After running a few trials with free blog services, I've decided that wordpress has all I need. Running five blogs at once, is too many. Deleting anything on a free service is unnecessary. Some media is linked to them still.
The free Blogger service is very good except there is no access to the same level of server instruction as the wordpress program registered at a hosted domain server.
The Nimbin HEMP Embassy and webhead, will continue editing; hempembassy.net | nimbinmardigrass.com | australianhempparty.com and we will use nimbinwave.com for incoming news and blog posting, connect with the YouTube channels, as a supplement for MardiGrass developments and the print program, and as an index to the extensive hempembassy.net web site.
There will be no more unique content on Blogger or wordpress.com/. The experiments have ceased.
Wordpress has many features that can help provide archives, pages, categories, tags and very sophisticated design layout. Learning to use the plug-ins and their functions takes a bit of fiddling. Finding new additions and improvements to the versatility of web design is an on-going process.
What you found last time you visited, might be different again on NIMBIN WAVE. I am pleased to have access to good content and a new place to post it.
Heathen Jimmy Lovechild, Nimbin HEMP Embassy.
1:00PM 29TH OCTOBER 2009 The NimFM committee would like to inform all its members that this years AGM will be held in the Community School Room at the Nimbin Community Centre on the 29th of October, 2009.
Please pay your membership before the meeting if you haven’t already done so. (Non-financial members and non-members can address the floor but can’t register a vote or nominate.) Agenda:
Appointment of Chairperson
Apologies
Minutes of previous AGM
Business Arising
Correspondence
Presidents Report
Treasurers Report
Ethnic Broadcasters Report
NAB Report
Resignation of Management Committee and election of new Committee
General Discussion
Refreshments
We hope to see you all there!
-
- Nimbin Independent Media Inc PO Box 522 Nimbin NSW 2480 Australia +612 6689 0279 (Office Phone and Fax) +612 6689 0277 (Studio Phone) http://www.nimfm.org ______________
FULegal provides factual information and conservative advice that might assist an average doper, grower, or dealer in their possible encounters with the police and the judiciary.
FULegal provides edited extracts from the same sources consulted by working lawyers and prosecutors. Issues considered include: What is possession? What is trafficking? What is hindering police or resisting arrest? Can the police come onto my property? What does that charge mean? What should I do if I am arrested? What should I say? Who should I turn to for help? etc etc
FULegal does not pretend to be, is not, and cannot be a substitute for good legal advice: so hustle until you hear it. Do not be satisfied with cookie-cutter justice. YOU must take control and INFORM YOURSELF - it’s your arse on the line! This book is my small attempt to inform the people who need to know. (Bong on Australia!)
FULegal is the hackwork of a single reactionary old leftie who is studying Law. It has been compiled using Halisbury’s ‘Laws of Australia’ [HLoA], ThompsonReuters LegalOnline ‘Laws of Australia’ [LOLoA] plus lots of coffee & weed, and plenty of bitter experience. REMEMBER: The information contained within this manual is woefully incomplete, can only be used as a guide, and may even be wrong! DO NOT DEPEND ON THIS MANUAL FOR LEGAL ADVICE. by FULegal. (Don’t bend over. Don’t talk shit.) July 2009. Fringe University Guide
Of course I was posted to watch the Polite rabble hippies with their giant inflatable joint when it headed out of town.
Earlier in the day the NTDAS, Nationwide Total Drama Alarm Signal had gone off incessantly, apparently triggered by the words "blow up the joint'. The PM himself was irresistibly drawn to the giant balloon and his security team had to physically restrain him from walking over to the Polites as they battled with their balloon in the gusty winds around the hospital entrance. The media monitor minders were terrified he'd be photographed with the thing. Only when the hippies finally pricked their giant balloon on the hospital No Smoking sign did he get in the car and leave.
It happened like this.
The first time the minders signalled he was ready to depart the message got relayed to security out the front where the Big Joint cockatoo cheerleader, a hempster dressed like a Texan marching girl ( Kevin was calling her Hiawatha) was watching the security guy like a hawk. As soon as he talked into his wristband she gave the thumbs up to the Joint team across the road who immediately leapt to their feet trying to hold afloat the giant balloon in the blustery wind. Kevin was watching it all through a window and he loved the show so much he made us do four false starts.
The hippies in their hot Polite overalls were leaping up and down at each signal until finally they hit the sign and pricked their big balloon. It was like real life pin ball for Kevin. The clue for the hippies law reform campaign was in the wording on the sign that did the damage he said, adding "smoking is sooo last century". Immediately after saying this he made a joke about wishing the 'Nimbin People' had done the catering. Was it a coincidence?
The editor of the Goodtimes sent me a message via the Boss this week.
Apparently he got an abusive phone call about Undacuvva not printing their real name. Of course the editor has no idea who I am so no good phoning him. This is therapy really this column and I'm ever grateful to the Boss for allowing it.
I've been feeling extremely guilty about busting the young lads and at least this column is a bit of a warning for them. Of course I can't tell you who I am, that's the whole point of being Unda. Anyway the Boss made me change my sex, and name, again. " Ya can't be too careful Annie," he said, which is the name of a German backpacker I played two years ago. Even he can't keep up with who I am.
That the toothless lunatic reference upset some readers last month was a surprise though. Like the Indian gurus I always thought obviously missing teeth was a sign of great wisdom, beyond the ego you hippies would say. Aboriginal rituals knew that too and did it deliberately. It's just one of the things I love about you poor ferals, your missing teeth, a real sign of honesty in a world of perfect plastic white picket fences.
Now the Tower is coming down you probably think you've won the war I suppose but don't get carried away, not yet anyway. It will be re-sited with Towcom beneath it again and everything will be fully functional by Christmas, by which time we expect the bush to have run out and stress levels will be peaking. Then we go in for the kill says the manual, but we are already arguing about it, of course. Where will we get sent after Nimbin? Will there be good bush weed there? Nowhere is a patch on this scene...I mean there's real danger out there, and for not much pay. Biggest drama here is mistaking mugwort for weed and losing a chunk of the Undakitty.
I can tell you one thing about the Tower stuff up. It was nothing to do with the Boss, we didn't even know it was coming when it did. It's one thing we have in common with everyone in Nimbin, Sydney treat us like fish and chip wrapper.
Not so with the contract to pull the Tower down however, it's another big embarrassment for the Boss. There was a sense of urgency about it all and nobody bothered to find out who exactly NLB was before the contract was signed. Their quote was easily the best received and promised the entire Tower and fence would be down in 24 hours. They had multiple local references for being 'fast and efficient at removing any structure.' Dibs are in for the fence and a Well Known Tourist Attraction looks like getting it.
The BIG JOINT had an eventful outing to the Lismore Hospital when PM Rudd visited recently on his health rescue mission across the country. AAP had written a story that was printed across the nation that morning,'Lobbyists to ambush Rudd with giant joint." And the giant inflatable didn't let them down, dancing majestically in the sharp breeze until it pricked itself on the hospitals "smoke free' sign. "Isn't all drug use a health issue?" asked a Polite spokesperson.
"We are as determined as ever to keep cannabis law reform on the agenda. The PM needs to pull this issue out from the bottom of the too hard basket. Just this month Mexico and Argentina joined the growing list of countries allowing personal amounts of previously illegal drugs. The reasons they gave...'to counteract prison overcrowding, an increase in organised crime and rampant drug violence' are a clear warning to us. There is also a new report out about Portugal, decriminalised since 1996, having less problems and a decline in drug use! How long do we have to wait for some sanity on this issue?"
And so the BIG JOINT is again venturing off, this time to Sydney's Powerhouse Museum to attend the first National Cannabis Conference on September 7-8, hosted by NCPIC, the National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre. The POLITE BJ crew will bring some real life experience to the conference and again be collecting HEMP Party members and putting decriminalisation on the menu.
"Stopping at a couple of beaches on the way down, we want to bring awareness to the desperate need to end prohibition and regulating medical cannabis as the obvious next step on the way to full relegalization," said Max Stone, the unofficial smokesperson for the mission.
On Friday September 4th, a "Cannabis Convoy" of unmarked POLITE cars and vans will be leaving Nimbin and if you are interested in joining drop in to the Polite Bureau HEMP Bar.
Saturday BIG JOINT plans to visit Dixon Park Beach in Newcastle.
Sunday visits Bondi Beach for a photo op and membership drive.
Monday, BIG JOINT visits the Power House Museum, 500 Harris Street Ultimo, assembling at 8am.
The POLITE Service in conjunction with the Interpolite will be doing a dawn photo shoot / live web cast starting at 4.20.AM (Aussie time) so that our U.K and European supporters can watch. This venue will be somewhere in the Sydney C.B.D and will be announced 'twitterishly' at WWW.BIGJOINT.ORG and facebooked as well!
------------------------------------------------------
And the POLITE are forming a choir, apparently to sing at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House with theBIG JOINT in early October.
Anybody wanting to join the POLITE Choir should register at POLITE Headsquarters.
Pasture to Paradise In 15 years, what was a degraded 5-acre cow pasture has transformed into a cornucopia of biodiversity and abundance.
At Djanbung Gardens you can experience a wide range of working systems demonstrating approaches to sustainable living and design through our guided and self-guide tours and training programs including short courses, part and full-time accredited training, and residential internships Here you can explore the gardens, gain insights into the working systems, history and design.
The Erda Institute Inc faculty is a dynamic team of experiened permaculture practitioners representing a diverse range of experience and skills operating within a Bioregional Campus to integrate the vocational training with community education, in and beyond the classroom.
The Biogregional Campus brings together a network of trainers, specialists and experienced practitioners of permaculture and related trades and professions, businesses and comunity organisations, demonstration sites and projects within the Rainbow Region/Caldera bioregion and beyond. The Bioregional Campus is managed by Erda Institute Inc management comittee, faculty of APT trainers and specialist advisors and volunteers.
Robyn Francis
At the cutting edge of international design, consulting and training services for sustainable developments, Robyn Francis brings a wealth of professional experience in sustainable systems planning and design accumulated over 25 years.
Visionary, yet intensely practical, Robyn has a unique capacity to cut through to the core issues and essence of a project/situation to facilitate achievable outcomes and design strategies for sustainable developments which meet ecological, social, cultural and economic objectives.
Electric Power Systems from Sustainable Energy Sources.
The Rainbow Power Company Ltd is an unlisted public company, incorporated in 1987 to design, manufacture, sell and install renewable energy equipment based on solar, wind, hydro and biomass energy sources.
The company is one of the largest and most experienced Renewable Energy companies in Australia, with a workforce of experienced and dedicated staff.
Nimbin
Based in Northern NSW on the East coast of Australia, the company's headquarters are unique in the southern hemisphere. Designed as a working demonstration of the technology it sells, and as a complete centre for its operations, it houses Rainbow Power Company and associate company Energy From Nature Home Pty Ltd.
NEW MEMBERSHIP DRIVE FOR BRAVER HEMP PARTY MEMBERS-
Australian Hemp Party - Political organisation to re legalise and regulate cannabis for personal, medical and industrial uses in AUSTRALIA. It is a natural consequence of Prohibition that many cannabis users are alarmed by official contact, and some move about without leaving forwarding addresses at Post Offices.
That is why we ask that you only become a member if you are settled and brave enough to reply to a registered letter or phone call from the AEC (Australian Electoral Commission), saying "Yes I am."
If you can say "Yes, I am.", then "Yes We Can" make a difference.
If you are contacted by the AEC please confirm your membership promptly.
Please don't join the HEMP Party unless you are willing to confirm your membership to AEC officials on the phone.
If you are unfindable or unwilling to confirm membership, don't join, because it stuffs it up for the rest of us. Sorry, but that's how it works. Give us as many ways to contact you as possible to make it easier to confirm your membership with the AEC.
With little chance of getting anyone elected why do we want a registered political party at all?
Because the $1500 it costs to put our name on the Senate Ballot paper buys us more access to the corridors of power than any number of $10,000 a plate political fund raising dinners.
Membership check
Section 123 of the Electoral Act requires a non Parliamentary party to have at least 500 members (who are entitled to enrolment) to be eligible for registration. A party's eligibility is assessed in two ways. The secretary supplies a statutory declaration annexing the membership forms provided, declaring that the forms are signed by the people identified on them and that they have been accepted by the party as members.
The AEC conducts a membership test on a random sample of 20. members of the Party. The purpose of this test is to check for incorrect memberships on the basis that if a party relies on memberships of people who do not consider themselves members, then it is unlikely to have the required membership to be eligible for registration. The criterion for a successful random membership check is. to achieve 19 confirmations of party membership from the 20 people chosen at random.
Main Party Policies on Cannabis. > 1. To alleviate the suffering of the chronically or terminally ill. > 2. To enhance the environment by replacing environmentally unsound products. > 3. To reduce avenues of fast cash for terrorists, insurgents, arms traders, and security organisations. > 4. To reduce the flow of cannabis money to criminal gangs. > 5. To limit corrupting temptations available to Police, Customs Officials, and Prison Guards > 6. To decriminalise hemp and drastically reduce Police workload, and free officers to tackle genuine crimes where it is not as easy to gain high arrest rates. > 7. To remove an avenue for scaremongering by opportunistic politicians and journalists. > 8. To hopefully lower the price of hemp. > 9. To put an end to using dogs as a tool of discrimination against a harmless sector of the community. > 10. To put an end to the marginalisation of cannabis users, indeed to try to put such petty behaviours to rest in many areas of politics. > 11. To allow people to enjoy a spiritual, relaxing experience - legally.
--------------
The Grand Opening and Auction evening of the newly formed Nimbin Art Collective was a great success and filled with the typical Nimbin community spirit. The exhibition opened last Friday at the Regional Gallery (the rainbow painted building at the northern end of town in the Community Centre grounds) which is now a working studio and permanent exhibition running for the next few months.
The new Nimbin Art Collective attracted an overflowing crowd to see the exceptional quality from some of Nimbin’s most popular artists. The Collective held an auction of artworks as a fundraiser to help pay the rent.
One of the artists, Roslyn Parry, said, “we are thrilled with the success of the night and the gallery sold over $4000 worth. We are determined to try and make this idea work and many thanks to the Community Centre for the opportunity to lease the space, the Spangled Drongo restaurant for food and wine on the night, NIM-FM for providing the auctioneers, and the Nimbin CTC for printing”.
The success of the evening has inspired another auction night in a couple of months, and if you wish to be on the mailing list please email; inez.price@bigpond.com/
Artists whose work is for sale at the gallery currently include Burri Jerome, Gilbert Laurie, Elspeth Jones, Trisha Dalmas, Rodney Sharpe, Roslyn Parry, John Tredrea and Max Maxxted. The gallery is open most days and you are welcome to come and spend some time with the artists or just browse their work.
The Nimbin Visitor Centre on 66891388 is now open seven days a week 10 – 4pm and is situated across the road from the gallery and can confirm the artists are in fact in house if you are travelling to Nimbin especially for it.
The large painting below by Rodney Sharpe attracted keen bidding at the auction....
On April Fools Day 2008 over 70 Police, some in full riot gear like Star War storm-troopers, accompanied by Lismore Council Officers, raided the Museum, Hemp Embassy and Hemp Bar seeking something strong enough to close these premises down. They wouldn't use that many police to arrest a murderer, so the politics are obvious. News services were told not to attend as the Police Media Unit would provide footage.
GREEN ECONOMY based on a hemp multi-industry complex will provide income for farmers in every state. . . . thousands of new products generating tens of thousands of sustainable new jobs.
It was proven in the 1970's that biomass, specifically plant mass, can be converted to fuels that will replace every type of fossil fuel currently produced by industry -- and these biomass fuels are essentially non-polluting.
* Fossil fuel materials: coal, oil and natural gas were made by nature from earth biomass that lived over 160 million years ago. Crude fossil fuels contain hydrocarbon compounds that were made by plant life during the process of photosynthesis. Carbon dioxide and water were converted into hydrocarbon rich cellulose. Plants manufacture many other biochemicals in the complex and mysterious act of living, but cellulose and lignin are the compounds that give plants structure, body and strength. They are the main components of plant mass.
* Nature took millions of years to concentrate the ancient plant mass into what we call fossil fuels. The eons long process that converted the once living biomass into hydro-carbon rich fossils also compressed sulfur into the fossil biomass. It is this sulfur that causes acid rain when belched out of power plant smoke stacks. According to Brookhaven National Laboratory 50,000 Americans and 10,000 Canadians die each year from exposure to acid rain.
* Mankind through the science of chemical engineering can transform modern biomass into hydrocarbon fuels that contain no sulfur because the fresh plant mass contains no sulfur. And the scientific method of biomass conversion into hydrocarbon fuels requires mere hours instead of eons to accomplish.
* The inherent problem with burning fossil fuels to power industrial energy systems and economies is the mega-ton release of CO 2 into the air. However biomass derived fuels are part of the present day global CO 2 cycle.
The quantity of CO 2 released into the air from burning biomass fuels is equal to the amount of CO 2 the biomass energy crop absorbed while it grew.
* If the energy crop is an annual plant then one years biomass fuel when burned will supply the CO 2 needed for the next year's fuel biomass growth. There will be no net increase in atmospheric CO 2.
* For over 100 years industrialized nations have burned hydrocarbon fuels that are not part of the current ecosystem. The delicate balance between life and climatic cycles is being undone by injecting ancestral CO 2 into the atmosphere.
The only way to reduce the ever-thickening blanket of CO 2 warming the earth is to grow more plants to absorb it.
In March 1993, after a decade of raids and arrests, and a particularly intensive recent period of random street searches, arrests and rough treatment, a spontaneous demonstration erupted, and marched to the police station, pelting it with eggs and toilet paper.
Negative newspaper reports followed. Nimbin Hemp Embassy (formerly "Nimbin Hemp") members decided to hold a peaceful protest in a non-confrontational atmosphere, that ordinary people could comfortably attend, on May 1, 1993.
That was the first MardiGrass. (The spelling is that officially used by the MardiGrass Organising Body) The MardiGrass Organising Body (MOB) was formed to manage the event and consists entirely of volunteers.
The intention is to hold a MardiGrass every year until prohibition ends.
The Embassy shop has been unable to find durable herbal vaporisers within Australia. (Some parts were too easily damaged.) If we import herbal vaporisers in quantity the duty is prohibitive. We are currently advising people to buy their herbal vaporisers individually over the internet, as duty is not normally levied on individual items, and it is cheaper than buying a commercially imported item in a shop. You may need to do some internet research to find a GOOD DURABLE brand. If a durable local model comes to our attention, we will stock them. Police in Nimbin are cracking down on the sale of bongs (water pipes) and it appears they will no longer countenance the sale or supply of bongs here and are enforcing the letter of the law. FIRST WEEKEND OF MAY Annual Cannabis Law Reform Rally & Gathering; Nimbin MardiGrass
Volunteers are always welcome at the Nimbin HEMP Embassy especially during the annual Cannabis law reform rally and gathering held on the first weekend of May until the war on herbs is over.
