On other matters

I’m amazed at all reasons for abortion to be legal when there is no need to murder these innocent babies. Just be responsible, take the pill and use condoms. It’s called safe sex. Start advertising more on protection instead of abortion. As an

Checking, I have been assured by the Tolga parliament it is as dry there as elsewhere. They haven’t been doing rain dances and like everyone else they are awaiting the normal storms and showers.

It now appears that this distortion is the result of disturbance being created by the newly operating massive wind generators nearby.

Besides the known problems of visual and noise pollution, maiming and killing flying bats and birds, these “monsters” seemingly are causing atmospheric disturbances that may contribute to localised area climate change. What else?

For our environment and economy, the sooner the foolishness being imposed on us by the so-called Paris Agreement is scrapped, construction is begun on modern high efficiency, low emission coal fired or nuclear power generators providing efficient and reliable power energy the better. Norman Whitney, Glen Boughton 1946: The United Nations General Assembly convenes in New York for the first time, at an auditorium in Flushing Meadow. 2005: The citizens of Brazil, the country with the world’s highest death toll from firearms, vote decisively to keep gun sales legal. 2006: Former Enron Corp chief executive Jeff Skilling is sentenced to more than 24 years in prison for leading a financial fraud that destroyed the company. 2015: Former Australian treasurer Joe Hockey (above) resigns from parliament. 2016: Donald Trump steers his campaign for the White House towards controversy yet again, after vowing to sue every woman who has accused him of sexual assault or other inappropriate behaviour. 2017: The nuclear threat from North Korea is described as “unprecedented, critical and imminent” by Japan’s defence minister.