Watch out, Trump will start a trade war! Protectionism will lead to economic ruin – free trade with no tariffs is the way to a nation’s wealth!’

Well, thats the cry we are hearing  from virtually every quarter, and certainly it is the politically correct viewpoint of our leaders in Australia. Doesn’t that make you a little uneasy? It does me, and maybe thats because I have been around a long time and have a reasonable memory.

Now, most of you know I am a pom, as well as an Australian. I can remember the time when my home town in the UK hummed with activity – countless cotton mills employed many people and Lancashire cotton goods were exported worldwide. Now, no cotton, no mills, many empty houses and too many unemployed. Where do cotton goods come from today ? Anywhere, Egypt – India – Pakistan – any countries where wages are lower and the standard of living less than in the UK.

Then there was steel. Huge steel works in many places, churning out UK steel for British cars, ships, washing machines – you name it. Gradually they closed down, til now the few steel plants left face extinction. Why?  Because cheap steel from ’emerging nations’ makes UK steel unsaleable.

Then I came to Oz and bought the iconic Australian vehicle – the Holden car. No more. Australia stopped making Holdens. And Fords, and the rest. Australian made cars could not compete against the price of cars made in the ’emerging nations’.

That’s why Trump became President. Too many people in the American rust belt remembered much the same, and longed for someone who would level the playing field – make trade a little fairer by placing a tariff on imported goods which undercut the American made equivalent because their makers accepted much lower wages.

This effect was may have been made even more dangerous by certain command economies which could see what effect such goods were having on the West and could control the price of those goods to undermine strategic Western industries.

So Trump has a point which gains little mention in our left driven media. But where any State is losing out to the tune of lost industries we have to be suckers to swallow ‘free trade’ with no tariffs. The trick is to look at our overall trade balance with any one country and aim to keep it balanced and fair. If every country did that, fairness and justice would prevail and no country would be using ‘slave’ labour to gain an advantage in sales to another country. A pipe dream?  Maybe, in the present. But change is coming because, believe it or not, Jesus Christ is coming back, maybe sooner than you think, when world trade will still occur, but at His just command, Psalm 103:6,  ‘The LORD works righteousness and justice for all who are oppressed,’   and Isaiah 56:1, ‘Thus says the LORD: “Keep justice, and do righteousness, for soon my salvation will come, and my righteousness be revealed.“

The Tasmanian election delivered a horror result for the Greens, with their 2010  5 seats now reduced to 1, as Tasmanians have gradually woken up to the dangers of the far left posing as genuine conservationists, who in the name of political correctness would seek to destroy Tasmania’s economy and damage Australia’s .

Way back in April 2012 I wrote :-

GREENS AIN’T GREEN!

APRIL 12, 2012

Have you known any Greens who actually farm? Most never have, and that’s why you get reports like ‘Livestocks Long Shadow’, stating that ruminants (cows, sheep etc) produce 18% of the worlds greenhouse gases and should be banned from farms to save the planet, while we should all become vegetarians.

In fact, cows, with their several stomachs are actually mobile mini-factories designed to continuously re-inoculate the soil with special micro organisms which multiply in their digestive tract. Pick up a cow pat and look underneath and you will see a host of activity with holes where many creatures, worms, dung beetles and the like which feed on the pat, break it down and carry its fertilising contents to the subsoil. There, the billions, yes so many, micro organisms break down the soil constituents, releasing minerals which are then carried by the worms to further distribute and cultivate the freshly inoculated soil, enabling the roots of the crop to take up the vital minerals which organic food contains.

Worms flourish under cow pats and keep the soil alive and healthy, but are slowly killed by continued use of artificial organophosphate fertilisers, which make the plants grow fast and look good (eg deep green grass) , but cause the soil to lack the vital minerals which food should contain to keep us healthy.

Boron, for example, needed for us to avoid arthritis, is just one mineral often missing in our food for that reason – a fact discovered by Dr Rex Newnham, who while he lived, was a member of a congregation I served, and only recently does it appear in vitamin and mineral supplements  here in Australia.

Rex was a soil scientist and helped me to see that in my fields where the organophosphate granules were scattered , there were few mole hills, but in a smaller less accessible paddock which the tractor avoided, here  were many molehills year after year, because it contained many more worms which the moles (In the UK) eat.

Oh, and that UN report, as usual was a con. More than half the emissions it attributed to livestock were actually caused by deforestation, a fact discovered by Simon Fairlie, a former editor of The Ecologist magazine, who dissected its detail.’

Now, the Greens are pushing a new documentary which wrongly suggests to foreigners that kangaroos are a ‘disappearing resource’ in Australia. Green Senator Lee Rhiannon is leading a delegation to promote this documentary film, ‘KANGAROO ;  A LOVE – HATE STORY ‘, in Europe, which compares kangaroos to disappearing “”Rhino’s, tigers, cheetahs and whales””.  Australia has an export market of kangaroo meat because kangaroos are culled as their numbers are increasing at   44,852,428 in 2014 – more than when Captain Cook first saw Australia because of their access to stock water in the outback!

Where I live, their growing numbers are posing a threat to the vineyards, and around Australia to other agricultural and pastoral businesses. The activism of the Green – left agenda ignores the facts, and uses their phoney Green credentials to push their atheist politically correct agenda which is against almost everything we read in the Bible, but thankfully it seems that more and more people recognise them as imposters, who are not genuinely green.

The time is coming when all agriculture worldwide, will be built around ruminants and animals rather than chemicals and huge machinery, and then will be truly green. Isaiah 30:23-24, ‘Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures. The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.