Thursday, 2nd of February 2017 was different from Heatwave of Monday, 30th January 2017

Today, Thursday, 2nd of February 2017, we had some very pleasant temperatures. Below is a copy of what the ABC published.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-30/heatwave-fire-bans-in-place-in-australia-south-east/8222638

Updated Mon at 6:22pm

A NSW Rural Fire Service firefighter assesses a fire burning in Springwood.

PHOTO: There are fire bans in place across Victoria and parts of NSW. (AAP: Dan Himbrechts, file photo)

“There are fire bans across the country’s south-east, with Victoria, New South Wales and the ACT all heading for sweltering temperatures in the high 30s and even 40s.

In NSW, the Bureau of Meteorology issued a fire warning for much of the state’s south and the far western region, with the Rural Fire Service declaring a total fire ban for those areas.

What’s a fire ban?

When temperatures heat up in the city, you might think of firing up the barbeque. But if a total fire ban is declared, you may have to change your plans.

Bureau spokesman David Barlow said the hottest temperatures would be recorded in the state’s west, with Wilcannia predicted to hit 46 degrees Celsius and Menindee 45C.

“But even near the coast, in western Sydney and the Hunter, temperatures are getting to around 40C to 41C,” he said.

In Sydney, temperatures were expected to get to 32C today. The city will get a slight reprieve on Tuesday night before temperatures get back into the 30s at the weekend.

The town of Moree in northern NSW was set for its 33rd day in a row over 35C.

The city broke the previous state record for the most days in a row over 35C — 17 — about two weeks ago, and is expected to continue to break its own record for at least the rest of the week. . . . “

Uta’s Diary, February 2017

Today starts a new month, the month of February. Last weekend Caroline and Matthew came to see us. It was a very hot weekend. The outside temperature went to nearly 40C at times. On Monday, the 30th, we even had an outside temperature of 42C. Amazingly we could keep the inside temperature at 32C, even though we do not have any air-conditioning.

The last few days in January I still took some more pictures which I insert here now.

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Things that grow next to the Laundry door.

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Last weekend Peter baked a beautiful cake with almond meal, a lot of eggs and a very tasty filling made with custard, butter and blackcurrant jam.

Caroline and Matthew loved this cake!

VOODOO ECONOMICS: A well-kept open secret, Washington is behind India’s brutal experiment of abolishing most cash

Source – norberthaering.de

– “…If you have the power to bankrupt the largest banks even of large countries, you have power over their governments, too. This power through dominance over the financial system and the associated data is already there. The less cash there is in use, the more extensive and secure it is, as the use of cash is a major avenue for evading this power”:
This is something to contemplate!

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Source – norberthaering.de

– “…If you have the power to bankrupt the largest banks even of large countries, you have power over their governments, too. This power through dominance over the financial system and the associated data is already there. The less cash there is in use, the more extensive and secure it is, as the use of cash is a major avenue for evading this power”:

(A well-kept open secret: Washington is behind India’s brutal experiment of abolishing most cash)

In early November, without warning, the Indian government declared the two largest denomination bills invalid, abolishing over 80 percent of circulating cash by value. Amidst all the commotion and outrage this caused, nobody seems to have taken note of the decisive role that Washington played in this. That is surprising, as Washington’s role has been disguised only very superficially.

US-President Barack Obama has declared the strategic partnership with India a priority…

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Trump’s Chief Strategist: I want to bring everything crashing down

I ask myself, why, why, is all this happening? Are we too afraid, to stand up for our beliefs? Do most people not try to find out what is really happening? Are a lot people deliberately being told things that are not true?

No Place For Sheep

Steve Bannon

In a revealing 2013 interview with The Daily Beast, US President Donald Trump’s Chief Strategist and Senior Counselor, Steve Bannon, gives insight into his long-term goals:

He never called himself a “populist” or an “American nationalist,” as so many think of him today. “I’m a Leninist,” Bannon proudly proclaimed. Shocked, I asked him what he meant.
“Lenin,” he answered, “wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment.” Bannon was employing Lenin’s strategy for Tea Party populist goals. He included in that group the Republican and Democratic Parties, as well as the traditional conservative press…

His goal was to bring down the entire establishment including the leaders of the Republican Party in Congress.

The relationship between Donald Trump and Steve Bannon is an unholy alliance, in which the shared goal is the…

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Why War and not Peace?

https://rangewriter.wordpress.com/2017/01/28/digging-deep-to-understand-different-viewpoints/#comment-8426

Rangewriter wrote a very interesting blog on the following subject:

“Digging deep to understand different Viewpoints”

I made a comment to it and asked a question about drones. She gave me a very comprehensive answer on her thoughts to the subject of drones and drone warfare. I wanted to make the following comment to what Linda wrote but the comments were not published at the time. Here is what I wanted to send to Rangewriter:

Thanks very much , Linda, for your thoughts on this subject. What you say, are good explanations. It seems to me that Americans (and we, their allies) are in a constant state of war. But why, why, why?
I read in a highly praised book the following:
” . . . greater equality, socialism, participatory democracy and peace are all within our reach, but nuclear war, work camps and slavery are also possibilities . . . ”

With God On Our Side WRITTEN BY: BOB DYLAN

With God On Our Side
WRITTEN BY: BOB DYLAN

Oh my name it is nothin’

My age it means less

The country I come from

Is called the Midwest

I’s taught and brought up there

The laws to abide

And that the land that I live in

Has God on its side

Oh the history books tell it

They tell it so well

The cavalries charged

The Indians fell

The cavalries charged

The Indians died

Oh the country was young

With God on its side

Oh the Spanish-American

War had its day

And the Civil War too

Was soon laid away

And the names of the heroes

l’s made to memorize

With guns in their hands

And God on their side

Oh the First World War, boys

It closed out its fate

The reason for fighting

I never got straight

But I learned to accept it

Accept it with pride

For you don’t count the dead

When God’s on your side

When the Second World War

Came to an end

We forgave the Germans

And we were friends

Though they murdered six million

In the ovens they fried

The Germans now too

Have God on their side

I’ve learned to hate Russians

All through my whole life

If another war starts

It’s them we must fight

To hate them and fear them

To run and to hide

And accept it all bravely

With God on my side

But now we got weapons

Of the chemical dust

If fire them we’re forced to

Then fire them we must

One push of the button

And a shot the world wide

And you never ask questions

When God’s on your side

Through many dark hour

I’ve been thinkin’ about this

That Jesus Christ

Was betrayed by a kiss

But I can’t think for you

You’ll have to decide

Whether Judas Iscariot

Had God on his side

So now as I’m leavin’

I’m weary as Hell

The confusion I’m feelin’

Ain’t no tongue can tell

The words fill my head

And fall to the floor

If God’s on our side

Father, Mother and Grandfather

https://berlioz1935.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/october-27th/

Peter’s father, Richar Hannemann, was born on the 28th of October 1900.

Seventeen of his descendents live in Australia and nine in Germany . Two of his grandchildren have passed away.

https://berlioz1935.wordpress.com/2013/11/16/6-november/

Peter’s mother, Frieda Hannemann, nee Müller, was born on the 16th of November 1900.

“She was always a rather physically weak child, did not like any strenuous activity. On Sundays her father liked to walk with the family across the Tempelhofer Field (later Airport Tempelhof) where the walk over the sandy ground drove her to tears. But her father wanted to have his beer on the other side of the large field.

After school and training to be an “early childhood carer” she worked for a little while as a nanny, but later, during the Big War, she joined the Post Office and became a telephone operator in the new technology of telephony. She had a beautiful, clear voice right to the end of her life. In old age she still sounded like a forty year old on the phone.

Peter’s parents got engaged in 1922
and married in 1929.

https://berlioz1935.wordpress.com/2014/11/03/my-granddad-and-world-war-i/

This blog is about Peter’s grandfather, Otto Hannemann, father of Richard Hannemann.

“Otto Hannemann, was a carpenter foreman in the growing city of Berlin. Born in the small town of Lukenwalde, south of Berlin, he looked for work in the big city to support his growing family.

When the war started he was not called up straight away. Only later, in the beginning of 1916, he was called upon as he was a reservist (Landjäger).
It seems he had his training in Schwerin, the capital of Mecklenburg

He was sent to the Western Front. (Perhaps he was even opposite Australian forces.) We know from the war reports and history books that it was hell. On the 2. 12. 1916 he fell. Some reports tell of cold and frosty days. He is buried in a war cemetery just outside Lille: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lille”

Kate Campbell Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTMN10Nois

“The complicated legacy of the American South is beautifully captured in Kate Campbell’s song.”

This is what Barbara from ‘Silver in the Barn’ says in this blog:

https://silverinthebarn.wordpress.com/2014/11/17/slavery/

Uta’s Diary

Uta’s Diary, September 2016

Last August/September I did write how we had to get rid of some trees who unfortunately had grown in a very unsuitable spot. The above photos are from that time to show how bare the area near the fence looked. In the meantime we had a lot of regrowth. However, we have to make very sure that no new camphor laurel trees start growing again. Actually Peter did find some the other day and had to discard them. There were several among the bougainvilleas near the fence. They had already grown quite a bit!!

This bush grew from this:

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to this:

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Why has the camphor laurel tree become a pest?

This tree is a prolific producer of seed. Some birds feed on these seeds, which then germinate readily.

Growing in suburban backyards, its massive root structure can cause serious damage to concrete structures and block drains.

In bushland areas it often competes with, and displaces native trees and other vegetation.
In these conditions it can develop into a single species community, depriving many birds and animals of their natural food supply.

http://www.australianplants.org/fskeleve.htm

What’s Australia Day like for an Aboriginal community?

http://www.smh.com.au/video/video-news/video-national-news/whats-australia-day-like-for-an-aboriginal-community-20170126-4pth8.html

What’s Australia Day like for an Aboriginal community?

Aboriginal people lived on the land now known as Lake Tyers, also known as Bung Yarnda, for at least 50,000 years before the campaign to dispossess and eradicate them began. Here, like many other aboriginal communities, January 26 is nothing to celebrate.LESS