Watch for Johnnee to blame the States for everything bad in your life and take credit for everything "good". This little man — the grand UnAustralian porkyist of all times — has the gall of doing whatever in desperation and every low blow is allowed in his own mind... Don't buy, please do not buy his porkies coming to you via a raft of advertising blitz, possibly paid by the government (I dunno) by various devious means.

In fact when he blames the States for:

* the price of housing, he talks BS... He has enforced the real estate illusion and through this his government made sure the price of housing would sky rocket, to give the punters "a whiff of unreal wealth"... He knew by doing that, the building industry would profit and that you'd end up paying through the nose even if the interest rates were "low" but especially if the interest rates went up... Like a good American capitalist, he encouraged and allowed unreal credit swamp all punting tables... (The same problem has befitted the US.) The states have nothing to do with the price of housing apart from a tiny amount of stamp duty, compared to Johnnee's swift fiddles in this area...

* hospital crisis, he talks BS... His government never gave enough money to the states to run hospitals at full strength — moneys he owes the states anyway, but for years he gave less at his leisure, and kept some in reserve... and when an election is blowing the wind of defeat in his direction, he blames the States and finds money in the federal coffers, — money that should have been given to the States in the first place — for himslef to fund hospital directly via federal intervention. Rotten to the core... Should he be re-elected, be prepared for his next step — to go like the deficient US health system mostly in private hands and where there is no equality of care.

* running debt by States while "his" government is in the black? Considering the country has a trade deficit the size and speed of the Titanic going down to 20,000 leagues, he has no leg to stand on... His twelve billion surplus is peanuts in the equation of the debt he's allowed to blow out on Trade. That's HIS problem, but he will blame everyone else but himself...

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Johnnee talks BS... In fact from his little war, as co-conspirator with Bushit, to the porkies of "children overboard" and many other fiddles everyone would agree he's a "good" spruiker, yes, he is a good liar!... excellent at it!

But Australia can do much better!

We should throw him out, all out with his acolytes of Federal grab, greed, lies and oncoming doom with the help of his fascist laws...

Johnnee has shamed Australia with his constant BS. We need our dignity back.

From our ABC

Govt denies pork-barrelling over timber mill aid

The Federal Government has rejected suggestions that a conditional $4 million cash injection to keep a Canberra timber mill operating is an election stunt.

The Member for Eden Monaro, Gary Nairn, says the funding will keep the Integrated Forests Products mill at Hume running for up to four months, to help receivers sell the business as a going concern.

One hundred and thirty jobs are at risk, and many of the workers live in Mr Nairn's marginal electorate.

The federal funding is conditional on the New South Wales Government giving the mill a long-term license.

Labor's candidate for Eden Monaro has supported the announcement, but Mr Nairn says the matter is now up to the NSW Government.

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Gus: that's another "pass the buck" exercise by our UnAustralian of the decade...

Plan 'manipulative'

The Australian Medical Association (AMA) says Mr Howard's handling of concerns about healthcare on Tasmania's north-west coast is manipulative.

The AMA says the State Government's plans for the Mersey are part of an extensive and integrated healthcare plan, and will ensure that scarce resources and staff are not spread too thinly.

AMA state president Professor Haydn Walters says the federal intervention is destructive and unethical, and Mr Howard is being manipulative.

"I think he might have been misinformed by local manipulative people, but what's happened is that people became fearful for their community," he said.

"One way or another, that has been manipulated for political gain."

'Red Army' virus to combat MRSA
By Clare Murphy
BBC News health reporter

An old-fashioned treatment for bacterial infections which was once found in every Red Army soldier's kit bag is being touted as a new weapon against hospital superbug MRSA.

In the 1930s, a war was on. A new treatment for bacterial infections - antibiotics - was seeking to assert its supremacy over another fledgling therapy - a bacteria-devouring virus called a bacteriophage.

In the West, it was Alexander Fleming's antibiotic which won the day: penicillin was effective and widely available thanks to synthetic production.

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Dr Nick Housby of Novolytics Limited - one firm which has - says this is because of the intellectual property rights surrounding the therapy, which has so long been used elsewhere. Phages are notoriously hard to patent, the process by which drug companies secure their future profits.

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Gus: I knew of these bacteriophages in my youth... their existence and use in medicine were even taught in primary public schools... we even observed their PacMac-like behaviour under the microscope... But then they seemed to disappear from the health system... as antibiotics, tooted as the magic cure they were, took over. Like many herbal remedies that do work in the management of ills and sores, these are not readily patentable so they fall by the wayside... As mentioned on this site before, raw honey (unprocessed, unheated) has curing properties unequalled on sores and scratches. It stops inflammation and infection in less than half the time any modern medical cream or stuff can... The only problem is that it is gooey and sticky, and that it cannot really be patented...