The more I watch these videos... the more Im convinced Australians are just Americans with the dials set to 8% more cowboy and 17% more British.

@user-di7ww6pm3c

2 ай бұрын

It's just a glorified uganda but with drinkable water and toilets😂

@calboy2

2 ай бұрын

@@user-di7ww6pm3cUganda has toilets

@Itsmellsfishy

2 ай бұрын

Nah. Americans are immensely stupid. We’re just pretty stupid.

@adrien5834

2 ай бұрын

@@user-di7ww6pm3c The water's not going to stay drinkable for very much longer if this goes on.

@fortysixghouls

2 ай бұрын

a little yeehaw with a side of hot chips

20-30 million? That should be a state of emergency

@ripdoff8549

2 ай бұрын

and with the atrazine in there any fish that are left will be turned gey, that's the chemical that alex jones alerted us to that's turning all the fricken frogs gey.

@Dovoline3

2 ай бұрын

Nah m8. Plenty of fish in the sea after all.

@JohnSmith-us9fv

2 ай бұрын

@@Dovoline3 bruh, yah missing the point

@lukeaberdene-wallwork-zy7wm

2 ай бұрын

@JohnSmith-us9fv it was a joke mate…

@kek22219

2 ай бұрын

Brah, you didn't get the joke.

This is the worst water scandal since Tony Abbott took a dip in his speedos.

@ghian696

2 ай бұрын

Notice how he's been a bit scarce lately....😮

@jimbothegymbro7086

2 ай бұрын

honestly he should've just stayed in the water, I went legally blind in my left eye after he got out

@timsmith854

2 ай бұрын

@@ghian696 He's on his way to shirtfront Putin

@AntiCoruptionCentral

2 ай бұрын

Tony Abbott, the "mad monk" Jesuit-trained "sh!t happens" treason defendant? THAT Abbott? kzread.info/dash/bejne/daiekrVqj7LVeqw.html

@theexerciseedit3147

2 ай бұрын

Tony Abbott would say the fish living in the Murray-Darling are making a "lifestyle choice."

I'm a river rat through and through, born and bred on the waters of the Murray, hell I work on the river as my job. Seen plenty of blackwater events and that fish kill up on the Darling was absolute bollocks. To suggest that it was a proper blackwater event is ridiculous. So blackwater DOES deoxygenate water, because of the tanin that is in gum leaves and stuff left on the floor of the forests. After a flood, you gotta have all the things happening, too high water temperature, too much tanin, not enough water flushing out and reoxygenating the system. But it doesn't do a big kill like that. It usually kills only the big fish because they require more oxygen. Even Murray Crays climb out of the water to breathe. Floods are regenerative, they're doing what's supposed to happen, making fish breed and wildlife numbers go up as well as watering the forests. That fish kill on the Darling... LOOK AT THE WATER. It isn't black. A blackwater event is called that because the water turns BLACK. The other contribution, I believe, was flood plain harvesting. Because a lot of the water that was supposed to sustain those fish numbers was held back, you then run a higher temperature of water, because there isn't enough water in the system. It turns the flowing water stagnant so there isn't enough movement for fresh water. Add to pesticides, where there isn't enough water to dilute what is there.... A recipe for disaster.

@anarchy_79

2 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, we can't for certain pinpoint the *exact* cause, so therefore our response is to do nothing at all about it.

@nedesnikderpherder7529

2 ай бұрын

@@anarchy_79 is it can't pinpoint the source because it's not in their best interests.... Or can't because they already know, and it isn't in their best interests? 🤔

@nedesnikderpherder7529

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing, I've learnt much from your comment, and another, on something I wasn't really aware of, or know much on the nuanced effects of flooding. When 2 and 2 doesn't add up, and you get independent and real information from people with nothing to gain, it does definitely start to equal fishy!

@Al-hp7lq

2 ай бұрын

Back to flood plain harvesting... Why am I not surprised. Corruption at this level of an environmental regulator is a blackwater event. NZ has the same level of blindside, huge range of acceptable pesticides inc. round up, copper sulphate for agric and viticulture that are banned in Europe and elsewhere. (AUNZ standards) And yet National consistently swept the 'most polluted low level waterways in the world' fact under our clean green pure delusional carpet of marketing tourism. Learnt alot bro thank you Jordan shanks love your work. 👍

@RobSkeltz

Ай бұрын

@@nedesnikderpherder7529 It's always cash.

I think all politicians that write laws on environmental conditions/hospital policies/dole laws should be required to live with/experience that area for 2 months then see if they support that law.

@thejinxlet525

2 ай бұрын

Crazy that we have to go that far for the people who are literally being elected and paid to give a shit about other people's problems

@smasherthe7

2 ай бұрын

I don't want to poison the local environment further...

@Azmeaiel

Ай бұрын

theres a reason they consider themselves a different class and wont even means test the 'political pension' Just look to other countries they look up to with a similar system that has a separate special food supply , medical service and housing area to those they consider their citizens.

You know Agent Orange? One of the component chemicals is still used as a thistle and blackberry killer today in NZ. I should know, I had a chopper drop it over the rooftop that feeds our water supply.

@JETBLACKPRIEST

2 ай бұрын

Hope you got a fkn payout

@smasherthe7

2 ай бұрын

At least you got Vietcong experience for free...

@fives.

2 ай бұрын

​@@JETBLACKPRIEST Once upon a time, there was a Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries you could effectively do this with Once upon a time

@atomicmillenial9728

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, 2,4-D. That's the "safe" component of Agent Orange that's still used today. 2,4,5-T is the component that is known to cause cancer and birth defects.

@someusername1921

2 ай бұрын

which one 2,4D or 2,4,5T? Both bad but one is significantly worse than the other.

I worked on a cane farm in FNQ. The farmer leased the farm next door when its owner fell ill. As part of that, we went through the old farm shed the old bloke had - there were boxes and boxes of diuron pellets, which had been banned from use around headlands and waterways in QLD. The farmer I worked for was an "accredited" reef guardian farmer, basically a piece of paper that says you're a "good guy" as far as the barrier reef is concerned. Every single one of those boxes was used to spray around the headlands and creeks on the farm.

@anarchy_79

2 ай бұрын

I bought a pin!

@mattylandos

2 ай бұрын

Diuron is one of the most toxic pesticides we find in sampling water running to the reef. The chemical is banned in EU, not in Australia.

@breadbin261

Ай бұрын

Wonder why he fell ill…

Spicy Water is just what me and friends referred to hydrochloric acid. You can drink it, just at the cost of your organs.

@johndeaux8815

2 ай бұрын

Hydrochloric acid isnt bad. You can dilute it and add sugar and carbonated water and flavour and end up with a shitty soft drink. Your body produces the shit ffs 😂

@Flesh_Wizard

2 ай бұрын

Spicier water would be nitroglycerin

@vinniepowell7438

2 ай бұрын

@@johndeaux8815 You sound, too, experienced🤨

@jimbothegymbro7086

2 ай бұрын

all my organs? or do I get to pick? because I'd like to get rid of my kidneys before I get a kidney stone I know getting rid of my kidneys will screw my minerals up, let me sperg out please

@finncatwillhelm2457

2 ай бұрын

​@@jimbothegymbro7086 it wont just fuck up ya minerals mate your blood will stop working as intended. Kidneys are really really important.

the flint michigan of aussie

@fcdef-hk7hc

2 ай бұрын

Pretty accurate, seeing it in person makes it even more accurate. It’s the most depressing thing I have seen in my life.

@Jonathan.D

2 ай бұрын

So the epa in Australia is just as useless as the epa in America. The blame also lies with the farmers who refuse to try proven methods like no till farming. Is a few more dollars worth the destruction of the environment?

@PropheticShadeZ

2 ай бұрын

​@@Jonathan.D you'll notice that this issue is pretty recent, that's because any institution run without care or expertise will do the same thing And that the current government is working on fixing the issue already

@CheeseInTheOven

2 ай бұрын

​@Jonathan.D If the farmers were the massive cotton farms owned by chinese billionaires that also siphoned water from the murray darling basin whilst paying no water tax then yes, those farmers are to blame

@Jonathan.D

2 ай бұрын

@@CheeseInTheOven They are also here in the US. These farms owned by Chynese companies are the worst. No Chynese company should be allowed to own any business like that. Other countries have stopped them because they were doing the same thing. They buy up everything to have control. They don't care what harm they cause.

Having fucking flash backs and it's time to rant. There is a blatant disregard to ag-chemicals and businesses and not sticking to MSDS levels of the product with no rotation. Whether its horticulture or agriculture, the education "needed" by any individual using these kinds product is acquired in 3 hours course at your local "training centre". The reason I left this work was because even "environmental" solution companies do not care about personal protection or ironically environmental impact, and in fact they prefer you dump 4x time chemicals because they make clients pay more for the chemical and they just assume its the correct amount that was required. I swear half the neurological problems I have now are probably attributed to chronic exposure, from the pressure of workplaces telling me "its fine" to work in these conditions, but its now the reason why I have studied chemistry. Fun quote from one company I worked for and why I became their health and safety officer to fight for better PPE: I quote "Half of the stuff you spray, you could drink" - My manager.

@Jonathan.D

2 ай бұрын

They don't want to think about the fact that the stuff they spray will have a long-lasting effect. I've been to areas in Vietnam where Agent orange was sprayed. They are still having the same serous issues like defects to this day. These chemicals that are being applied don't harmlessly evaporate into the air. They stay in the soil for decades and leech out into the water ways. Greed wins again.

@adamrice4824

2 ай бұрын

Yep, same reason I left ag. No ppe care at all and a blatent disregard for personal safety regarding hort chemicals. One time i got drenched in glyphosate by a faulty sprayer and both the farmer and the agronamist said relax its just a salt you can drink it and you would be fine. I quit 2 days later

@samueldillon468

2 ай бұрын

Did you pour him a glass and say, "Go on, then."?

@Tester-sh1mn

2 ай бұрын

Legit, I do furniture finishing, most common quote in the industry about safety is "You get used to it." "Hey my eyes, throat and hands kind of sting after using this paint stripper. Should I be wearing some PPE?" -Me "Nah you get used to it..." - My boss with 30 years in the business!

@just1luckyguy229

2 ай бұрын

Seems similar to what we do here in hungary as "mosquito control". Spraying chemicals all over our protected water habitats with "safe" pestisides that "only kill mosquitoes" (same pesticides are banned all over the eu, but what do they know, lol) Then you can go out and cound the bodies of everithing left in the plane/trucks wake. It kills every single bug it touches, indiscriminatly. Kill smaller birds, reptiles, disastrous to amphibians, etc... As an aspiring nature conservaton engineer, it sucks to see the disregard from most people and the goverment towards our nature. Most depressing job, i tell ya 😅

I just want to comment a massive thank you, I grew up along this river the darling river to be more specific. We were always told NEVER swim in the river water always only swim in pools. The locals already know and are forced to live with it while the local council all the way to the EPA will active lie about it not happening. Massive thank you for talking about it

@yellowdog3872

2 ай бұрын

ACAB, yes, even the environmental cops.

@_NEPO_

Ай бұрын

Jesus Christ dude, that's fucking horrifying. I thought the US was great at coverups, I can't imagine being lied to my face like that about a damn river... It is important to talk about though, the more people who know about it, the more likely something can be done about it.

Here is another anecdotal bit of the picture on pesticide use in NSW: December 2023 I drove inland highways from Dungog (just north of Newcastle) up to central Queensland - about 560km through NSW and about 700km through Queensland with most of the journey being through farmland in each state. I had very, very few bugs on the windshield from the NSW section of this drive. Once I was in Queensland, it was splatter city. When you're doing a worse job than Queensland at managing your environment ...

@TheDemocrab

2 ай бұрын

I'm staying in NSW for the first time in my life at the moment and the lack of insect sounds at night versus Queensland where I just was before or Victoria where I live is honestly so eerie and off-putting.

@CragDawgs

Ай бұрын

That's regular no? Queensland sales for bug repellent is the highest in the world

You should earn a fckn Nobel Prize for journalism if that’s even a thing

@valentinmitterbauer4196

Ай бұрын

That'd be the Pulitzer Prize

@silorion9967

Ай бұрын

​I fully expect to see Jordies receive a Pulitzer Prize, assuming an "awesome and good natured" politician doesn't "convince him to retire" first.

@Mag_ladroth

Ай бұрын

He already did, some politican tried to kill him

As an American I stay tuned to hear some crazy that's not in my country.

@Kay-zee

2 ай бұрын

Same crazy, different country

@katehack1677

2 ай бұрын

Fair enough 😂

@Ryan-lx6oh

2 ай бұрын

Same, I love American crazy but! The USA, you guys are so funny! (I meant that in the friendliest way possible dude or dudet?)

@joekeegan-yc4nm

2 ай бұрын

This fella is one of a kind. He is so rare that he is hunted...

@robnewman5329

2 ай бұрын

Mate that’s the same reason I watch American satire lol

Murray Cod are a very special fish only found in the Murray-Darling basin in Australia. They are the apex predator of the entire watershed, and are in the top 10 largest freshwater fish in the world. This is an incredibly special sad event.

As someone who worked on a farm that supplied woolies I can tell you it's worse than what you could imagine, the amount of run off that's toxic was unbelievable

@MrDeano-eu9rg

2 ай бұрын

Is there some kind of whistle blowing you could do? Or are the relevant bodies corrupt?

@Beelzebubby91

2 ай бұрын

@@MrDeano-eu9rg even if they spoke out with evidence, the authorities are so unbelievably corrupt. They’d do nothing unless the priminister’s own water was poisoned tbh,

@jaykeinnes6793

2 ай бұрын

@@MrDeano-eu9rg it's just standard procedure

@MrDeano-eu9rg

2 ай бұрын

@jaykeinnes6793 yea but it has to change no? Raise it. You'd be a hero

@YourCapyBruv_do_u_rmbr_3Dpipes

Ай бұрын

@@jaykeinnes6793 but it shouldn't be. Lol "standard procedure" that is killing your environment and possibly some of you. Sadly standard procedure when it comes to industry is harmful and murderous, either to animals or humans.

You make my water spicy, Jordan. Okay so now that I've actually watched the video, this story reminds me of my beloved Lake Michigan. Salmon used to run up all the various rivers and streams of the lake, but their numbers have been collapsing year over year, faster and faster. The rivers are drying up, the pond behind my mom's house that used to freeze over and bring the community together as an ice skating rink now has so little water in it you can walk all the way into the center without getting your feet wet. All of the trails are covered in plastic and barbed wire. Fish jump out of the 3 inch deep water onto the cement dykes and bake in the sun; their eggs literally explode out of them. It's sad.

@baabaabaa-yp2jh

2 ай бұрын

Now go look how much river water we have compared to the US.

@POTAT-pi7mu

2 ай бұрын

What are you talking about? What is your actual point?​@@baabaabaa-yp2jh

@baabaabaa-yp2jh

2 ай бұрын

@@POTAT-pi7mu To have the Murray-Darling rivers cop this is like the Mississippi, Colorado (add 3 more river systems) lose stock and become worthless. We have far less water than the US is the point... we f*k that up it's the entire centre and east of the country useless for everything.. sheep, cattle and people.

@baabaabaa-yp2jh

2 ай бұрын

@@POTAT-pi7mu Far less water here than the US, it's pretty obvious mate.

Fun fact: Atrazine (one of the chemicals on the list) is precisely the pesticide that Alex Jones was screaming about in that famous clip

Lets insert some nuance to the discussion. Pesticides/herbicides/fungicides are also used in regenerative and organic agriculture, some of those organic options having the potential to be as harmful or even more harmful than their conventional counterparts. The problem is the over-use of these plant protection products(PPPs). The reality is that we don't pay our farmers enough even though they are making the food we survive on. It is a situation in many cases of telling someone who is trying to make ends meet to stop using products that might save 30%+ of their crop, which is turn is a loss of a third of their income. Without proper training or education on the use of PPPs they are likely to overapply just to be safe. Instead of making sure education and support is readily available, we just start banning products (some are rightly banned), even knowing that with less effective products people are even more likely to over-apply. Then we all go pointing fingers at farmers while we chow down on cheap food. Modern society is weird, our sports and tv stars make millions while those who produce our food or teach our children struggle. My background is as a former semi-organic winemaker(I left because the pay was barely a living wage) with studies in sustainable development and agriculture, and now working in the fertilizer sector.

@nedesnikderpherder7529

2 ай бұрын

Very interesting, I would've thought a proper DIY organic pesticide/herbicide/fungicide, would have a significantly lessened half life than their non organic counterparts, or even commercially made organic ones? Cheers for sharing knowledge🖖

@Nomusicincluded

2 ай бұрын

@@nedesnikderpherder7529 Well this is all a matter of what you consider "organic" and one of the reason I really dislike the organic movement after being part of it for nearly 10 years(greenwashing & the naturalistic fallacy). Regenerative agriculture has no official standards or regulations so anyone can in theory claim to be a regenerative farmer. "According to Brian Baker of the Organic Materials Research Institute, most chemicals found naturally occurring (not synthetically manufactured) are acceptable for organic farming and agriculture". As we all know, not everything that is naturally occurring is better than a manufactured product. So within the regulations for organic agriculture you are allowed to use copper sulphate as a PPP since these component materials are "organic". The main problem though is that people think that since it is allowed in organic production it must not be as harmful and that it is potentially less effective, and therefore they tend to over-apply the product. Turns out it can also be harmful to bees, birds and aquatic life and as far as I am aware there is not enough evidence to say if it is carcinogenic, although there are some links to kidney cancer. Think of products used on organic agriculture like alternative medicine. It is often poorly researched and often has miracle claims. Whereas each actual medicine has a dozen demonstrated side effects, has specific application criteria, and we know the hazards of over-use or poor regulation because it is heavily researched and scrutinized. Both actual medicine and alternative medicine/wellness are multi million dollar industries, but we don't hold them to the same standards. Always happy to share what I know and always happy to stand corrected.

@nedesnikderpherder7529

2 ай бұрын

@@Nomusicincluded wow! Thank you for such a detailed reply, very informative indeed! I would hazard a guess that copper sulphate is a biproduct of processing copper, and I definitely steer clear of most sulphates in general. I've been toying with crushed eggshells and dried powdered banana peel as the P/K parts of a simple NPK fertiliser. Thanks very much once again greatly appreciate your time and knowledge🙏

@richardclark9535

2 ай бұрын

@@Nomusicincluded Yes, having actually looked at the stuff you can use to produce "organic" labelled products you realize that it's mostly just a labelling project. While science is busy working on the data, pseudoscience got up early and worked on the lablling.

@CocoaHerBeansness

2 ай бұрын

I'm from a traditional subsistence farming family that have never used Pesticides, herbicides or fungicides and I'd argue you're just pointing out that the standards for what's considered 'organic' are far too low. using these things at all creates imbalance in the farm ecosystem that tends to come back to bite you. We have never used these things and were totally self-sufficient for over 500 years on land that's considered unsuitable for agriculture by the rest of the farming industry.

Many years ago, we had a fish kill event. Many Koori people still lived near the old mission grounds. They noticed vehicles that were not local. Then the dead carp piled up against the old Antwerp (Victoria) weir. Millions. Channel 7 landed the chopper in my friends paddock. It was an inland flowing river into Lake Hindmarsh. I was there.

"Can i swim in there" "Yeah you can, it's radio-fuckin-active but--" *SPLASH* "I'M SUPERMAN!"

Meanwhile they are fracking along the Fitzroy river in WA and cooper creek along the lake eyre basin. Our uniquely independently evolved freshwater fish are at risk of extinction.

@karl4834

2 ай бұрын

Really??? I had no idea there was fracking on the Fitzroy. How long has that shit been going on?

@girrig97

2 ай бұрын

@@karl4834 2010s, I've got maps of all the fracking stuff. Work for ngo focusing on it

@Redpepper7376

2 ай бұрын

The irony is you can be fined for not having a fishing license and yet politicians can allow policies that kill millions of fish on multiple occasions in the Murry Darling.

@raclark2730

2 ай бұрын

Fish often get the overlook when it comes to environmental concerns. Thanks for the info.

@YEs69th420

Ай бұрын

@@raclark2730 As far as aquatic organisms go, fish are lucky to even have some people in their corner. Inverts might as well be invisible

It was the floods... taking the pesticides into the rivers

@jimbothegymbro7086

2 ай бұрын

honestly makes sense, it at the very least rinsed all the surface pesticides into the water table, you know the same table you drink out of, at least you won't need to worry about worms in your tummy

@chaos-goblin

2 ай бұрын

Exactly! See it was the floods.

@anarchy_79

2 ай бұрын

@@chaos-goblin I heard floods are caused by the moon!

@reinham

2 ай бұрын

Stormwater runoff is one of the biggest ways pollution enters the watershed

@brysoncherry9884

Ай бұрын

And all the pros from 3m and non regulated China

Just a quick point, copper is highly toxic to fish and copper sulfate is a common pesticide in use on organic farms.

@mattylandos

2 ай бұрын

Well under 1% of australia's cropping area is farmed organically. Hint.... it ain't their copper sulfate use.

@DomesticApe

2 ай бұрын

@@mattylandos It's also used in non-organic farming and for non-ag purposes. And as it's just an element it doesn't biodegrade. So it just builds up and sterilises the river bottom. The point is that while synthetic pesticides have their issues, even very basic ones have severe issues with their use also. The solution is super tight regulation and oversight.

This is so sad. Australia must protect its native fish populations. Here in the Great Lakes we do a bit of both, commercial fishing of some of the last populations of predatory native fish species. Speaking of Agro runoff, it was one of the main contributors to Lake Erie being almost destroyed to a point of no return.

@justbecauseimbored3212

Ай бұрын

I’ve lived in Erie all my life how is the water here I’ve been wanting to go swimming again but see dead fish every other day and have to go days after it rains or the seaweed will be everywhere

@bok..

Ай бұрын

@@justbecauseimbored3212 damn I've always wondered if the dead fish are the result of there being no predators to eat the small fish. Cause it's always the dead walleye.

@justbecauseimbored3212

Ай бұрын

@@bok.. well living things tend to be efficient yet wasteful in ways, you waste more energy running the same distance than walking, like 3 or 4x so them big fish wasting some and need alot more that’s probably like 50% of the problem why they die first

It’s always cheaper to pay the fines later than to do the right thing up front (especially when they are the ones regulating themselves)

We live in the middle of LNP hell on what used to be the beautiful & mighty Macquarie River. Narromine, cancer causing chemicals and water. Along with our community, water, livelihoods, health & safety we are considered by many of these organisations as acceptable collateral damage. The EPA….Pffft! We’ve tried them and got the right royal brush off. Bit like brushing a fly off your sandwich. 😡 Adding insult to injury “they” (and we know who they are) changed the boondoggle inland rail route from a less flood prone western route to a highly flood prone eastern route. We have investigated and challenged this for over 6 long years. This change places the rail at significant risk of failure & has contributed to the massive cost blowouts (31 billion and climbing) as supported by Catherine King MP. Go figure 🙄. And just in case that wasn’t enough, Narromine council now support a plan for a Toxic Waste Incinerator & Storage facility emitting dioxins, a known human carcinogen and endocrine disruptor. This will sit on part of the Great Artesian Basin (The GAB) and become surrounded by water during flooding. FFS!! Other governments prohibit them and they are considered unlawful. All of this, pushed by our council, particularly Narromine Mayor Craig Davies, as an acceptable risk. As so succinctly stated by you, we are at the mercy of the “sordid shameful history of the EPA” Thank you Jordies…We too say,“No!" 👿

Watching this from Iowa, USA where we also don’t regulate pesticides (or hog shit near our waterways) and now we have mysterious fish kills and disgusting algae on every body of water every spring. Love it!!

instead of Barnaby dealing with the murray darling he's now protesting against wearing R.M. Williams boots because andrew forest owns it and now forest wants to build wind farms. Go figure

@krissteel4074

2 ай бұрын

Fairly sure at this point Barnabys just an ape that someone shaved and let loose in public as a joke

@karl4834

2 ай бұрын

Barnaby has to be the most unstable of all current politicians, in my humble opinion. He isn't even a good ideologist, often just a barking at the moon drunk in the street.

@Ktmfan450

2 ай бұрын

​@@karl4834Last I heard about Barnaby he was lying on the street drunkenly cursing

@raclark2730

2 ай бұрын

Wind farms are just as bad as the rest of it, don't be fooled. They are just more destruction and cancer on the land.

@Mystic-Midnight

2 ай бұрын

Damn is Australian politics actually as backwards as American stuff? Dude sounds like a conservative grifter we'd have here.

Simpsons short: crying woman "won't somebody think of the fish" EPA responds "fuck no" then just walks away.

I can only imagine how run down and helpless the residents nearby must feel abt their lands being destroyed. That river brings more life to australia than just fish

@fcdef-hk7hc

2 ай бұрын

I’ve been there and seen it. I can tell you it’s pretty bad. The amount of closed businesses in Broken Hill is depressing and seeing an entire lake that had been drained was the cherry on top.

Chemicals in our soil, air, water, food, are likely the answer to quite a number of "I wonder why this suddenly started happening!" mysteries doing the rounds.

Atrazine as per mention, is the " gay frog chemical '. Joke was on the mark.

Atrazine is the chemical that Alex Jones was ranting about, in case anyone was unaware

Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink.

im glad that our enviormentaal science class im in atm has an entire unit dedicated for pesticides and their impact on the enviorment and alternatives to keep crops healthly

All waterways need regular checking. Going into Bunnings & understanding that a % of all of the pesticides (that are never spoken of as a concern) on their shelves, used in suburbia will end up as run-off into local creeks & waterways. This is definitely problematic! Cheers fer t' show J. 🙏

Just a bit fishy

As a citizen of Broken Hill, thats a pretty accurate description...

@fcdef-hk7hc

2 ай бұрын

Silverton wouldn’t be that far off. At least there’s some cool stuff to look at there.

Surely Minns can sack the EPA leadership? They don’t have tenure do they? He’s numero uno. He needs to “unstack” the EPA

@peterwilliamson9600

2 ай бұрын

I believe QLD did this a while back. I think the Feds should do the same. Sack all ministerial appointments. Make them go through the correct hire process.

@rollerskdude

2 ай бұрын

Pretty much anybody hired under the Liberals or Nationals is either grossly incompetent at their job or hired through nepotism. The only people the Coalition hired were people who did exactly as they asked, calculated liars on the Coalitions behalf, easily bribe able people and their donors choice individuals.

Another great example of regulatory capture, where a regulator defends the interests they are supposed to regulate.

Its been a while since a water update.... It hurts every time. Thank you for covering it this. Its horrible its happening in our own ignorance

I can’t thank you enough for your videos, especially this one, I haven’t laughed this hard for a while. We need more content like spicy water. You should do a piece on the history of Sydney water and their cases through NCAT, that would be perfect for your style of journalism.

It's like the reverse fountain of youth

It always comes back to corporate profits driving every shred of corruption.

Australian Batman.

That could honestly be an irreversible amount of damage, and I feel like the EPA just went "oh whoops, well its fucked now what can you do" and swept it under the rug. Thank you for putting this out there, I hope it makes a difference.

im sweating bullets to even try and comprehend the horrific poisoning going on in america now.......

pesticides and microplastics and oil all have had detrimental effects on human health but they just cover it up because it would cost too much to change or regulate it.

Jordan Mussolini Van Houten: "It smells funny in there." Homer Berejiklian: "No it doesn't."

I'm surprised the people testing it haven't been labelled whistleblowers and vanished into the special place.

I hope this comes to light and talked about more

Pesticides gave my dad Parkinson's. Pesticides may have given me a brain tumor. > > > > > > > > > > If you think I'm kidding... I'm not.

@MasckedUp

2 ай бұрын

Shit, hope that "may have" is found to be just a scare

@duckiekraft6893

2 ай бұрын

@@MasckedUp Unfortunately, no. The brain tumor is very real. Non-cancerous, though, so there's something good (I guess).

@MasckedUp

2 ай бұрын

@@duckiekraft6893 the silver lining is a millimeter thick but its still there at least

Nah but seriously what the fuck do we start doing about this level of corruption like who as a citizen am i supposed to write a letter to to change this shit and get proper regulation in

@PandaKnight52

2 ай бұрын

Need to not vote Liberal National parties in for the rest of your life is the best way..get your friends to do the same

@mattylandos

2 ай бұрын

@@PandaKnight52 sadly pesticide regulation has not improved under Labor. it could, but when Minister Watt gives his budget address under a CropLife banner- the signs are not good.

@stollstoll1691

Ай бұрын

Guns

Thats honestly insane man how is this not international news let alone national, you do some real work bro keep it up

Love your work watch dog , you make it palatable with your humour and therefore more accessible especially to younger generation thanks Jordan

That skit about the police? Thats not the joke you think it is, that was my last dealing with them. I'd called because my step daughters father, who's a convicted criminal, was hanging around the gate of her school making threats and being agressive after he lost yet another custody argument, and the local PD told me to "call back when the fight kicks off" 🙃

hey im the usa, and our epa doesnt really do their job either. i wonder if there's connection?

@asheronwindspear552

2 ай бұрын

Yeah. It's both corporate interests and the people who put the con in conservatives.

@ghostlyhousehorrors

2 ай бұрын

Our EPA also had their funding decreased like a decade ago. I don't know if it went up after that

This was perfect to watch while drunk. Thank you a bunch. +1 sub

I live in South Australia, and basically every farm, person and industry between Adelaide and Woomera runs and relies on Murray water. Another thing is that a while ago, I had a tour at SA Water and the workers said that two chemicals are added to turn that water above to safe and drinkable water for half a state.

heyyy a jordies video? awesome day just got better!

this is a bloody outrage.

@anarchy_79

2 ай бұрын

Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest.

@YEs69th420

Ай бұрын

@@anarchy_79 This is very very obviously not democracy.

so glad we have someone like you covering this stuff

I'm from the US, and my dad actually is a sustainable farmer, thanks for talking about this sort of stuff.

I love aussie land Update : I love aussie land shenanigan's

@The-Schizo-Crowfeathers

2 ай бұрын

You shouldn’t It’s shit

@cashcow4483

2 ай бұрын

@@The-Schizo-Crowfeathers what if I switched my comment to aussie shenanigan's

@The-Schizo-Crowfeathers

2 ай бұрын

@@cashcow4483 you don’t really have to do anything but it’s still shit

@modernspartan98

2 ай бұрын

Fuck the aussie land, real estate says i need grass but nothin grows unless its in my neighbours crawl space and sells for 20 a g

@anarchy_79

2 ай бұрын

Shenanigan? Ay'e. I kno' im'.

That's a lotta damage

@garystinten9339

2 ай бұрын

Flex seal it!!!

@anarchy_79

2 ай бұрын

So, since they're not going to do anything about the 30 000 000 live fish dying, what is their plan what to do with the 30 000 000 dead ones?

More excellent work. Thanks again mate

Thank you for talking about this

West Australian legitimately had to pause at 2:55 and find out what the ripoff Masters milk, moove, is.

@asheronwindspear552

2 ай бұрын

They're probably two different brands released by the same umbrella company. There's less actual competition out there than a lot of people realise.

@Mulgah

2 ай бұрын

​@asheronwindspear552 Yeah both brands are owned by Bega

@lizdexamphetamine

2 ай бұрын

*victorian confusion cause it's called big M here* now I'm wondering about what it's called in QLD SA and the NT

@Slateproc

2 ай бұрын

@@Mulgah Is Bega also owned by Nestlé?

Why is Patreon not charging me but I still have access?

the guy jumping into the poison water is like the guy that put lead into gas and breathed it in to prove its okay and later died to it

The town I was born and grew up in the good old Silver City AKA Broken Hill. The place where the city's newest high school has to be demolished and rebuilt and all sorts of good stuff. Haven't lived there for decades.

@tysondaly9534

2 ай бұрын

should change from silver city to mold city

@fcdef-hk7hc

2 ай бұрын

Even in its current state, it’s one of the few places I want to end up retiring at. Loved going to Bells Milk Bar.

To add insult to injury the current nsw fisheries minister put heat on the department to have a biomass survey conducted in the Darling adjacent to Menindee Nov/Dec 2023 with very short notice (like unprecedented urgency for public service speed scale) The results that came back absolutely stunned the local rangers and local officers and had the department running for cover because they knew when the next blackwater event struck it was good night Irene. The report was buried and nothing has been done.

I wonder if Jordan checks after the first minute he posts lmao

Cheers for Matt and Bruce. Keep up the good work.

"it's fine, it won't happen next year or the year after"

That sounds like Flint Michigan or EastPalestine USA 🤭

My fish went to live on a nice farm what are you talking about

@insensitive919

2 ай бұрын

Not sure what happened to my dog. I assume that the popo put him down but I was kinda busy chasing Kasami so I never followed up

oh boy..... he barked up the wrong tree this time... thoughts and prayers your way mang

Thank you for spreading awareness of issues like this.

No no, it was the floods. ...Bringing out all the pesticides stuck in the mud.

There’s better quality water sitting in the destroyed reactor core at Chernobyl

ok ok i’ll stick around and watch that video afterwards

Thanks for another absolutely sensational post Comrade.

Spicy

Finally, a jordies video before I go to work!

Jordy I fuckin love you man, 5 seconds in and you made me laugh lmao. Much love from Canada 🇨🇦❤

We recently had the same issue in a german river here we share with poland. The cleanup took so long, the fish started to rot on the surface and banks of the river causing an insanely horrible smell.

@anarchy_79

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, I was just wondering, since they weren't gonna do anything to prevent 30 million fish from dying, what are they gonna do now that they have 30 million dead ones instead? Oh, still not give a shit? Ok.

Yeah but cmon, ya neighbors falcon was to loud so the EPA made sure he couldnt drive it untill he changed the exhaust, you know the real enviromental issues

WHERE'S JA?!

Oh, I can smell where this one is heading to already. Time to download this episode cuz it will be gone soon.

@anarchy_79

2 ай бұрын

Smells like 30 million rotting fish

A nice calm, relaxing video to fall asleep to

Yakub

I seriously think Eric Prince was so stupid he didn't actually realize what 'blackwater' meant when he decided to name his PMC that, but it's still just... .goddamn it's really funny (and fitting)

I heard that the fish also had a high content of Deoxyribonucleic acids I cant belive it😂

aussie man has blessed us once again

🕶

I think that was the best Alex Jones impression I've heard yet

this happened in my coutry a while back, twice... in the same river

I had a carbon copy of Peter Dutton come into my workplace, I literally thought it was him, down to the posture.