Posted by fayeroe on January 12, 2009, at 16:06:49
In reply to Re: I donated by PayPal..wooooooohooooooooo, posted by Sigismund on January 12, 2009, at 15:16:07
> I've only just read the article.
> I was just blown away by the photo and thought you might like it.
> That bit about 'to stop it from changing' was to stop the picture from changing on the Truthout website.
> But what a bloke hey?
> To go into an auction and buy more than a million dollars worth of land in protest!
>
> So that no one feels put down, let me tell you a sad story about where I live.
> Until WWI this area was rainforest, a big patch of forest called the Big Scrub.
> Until then there had only been cedar getters to change it for the most part.
> After WWI the government divided it up into small blocks which were allocated to the returned soldiers, provided each block was cleared within 2 years.
> So they stood on platforms up in the forest in the rain with crosscut saws and sawed the whole priceless forest down and burned it on the ground, except for what timber they had use for in their buildings, fence posts and later banana boxes.
> Then it became dairy country.
> After the closure of most of that industry it is still used for some beef cattle.
> Now houses are being built on it.
> It's heartbreaking really.heartbreaking, really. beef cattle!
iwish that you could see the magnificent land that they are trying to give away........
poster:fayeroe
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