Elida
you ask why is Ms Beder trying to link Tassie forests workers with a tourism promo in the UK, well it's my opinion that’s its all to do with marketing, but not what you may think, it's a very well healed Green Machine with a annual revenue of no less than 15 million dollars and yes Ms Beder is part of that game.

This massive revenue base comes from their misleading and often dishonest marketing of a death and doom image of Tasmania.
An example of that revenue is in 2004/05 the TWS had gross revenue earnings of $9,137,412.00 with 97% of that being gained by fundraising (marketing)

The year before the ACF's gross revenue was $6,768,285.00

Check it out for your self at http://www.givewell.com.au/

You would think the green machine and Ms Beder would promote facts about what Tasmania has achieved for conservation but as we have seen from her writings not one word about the 1 million ha of old growth forest reserved. No doubt the GM and Ms Beder know that people won’t donate if they knew the facts so their plan is to hide the facts and keep peddling death and doom.

Reprint

Thought 'Devil in the Detail' might suit this one.

Kerry versus Condy

Re' the discussion between Condoleeza Rice and Kerry O'Brien the other night on the ABC, it was interesting to notice Condy's split second change of face under questioning. From the point of view of a historian and writer there became fixed in the mind, the picture of a person who though able to put on a front good enough for an academy award, the lady reacted strangely when asked two particular questions - one about a coming US attack on Iran, and the other about China's huge projected military buildup? With both suggestions or queries, her colouring turned almost ashen for that split second, though possibly hardly enough to be noticed by the average observer.

In some ways we might say that for Condy to feel tension like that could be an omen for the future, and a hope, in a way, that dangerous sounding threats by the United States as published in yesterday's 'West Australian" newspaper, might be all jast so much talk or spin.

Anyhow, let's hope so, partly for America's sake alone. It seems the only way America is appreciated these days is not for friendliness, but like a police academy, mainly for protection - which in a way indicates not a very healthy political climate for our future world, not only for America, but for our own great grandkids.

I would like to thank Sharon Beder for giving all of us an insight into the convoluted workings of a educated green left brain.

As a social “progressive”, Sharon sees nothing wrong with “old-fashioned, innocuous swear words” being used by advertising companies to promote products. Even using them in a country like Great Britain, where the prime Minister himself has made public statements expressing concern about the growing lack of respect and outright vulgar behaviour now becoming common in British youth.

No. “Old” swear words are not offensive in advertising to Sharon, but making snide asides about “pacifying the Tasmanian Devil” is deeply offensive.

What we have here, ladies and gentlemen, is a new Puritanism ideology being espoused by a new religious order, who sincerely believe that mocking any aspect of their New Age belief is total heresy that can not be tolerated.

Now, normal people who are not affected by green fundamentalism, can instantly grasp that non Australians are probably more familiar with the Bugs Bunny “Tasmanian Devil” than the real life one. So, a line like “pacifying the Tasmanian Devil” simply means that Oz is a nice place to visit where there are no nasty bitey creatures around.

But to Sharon it obviously means something else. Sharon thought that the advertisers were bragging about Australians “pacifying” (with extreme prejudice) Australian wildlife.

As a professor, Sharon is obviously very intelligent. But something is lacking in the way her mind processes some information. She simply can not see a simple concept which most other people simply take for granted. Unable to see that the advertising statement is innocuous, she can only perceive it in terms of being highly offensive.

Psychologists coined the word ‘Authoritarian Personality” to label people who can only think in terms of black/white moral absolutes and who are unable to conceptualise different shades of grey. Such people are usually very religious or believe in authoritarian social systems which are a substitute for a religion. In this secular age, extreme environmentalism appears to be a substitute for religion for people with Sharon’s particular personality.

As an American I watched the ads thanks to my Aussie pen pal. Right you are, we associate the Tasmanian Devil with Bugs Bunny. The Devil is a totally carnivorous creature that wouldn't make a good pet. We all know how well Americans treat their pets. My new feral cat lives a better life than some people on this planet.

My point is this, my Aussie pen pal has lived a hard life. A life that I associate with my Grandparents. Her life was and is a hard life. Barely scraping by. There were millions spent on this ad campaign. What is her life of hard labor worth?

That money could have been spent in a more worthwhile area. Like basic needs for those who worked their whole life providing comfort for the more fortunate. Corporate owned farms, mines, or tourism. Government promotes tourism. Hence the millions spent on this ad campagn. But the people who work for this industry are barely getting by. I ask the question again. What is a life worth?

Devil in the detail .

Well I tried reading the article with only my left eye open but it still didn't make any sense .

The attempt to connect forestry & agricultural spraying to tumors on devils was made by a Dr Marcus Scammell in a report he prepared at the request of a small group of oyster growers from the east coast of tas .

The problem the oyster growers have experienced is that after a high rainfall event large numbers of their oysters are killed by the fresh water passing through their leases .

Other oyster growers say this is normal but one or two of the east coast growers seem to have to try to blame someone for any problems they experience .

A copy of the highly critised Scammell report was handed to the media before one was handed to DPIWE . Plainly to create trouble I think .

The Scammell report & the DPIWE response can be found via the DPIWE web site .

Dr Bader perhaps should study a bit of detail before writing about it .

Dr Bader should have been Prof Beder ..sorry..

I must practice what I preach . times 100 .