flick' from the exporters saying "it'll be right', and DAFF goes on to approve the shiploads of animal misery, over and over. The ASEL also provides that shade and shelter be provided at feedlots ('registered premises'), yet at many ports, it is not. What is DAFF doing to enforce compliance with this? Nothing. So the animals are exposed to driving wind and rain, or alternatively blazing heat in Darwin and WA, and nothing is done.

Voyages to Turkey on the old rustbuckets used in this trade have taken up to 41 days - almost 6 weeks - yet the mortality reports just keep the numbers under the radar. It is widely accepted that more animals are loaded than stated to ensure that the statistics are within what DAFF claims are 'acceptable' death rates. We cannot believe a single one of the mortality reports. Worse, investigations from 2009 and 2010 are 'yet to be completed', others state that insufficient records were kept to establish the causes of deaths. So where are the meaningful penalties? DAFF is so hopelessly compromised - so 'in bed' with the exporters - that they get a slap on the wrist with a wet lettuce leaf.

SHAME ON AUSTRALIA!

THE call by UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay for an investigation into the legality of the US drone strikes is long overdue (''UN official urges Pakistan to query legality of drones'', The Saturday Age, 9/6). The drone strikes expose the evil, bloodthirsty side of President Barack Obama, who promised an end to the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, a just solution for the Israel-Palestine conflict and the building up of a peaceful world.

The Nobel peace prize was awarded to President Obama not for what he had done, but for his promises for peace. He betrayed his supporters in the United States and all around the world who longed for peace after years of bloodshed and misery. He has proven himself to be unworthy of this noble prize.

Bill Mathew, Parkville

Read more: Age Letters page of 12 June 2012.

When US President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, it was in recognition “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples”.

Contrary to his campaign promises, Obama has left most of the foundations of Bush's counterterrorism approach intact. While the language of the "war on terror" has been dropped, the mindset of the Bush approach – that America is forever at war, constantly on the offensive to kill "bad guys". President Obama has become personally involved in an elaborate internal process by which his administration decides who will be the next victim of America's drone strikes. The Oval Office normalized extrajudicial killing – as well as the dramatic escalation in drone strikes, which have now killed at least 2,400 people in Pakistan alone, since 2004 – represents a betrayal of President Obama's promise to make counterterrorism policies consistent with the US constitution.

Obama has opted for this quieter, less messy kind of war – the remote-controlled wars of the drone in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia and even Libya last year. Obama acquiesced to an ever-expanding war zone by Predator drone, a remotely controlled, unmanned plane that hovers, undetected, two miles or so above the ground and then strikes with like an assassin in a darkened room.

Yet even as most Obama Administration officials are insistent that they can neither confirm nor deny the existence of a drone program, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, former head of the CIA, has acknowledged its existence on numerous occasions.

The notion that the United States government should wage ongoing war in multiple countries while keeping it secret from its own citizens is noxious.

We operate a professional goat mustering business that provides a contracted professional service to some NSW National Parks mentioned on the list of National Parks and Reserve areas Barry O'Farrell has decided to open up to Sporting Shooters. This decision is bad at every level. How is this decision going to benefit NPWS? Answer it is not! No matter what spin can be written or said. There is no way volunteer hunters can be policed and there is no way they should be trusted. Each Park and Reserve area covers hundreds of acres and when no one is watching people with guns and pig dogs can do what they like. What will happen if someone gets shot? What is going to happen when we are conducting mustering activities and come across a shooter that does not see us, or we don't see them? Is Barry O'Farrell going to be responsible for closing existing control measures that actually work to focus on keeping the Shooters Party happy? If so he must understand this decision is going to effect jobs - ours, truck drivers, meat processors, park staff, yards men.... We pay a royalty to the OEH from our Goat Sales and this should be used to aid our consulted feral goat management program. We make money for Parks - How are the volunteer shooters going to do this? Answer they won't - they will only cost, cost, cost! and with no real positive results. Leave the Feral Animal Control to the Professionals.

Can Barry O'Farrell or the Shooters Party exclude shooting goats as they are a valuable commodity? - in fact they are the most consumed meat in the world and Australia exports most of what it produces. Our business supplies goats for this export market and the cost of this ill considered decision is going to traumatise and damage an industry that works to provide food for the world and turn a pest animal into a viable commodity. Goats have provided a valuable income for people in the Western Districts keeping some pastoralists afloat during the drought. Feral Goats should not be allowed to be shot by volunteer shooters and should be excluded for this reason. We already have goats controlled in the parks which we operate on and don't need way ward hunters coming along and stirring everything up. All they will do is cause the goats to move to another area and return when they are gone. Not helping the cause at all. Goats are very smart animals and I don't agree that this decision will have any real measured benefits.

Hunters are going to create a lot of extra work both in the field and in the office. Park Staff do not need this extra work. Is there a budget for this to work appropriately? If so I feel this money could be better spent on aiding our existing program - provided experts like us are consulted to help direct funds to be used appropriately. Allowing Recreational Shooters to come onto NP and Reserve areas is going against the reasons why we have them - to protect native species. Can someone out there help us? Can we get this ill considered idea and political back flip stopped? Please help to stop this!

Gennie-Anne Woodall
Director
Simwood Holdings Pty Ltd
Bollon QLD

The "human like" size and qualities of fully grown male Eastern Grey kangaroos maybe part of their downfall. They are seen as a threat to the "managers" of the Nature parks, and to residents who are encroaching onto their habitats.

Population growth has placed on Australian capital cities increasingly unmanageable stress. Investment in physical infrastructure, such as transport, water, gas and electricity networks, has not kept pace with population increases.
Canberra's burgeoning population growth, due to politically-engineered policies, means housing is spreading out to grasslands of native species. Without wildlife corridors, there are road accidents and collisions, and kangaroos are being blamed.

The United Nations estimates the planet's agricultural output will need to increase by 70 per cent by 2050 in order to feed the world's population. With food security stresses, kangaroos are seen as eating grass, on land that could be feeding livestock, providing food for people!

The limited "nature" parks for endangered species means kangaroos must be the scapegoats for the threats to long-term survival, not developers or the human population.

The competition for natural resources is heating up, and thus kangaroos - who live gently and in harmony with their grasslands and bushlands - are easy targets for reprisals. They are too "Australian", while our population continues to be "diverse". They are a afront to modern values of Australia as a globalized economy, a "big Australia" and an overpopulated planet.

Humble, gentle creatures make easy scapegoats, easy targets for human violence and an outlet to justify Government departments environmental "management".

The animals on our Coat of Arms are being massacred, ironically, in our "bush" Capital Canberra. It's a destruction of our national symbol and these photos should be front-page pictures in the international media. With live exports, Australia is not the "clever" country any more but more and more famous for extinctions and cruelty.