The future based on Tony Abbott's cabinet reshuffle? It's not going to be pretty or nice.

Post by John O'Dempsey.

Seven Christian activists explained their protest in Geelong ... and were fined

Cross posted from Advocacy @ St Paul's

Further to a previous post about Christian activists going to court in Geelong, there is a report of the outcome in court:

Picture above from here
Read more about it here

The Roll of Honour at Geelong:
Simon Moyle
Isabel Greenall
Jan Morgan
Craig Farrell
Brent Lyons-Lee
Erika Brunner
Tara Watts

Christian Civil Disobedience in Geelong comes to court to-day

CROSS POSTED FROM
Advocacy @ St Paul's

Praying for #LoveMakesAWay protesters in court this morning in Geelong. It doesn't have to be this way... cc @ASRC1
— Irith Williams (@IrithWilliams) December 10, 2014

 

Picture taken from The Age - originally from Facebook

Background reading here

Human Rights in a Box - an anti-bullying education project for United Nations Human Rights Day - December 10

When the water is about to run out.....

....this isn't a story about Sao Paulo; it's a report that dares to point out that human societies are incredibly shortsighted and nearly incapable of sustainably populating planet Earth. In numerous regions around the world -- including California, India, Oklahoma, Brazil, China and many more -- human populations are rapidly out-growing the capacity of their local water systems. Even though keeping populations alive requires food... and growing food requires water... almost no nation or government in the world seems to be able to limit water consumption of local populations to levels which are sustainable in the long term. Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/047865_mega-cities_water_supply_human_civilization.html##ixzz3LCwdIcep

... and more