This would be amusing if it wasn’t so sad. I note the pulp mill is now the $1.3b pulp mill as distinct from the $1b pulp mill (made famous by Dr Evil in the Austin Power’s film). I can hardly wait for the new job figures!

Unfortunately, the volume of export woodchips is the number that none should speak. It is commercial-in-confidence and as suppressed as the urchin larvae in the George’s River.

I wonder who is on the Examiner’s Board of Directors and whether or not a shareholder interest in Gunns Ltd exists by any of these as individuals or the Examiner corporately. I wonder who appoints the editor-in-chief to achieve such likeness of minds. Who is the puppet master?

For any readers who missed one of my original points, I suggest reading Animal Farm Revisited (http://tasmaniantimes.com/index.php/weblog/comments/animal-farm/) or the book itself. George Orwell observed and warned society of the political animal in humankind.

Such a quandary! Am I amused or saddened that corporate Tasmania can be so stupid as to try and hide an advertising feature as news on such a divisive issue?

I will give the three headed hydra (Examiner, Government and Gunns - or EGG for short) the benefit of the doubt and assume they cleverly and deliberately ran the story in this form to persuade 5-10% of the idle masses. Why clever? Because, as everyone knows, it is always the other person who is stupid.

Please, please, someone with the power, call for a royal commission into this blatant perversion of democracy.

Poetry in motion