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Wednesday, August 03, 2011
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Slap A Pollie
Monday, September 13, 2010
Hitler believes Climate Change
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Categories: AGW Realists, AGW Whackos, Humour (18+), Politics
Julia Rudd
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
On Lateline last night, Leigh Sales, while interviewing Tony Burke about his change from Minister of Population, to Minister for Sustainable Population, due to people thinking his position was Minister for Population Growth (although nothing has changed apart from his title and the thousands spent on new letterheads and Web-Site re-builds), suggested that his change was actually a Kevin Rudd idea.
Leigh then asked "But how is that any different to what Julia Rudd .......... Julia Gillard is suggesting ... sorry?"
Does the ABC know something we don't?
Categories: Politics
The Fairy and the Asylum Shopper
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
One day, an asylum shopper claimant was standing outside a Centrelink Office, when a beautiful fairy appeared.
'Dear Refugee,' the fairy said, 'I've been told by Julia Gillard to grant you three wishes, since you’ve just arrived in Australia with your wife and seven children – all costs to be borne by the Australian Tax Payers.'
The man told the fairy: 'Well, in Afghanistan where I come from we don't have good teeth, so I want new teeth, maybe a lot of gold in them.'
The fairy looked at the Afghani's almost toothless grin and -- PING!!! The Asylum Shopper had a brand new shining set of gold teeth in his mouth!
'What else?' asked the fairy, 'two more wishes to go'.
The Asylum Shopper claimant now got bolder.
'I need a big house with a three car garage on the Gold Coast with eight bedrooms – and a Gold Visa Card in each room for my family and the rest of my relatives who still live in Afghanistan. I want to bring them all over here.
PING! In the distance there could be seen a beautiful mansion with a three car garage, a long driveway, a walkout patio with a BBQ, and a sparkling swimming pool and a BMW, full of his nephews playing their music.
'One more wish left for you', said the fairy, waving her wand.
The Asylum Shopper claimant really decided to go for broke now and said “I want to be an Australian with Australian clothes instead of the rags and shawl, and I want to have white skin like the Australians.'
PING! The man was transformed, wearing worn out Stubbies shorts, a dirty Bonds T-shirt and a greasy terry-towelling hat.
He had his bad teeth back and the mansion had disappeared from the horizon.
'What happened to my new teeth?' he wailed. 'Where is my new house? Where’s my Visa Gold Card?'
The fairy said 'Tough luck. Now that you are Australian, you're entitled to sweet fuck all like the rest of us”.
Categories: Humour (18+), Politics
Carbon Tax the next battle in the long War on Carbon
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Carbon Tax
the next battle in the
long War on Carbon.
29 June 2010
If images are lost or format mangled in transmission,
you can link to a print friendly PDF of this newsletter here:
http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/carbon-tax.pdf
Nearly twelve months ago “Carbon Sense” predicted that the Ration-N-Tax Scheme was dead in the water, but there was real danger that it would be replaced by a carbon tax.
See: http://carbon-sense.com/2009/07/19/carbon-tax-saddled/
This looks more likely today. Those who seek total control over our lives and our assets will not rest, and a carbon tax will be supported by:
- Governments who need help to fund their wasteful spending.
- Promoters of wind and solar power – a huge permanent carbon tax is the only thing that will make these energy follies look economic.
- Those promoting nuclear power, which is coal’s major competitor for the generation of reliable economic base-load electricity.
- The Climate Change Research industry, which needs an assured stream of income to support never-ending “research”.
- Those who support national and international redistribution of wealth. Favoured classes and nations will have access to a carbon slush fund to be used for “compensation” for the effects of climate change, for increases in the cost of living or for whatever else sounds plausible and deserving at the time.
- The anti-development, anti-technology, anti-enterprise, anti-growth, back-to-sandals brigade who see carbon fuels, cheap energy and abundant power as the wicked foundations for all modern industry.
- Gas producers will secretly barrack for a carbon tax. Even though gas is a carbon fuel, and produces carbon dioxide when burnt, gas usage will get a boost every time a wind farm or solar array is built. Every wind/solar plant needs a reliable but flexible power plant on standby. As soon as the wind drops, or a cloud obscures the sun, the standby plant must be ready to fire up immediately. Gas will generally be the chosen backup. A carbon tax will also encourage the replacement of coal generators with gas generators, as gas combustion produces less carbon dioxide per unit of energy produced. So, ironically, one carbon fuel (gas) will benefit from a carbon tax, even though its price will increase to cover the tax.
- Many Greens rightly object to the speculators, traders, regulators, auditors, lawyers and bankers lined up to benefit from emissions trading. They prefer the clean punishment of a simple heavy direct tax on their hated coal and oil fuels.
- Nations (mainly in Europe) who depend on non-carbon fuels such as nuclear, hydro or geothermal will be very pleased to see taxes on coal-dependent countries such as USA, China, India and Australia.
- Many economists will rightly claim that a carbon tax is more direct and efficient than the complex exemption-riddled Cap-n-Tax Schemes.
However the alarmist industry knows that people hate taxes. For them, the disadvantage of a carbon tax is that it will always be vulnerable to clean quick abolition (and the sooner the better).
An election is looming and carbon taxes and/or new resource taxes will loom large on the agenda. None of them will have any beneficial effect on global temperatures. We must increase the heat on all politicians – let them know that you will actively oppose anyone who supports or defends Emissions Trading or Carbon Taxes.
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For Immediate Release
28th June 2010
“Carbon Tax” – signpost to the new dark age.
The Carbon Sense Coalition today claimed that a carbon tax was the next likely battle in the long war on carbon.
The Chairman of “Carbon Sense”, Mr Viv Forbes, said it was ominous that one of the first promises made by Australia’s new Prime Minister was:
“If elected as Prime Minister I will re-prosecute the case for a carbon price at home and abroad.”
Forbes added:
“Big governments love carbon taxes. They promise a bountiful political dividend of tax receipts and green votes.
“The tax harvest will feed the climate change industry, provide eternal corporate welfare for alternate energy speculators, and allow politicians to buy votes with handouts for favoured mendicants.
“But a carbon tax will have zero beneficial effect on earth’s temperature.
“Carbon taxes will be welcomed by the solar/wind lobby. But the world now has plenty of real experiments proving the inability of these follies to generate reliable power at reasonable cost - Spain, Portugal, Germany, Denmark and California.
“But the slow learner governments of the world, UK, New Zealand and Australia, seem determined to punish their economies, their tax payers and their electricity consumers by repeating the same anti-carbon errors.
“There are other feasible methods for generating reliable economic non-carbon electricity – nuclear power as in France, geo-thermal as in Iceland, and hydro as in Scandinavia. However none of these options will be available for Australia for at least a decade.
“Carbon taxes will just depress the tourism, transport, steel, resource and cement industries and penalise every user of electricity in their homes, farms, factories and refineries.
“Carbon Tax” should be Gillard-tined for the same reasons that the Wong Ration-N-Tax Scheme was chopped – it will have no climate benefits but it will destroy businesses, jobs and living standards.
“Everyone knows that if you tax something, less of it will be produced.
“Carbon produces the heat, light, food and transport for the modern world. A carbon tax will inevitably reduce the production of these essentials – it is a signpost on the road to a new dark age.
Viv Forbes
Chairman, The Carbon Sense Coalition
Rosevale, Qld, Australia
Categories: AGW Realists, Politics
Sustainable ... the new Spin word
Monday, June 28, 2010
Joolya has announced a change to the immigration policy. It has gone from a policy of ‘population growth’, to a policy of ‘sustainable population growth’.
The title of Population Minister Tony Burke, has become Sustainable Population Minister Tony Burke.
Will there be a ‘sustainable super profits tax’?
Will there be a community endorsed ‘sustainable Carbon Tax’?
Will there be a ‘sustainable health and care scheme’?
Will there be a ‘sustainable Murray-Darling water plan’?
Categories: Politics
Wayne Swan ... LLPOF
Monday, June 28, 2010
Swannie ....... liar, liar, pants on fire.
Wayne Swan, when presenting the budget said,
"Mr Speaker, the resources boom presents enormous opportunities and challenges. Booms are not a permanent part of the economic landscape even if they might be expected to run for a decade or more. That is why we need to manage our resource wealth sustainably capturing a fairer share for all Australians and turning it into other forms of wealth that last. That is why we are introducing a Resource Super Profits Tax from 1 July 2012." More ...
But at the G20 summit, Swan said “the mining tax had no bearing on the budget.” More ...
Categories: Politics
Are there two Joolyas?
Monday, June 28, 2010
Joolya Thursday 24th June 2010 (AM)
Joolya Thursday 24th June 2010 (PM)
Joolya Friday 25th June 2010 (AM)
Joolya Friday 25th June 2010 (PM)
Categories: Politics
Proud of red head female political party leader
Monday, June 28, 2010
Samantha Middleton, Darwin hairdresser said, "When you have red hair, people tend to take you more seriously .."
The women of Austraylya are overjoyed with Joolya, the new female, un-married, un-sophisticated, Welsh red-head political leader who doesn't believe in a "big Australia" and will clamp down on boat-people.
They weren't so happy the last time a red head said something like that.
Categories: Politics
What is Talinguru Nyakunytjaku?
Saturday, June 26, 2010
But the final word on Talinguru Nyakunytjaku must belong to the tour guide I met in Alice Springs a few days later. He said that when he told his passengers that the new viewing area had cost $21 million and was put in the “wrong spot” for sunrise, their jaws dropped.
“Then we tell them that Parks Australia is stumping up another $21 million so that they can get the sun shifted around to light up the side of Uluru where the new viewing area is.
“That always gets a good laugh.”
Categories: Politics
Beginning of the end for Political correctness.
Friday, June 25, 2010
The newly elected mayor of Doncaster in Yorkshire, Peter Davies, has been put into position because he has broken all of the rules of politics ...... he's doing what the public wants.
He immediately cut his own salery from £73,000 to £30,000.
He scrapped the mayoral limosine.
He's ending Doncaster's 'twinning' with five towns (originally nine towns), an arrangement he describes as "just for people to fly off and have a binge at the council’s expense."
He intends to reduce council tax by 3%.
He has abolished the 'diversity' portfolio. No more funding for Gay Pride, Black History Month, International Women's Day, The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Month, saying "people do not need to parade their sexuality, whatever it may be, at taxpayers’ expense."
Council funding of translation services for immigrants has been scrapped because he believes incomers should take the trouble to learn English.
He is saving the taxpayers £80,000 by disaffiliating from the pointless Local Government Association and the Local Government Information Unit.
He aims to abolish all non-jobs on the council, as epitomised by “community cohesion officers”.
He disregards all “green claptrap” and is creating more parking spaces to encourage traffic in the town for the benefit of business.
He has asked the Electoral Commission to reduce the number of Doncaster’s councillors from 63 to 21. "If Pittsburgh can manage with nine councillors, why do we need 63?”
The establishment is moving heaven and earth to discredit and obstruct Davies. He is the ultimate political embarrassment by doing what the public want.
Hear a radio interview with Peter Davies here
However, in Australia, the April 2010 Senate Proceedure Commitee report announces an ammendment to the 'opening proceedings'.
(aa) There may be an Indigenous ‘Welcome to Country’ ceremony before the declaration of the opening of Parliament;
Read it here
Categories: Politics
Julia Gillard's Facebook Page
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Categories: Facebook Stuff, Humour (18+), Politics
Kevin un10able
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Kevin 07 is now Kevin un10able
Categories: Humour (18+), Politics
Julia Gillard. World's BEST opposition leader.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
This woman has done what John Howard, Brendan Nelson, Malcolm Turnbull and Tony Abbott have together all failed to do.
Overthrow Kevin Rudd.
Next election, give Julia the job she is good at.
Julia Gillard, Worlds best opposition leader.
Categories: Politics
Government Support for Women and Men
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Government Support for Women
New South Wales Government - Office for Women's Policy
New South Wales Government - International Women's Day
Australian Government - Office for Women
Australian Government - Minister for the Status of Women
South Australian Government - Office for Women
South Australian Government - Minister for the Status of Women
Victorian Government - Office of Women's Policy
Victorian Government - Minister for Women's Affairs
Queensland Government - Our Women, Our State
New South Wales Premier's Department - Office for Women
Queensland Government - Minister for Women
Queensland Government - Office for Women Strategic Directions
Northern Territory Government - Office of Women's Policy
ACT Government - Welcome to Women
ACT Government - Office for Women
ACT Government - Minister for Women
Tasmanian Government - Women Tasmania
Western Australian Government - Department for Communities - Women
Western Australian Government - Minister for Women's Interests
Tasmanian Government - Tasmanian Women's Council
Government Support for Men
Victorian Government - Men's Sheds
Categories: Politics
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's top mental health adviser John Mendoza quits
Sunday, June 20, 2010
"It is now abundantly clear that there is no vision or commitment from the Rudd Government to mental health," he wrote. "The Rudd Government is publicly claiming credit for the increased investment in mental health when almost all of this is a consequence of the work of the Howard Government."
Categories: Politics
Unsulation debacle still rolling along
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Assistant Climate Change Minister Greg Combet yesterday revealed that 25,000 claims for payment by insullation installers, worth more than $32 million, were being investigated for fraud or non-compliance.
He also released further details of the safety program, but did not release any results from the safety program, that so far has inspected 61,000 homes. It was a safety update minus the safety facts.
FIO documents released on the first 13,000 homes inspected, show 3 per cent got insulation that did not meet the thermal standards.
12 per cent had gaps in the insulation, therefor not improving energy efficiency.
And 0.05 per cent had no insulation at all.
That doesn't sound too bad with only a few per cent here, and a few per cent there.
Let's un-wind the spin and put this in real terms, compared to the complete project..
If 3 per cent of the scheme didn't reach the standards = $42.6 million.
If 12 per cent of the scheme had gaps = $170.4 million.
If 0.5 per cent got nothing = $7.1 million.
The Government has also received 760 applications for financial support from installers, so far approving 98 applications worth $6.1 million. When finalised, that could be another $47 million.
Categories: Politics
Jetstar - New Charges
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Jetstar Have Introduce New Charges.
Example: Cairns to Melbourne
To choose a 'Standard Seat' now incurs a $3.00 surcharge.
To choose a seat in the 'First Six Rows' incurs a $15.00 surcharge.
To choose 'Extra Leg Room' incurs a $23.00 surcharge.
I could not find the FREE selection for 'Standing Room Only' or 'Sub-Standard Seat'.
Categories: Around The Area, Humour (18+), Politics
Quotes from Latham's book re. Rudd
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
These words, quotes are from Lathams book.
Mark Latham (former leader Labour Party in Aust) wrote a book in 2005 called the "Latham Diaries", he mentions his then shadow minister KEVIN RUDD no fewer than 40 occasions, maybe Latham wasn't so mad after all...
Monday 24th March 2003, Page 217
"War in Iraq and Simon has got himself into a terrible tangle. The basic lesson: never listen to Rudd on foreign policy. If that guy is an expert then I'm Henry Kissinger."
Page 218
Today Rudd was even worse. At 9.15 am he played a role in drafting the troops resolution at Shadow Cabinet but at 5.00pm at the National Right Meeting after Robert Ray attacked the wording Rudd stood up and disowned it calling it hopeless. I'm still shaking my head in disbelief that it was the same person at both meetings. He's an incredible piece of work.
Rudd on Trust
Saturday, 22nd November 2003, Page 243
All the snakes are sliding around in the grass feeding their poison to Seccombe (SMH Journalist): Rudd, Swan, Albanese, Tanner and Comb-over.
Page 249
It is amazing that the journalist's couldn't see through him. Two factors: they are lazy and dumb (lazy and dumb)and Rudd is a fanatical media networker. He is addicted to it worse than Heroin.
Wednesday, 14 April 2004, Page 280
I've had a suspicion for some time now that Rudd has been feeding
material to Oakes. Decided to set him up, telling Kevvie about our focus
groups on Iraq.
No such research exists-Gartrell says he's doing some
quantitative polling but not focus groups. Today, right on cue, Jabba
has written in the Bulletin: 'The Labor Party's polling firm has been
busily running focus groups to test the public mood following Latham's
'troops -out' announcement. The most significant finding, I understand,
is overwhelming support for the alliance with the United States '.
Trapped
him. Two weeks ago in New Zealand , I announced our intention to have a
Minister for the Pacific Islands . That's the job I'll give Rudd if we
win.
Joel thinks I'm joking, but I'm deadly serious. Rudd is a
terrible piece of work: addicted to the media and leaking. A junior
minister in Government, at best.
Rudd's Vanity
Saturday, 30th December 2003, Page 256
Kevvie wanted his title expanded to the more grandiose Shadow Minister
for Foreign Affairs and International Security. No worries, but then he
rang me last Sunday to say he objected to McClelland also having the
word `Security' in his title. At first I thought it was some kind of
joke, but the crazy bastard was serious: he had a long and absurd
argument about the alleged overlap between the two jobs. I suggested he
talk to McClelland, hoping to never hear from him again.
By the end
of the day, Rudd was threatening to go to the backbench, over a question
of semantics. I told him I was willing to accept his resignation and he
went away to think about it. The ideal contingency plan was McMullan to
Foreign Affairs and then I could save face with Coxie in Finance. Rudd
called at about 11 p.m. and backed down, allowing the announcement to go
ahead the next day.
Friday 22nd October 2004, Page 364
Another slice of Caucus chaos: Kevin Rudd. On Wednesday, ' The
Australian's Lewis and Norington ' carried a front-page story saying
that if Rudd didn't became Shadow Treasurer he would go to the
backbench. My thoughts went back to December last year and his tantrum
over his title. He's such a prima donna.
Rudd came around to see me
yesterday morning, lobbying to be Shadow Treasurer. He went into a long
explanation of why he's so wonderful. When he finished I put my cards on
the table: that I regard him as disloyal and unreliable, and he only
holds his frontbench position because of his media profile and public
standing among people who have never actually met him. I also told him
that if the newspaper report was true, he should get ready for the
backbench, as there was no way I could give him the Shadow Treasury.
He
appeared surprised, protested his innocence and then broke down badly,
sobbing over the recent death of his mother, just before polling day.
Rudd was in a very fragile condition. I told him to leave work and go
back to Brisbane to rest with his family. But he wouldn't give up. Even
though he was crying, he kept on lobbying to be Shadow Treasurer. It was
becoming quite sad. Then he said words that I will never forget: 'I
swear on my mother's grave that The Australian story is wrong, totally
wrong, and that I've been loyal to you and will continue to be loyal to
your leadership'.
I don't mind people bull shitting to me in
politics, but not like this. Last week he rang around Caucus to gauge
the mood after our loss, and told Trish Crossin that my leadership was
on notice: I had until the Budget Reply speech next May to prove myself.
He's always bagging me to journalists and that's not going to change any
time soon. I don't trust him, no matter what he says”
Categories: Politics
How to Spin any Problem or Story to your Best Advantage (How to Lie like a Politician)
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Step 1
- Decide on your story. You know what you've done and that you're at fault, but this is where the "spin" comes in --- make it someone else's fault! What a concept! Decide who or what you are going to blame and why. Be sure to choose someone weaker or in a lesser position than you so they won't be able to put up much of a fight. Try to frame your lie so that you are the person everyone feels sorry for after they hear your story. Poor you. Decide on your lie quickly because you don't have much time to move to Step 2.
Step 2
- Be FAST --- once you've decided on the lie you are going to tell, get it out there! LIE fast! People remember the first story they hear, so get your lies out there quickly! Spin, spin, spin.
Step 3
- Be LOUD --- the LOUDER the better. Be sure everyone hears your side of the story (i.e., the lies you are making up) -- everyone. Go directly to the people who matter, and make sure your voice is heard. Drown out everyone else's voice so no one can be heard above the din you are making, least of all anyone telling the truth. Make sure your voice and your story is the only one anyone hears. In addition to your loud personal voice, bombard people with emails and voice mails and any other type of communication you can think of. Be sure you have your subordinates trained to follow your lead, so they are as loud as you are.
Step 4
- Be gracious --- after the lies have all been told and things die down, if anyone mentions the "issue" again, show your sympathetic (or smarmy) side again, and say something like "I'd really prefer not to go into all that again." You'll look like a real prince (or princess). Pat yourself on the back. You've crossed to the dark side.
Categories: Politics
So, how much Rudd debt is there.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Some say $188 billion; some say $300 billion by 2012 – 2013.
Some say more, some say less.
Regardless, it is a lot of billions of dollars of debt.
Let’s split it down the middle … let’s call it $244 billion.
Over three years, that’s just over $81 billion per year.
That’s $81,000,000,000.
What is the Australian Population?
- The population of Australia is 21.6 million at 2008 according to the Department of Immigration and Citizenship.
- Sustainable Population Australia don’t seem to know, but do say: somewhere between 19 and 23 million (depending on actual immigration) sometime before 2050.”
- The CIA Fact book says: 21,515,754 (July 2010 est.)
- Wikianswers says: 21,874, 900 was the population in June 2009 according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
- The Australian Bureau of Statistics says: Population at end Sept qtr 2009 22,065,700.
- ABC News on the 19th March 2010, says 21,705,600
Let’s take an average again. Let's call it 21,537,422. The CIA were closest.
If the ludicrous Government spending was stopped right now, every single Australian man, woman, child or other could pay around $11329 EXTRA tax over the next thee years and we would have paid it off.
But that can’t happen because only 60% of the population can be in the possible work force. And around 5% of them are un-employed
So the actual workers must pay around 80% more to cover the repayments of the non-workers.
The workers need to pay off around $20392 more tax over the next three years to get rid of the debt.
But CPI is currently running around 3%.
That means that the workers will need to pay around $22282 more taxes over the next three years to remove the debt.
But what if the debt figure of $300,000,000,000 was correct.
That would make it $27,397 each worker on today’s costs.
What if petrol, tax, interest, housing prices, etc., increased during that period?
Bank fees alone have increased 9% in the past 12 months.
Yet on June 12th, Glenn Stevens the Reserve Bank Governor has the ignorance to state “it’s a good time for Australians to be saving more.” More of what, Glenn?
People like Stevens, Henry, Garnaut, Swan, etc., need to have a reality check if they really believe that the Rudd Government can be in surplus in the next three years by increasing any taxes equivalent to each worker paying around another $200.00 per week for three years.
The RSPT is estimated to bring in $9 billion per year … or $27 billion over three years ... assuming there is not a drop in the minerals market.
But wait a minute; we still need to find another $273 billion.
That’s still $24,204 per worker … or $155 per week for three years.
Surplus can not happen in three years UNLESS the Super Profits Tax becomes a ‘Standard Super Profits Tax’.
Hello … Banks, Supermarkets, Construction, Transport, etc.
Note, that in the decade to 2008, Westpac increased its net profit by $3,193 million but the income tax it paid only increased by $720 million.
Let’s have 57% SPT on Lotto winners. It’s Australian money that they’re winning.
Developers and Real Estate agents. They profiteering from Australian land. 57% on them too.
What about Casinos? They could have 57% taxed on them with part of that re-directed back to the gamblers who have lost. A great idea!!
If Rudd and Swan had any real balls with a tax reform, let’s see them put a Super Tax on housing capital gains.
Or what about Goldman Sachs or the Maquarie Bank? How many Malcolm Turnbull’s will support their ideas then?
Wayne Swan believes that an investment with risks is equal to no risk bonds. He doesn’t get that this tax SHOULD be set at 6% plus a risk value … say +5% He doesn’t get that this tax plan is set to kick in at the same value as a no risk profit point.
I’m afraid that Rudd/Swan have no idea.
Here is how it works according to the Sydney Morning Herald;
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For example
Revenue = $100 and
Expenses = $50
Your profit = $50
You can then subtract depreciation, with the allowance - set at 6 per cent.
So if RSPT allowance = $3
You are left with $50 - $3 = $47
The $47 is taxed at 40 per cent (the super tax).
So $47 x 0.4 = $18.80 and you are left with $ 28.20
The $28.20 is taxed again at 28 per cent (the company tax).
So $21.20 x 0.28 = $7.90 and you are left with $20.30.
That adds up to about a total tax of about 57 per cent.
Categories: Politics
The 10 Commandments
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments posted in a courthouse or Parliament, is this --you cannot post 'Thou Shalt Not Steal', 'Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery' and 'Thou Shall Not Lie' in a building full of Lawyers, judges and politicians..... It creates a Hostile work environment.
Categories: Politics
Cows
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that during the mad cow epidemic our government could track a Single cow, born in Burke almost three years ago, right to the stall where she slept in the state of Victoria?
And, they even tracked her calves to their stalls.
But they are unable to locate 25,000 illegal immigrants wandering around our country.
Maybe we should give each of them a cow.
Categories: Politics
Man's body floating in the Brisbane River
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
NEWS FLASH:
Brisbane Police reported finding a man's body floating in the Brisbane River, near the Story Bridge .
The man's name will not be released until his family has been notified.
The victim apparently drowned due to excess beer consumption, combined with a drug overdose.
He was wearing black fishnet stockings, a red garter belt, a pink G-string, a strap-on dildo, purple lipstick, and a “Rudd for PM in 2010” t-shirt. He also had a cucumber inserted in his rectum.
Police removed the Rudd t-shirt to spare his family, any unnecessary embarrassment.
Categories: Humour (18+), Politics
Can you trust a politician?
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Copy of an email recently sent to the boofheads down in Canberra.
Saturday, June 12, 2010
FROM DR EARNEST TAYLOR (Ret) WHO MIGRATED TO AUSTRALIA
I emigrated to Australia just over 45 years ago - On the ship there were Poms, Italians, Yugoslavs and Greeks, (Note - All European people!!) all looking forward to starting a new life in Australia. I arrived with 42 pounds in my pocket and that's all I had to my name.
Did I put my hand out?? Of course not - I got a job and paid my way just like everyone else that came to this country back then.
Now, it’s my taxes that subsidize these people who think they have Gods given right (read Allah) to come here and criticize those of us who have worked for the country we now call home.
If I didn't like what I saw when I got here I would have gone home - they have the same option.
If they don’t want to become an Australian, they can GO BACK TO WHERE THEY CAME FROM - WE DON'T NEED THEM HERE!!!
When will this stop?
They want two of their own public holidays, because Christians have Christmas, Easter & Good Friday.
They force our children to eat Halal Meat Pies and Sausage Rolls from the school canteens, so the Muslim kids can feel more Aussie, we were not consulted about this change, they went ahead and just did it.
Our foods are slowly all becoming Halal foods, our Bega cheeses, and Cadbury chocolates, even good old Sanitarium foods show the halal logo
Our Government is ALLOWING this to happen, it has to stop now, while we still have some people power to be able to stop it.
Regarding Our National Anthem.
I am sorry, but after hearing they want to sing the National Anthem in Arabic - enough is enough. No where or at no other time in our nation's history, did they sing it in Italian, Japanese, Polish, Irish (Celtic), German, Portuguese, Greek, or any other language because of immigration.
It was written in English, and should be sung word for word the way it was written.
The news broadcasts even gave the translation -- not even close.
I am not sorry if this offends anyone, but this is MY COUNTRY - IF IT IS YOUR COUNTRY SPEAK UP ----and please pass this along
I am not against immigration -- just come through like everyone else.
Get a sponsor; have a place to lay your head; have a job; pay your taxes, live by the rules AND LEARN THE LANGUAGE as all other immigrants have in the past -- and LONG LIVE Australia!
PART OF THE PROBLEM.
Think about this: If you don't want to forward this for fear of offending someone-----YOU'RE PART OF THE PROBLEM!!!!
Will we still have our Country of Choice and still be Australian if we continue to make the changes forced on us by the people from other countries who have come to live in Australia because it is their Country of Choice??
And by our politicians who are allowing this to happen.
Think about it!
IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT.
It is Time for Australia to speak up.
If you agree -- pass this along; if you don't agree -- delete it!
Categories: Politics
Is Climate Change/Anthropogenic Global Warming stoppable? (even if it doesn’t exist)
Saturday, June 12, 2010
When Kyoto was held, the world agreed that there was a problem … scientists wouldn’t lie.
An Inconvenient Truth was released. Children, cat owners and smelly tree-huggers were now frightened witless.
Questions began to be asked of the science. The numbers weren’t adding up. The data was unreliable. The data had been altered. Records were lost. Those who asked the questions were guilty of heresy … they had blasphemed … they were deniers, non-believers, the murderers of future generations. “They should be charged with treason” was the cry from the ‘know it alls’.
When the world discovered that those ‘silly scientists’ had made up their data to achieve a pre-conceived end result, many people took a different view of the ‘catastrophic’ impending disaster.
When Copenhagen came and went, the remainder of the people became aware that the impending disaster, in all reality, may not be too bad after all, as the millions of dollars spent on the Copenhagen Show, achieved … nothing. Or did Copenhagen fail simply because only ‘nut jobs’ and ‘whackos’ attended?
When the world was alerted to the ways of the IPCC, it could be concluded that the global gloom and doom predictions were not even close ... if in fact, were they ever factual to begin with.
So what was learnt from all of this carry on?
Kyoto = the original good-will stunt.
An Inconvenient Truth = the biggest false flag operation in history. (2nd biggest of you believe the moon landings were fake)
Deniers = used to split and confuse the populace ... a diversionary tactic.
Silly Scientists = diversionary tactics.
Copenhagen = smoke and mirrors at their best.
IPCC = a farce … a complete, very expensive, deceptive false front.
But, what if the whole story was a little different … a little more Hollywood?
Even Spielberg couldn’t dream this up.
Once upon a time, a black law student, we’ll call him Barrack, was welcomed to the board of a large Chicago charity organization. This organization, we’ll call it the ‘Foundation’, was originally set-up in 1948 to fund small grants to hospitals and other health organizations.
During Barrack’s 8 year term on the ‘Foundation’ board, he helped fund a Carbon Trading Scheme thru a local friend named ‘John’. John had a brother named ‘Bill’. ‘Bill’ was better known as the Weather Underground terrorist bomber. Bill (the terrorist) also spent time as the aide to Chicago Mayor, Richard M Daley.
This Chicago charity gave nearly US$1.1 million in grants that were “instrumental in developing and launching the privately-owned Chicago Climate Exchange”.
In 2005, the ‘Foundation’ paid out US$8,385,305 to just one its programs … the Environmental Program.
Barrack and Bill (the terrorist) also served on another ‘charity’ board, an anti-poverty group; we’ll call the ‘Fund’.
From Barrack’s ‘Foundation’ money, the privately owned Chicago Climate Exchange is set up. The Chairman and CEO, we’ll call him Dr. Dave, back in the seventies earned the reputation of being the principal architect of the interest-rate futures market. He is known as the ‘father of financial futures’, and was honored as one of Time Magazine’s ‘Heroes of the Environment’ for his work as the ‘Father of Carbon Trading’.
Dr. Dave assembles a group worthy of him. People from the UN, Government officials, Politicians, Goldman Sachs, Ex US Presidents, The World Bank, The IPCC, JP Morgan, Fannie Mae, International Financial Futures and options Exchange, Government lobbyist’s, Government advisors … all specialist’s within their fields.
Selected as the Honorary Chairman of the CCE Advisory Board, was Richard M. Daley, Mayor of Chicago. (Don’t mention the previous corruption inquiries)
The CCE even has Dr.Rajendra K. Pachauri on their books. That’s the same Pachauri, who so poorly heads the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). The same Pachauri who told us of the impending climate ‘doom & gloom’ we all face, by presenting untruths.
There’s even a Kennedy in there … that’s what’s called a ‘must have’.
One of Dr.Dave’s greatest additions to the team was the now ‘bust’ Fannie Mae head. We’ll call him ‘Franklin’. Franklin uses Fannie Mae (taxpayers) money to buy the technology that will measure and manage carbon, and he patents it. The patent summary has Franklin as the primary inventor and describes how “carbon and other pollutants yet to be determined would be combined into a single emissions pool and traded.”
Just like Fannie Mae’s toxic portfolio of subprime mortgages were. Never forget that trading in ‘Carbon’ is ‘creating something out of nothing’. There is no value behind the market.
Fannie Mae was given the patent for this technology, the day after the now previous Chicago charity board member, Barrack, won the US election.
The CCE expands out of Chicago by starting up the European Climate Exchange, the Montreal Climate Exchange and the Chinese Climate Exchange. All privately owned exchanges.
During CCE expansion, an Ex American Vise President, we’ll call him Al, partners up with ex Goldman Sachs CEO, we’ll call him Dave, and together they start up Generation Investment Management, based in London and later expanding into New York and Sydney.
Their Generation long-term thematic research agenda into global sustainability and renewable energy issues focuses on areas of climate change, poverty and development, ecosystem services and biodiversity, water scarcity, pandemics, demographics and migration, and urbanization.
Generation then go into partnership with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Beyers, a venture capital company, announcing a collaboration to "find, fund and accelerate green business, technology and policy solutions with the greatest potential to help solve the current climate crisis."
Prominent KPCB Partner, we’ll call him John, joined Generation's Advisory Board. Analysts now suggest that Al has created a conflict of interest by working with GIM and simultaneously being the spokesperson for action on global warming. The Competitive Enterprise Institute believes that the government policies Al advocated to the U.S. Senate "will make him and his friends extremely wealthy at the expense of consumers."
GIM also owns a 10% stake in the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), CCX in turn owns half of the European Climate Exchange. This gives Al a financial bias towards promoting global warming control through the issuing of carbon credits.
Goldman Sachs also buys 10% of the CCX.
Now that all of these partnerships and joint efforts are rolling along, they open a new little company which is offered on the Chicago Climate Futures Exchange called Insurance Futures Exchange Services Ltd. At this stage the word ‘evil’ comes to mind, as this new business lists catastrophe event-linked futures ("ELF"). ELF contracts are standardised exchange-traded futures derivatives contracts (also known as "contracts for difference") providing a binary payment based on catastrophic events which result in insurance industry losses. ELF contracts offer participants the ability to hedge and trade natural catastrophe loss risk outside the framework of conventional insurance and reinsurance contracts. Currently the contracts listed are based on insured losses caused by tropical storms and hurricanes.
It about now that a bit of credibility is needed to add to all of this.
Al gets a Nobel Prize, Pachauri gets a Nobel Prize and Barrack gets a Nobel Prize. Why?
At this point, mention should be made of Pachauri’s Nobel Prize speech, when he repeatedly mentioned his climate change concerns “..have raised the threat of dramatic population migration, conflict, and war over water and other resources, as well as a realignment of power among nations. Some also highlight the possibility of rising tensions between rich and poor nations, health problems caused particularly by water shortages and crop failures...”
Pachauri’s concerns are very similar to those that Generation Investment Management is focusing on. The question to ask; “Is Nature causing the problems, or is a consortium creating them?”
Google – pachauri affair times telegraph
As soon as there is an understanding of Pachauri’s involvements, the realisation is that he is more devious than all of the others put together, and is a story within itself.
CCE, GIM & Goldman Sachs now partner/set-up a new exchange called ENVEX. ENVEX is based in Sydney, with partners Chicago Climate Exchange, Macquarie Capital Group, and the Financial and Energy Exchange.
ENVEX is made up with people from Origin Energy, Macquarie’s Climate Change Investment Team, Australian Securities Exchange, amongst others.
And the non executive chairman of ENVEX is … Bob Carr, the Ex New South Wales Labor Premier. Carr is also a consultant for the Macquarie Bank.
Now, while all of this interest in Australia is happening, there is another group setting themselves up in Perth. They are called CO2 Australia, but they’re selling ‘trees’ in the carbon sequestration scheme.
The CO2 Australia CEO was the lead adviser to the New South Wales Government in relation to implementing the New South Wales Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scheme. The Executive Director is from the Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research - a partnership between the CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology, and is also the CEO of the Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Accounting, and is a member of the Victorian Climate Change Minister’s Reference Council on Climate Change Adaptation.
CO2 Australia is already ‘trading carbon’, reliant on their following statement:
“The Federal Government intends to introduce its Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) in 2011. The CPRS will be the key domestic policy response to climate change.”
Kevin Rudd has now put the greatest moral issue of our time on the back-burner. Not only will the 300+ staff in the Department of Climate Change be looking for other jobs, so will Kev. And it won’t be any ‘dream’ job in the U.N., as he envisioned. Rudd was trying to play with the big boys all of the way thru this ‘Climate Farce’, while all of the time he was really just a little kid playing with himself in the sandpit. There is much more at stake here than one Prime Minister. These Carbon Trading guys wouldn’t let Rudd work in the U.N. as a janitor after this back-flip.
So, now you know why the black guy in the story, the one we called Barrack, (did I mention he made it to be President of the United States of America?) is now pushing so hard for a Cap and Trade scheme that will screw the average person. The Government is not running the scam, Barrack’s old mates are.
Barrack now claims that he never had any involvement with John or Bill back in his charity days while at the ‘Foundation’ or the ‘Fund’. He claims he only knows of them because they live in the same general area.
And what are all of these ‘old mates’ of Barrack’s expected to get out of this scam if the Cap and Trade scheme goes thru? US$15 trillion. That’s US$15,000,000,000,000. Of which Al stands to get at least US$75,000,000 from just one of his investment involvements.
With all of that talent saving the world from an impending climate disaster, you would think that just one of those people involved would really be doing this for the ‘saving of the environment’. But there is not one with any environmental credentials. Why would there be? They’ve got thousands of ‘external’ devotees promoting the cause. Every time that some miss-aligned greenie says the words ‘Sea-Levels Rising’, or ‘Ice Caps melting’, or ‘Extinction’, the Carbon Traders hear the sounds of cash registers ….KaChing! Then say to them selves, “We couldn’t have bought that sort of advertising!”
In reality, ‘saving the environment’ has nothing to do with ‘saving the globe from a forthcoming climatic catastrophe’. It’s simply all about money! The real ‘catastrophe’ will be if it fails. The last Financial Crisis stemmed from the housing scams. If the Carbon Trading fails it will be Industry affected.
That’s why Climate Change/Anthropogenic Global Warming is unstoppable. It is here to stay until the next Global Financial Crisis because many of the people who caused the GFC are now running this racket.
To completely understand this sham, spend some time looking more deeply into it.
At least read the FOX News ‘Obama’s Involvement’. Or GOOGLE for further reference.
Do not forget that everything you have already read is about private companies. Not Governments or Green Groups or Feel Good Organisations.
Words like ‘conflict of interest’, ‘insider trading’, ‘un-ethical business practices’ come to mind.
Never forget that the main beneficiaries will be big corporations and proponents of the redistribution of wealth. You are the loser here because you pay more for energy.
But, most importantly, YOU will feel good because YOU saved the planet.
Categories: AGW Whackos, Politics
The science is not settled, there has been no resolve and my God has offered enlightenment.
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Anthropogenic Global Warming, CO2, Climate Change Catastrophe, Sea-Levels Rising, etc., ought to just be put to bed and forgotten.
Why would any ‘one hundred per cent’ solid science, require promotion, encouragement, support, lobby groups, advertising, marketing, promotion and endless shouting, crying and hollering if it was 'solid’?
Surely solid science would present a conclusion of 'this is it and here are the facts’. And that would have been the only prerequisite, apart from a weekly TV show with some ‘nutty professor’ demonstrating the irrefutable evidence.
But Global Warming science produced its own rod for its own back, by qualifying the un-proven evidence with ... it's 'settled'.
Being 'settled' did nothing more than generate the question 'What is and how is it 'settled'?
That straightforward, unpretentious question created angst and generated white coat racism from those endorsing the 'settled' dogma of man-made global warming.
Simply asking "What is and how is it 'settled'?" established a line in the sand and threw the War Mist’s into disarray. Their retorts ranged from "even asking that question proves the deniers know nothing" thru to "skeptics sell garbage in an effort to destroy the truth". Those rebuttals did not stop people asking the same question "What is and how is it 'settled'?", so the mental genius of the War Ming scientist's stepped up to another level.
They then qualified the proven 'settled' results by offering the 'questioners' further valuable information like, "those questioning the science are like people selling drugs and are criminals that should all got to jail" thru to "those that question Global Warming will be responsible for the deaths of their children's children and their children."
Our very own “Clown Prince” – Clown Prince Ruddy of Orstraylya dictated Global Warming to be the “greatest moral challenge of our generation”, yet he only recently put this ‘vote winning’ moral challenge on the coal fired back burner.
These were all powerful, scientific, factual responses that lead to the Global Warming Science declaration of war, aiming to fight the mentally unstable, felonious, invading ‘deniers’.
But wait a minute … they, the Global War Mist’s started it! With propaganda, scaring the meek, frightening children, looting public funds, creating wealth out of nothing, etc.
However as the Global Warming Wheel of Fortune kept rolling along, the spokes began to break.
Everyone knows what those broken spokes were, so there is no need to repeat the catastrophic cooling of the warming facts once more.
But these failed spokes have produced an often un-noticed about turn in much of the 'settled' science.
Many of the ‘War Ming” scientists have now crawled back under the ‘lack of credibility rock’, leaving the 'campaign' to the remaining scientists who seem to have been touched by the hand of the God of Global Warming. Their current eagerness must be due to the God of Global Warming, or could it be the pending research grants? Well, it’s one or the other.
Now I'm not talking about the God of Global Warming, Al Gore ... I'm talking about a 'real' God ... one that has never been seen or can't be proven, but must be there because so many people believe the 'word' of this God. He/She simply must exist as all good God’s do.
He/She has evidently enlightened the remaining believers, as they are now qualifying the science with more 'facts', in an effort to once more ‘prove the science’ that has already been settled.
But rather than being 'one hundred percent settled', most facts are now 'proven' with a 90% probability. That figure of 90% is pretty close to 100% for most believers; so the results once again, are 'frighteningly accurate'. If it’s 90% proven, it must be 'game back on'.
I fall into the 'evil-doer' category of people who have the courage to ask questions, so I was tempted to ask 'What is and how is it 90%?"
But after some self consultation, and remembering what I had learnt while studying at the University of Life, I chose not to. We all know what happened the last time someone asked that question.
So as an alternative, I turned to my God. My God is better than their God because my God can speak. And He/She asked me this question.
"My Son, 90% sounds high, it sounds high enough to be credible and acceptable, but My Son, would you fly in aero planes if they would crash once in every ten flights?"
You see, there is a God. The God of common sense, logical and lateral thinking.
And He/She will be known, by the powers invested in me, from this day forward, as Gocslalt.
Also see:
John Clarke and Bryan Dawe on what Kevin Rudd has called the greatest moral challenge of our time.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2010/04/29/2886369.htm
Categories: AGW Realists, Politics
The Labor Budget! Maybe I just don’t understand.
Saturday, June 12, 2010
In the 2010 budget, Swannie stated;
“From July 1 2012, those earning under $50,000 a year will have the choice of a standard deduction tax return of $500, increasing to $1000 the following year. This means less time with the Tax Pack, more time with loved ones, and for 6.4 million Australians it also means a bigger tax refund.”
Shortly after, in a news report, Swannie repeated the above.
Again, he repeated the same claim, in the next morning’s today show.
Is this a “standard deduction” or is it a “return” or is it a “bigger tax refund”? It can’t be all three … or can it? Only Swannie knows.
The big double question is, ‘Are there 6.4 million workers in Australia earning $50,000 a year or less, or are there 6.4 million loved ones who’s sole bread winner earns $50,000 a year or less?
This is an important question, because if Swannie’s talking 6.4 million ‘tax paying’ workers, the $500 won’t be any help, as the average Australian wage at the 3rd quarter, 2009 was $62,431.
http://www.livingin-australia.com/salaries-australia/
Therefore, 6.4 million people are earning 20%+ less than the average wage.
The CPI (Consumer Price Index) is currently 2.9% year to date.
http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/6401.0
The CPI component on an income of $30000 is $870. $40000 is $1160, and $50000 is $1450.
Even with the $500 “standard deduction” or “return” or “refund” for the first year, they’re all worse off.
Is this Swanspin????
At 12th May, 2010, the Australian population was estimated to be 22,342,530.
In March 2010 there were 10,991,900 people in the labour force.
http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/mf/6202.0?opendocument#from-banner=LN
There are more people NOT in the labour force than are in it. 11,350,630 people according to Government figures. For every Australian working, there are 1.03 Australians who aren’t.
The unemployment rate is currently calculated at 5.3%. (611,000)
http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/mf/6202.0?opendocument#from-banner=LN
This is where it gets tricky. What is that 5.3% unemployed a part of?
Is it a % of the currently employed? Not sure. That would be 582,570.
It is the % of the total population? Not sure. But if it is, 5.3% is NOT 611,000, it is 1,184,173.
Is it a part of the total possible labour force of 16,817,607 according to a labour participation rate of 65.1%? Not sure. But that would be 891,333.
http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/mf/6202.0?opendocument#from-banner=LN
The 611,000 un-employed is calculated how? Don’t know.
But wait, if the participation rate of 65.1% is the current part of the workforce employed, what is the other 34.9% (5,869,344) of the total possible workforce doing. Quite obviously, they’re not working. It’s called UNEMPLOYED.
Let’s look at this again, but another way.
You coach an AFL football team. 100% of your 22 players are fit. Suddenly the swine flu goes thru the team. Next week, only 65.1% (14) of the team can participate. Then the club finance officer says to you, “Everything’s O.K. coach. I’ve crunched some numbers and of the 34.9% (8) of the team who are too sick to play, in reality, on seasonally adjusted figures, only 5.3% (1) of the team will not be playing. No one will know, as the other 7 aren’t on the books and they don’t need their match payment fees because they’re deriving an income from ‘other means’. Just tell the remaining 14 players to play harder. How about I offer the remaining 14 players an incentive, like a bit of ‘cash’ on your behalf?”
Anyway, back to the people.
Total Australian population is 22,342,530.
At June 30 2009, aged 0 – 14 was 19%, or 4,245,080 are too young to work.
Aged 65 + was 13.7%, or 3,060,926 are retired or too old to work.
Aged 15 - 64 was 67.3% or 15,036,522.
http://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/3201.0
But the total possible work force, for unemployment calculation, sets the figure at around 16,817,607. The employment/unemployment figures contain around 1.8 million people more than there are available people.
These ‘missing people’ can’t be under 14 and employed, that’s a crime. The only other option is that 2 out of every 3 people over 65 are hard at work until the day they die. However, there are 383,400 of them over 85 and another 3,700 over 100 years of age. That leaves 2,673,826 people between 65 and 85. Well, they must be the ones taking up the slack, assuming they are all healthy enough to work.
http://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/3201.0
Not taken into account are illegal’s, scammers, drug dealers, gangsters, and professional dole bludgers. Maybe they are part of the ‘mystical’ 34.9% un-accountable.
(Unfortunately there are no government references available for these categories)
Nor included are the less fortunate than I, who due to their own health issues can never work.
The other sector who should not be included, but are, is politicians and bureaucrats, as it is the real workers who provide their incomes.
Oh, and the answer to part two of the initial question; ‘Is it the case that 6.4 million loved ones are relying on one $50,000 or less bread winner?’
No. Swannie’s definitely talking about ‘6.4 million employed workers earning $50,000 or less’.
So, all in all, the numbers just don’t add up.
Update:
The following day, in question time, the Hon Nick Sherry confirmed that the 6.4 million are in fact employed TAX PAYERS, not associates or loved ones.
Again, the numbers just don’t add up!!
Spin me right round baby, like a record, round, round, you spin me right round baby!
Just a bit more.
At June 2009, the amount of Government employees was;
Commonwealth 242,900
State 1,386,300
Local 178,000
Total 1,807,200
With the average wage of $59828.00
In June 2008, there were 1,751,400 Government employees.
Of the total employed workers, 16.4% work for the government.
That leaves 9,184,700 workers (41%) keeping the other 13,157,830 people (59%) alive.
Here’s the BIG problem.
The Labour force data base up to April 2010, shows the Civilian Population as 17,685,400, not the May, 2010 estimate of 22,342,530.
http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/DetailsPage/6202.0Apr%202010?OpenDocument
However, according to Film Australia’s Immigration Timeline, Australia’s Population reached 20 million in 1999 and 21 million in 2004.
http://www.filmaust.com.au/immigration/documents/faimmig_timeline.pdf
To have almost 5 million people missing from the Labour force database makes a HUGE difference to how good or bad employment/unemployment really is.
Categories: Politics
To Homogenise AGW Data or not ...
Saturday, June 12, 2010
To Homogenise or not to Homogenise? … that is NOT the question.
To Amplify with Homogenisation or not to Amplify? … that IS the question.
Before going any further, it is important to understand what “Homogenisation” is, and to realize that it has nothing to do with weather, temperature or climate. The use of ‘Homogenisation’ to explain temperature records adjustments is pure ‘living in AGW Land’ spin.
Definitions:
- Homogenization is intensive blending of mutually related substances or groups of mutually related substances to form a constant of different insoluble phases (sometimes with addition of surfactants) to obtain a suspension or emulsion.
- blending, mixing, disrupting, emulsifying, dispersing, stirring etc.
- to process (milk) so that the fat particles are so finely divided and emulsified that the cream does not separate on standing
- to make more uniform throughout in texture, mixture, quality, etc. by breaking down and blending the particles
No mention anywhere of climate data records, or any data for that matter. ‘Living in AGW Land’ Spin Doctors have used the wrong word. They should be using the word ‘Assimilate’, not Homogenise.
So, now on to climate homogenisation.
As previously noted, GISS (NASA) have multiple sets of ‘climate’ records. Long term records are the minority, so when one is found, it is worth evaluating.
Godthab Nuuk is one (two) such record(s), from 1881 thru to 2009 with only two years missing … 1899 and 2008.
The two sets of different data are explained by NASA. One is before homogenisation and one after homogenisation.
But first, a bit about Godthab Nuuk.
The city was renamed Nuuk in 1979.
Nuuk is the capital of Greenland, situated about 240 km from the Arctic Circle.
15,105 people, (18,300 with surrounding villages) over a third of Greenland’s population live in Nuuk, one of the least populated capital cities in the world.
There are 72 buses and 2570 cars in Greenland and the majority operate in Nuuk.
Nuuk’s temperature extremes range from an average high of 9.9C in July, to an average low of -10.7C in February/March. The average annual high temperature is 1.74C, with an annual average low temperature of -3.78C
The GISS records for Nuuk have been homogenised to allow for urbanisation, the heat island effect, measuring equipment being placed at the back of air-conditioners, etc., and any ‘errors’ there may have been in previous record keeping (apparently).
The temperature records have been ‘homogenised’ by adding decreasing values of between 0 to -1.2C from the most modern records to the oldest records. Why the choice of this range of values is unknown.
The two different records can be seen in the following chart.
Blue plot before homogenisation, purple plot after homogenisation.
So, where’s the problem? The problem is that older records have been reduced to adjust for any possible inaccuracies in newer records. This amplifies these possible modern inaccuracies, therefore producing a more pronounced warming trend.
Any adjustments should have been made by either increasing past records, to bring them into alignment with modern records, or remove the false values from the modern records.
Why would anyone lower the temperature records from 1881 because unbanisation has forced an increase in real temperature in 2010? Shouldn’t that be the other way around?
When the GISS homogenisation values are reversed and applied, the results show very little warming. This can be seen in the following chart.
Blue plot before homogenisation, purple plot after homogenisation, red plot is reversed homogenisation values added to the original, before homogenisation, data.
The use of homogenisation for a location such as Nuuk is questionable. With a small population, little industry, few motor vehicles, and one hydroelectric power plant, there is no reason to adjust the data, so as to compensate for ‘bad stuff’.
Does homogenisation make that much difference? Yes.
The future predictions from the preceding chart are:
- Increase of 0.09C per century – Reversed Homogenised data.
- Increase of 0.75C per century - Original data.
- Increase of 1.4C per century - Homogenised data.
Homogenising virtually doubles the future warming predicted trend.
The homogenisation values don’t seem to follow any guidelines. They don’t follow the past records. They are not linear. They are not exponential. They appear in ‘blocks’, sequentially reducing by -0.1C per block. This does not seem to be a scientific adjustment. Less scientific is the ‘pattern’ appearing from 1975 onwards … 3 years, 4 years, 4 years, … with each ‘block’ reducing exactly -0.1C. This scientific methodology is not something that would happen in nature.
The following table shows this clearly.
Nuuk Homogenisation Adjustment record
Yellow plot = homogenisation values.
So, if the modern readings are being inflated by urbanisation, or the heat island effect, or whatever, shouldn’t the homogenisation values be added the other way around? That is, force the older records to have the modern record’s stability.
Ooops, I almost forgot the rule.
AGW Rule #1. Must prove warming at an alarming rate.
One last question.
Did politicians teach “spin” to ‘living in AGW land’ scientists, or was it the other way around?
Data Link before homogenisation:
Data Link after homogenisation:
More about Godthab Nuuk:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuuk
http://www.nat.is/greenlandeng/nuukeng.htm
Categories: AGW Realists, AGW Whackos, Politics
Mining Australia is a bad thing
Friday, June 11, 2010
Rudd's super taxes dividing this nation. Why?
You've been forced into compulsory superannuation. You're a small investor in the very company's that are raping Australian profits.
So you whinge about bank fees .. you're enraged at bank charges. Why? You're an investor.
You whining about using Australian resources once, and the money going offshore. Why? You're an investor.
You're angry about paying for petrol prices that are set at a world parity price between US$70 - $140 per barrel, yet cost BHP $11.00 per barrel to pump. Why? Mellow out ... you've got BHP shares.
What you should be angry about is that we haven't taken national control over all of Australia's resource wealth.
Instead of wasting the last bit of wealth we had on 'green' stupidity, the funds would have better spent on National Mining and national Banking.
Unlike 'green' fairytale wastage, MINING AND BANKING ARE REALLY PROFITABLE.
Australia could then share it's wealth with other countries with mutually beneficial, longterm government-to-government contracts.
Direct national interests and control of those interests will benefit ALL Australians.
This Rudd pretense that BIG TAXES are for everyone's benefit is simply bullshit!
People like Garnaut and Henry should be strung up.
Categories: Politics
Solar Panels in Australia are not the answer
Friday, June 11, 2010
With all of the Government who-haa about saving the planet with solar panels, people believe that there is great value in using Solar Panels.
This may be true in some countries, but Australia has a warm to hot climate. People believe that the more sun the better for solar power. Wrong!
Solar panels become less efficient the warmer it gets above ambient air temperatures.
Solar Power experimenation shows that power generation on a 36 degree C day is 7-10% LESS than on a 20 degree C day. More ...
It has also been shown that once the solar panel is above 42C there is a 1.1% drop in output for every 1 degree C increase.
These temperatures are not ambient Air Temperatures, they are the temperature that the solar panel endures while up on the roof.
Between 42 degrees C and 75 degrees C there is a 40% drop in efficiency. More ...
A perfect example of 'Green' madness overwhelming reality is the Denver Museaum of Science and Nature, where a US$720,000.00 solar panel erray was installed to show how solar energy can save, thus helping the US economy.
It turms out the the solar panels will only generate about 2% -12% of the museums needs.
And who paid for this debacle ... the local energy company customers ... not the museum.
The payout on this perticular solar system was 110 years. That's 110 years to recover the costs.
The lifespan of the system is 20 - 25 years.
These are rediculous schemes, yet Government's are proud of them.
The Rudd Government has allocated $500 Million dollars to the Solar Schools initiative to reduce grenhouse gases. Part of this cost includes rain water tanks. How a rainwater tank reduces grenhouse gases I don't know, but it must cause some when it is made.
Now the price of 'carbon' worldwide varies between US$25 to about US$50 per tonne, depending on the type of 'reduction' system.
Yet the Rudd Solar Schools iniative eveluates 2.8 tones of carbon per year at $2320.00 per annum. More ...
Another 'proud' Rudd Government scheme.
Categories: Politics
Solar Electricity Back To The Grid - GST or no GST?
Friday, June 11, 2010
When an Energy Company sends their bill, it includes GST.
Does the power exported back to the grid calculate GST included?
It should and here's why.
Energy Bill - $500.00 + GST = $550.00 from the customer.
Customer exports $200.00 back to the grid. No GST.
GST collected in the transaction is $50.00
But if the exported power was GST applicable ($20.00), the GST on the Energy bill should be $30.00 ... not $50.00.
The final question is does the Government collect $50.00 GST when it should be $30.00 GST, or does the Energy Company pay $30.00 GST to the ATO and keep $20.00 for themselves?
Here is how it works according to Origin:
Any electricity that your system generates above what you use is fed back into the grid
When you require more electricity than you are producing, your system imports it from the grid automatically
Your electricity bill is calculated as the difference between the amount of electricity you export from your solar system and the amount you import from the grid - you only pay for the electricity you use that is over and above what your solar energy system produces.
No mention of how the GST is calculated.
Solar Winds Australia clearly state that when you connect your 'green power' back to the grid that you
Sell Excess Power
Luckily, Wind Energy and Solar Power Australia make it clear.
Individuals will not need to pay/remit GST from their feed in tariff income. The reason being that selling electricity back to the utility providers is considered an enterprise but you need to receive $75k per annum from this source to be required to register for GST. However, businesses will need to pay/remit GST for their feed in tariff income.
It looks like another example of the individual being convinced to go 'green' while paying a tax that a businesses or those 'wealthy' who live under a business name can claim back.
Categories: Politics
Kevin Rat - The Mekong News
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Rudd's Population Panic Back Flip
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
Another little noticed Rudd back flip.
Rudd recently appointed Tony Burke as Australia's first Population Minister, due to "legitimate concerns" over population growth.
Yet last October, Rudd told the 7.30 Report he made "no apology" for believing in a big Australia ... I actually think it's good news that our population is growing.
Just the usual Rudd method of decision: The 180 degree back flip.
Categories: Politics
Quotes about Rudd from Real People
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
"So Rudd's dog, Abby, can sense when Rudd's due home. She can obviously smell a rat a mile away"
"John Howard: Man of Steel, Tony Abbott: Iron Man, Kevin Rudd: Marshmellow man"
"[Krudd] No substance, no reality, just a delusion of power and a silly man waving at world leaders"
"Labor inherited one of the worlds strongest economies; it has now reduced it to rack and ruin"
"The refugee crisis boils down to two simple facts: Howard started with a problem and fixed it; Rudd started without a problem and created one"
"Until now the Whitlam government has been the gold standard for incompetence in Australia. We finally have a prime minister that has managed to out-Gough Gough"
"I don't care what you f__kers think!" - The Hon Kevin Rudd MP, Prime Minister of Australia
Categories: Politics
Abdullah in a nursing home
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
An Middle Eastern family were considering putting their grandfather Abdullah into a nursing home.
But as all the Arabic facilities were completely full they had to put him in an Australian home.
After a few weeks in the Australian facility, they came to visit grandpa Abdullah ...
"How do you like it here?" asks the grandson.
"It's Great! Everyone here is so courteous and respectful" says grandpa.
"We're so happy for you. We were worried that this was the wrong place for you. You know, since you are a little different from everyone else."
"Oh no! Let me tell you about how respectful they treat the residents" says Abdullah with a big smile.
"There's a musician in here, he's 85 years old. He hasn't played the violin in 20 years and everyone still calls him 'The Maestro'".
"There is a judge in here, he's 95 years old. He hasn't been on the bench in 30 years and everyone still calls him 'Your Honour'".
"There's a dentist here, he's 90 years old who hasn't fixed a tooth for 25 years and everyone still calls him 'The Doctor'".
"As for me, I haven't had sex for 35 years and they still call me 'The Fucking Arab'! How great is that?"
Categories: Humour (18+), Politics
A Sri Lankan refugee arrives in Melbourne
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
A Sri Lankan refugee arrives in Melbourne as a new immigrant to Australia.
He stops the first person he sees walking down the street and says, "Thank you Mr. Australian for letting me into this country, giving me housing, free medical care, and a free education!"
The passerby says, "You are mistaken, I am a New Zealander".
The man goes on and encounters another passerby. "Thank you for having such a beautiful country here in Australia."
The person says, "I not Australian, I Vietnamese."
The new arrival walks farther, and the next person he sees he stops, shakes his hand, and says, "Thank you for wonderful Australia!"
That person puts up his hand and says, "I am from Middle East. I am not Australian."
He finally sees a nice lady and asks, "Are you an Australian?"
She says, "No, I am from Africa."
Puzzled, he asks her, "Where are all the Australians?"
The African lady checks her watch and says, "Probably at work."
Categories: Humour (18+), Politics
Parvinder and Habib are London beggars.
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
Parvinder and Habib are London beggars. They beg in different areas of the West End.
Habib begs just as long as Parvinder but only collects 2 to 3 pounds every day.
Parvinder brings home a suitcase FULL of £10 notes, drives a Mercedes, lives in a mortgage-free house and has a lot of money to spend.
Habib says to Parvinder 'I work just as long and hard as you do but how do you bring home a suitcase full of £10 notes every day?'.
Parvinder says, 'Look at your sign, what does it say'?
Habib's sign reads 'I have no work, a wife and 6 kids to support'
Parvinder says 'No wonder you only get £2-3'
Habib says 'So what does your sign say?'
Parvinder shows Habib his sign.
It reads, 'I only need another £10 to move back to Pakistan'.
Categories: Humour (18+), Politics
Did anyone think the Super Profits Tax thru?
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
According to Rudd's RSPT, the Government (us tax payers) would contribute 40% to refund project losses as part of the resource super profits tax.
Any losses on a mining project would receive a 40% credit against future tax profits or a 40% refund if the project stopped.
So, what would happen if we had a 'BP-Gulf of Mexico' incident?
In line with RSPT guideleines, us tax payers would be coughing up $4 billion of the estimated $10 billion clean up costs.
This is just another not well thought out Labor idea.
Categories: Politics
Is it Barack, Barak, Baraq, Buraq, or ..
Tuesday, June 08, 2010
The Education Revolution
Labor promo mugs for the Pres. spelt his name wrong. It's 'Barack'.
Pic: Ray Strange
Hardly surprisong when they can't spell "Labour".
From Wikipedia:
Labor ... an obsolete unit of area.
Categories: Politics
So much anticipation
Tuesday, June 08, 2010
Never seen so much anticipation!!!!!!!!!!
With breathless anticipation the crowd awaits the unveiling of the Kevin Rudd Statue.
Categories: Politics
October 2008 Rudd unveils 10.4b stimulus plan
Tuesday, June 08, 2010
Rudd unveils 10.4b stimulus plan. Stock market immediately jumps 6%. Biggest increase in two decades. Australian shares surged more 6% in morning trading, the biggest gain in more than two decades, buoyed by record advances on many overseas markets. Wall Street's main indexes added about 12%.
Today's jump - largely maintained after the announcement of the stimulus package - on Australian markets follows a 5.6% rally yesterday that reversed much Friday's 8.2% plunge.
"There are going to be huge bumps in the road yet,'' Mr Rudd said. ''It's not going to be even sailing
Categories: Politics
Despite our belief in Rudd, his trail of lies has gone on too long
Monday, June 07, 2010
I can't recall when I first knew I could never trust Kevin Rudd to tell the truth.
Was it when he claimed he and his widowed mum were thrown out of their home by a heartless landlord?
Was it when he said he had a memory blank about his night at Scores?
Perhaps it was when he said during the ABC's cricket coverage he remembered as a 17-year-old standing at the Gabba to watch Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson tear into the English.
He remembered the crowd chanting "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if Thommo don't get you, then Lillee must", but even more clearly he remembered 42-year-old Colin Cowdrey bravely walking on to the field and shaking the hand of Thomson.
But "Ashes to ashes" was never a chant, and Cowdrey didn't play in Brisbane , joining the tour in Perth .
Maybe I'm wrong to seize on such small stuff, or mean to object that he said "sorry" to a "stolen generations" no one can find. Another lie.
But it's clear the public is also belatedly catching on. In fact, Rudd's credibility is now shot to pieces.
He was fatally damaged already, having falsely claimed global warming was "the great moral and economic challenge of our time", only to drop his emissions trading scheme when it got too hard.
But last week finished him off, and even left him exposed to what in normal times is a crime in politics - misleading Parliament. Rudd was accused, credibly, by former NSW premier Morris Iemma and treasurer Michael Costa of having lied when he told Iemma before the last federal election to postpone his plans to sell the state's electricity assets until Rudd won office, when they'd then join to "f---" the unions. After the election, Rudd welched on that deal.
But more terrible for his reputation have been the deceits to justify his effective embezzlement of $38 million of taxpayers' money to pay for political advertising for his troubled "super profits" tax on miners.
In how many ways has Rudd again shown his word to be worthless?
He promised before the election to ban such advertising, which he called "a cancer" and gave an "absolute 100 per cent guarantee" the auditor-general would have to approve such spending.
But the auditor-general has been sacked from that job, and Rudd has dipped into your pockets for the very same kind of "cancer".
To excuse himself, Rudd had Special Minister of State Joe Ludwig last week offer two reasons for an exemption for "extremely urgent action". And both reasons were frauds.
First, claimed Ludwig, there was "co-ordinated misinformation about the changes (which) is currently being promulgated in paid advertising", which means the ads by miners.
But Rudd has since been forced to admit he'd approved the cash for these ads as long ago as April 20, weeks before the mining industry ran any of its own.
Ludwig's second excuse was even dodgier: that the ads were needed since this new tax "involves changes to the value of some capital assets, they impact on financial markets".
Uh, oh. Ludwig had contradicted what Rudd told Parliament the day before, when he denied his tax plan had hurt the markets: "Share prices around the world have fallen because of the crisis in Greece ."
Costa now asks: "Is the Prime Minister believable? Is he credible? ... This bloke has lost the public."
He lost me long ago. Now I cannot think of a bigger liar to hold his high office.
Ref: Andrew Bolt - Melbourne Herald Sun
Categories: Politics
Who is this
Monday, June 07, 2010
'Who is this' was also a provider under the Government’s Job Network since its inception in 1998 and expanded with the acquisition of Your Employment Solutions in 2006. Assistance to all unemployed people in Australia is fully outsourced to the private sector and 'Who is this' was one of the largest private providers in the Job Network. 'Who is this' operated from 44 sites across Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania and provided support and assistance to around 55,000 Australians each year.
Working closely with local businesses, community groups and Centrelink (Australia’s Government Benefits Agency), 'Who is this' assisted a range of people such as long-term unemployed, people at risk of becoming long-term unemployed, single parents, people with health conditions and Australia’s indigenous community.
'Who is this' have developed best practice in the delivery of employment services and it was this strong foundation that supported our more recent growth in Europe. 'Who is this' now shares international best practice and knowledge across all the countries in which we operate.
Unemployed groups 'Who is this' currently serve include the long-term unemployed, single parents, unemployed young people, recent graduates and people on long-term health-related benefits.
'Who is this' integrated approach looks to how we can help people with any selection of the following:
•Job search skills
•Access to job search resources
•Skills development
•Condition management – advice and support for managing health-related conditions in work
•Dealing with homelessness
•Motivation and confidence building
•Childcare issues
•In-work financial planning
•Employer liaison and in-work support
'Who is this' UK is one of the country’s largest employment service providers and has been delivering high quality services for the UK Government, in partnership with Jobcentre Plus.
'Who is this' launched an experiment in February 2005 through a contract with the French unemployment insurance body, UNEDIC, and the French public employment service, ANPE. 'Who is this' now provide services from more that 20 sites throughout France.
'Who is this' formed a partnership with Nuremberg’s equivalent of Jobcentre Plus, the ARGE, to support people who had been unemployed for at least one year. 'Who is this' have since expanded to deliver services to short- and long-term unemployed people in Munich and Berlin and single parents in Nuremberg.
'Who is this' commenced delivering a programme in partnership with the Swedish public employment service, Arbetsförmedlingen to assist up to 1,500 newly arrived immigrants in the areas in Stockholm, Huddinge, Södertälje and Solna.
'Who is this' Managing Director, Thérèse Rein. (Mrs Rudd) [97% ownership]
1st May 2010
The Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, today announced the eminent Australians who will conduct the Government’s historic review into funding of every Australian School and released the panels terms of reference.
Ms Gillard said the panel will be lead by chairman David Gonski AC, an eminent businessman and philanthropist.
David Gonski AC
•Chairman of Sydney Grammar School Foundation Limited and Chairman of Sydney Grammar School Trust
•Chancellor, University of NSW
•Chairman of the Australian Securities Exchange
•Chairman of Investec Bank Australia Limited
•Chairman, Coca-Cola Amatil
•Chairman of Sydney Theatre Company
•Previously President of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, a Director of the ANZ Bank and John Fairfax Holdings and Chairman of the Australia Council for the Arts.
More ...
The Minister's Media Centre forgot to mention that David Gonski is ALSO the chairman of 'Who is this'.
'Who is this' has operations in Britain, France, the Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, Israel and South Korea. The group appointed the corporate blueblood David Gonski as chairman last October.
More ...
So, 'Who is this?' This is INGEUS
Ingeus expects a return to profitability this year and expects ''to grow and diversify its revenue base in international markets''. Revenues in the six months were $74 million.
The accounts also show that Rein got some extra pocket money in time for last Christmas, with Ingeus paying out a $1 million dividend (of which $973,830 went to the Rein-Rudds).
Categories: Politics
Tough Times Ahead
Sunday, June 06, 2010
TOUGH TIMES AHEAD
This morning, from a cave somewhere in Pakistan, Taliban Minister of Emigration, Mohammed Omar warned Australia that if military action against Iraq & Afghanistan continues, Taliban authorities will cut off Australia's supply of Convenience Store managers, and if this action does not yield sufficient results, Taxi Drivers will be next, followed by Telstra Customer Service Reps, Dole Office Workers and Telemarketers and finally............Queensland Doctors.
THIS IS GETTING UGLY, FOLKS!!!!!!
Categories: Humour (18+), Politics
Who said this and when was it said?
Sunday, June 06, 2010
Strengthen the role of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to monitor supermarket prices to make sure that families are getting a fair deal.
Direct the ACCC to conduct a National Grocery Pricing Inquiry to report to the Government within six months, taking submissions from individuals, consumer groups, our retailers, businesses along the supply chain, and other interested parties.
Who said this and when was it said?
Kevin Rudd - Media Statement - 11th July 2007
Rudd Labor To Tackle
Cost Of Living - More Powers To ACCC To Monitor Prices In The Supermarket
Categories: Politics
Who said this and when was it said?
Sunday, June 06, 2010
A personal income tax scale of 15 per cent, 30 per cent and 40 per cent.
Maximise individual incentive, enhance workforce participation, improve our international tax competitiveness and invest in Australia’s future.
Who said this and when was it said?
Kevin Rudd and Wayne Swan - Media Statement - 18th October 2007
A
Tax Plan For Australia's Future
Categories: Politics
Who said this and when was it said?
Sunday, June 06, 2010
Invest in an additional 260 child care centres on school sites and community land to end the double drop off.
Who said this and when was it said?
Kevin Rudd and Jenny Maclkin - Media Statement - 23rd October 2007
Federal
Labor's Plan For High Quality Child Care - Giving Parents Peace Of Mind
Categories: Politics
Who said this and when was it said?
Sunday, June 06, 2010
Federal Labor’s economic platform has been given a stamp of approval from the Commonwealth’s top economic advisers and the world’s oldest credit rating agency.
The stamp of approval from Treasury and Finance, and the world’s oldest credit rating agency makes a mockery of the Howard’s Government’s fear campaign on Labor’s economic credentials and fitness to govern.
Who said this and when was it said?
Wayne Swan - Media Statement - 23rd November 2007
Federal Labor
Gets Economic Stamp Of Approval
Categories: Politics
Who said this and when was it said?
Sunday, June 06, 2010
Every Australian student in years 9-12 to have access to their own school computer.
99 per cent of school children will also get access to broadband connections of speeds up to 100 megabits per second at school through fibre to the premises (FTTP) broadband infrastructure.
The other one per cent of students will get improved access at school, via the best available fixed line, wireless and satellite technologies.
Who said this and when was it said?
Kevin Rudd - Media Statement - 14th November 2007
Federal Labor's
Education Revolution - A School Computer For Every Student In Years 9-12
Categories: Politics
Who said this and when was it said?
Sunday, June 06, 2010
Expanding the cost effectiveness of clean energy will be critical to meet
Federal Labor’s science based target to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 60
per cent by 2050
Expanding the cost effectiveness of clean energy will be critical to meet a science based target to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 60 per cent by 2050.
Who said this and when was it said?
Kevin Rudd - Media Statement - 14th November 2007
Federal Labor's
Clean Energy Plan To Help Tackle Climate Change
Categories: Politics
Who said this and when was it said?
Sunday, June 06, 2010
Despite the desperate claims by some a 20 per cent renewable energy target poses no threat to our coal industry.
The renewable energy target will deliver approximately half the new capacity needed to meet our growing energy demands out to 2020. Which means all existing capacity, including coal fired power stations, will be needed to meet future energy demands.
There will also be a need for new fossil fuel fired power stations.
Who said this and when was it said?
Chris Evans - Media Statement - 31st October 2007
Labor Committed
To Coal - Howard Committed To Nuclear
Categories: Politics
Who said this and when was it said?
Sunday, June 06, 2010
Will implement a $200 million Great Barrier Reef Rescue Plan to help secure the Reef from climate change and declining water quality.
Who said this and when was it said?
Kevin Rudd, Peter Garrett and Kerry O'Brien - Media Statement - 29th
October 2007
Federal Labor's $200 Million Great Barrier Reef Rescue
Plan
Categories: Politics
Who said this and when was it said?
Sunday, June 06, 2010
Provide a rebate of up to $500 to help landlords install energy-efficient insulation in 300,000 Australian rental homes in a practical measure to help fight climate change.
Reducing carbon emissions and electricity bills for 300,000 rental properties under this national initiative is an important plank in Labor’s comprehensive plan to combat climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
One of the most cost-effective ways to cut greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change is to better insulate our homes. This saves money on our energy bills and makes homes more comfortable for families to live in.
Low Emission Plan for Renters is another practical policy that is part of our comprehensive plan to tackle dangerous climate change.
This practical policy to help renters lower their electricity bills and their emissions together with Green Loans which provide up to $10,000 to install insulation and other practical measures for individual homeowners.
Who said this and when was it said?
Kevin Rudd - Media Statement - 26th October 2007
Federal Labor's
Low Emission Plan: Fighting Climate Change In Rental Properties
Categories: Politics
Who said this and when was it said?
Sunday, June 06, 2010
A commitment to take financial control of Australia’s 750 public hospitals if State and Territory Governments have not begun implementing an agreed National Health Reform Plan by mid-2009.
Australians are sick and tired of politicians passing the buck when it comes to health care and hospitals.
Who said this and when was it said?
Kevin Rudd and Nicola Roxon - Media Statement - 23rd August 2007
Taking
Responsibility - Federal Labor's $2 Billion National Health And
Hospitals Reform Plan
Categories: Politics
Who said this and when was it said?
Sunday, June 06, 2010
The Charter of Budget Honesty Act 1998 was supposed to ensure full transparency regarding election commitments and the nation’s finances.
Who said this and when was it said?
Wayne Swan and Lindsay Tanner - Media Statement - 18th October 2007
Labor
Position On The Charter Of Budget Honesty
Categories: Politics
Who said this and when was it said?
Sunday, June 06, 2010
Government would use the $2 billion Communications Fund to build an $8billion national broadband network that will deliver improved broadband access for 100 per cent of Australian homes and small businesses.
We are proud of the fact that we are investing in national infrastructure that will benefit all Australians regardless of where they live.
Who said this and when was it said?
Stephen Conroy - Media Statement - 18th October 2007
NFF Backs
Second-Class Network For Rural Australia
Categories: Politics
Who said this and when was it said?
Sunday, June 06, 2010
Government will fund up to one million additional dental consultations for Australians needing dental treatment by establishing a Commonwealth Dental Health Program.
Who said this and when was it said?
Kevin Rudd and Nicola Roxon - Media Statement - 18th September 2007
Federal
Labor Clear Dental Backlog By Establishing A Commonwealth Dental Health
Program
Categories: Politics
Who said this and when was it said?
Sunday, June 06, 2010
I want to talk about how we go about fixing the Australian health care system.
Who said this and when was it said?
Kevin Rudd - Speech To Australian Business Economists 4th October 2007
New
Leadership For The Australian Federation: Fixing Federalism And Fixing
The Australian Health Care System
Categories: Politics
Who said this and when was it said?
Sunday, June 06, 2010
Government is spending at least $1 million a day of taxpayers’ money in a desperate attempt to breathe life into his stale government.
Thinks taxpayers' money is his own campaign fund.
Who said this and when was it said?
Penny Wong - Media Statement - 3rd October 2007
How Many More Ads
Before Election Is Called?
Categories: Politics
Who said this and when was it said?
Sunday, June 06, 2010
A Rudd Labor Government will fund up to one million additional dental consultations for Australians needing dental treatment by establishing a Commonwealth Dental Health Program.
Federal Labor Leader Kevin Rudd today pledged to invest up to $290 million to a Commonwealth Dental Health Program – one of the first programs scrapped by the Howard Government in 1996. This is the first instalment of Labor’s Commonwealth Dental Health Program.
Who said this and when was it said?
Kevin Rudd and Nicola Roxon - Media Statement - 18th September 2007
Federal
Labor Clear Dental Backlog By Establishing A Commonwealth Dental Health
Program
Categories: Politics
Who said this and when was it said?
Sunday, June 06, 2010
•Building up to 260 new child care centres, particularly in areas of real need and on primary school grounds where possible
Who said this and when was it said?
Kevin Rudd and Stephen Smith - Media Statement - 13th September 2007
Rudd
Labor Government To Lift School Retention Rates
Categories: Politics
Who said this and when was it said?
Sunday, June 06, 2010
Measures to increase government accountability and substantial savings due to the waste and mismanagement. The savings amounting to $209 million comprise:
•Slash MPs printing allowance, recently increased by the Government, saving $23.4 million;
•Cut ministerial staff by 30 per cent, returning to the level of staffers in 1996, saving $101.5 million;
•Significantly scale back the number of parliamentary liaison officers employed by government agencies to do the work of MP’s offices, saving $52.5 million;
•Abolish the Government Communications Unit, saving $19.6 million; and
•Cut back on media monitoring, saving $12 million.
To strengthen Australia’s fiscal position and put downward pressure on interest rates.
Previously announced $3 billion savings initiatives include serious cuts to government advertising, use of consultants, market research and polling, efficiencies in public service travel and abolishing tax deductibility for political donations.
Add to that savings tally by targeting dubious spending designed to serve the Government’s political interests. Taxpayers money will be invested in initiatives for Australia’s future, like universities, TAFE, broadband and climate change.
Who said this and when was it said?
Lindsay Tanner and Penny Wong - Media Statement - 8th August 2007
Cleaning
Up Government
Categories: Politics
Who said this and when was it said?
Sunday, June 06, 2010
The Great Barrier Reef is our greatest natural asset but the failure of the Government to introduce a comprehensive climate change plan is compounding its risk of extinction.
A Labor Government will commit to a 60 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Who said this and when was it said?
Peter Garrett - Media Statement - 8th August 2007
New Research
Points To Collapse Of Great Barrier Reef - Labor Calls For Comprehensive
Action
Categories: Politics
Who said this and when was it said?
Sunday, June 06, 2010
The Government’s decision to takeover a hospital seemed like a political stunt from a Prime Minister lacking long term national solutions on health.
The failure of the Federal Government to address this nation’s health problems has put enormous pressure on our hospitals.
Why won’t the Government now act on dental care too? They can no longer keep pretending it isn’t their issue.
And what is their answer to the national problem they have caused for thousands of aged care patients stuck in hospitals due to a lack of Commonwealth aged care beds?
The Government should stop playing the blame game and take responsibility for fixing health care.
Who said this and when was it said?
Nicola Roxon - Media Statement - 2nd August 2007
PM Lacking
National Solutions On Health
Categories: Politics
Wong again
Friday, June 04, 2010
It must be time that our politicians require some level of academic standard boys and girls, what do you think?
Penny Wong on ABC's World Today.
Penny said "We've got around 85 per cent of the world's economies signed up to the Copenhagen Accord."
O.K. class, let's look at how Penny got that figure.
Number of countries in UN: 192
Number of countries providing emission targets under Copenhagen Accord: 70 (Annex I (40) non-Annex I (30))
But that isn't 85%. It should be 36.46%. And most of those targets are either highly conditional or promise no real cuts at all to total emissions. (Study how the Annex system works. Another shonky UN way of hiding the true facts and figures.)
Now boys and girls, Penny's either not being truthful or is simply a maths dunce.
Let's all do the home calculator maths for her boy and girls, just like we all learnt back in first year maths when you went to 'Big School' with your very own calculator..
First you enter the countries who have signed. = 70
Then you divide by the total in the UN = 192
The number to the right of the decimal place (00.3645833) is the percentage who have signed. = 36.45833%
NOT 85% boys and girls.
And as we also learnt, Penny can now check her own figures with her home calculator.
Multiply the UN countries = 192
By the percentage who have signed = 36.45833%
The answer is the amount of countries who have signed. = 69.99999 (Close enough to 70)
Penny may have chosen selective wording (economies instead of countries, but that would be misleading) or she must have used a 'model' for her estimates. They're ALWAYS wrong.
So once again class, the Science is settled
Categories: Politics
How many millions of taxpayers’ dollars were wasted on this exercise?
Friday, June 04, 2010
'Stolen Generations Victoria' is/was a company.
09 March 2010
FORM 529A Regulation 5.6.14A
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT & FIRST MEETING OF CREDITORS OF COMPANY UNDER ADMINISTRATION STOLEN GENERATIONS VICTORIA LTD (ADMINISTRATORS APPOINTED) ACN: 114 217 248
On 4 March 2010 the company under Section 436A [“in the opinion of the directors voting for the resolution, the company is insolvent, or is likely to become insolvent at some future time.”] appointed Mr Brent Leigh Morgan and Mr Gary Stephen Fettes of Rodgers Reidy, Level 3, 326 William Street, Melbourne Vic 3000 as Joint and Several Administrators of the company.
This was a Labor Government set up with $1 million injected.
This company was set-up despite having found out from its own 'Stolen Generations Taskforce' that not a single truly “stolen” child could be found in Victoria.
Victoria never had laws to permit the stealing of Aboriginal children, yet 36 organisations were set-up to help the “victims”.
Now the money’s gone.
The 'stolen' children are still either missing or can't be found.
The taxpayers and creditors have done there $'s.
Categories: Politics
Queensland. Beautiful one day,gone the next.
Thursday, June 03, 2010
Categories: Humour (18+), Politics
Rudd at a primary school
Thursday, June 03, 2010
Kevin Rudd was visiting a primary school in Tasmania.
One class was in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meanings.
The teacher asked Mr. Rudd if he would like to lead the discussion on the word ‘tragedy’.
So the illustrious leader asked the class for an example of a ‘tragedy’.
A little boy stood up and offered: ‘If my best friend, who lives on a farm, is playing in the field and a tractor runs over him and kills him, that would be a ‘tragedy’.
‘No,’ said Rudd ‘that would be an accident.’
A little girl raised her hand: ‘If a school bus carrying fifty children drove over a cliff, killing everyone inside, that would be a tragedy’.
‘I’m afraid not,’ explained Mr. Rudd ‘that’s what we would call great loss’.
The room went silent. No other children volunteered. Rudd searched the room. ‘Isn’t there someone here who can give me an example of a tragedy?’
Finally, at the back of the room, little Johnny raised his hand.
In a quiet voice he said: ‘If a plane carrying you and Mrs. Rudd was struck by a ‘friendly fire’ missile & blown to smithereens, that would be a tragedy.’
‘Fantastic!’ exclaimed Rudd . ‘That’s right. And can you tell me why that would be tragedy?’
‘Well,’ says little Johnny ‘it has to be a tragedy, because it certainly wouldn’t be a great loss and it probably wouldn’t be a f*cking accident either!’
Categories: Humour (18+), Politics
Lessons in English
Thursday, June 03, 2010
Did You Know?
That the words race car spelled backward says race car.
That eat is the only word that if you take the 1st letter and move it to the last, it spells it's past tense; ate.
And have you noticed that if you rearrange the letters in "illegal immigrants," and add just a few more letters, it spells out:
"Fuck off and go home you free-loading, benefit grabbing, kid producing, non-English speaking cocksuckers and take those hairy faced, sandal wearing, bomb making, goat fucking, smelly rag headed bastards with you."
How weird is that?
Categories: Humour (18+), Politics
Lemon Picker
Thursday, June 03, 2010
A woman applying for a job at a Queensland lemon grove seemed to be far too qualified for the job.
The foreman frowned and said, "I have to ask you this; have you had any actual experience in picking lemons?"
She replied: "I've been divorced three times and I voted for Rudd.
Categories: Humour (18+), Politics
Rudd to fix the health system
Thursday, June 03, 2010
KRudd announces cost savings in health system.
But first, he's going to make sure every hospital has adequate insulation.
Categories: Humour (18+), Politics
Rudd and the cattle dog
Thursday, June 03, 2010
Kevin Rudd called Julia Gillard into his office one day and said, “Julia I have a great idea! We are going to go all out to win the country voters.”
“Good idea Prime Minister, how will we go about it?” said Julia.
“Well,” said Rudd, “we’ll get ourselves one of those Driza Bone coats, some RM Williams boots, a stick and an Akubra hat, oh and a Blue Cattle dog.
Then we’ll really look the part. We’ll go to a typical old outback country pub, we’ll show we really enjoy the bush.”
" Right ,”said Julia.
Days later, all kitted out and with the requisite Blue heeler, they set off from Canberra in a westerly direction. Eventually they arrived at just the place they were looking for and found a typical outback pub. Walked in with the dog and up to the bar.”G,day mate,” said Rudd, to the bartender, “two middies of your best beer.” “Good afternoon Prime Minister,” said the bartender, “two middies of our best coming up”.
Gillard and Rudd stood leaning on the bar, drinking their beer and chatting, nodding now and again to those who came into the bar for a drink. The dog lay quietly at their feet.
All of a sudden, the door from the adjacent bar opened and in came a grizzled old stockman, complete with stockwhip. He walked up to the Cattle dog, lifted its tail with the whip and looked underneath, shrugged his shoulders and walked back to the other bar. A few moments later, in came another old stockman with his whip. He walked up to the dog and, lifted it’s tail, looked underneath, scratched his head and went back to the other bar. Over the course of the next hour or so another four or five stockmen came in and, lifted the dogs tail and went away looking puzzled.
Eventually, Rudd and Gillard could stand it no longer and called the Barman over.”
Tell me,” said Rudd, “why did all those old stockmen come in and look under the dog’s tail like that? Is it an old outback custom?”
“Strewth no!” said the barman. “It’s just that someone went ‘n told ‘em there was a cattle dog in this bar with two arseholes!”
Categories: Humour (18+), Politics
Julia Gillard's chauffeur
Thursday, June 03, 2010
Julia Gillard was touring the countryside in a chauffeur-driven car.
Suddenly, a cow jumps out onto the road, they hit it full on and the car comes to a stop.
Julia in her usual charming manner, says to the chauffeur: 'You get out and check - you were driving. '
The chauffeur gets out, checks and reports that the animal is dead.
'You were driving; go and tell the farmer, ' says Julia.
Five hours later, the chauffeur returns totally plastered, hair ruffled with a big grin on his face.
'My god, what happened to you? 'asks Julia.
The chauffeur replies: ' When I got there, the farmer opened his best bottle of malt whisky, the wife gave me a slap-up meal and the daughter made love to me. '
'What on earth did you say to them? 'asks Julia.
'I knocked on the door, and when it was answered, I said to them:
'I'm Julia Gillard's chauffeur and I've just killed the cow.'
Categories: Humour (18+), Politics
Internet Warning
Thursday, June 03, 2010
Internet Warning:
If you get an e-mail titled -
‘Nude photo of Julia Gillard’
don't open it ...
it contains a nude photo of Julia Gillard.
Categories: Humour (18+), Politics
Internet Filtering
Thursday, June 03, 2010
There is no need for internet filtering. This would stop the wierdos quick smart.
Categories: Humour (18+), Politics
Unemployment and Immigrants
Thursday, June 03, 2010
According to the Australian Immigration Dept., at August 2009, here are the unemployment rates for immigrants, relative to English language.
Unemployment rates and English skills (LSIA2)
The table below summarises data from the LSIA2, matching the employment status of migrants with their own assessment of their English language skills (on arrival) at six and 18 months after arrival in Australia.
LSIA2 English Proficiency and Unemployment
English Speaking Ability immediately after arrival | Unemployment rate six months after arrival | Unemployment rate 18 months after arrival
English 1st language 14% 4%
Very well 16% 7%
Well 18% 11%
Not well 33% 26%
Not at all 16% 25%
But, you need to add that up. After 6 months that's 97% UNEMPLOYED. After 18 months that's 73% STILL UNEMPLOYED.
Around 330000 people emigrated to Australia during the period, of which around 253000 were of employable age. So after 18 months, around 185000 can be expected to be on all the available free benefits. If they play their cards right, they could be on $500 - $1000 per week. That's around another $140 million per year.
Part of coming here is taking up the offer to learn English. We've set-up the Adult Migrant English Programme. The expenditure for AMEP was more than $157 million in 2007-08. 10% who couldn't speak English lost their jobs during the period, so that's over 80,000 (25%) who don't know the language and don't want to learn the language, and are unemployed.
There are 250 locations around Australia, where 'sub-contracted' English teachers operate the AMEP to teach English to immigrants FREE. That's over $600,000 per AMEP location, yet after 18 months there are still 25% of immigrants (over 80000) unemployed and have no English language.
If, for some strange reason, the immigrant DID get a job and their temporary Visa expires, or they choose to cancel their Visa or they are deported, they can then claim the DASP (Departing Australia Superannuation Payment). That's right, commit a crime, decide you don't like it here anymore, become an illegal ... leave or get deported. But first, let us sort out your super to take with you.
Immigrants may be required to take a medical examination. But they are warned;
Note: The provision of false information or client substitution during the examination may result in your application being refused.
MAY RESULT! Shouldn't that read WILL RESULT?
But if the immigrant thinks they will be 'crook' for the examination, they are asked to contact Medibank Health Solutions and ask the department about the option of having your Medibank Health Solutions medical examination conducted at your own home.
Federal and State Governments have set up, and fund, 'Migrant Resource Centres' throughout Australia. These services are too vast to list here, but us non-immigrants can't get those services ...FOR FREE.
Here are just some of the services offered;
Enjoy an environment that reflects your own culture
Maintain their home language
Speak your own language and practice learning English
groups that promote cultural maintenance
How do I know if I'm getting the right amount of social security/Centrelink payments?
I have a house but no money for furniture – how can I get some furniture?
How do I sponsor a relative to come to Australia?
How to sponsor a spouse, children, parents, fiancé and other family members
“No Interest Loans Scheme”
Use of buses when available for low cost or free.
Assistance with filling in grant applications
To provide poverty support to migrant and humanitarian entrant families suffering financial crisis, destitution, misfortune, helplessness and sickness
To provide and support culturally appropriate counselling, health, trauma and settlement services to migrant and humanitarian entrants
To promote a greater appreciation of the cultural background of migrant and humanitarian entrants among the local community and the development of culturally appropriate policies and practices in organisations
Airbrush tattooing machine
Community Aged Care Packages aim to provide an alternative to hostel care, enabling clients with complex care needs to remain in their own home as long as possible. Clients are assisted by a bilingual support worker with various activities in their daily living.
Extended Aged Care at Home packages aim to provide clients with a high level of home assistance. Clients accessing this service would require assistance at nursing home level but would like to remain in their own home as long as possible.
The Respite Service supports carers from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds by providing in home respite to elderly and people with physical and intellectual disabilities whom they look after.
The last 3 have floored me. Why are non-immigrant elderly people paying thousands of dollars every month for those services?
And every Australian should at least have an 'Airbrush tatooing machine'.
And they want to bring more in ..... it's a joke.
Categories: Politics
Jackeroo & Kev's Yuppie
Thursday, June 03, 2010
A Queensland jackeroo is overseeing his herd in remote territory when suddenly a brand-new BMW advances out of a dust cloud towards him.
The driver, a young man in a designer suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie, leans out the window and asks the cowboy, 'If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?'
The jackaroo looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, 'Sure, why not?'
The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite navigation system to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo. The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany.
Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored.
He then accesses a MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel Spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response. Finally, he prints out a full-colour, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer and finally turns to the cowboy and says, 'You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves.'
'That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves,' says the jackaroo.
He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on amused as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
Then the jackaroo says to the young man, 'Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?'
The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, 'Okay, why not?'
'You work for the Australian Government, Kevin's Office', says the Jackaroo.
'Wow! That's correct,' says the yuppie, 'but how did you guess that I am from the Rudd Government?'
'No guessing required.' answered the jackaroo. 'You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked.
You used all kinds of expensive equipment that clearly somebody else paid for, you tried to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don't know a thing about cows; this is a herd of sheep.
Now give me back my dog.'
Categories: Humour (18+), Politics
Little India (formally Australia) Headlines - Year 2029
Thursday, June 03, 2010
Ozone created by electric cars now killing millions in the seventh largest country in the world, Little India, formerly known as Australia.
White minorities still trying to have English recognized as Australia's third language
Kookaburra plague threatens North Western Australia crops and livestock.
Baby conceived naturally! Scientists stumped.
Iran still closed off; physicists estimate it will take at least 10 more years before radioactivity decreases to safe levels.
France pleads for global help after being taken over by Jamaica ... No other country comes forward to help the beleaguered nation!
Castro finally dies at age 112; Cuban cigars can now be imported legally, but Little India President Chelsea Clinton has banned all smoking.
George Z. Bush says he will run for President in 2036.
Australia Post raises price of stamps to $17.89 and reduces mail delivery to Wednesdays only.
After a 10-year, $75.8 billion study: Diet and exercise is the key to weight loss.
Average weight of an Australian drops to 115 Kgs.
Global cooling blamed for citrus crop failure for third consecutive year in Vicindia and New South India.
Japanese scientists have created a camera with such a fast shutter speed they can now photograph a woman with her mouth shut.
Senate still blocking drilling in Canberra even though petrol is selling for 4532 Rupees per liter and petrol stations are only open on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Tasmania executes last remaining Greenie.
Supreme Court rules punishment of criminals violates their civil rights.
Average height of professional basketball players is now nine feet, seven inches.
New federal law requires that all nail clippers, screwdrivers, fly swatters, and rolled-up newspapers must be registered by January 2030 as lethal weapons.
Australian Tax Office sets lowest tax rate at 75 percent.
Southern Asia (formerly Northern Territory) voters still having trouble with voting machines.
God, I Love This Country
THESE ARE NOT THONGS
THESE ARE THONGS
Categories: Humour (18+), Politics
Dear Grim Reaper
Thursday, June 03, 2010
Dear Grim Reaper,
Recently you have taken away my favourite dancer Michael Jackson, my favourite actor Patrick Swayze, my favourite singer Stephen Gately and my favourite actress Farah Fawcett.
Just so you know, my favourite politician is Kevin Rudd.
Regards
Malcolm Turnbull
Categories: Politics
Dogs Know!
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
Have you ever heard that a dog 'knows' when an earthquake is about to hit?
Have you ever heard that a dog can 'sense' when a tornado is stirring up, even 20 miles away?
Do you remember hearing that before the December tsunami struck Southeast Asia, dogs started
running frantically away from the seashore, at breakneck speed?
Do you know that dogs can detect cancer and other serious illnesses and danger of fire?
Somehow they always know when they can 'go for a ride' before you even ask and how do those
dogs and cats get home from hundreds of miles away?
I'm a firm believer that animals - and especially dogs - have keen insights into the Truth.
And you can't tell me that dogs can't sense a potentially terrible disaster well in advance.
Simply said, a dog just KNOWS when something isn't right..... when impending doom is upon us.
They'll always try to warn us!!!
Categories: Politics
Damned Greenies
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
The NSW Government and the NSW Greens were presenting an alternative to NSW Farmers for controlling the dingo population.
It seems that after years of the farmers using the tried-and-true methods of shooting and/or trapping the predators, the tree-huggers had a 'more-humane' solution.
What they proposed was for the animals to be captured alive, the males would then be castrated and let loose again. Therefore, the population would be controlled.
This was ACTUALLY proposed to the NSW Farmers and Graziers Association by the NSW Government and the NSW Greens.
All of the farmers thought about this amazing idea for a couple of minutes.
Finally, one of the old boys in the back of the conference room stood up, tipped his hat back and said,
"Son, I don't think you understand our problem. Those dingos ain't fuckin' our sheep, they're eatin' 'em !!"
Categories: Humour (18+), Politics
Good Ol' Al
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
Oh, I just couldn't let this one pass by. Talk about laugh ...... if it was funny.
In a letter, an elderly couple, Mr. and Mrs. Delgadillo explained to Al Gore how much they rely on the government-owned Amtrak trains to visit their children and grandchildren in Chicago and on each coast.
President Clinton relied on train travel to reach the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The train has been our main-stay, yet the administration is killing our Texas Eagle. This makes us sick. The Texas Eagle is the Amtrak train that for years has run between Chicago, St. Louis, Little Rock, Dallas, Fort Worth and San Antonio. But facing a $243 million loss, Amtrak President Thomas Downs has recently named four Amtrak routes to be removed, including the Texas Eagle service between St. Louis and San Antonio. What can you do to save our Eagle?
Gore responded with: "Dear Mr. and Mrs. Delgadillo, Thank you for your letter regarding the protection of the Texas eagle. I appreciate hearing from you. "I share your view that the urgent problem of species extinction and the conservation of biological diversity should be addressed. The first step in saving any plant or animal from extinction is to become aware of and respect the fragile ecosystems that make up our environment ... "Again, thank you for sharing your thoughts with me. I look forward to working with you for the future of our planet."
It's strange he should talk about the ecosystem and extinction since the Texas Eagle is a TRAIN! There is not a bird called the Texas Eagle.
Categories: AGW Whackos, Humour (18+), Politics
AGWists love Photoshop
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
A 'bleeding hearts club' of AGW Scientists have written to Science Magazine, bleating out a petition about how we must take action to save ourselves from the forthcoming Global Warming catastrophe.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/328/5979/689
The 'warning' is lead by Peter Glieck (a renowned 'political climate' scientist), asking that we all immediately stop the McCarthy style threats and harassment of his colleagues and immediately cease the false accusations of 'credibility' about Climate Scientists, and the science itself.
And to make his point valid, the following picture is included.
THIS IS A PHOTOSHOP FAKE!!!!
Just like the cover of Al Gore's new book ... Our Choice, A Plan To Solve The Climate Crisis
IT'S A PHOTOSHOP FAKE.
THAT IS A
CYCLONE OFF THE COAST OF FLORIDA, NOT A HURRICANE. IT'S SPINNING THE
WRONG WAY.
"Hurricanes at a 30 year low ... photoshop in a Cyclone."
Cyclones = southern hemisphere = clockwise
Hurricanes = northern hemisphere = anti-clockwise
Everybody knows that.
Just about says it all really.
Categories: AGW Realists, AGW Whackos, Politics
A mammoth capital strike looms
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
Robert Gottliebsen.
At this stage it's just private words to selected journalists and few decisions have been made, but Australia is on the brink of the greatest capital strike in its history and one of the largest ever seen in the world.
In the vicinity $100 billion of resource projects that were almost certain to go ahead are now headed for mothballing until the resources tax is either abandoned or severely modified. If the private words to me and other journalists are converted to action and a new mining project capital strike is launched, then almost certainly Kevin Rudd will not win the next election. The economies of Queensland , WA and South Australia would be decimated.
I have never seen an industry so angry. As we saw in the medical area, Rudd just put the proposal on the table and tried to bully his way through. But miners are much tougher than state premiers and the international majors have a raft of projects in other countries that will now take precedence over Australia . They can wait until sanity returns down under. The sufferers will be the myriad of contractors that have based their business on what appeared to be major mining investment programs.
Yesterday I had the chance to talk with a number of people who will play a key role in whether there is a capital strike or the miners roll-over. The people I spoke to have no doubt that there will be a strike.
Stephen Bartholomeusz pointed out yesterday the $60 billion worth of coal gas and LNG projects at Curtis Island and surrounds are now in grave danger of being mothballed.
Rio Tinto has $5 billion globally to spend on new projects and $12 billion on global project candidates – WA iron ore was close to the top of the list. It is now at the bottom and will be scrapped.
BHP is in no hurry to develop Olympic Dam further and the project that SA Premier Mike Rann staked so much on, is a prime candidate for mothballing, which would devastate South Australia . There are a raft of other smaller projects likely to be suspended. Like the Western Australians and Queenslanders, the South Australians only have Kevin Rudd to blame.
Just as the Rudd government had no idea about the chaos they were creating with the badly structured emissions trading scheme, the inexperienced Rudd team had not the slightest idea of what they are doing to resource projects when they drafted the new tax.
Less than a decade ago resource projects were struggling. They will struggle again some time in the future. The Rudd plan assumes a ridiculous 6 per cent return and then lumps a 40 per cent extra tax on earnings above that, which takes the tax rate to the vicinity of 58 per cent and in some cases it can be higher. If a miner is well into the construction of a new project they will have to keep going, but if they have not started, the rewards now do not match the risk. Even if a resource company was prepared to take a punt it is unlikely that a banker would back it.
Moreover, all the major resource groups have projects from all around the world competing for their capital spending dollar. By starting a new project in Australia big miners are declaring that a 58 per cent tax rate is acceptable. If any global company, including Australian-based global companies are prepared to be taxed at that rate in Australia , then they would face the danger of similar rates elsewhere.
Nevertheless it is always possible that Kevin Rudd may get one major resource company to break the strike, but for the most part it will remain for as long as it takes.
Already Canada is pleading for global resource companies to divert money from Australia to develop their projects. Africa will point out that they are more politically reliable than Australia and that past decisions in Australia have been made on a totally wrong tax premise.
But it gets worse for Australia . The flower of confidence has been trampled on by our Prime Minister and no one will want to go ahead with a major project unless there is an act of parliament setting the tax rate forever.
Kevin Rudd is now caught in a massive pincer. At the top, there is about to be a capital strike . At the bottom, assistant treasurer Nick Sherry wants to eliminate independent contracting as we now know it (One man can make Abbott PM, March 3).
And in the middle, we have a series of blunders led by insulation and education building and a botched emissions trading scheme. Oppositions don’t win elections, governments lose them.
Categories: Politics
A fine example of ‘spinning’ a non answer to a simple question was recorded in Parliament Question Time
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
The Prime Minister, Mr. Rudd, was asked a 20 word question about economic management, economic growth and prosperity for all Australians.
“Will the Prime Minister explain the importance of responsible economic management to secure economic growth and prosperity for all Australians?”
This question should have received a succinct, concise answer from a Prime Minister.
But instead of the response expected from that position, the PM replied with 804 words, of which none directly answered the question.
After 746 words based around the Spain Credit Rating, the past 60 years of the US economy and IMF forecasting, the PM included in his statement, the following;
“Today the Leader of the Opposition was asked a very simple question. Journalist: ‘If I point to that product over there, can you explain to me how that tax would interact with it and how?’ Abbott’s answer: ‘Well, the tax falls on everything which is extracted.’ That is not right, Leader of the Opposition.”
This allegation being used as political prowess by the PM, is quite disturbing, considering his answer to the question was not forthcoming, instead using past economic percentages and figures from other countries to explain secure economic growth and prosperity for all Australians.
Following the above statement, the opposition responded with,
“Why Not?”
The PM went on with another 166 word reply to the 2 word question, again not providing an answer.
But, what he did say in those 166 words should frighten EVERY Australian business.
The PM said, (continuing from his previous statement)
“Journalist: ‘But can you explain the detail of how like if I point to that product over there, can you explain to me how that tax would interact with it?’ Abbott replied: ‘Well, well, the tax falls on everything which is extracted from the ground.’ That is the point, Leader of the Opposition. This is not an extraction tax. It is not a production tax. It is a tax on profits.”
From that very statement, it can be concluded that if this tax gets thru, it will be extended to ALL profits, not only mining. The PM clearly stated it is NOT a mining tax.
It can also be concluded that the ‘spin’ about the minerals being dug out of the ground belong to all Australians and that all Australians should share in the wealth created, is simply smoke and mirrors.
If that was the true story, it would have been simpler to increase ‘mining taxes’ and lower ‘personal income tax’.
Simple maths will show that a small reduction in small business tax and a small increase in superannuation makes no difference long term. CPI is currently 3%.
For most small businesses in Australia, 3% of anything will be gone in the first year. Most small businesses are also family operated, with family type staff. These ‘family’ people buy milk, bread, eggs, etc., … the CPI comparators.
These ‘spin merchants’ earning 3-4 times the average wage, with free phones, free cars, free meals, tax payers perks and massive retirement packages, regardless of their political effectiveness are the ones who should be subject to a MASSIVE REFORM.
[Hansard Extract Follows]
Parliament of Australia - Question Time - House Hansard - 01st June 2010
[20 word question]
Mr SYMON (Deakin) (2:38 PM) —My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister explain the importance of responsible economic management to secure economic growth and prosperity for all Australians?
[804 word answer]
Mr RUDD (Griffith) (Prime Minister) —I draw the attention of the House to the decision by Fitch Ratings agency on Friday which downgraded Spain’s credit grading to AA plus, triggering renewed global concerns about sovereign debt. This is a matter of concern to financial markets and governments around the world. There were also sharp falls on global stock markets over the course of the last month. The US market was down by nearly 10 per cent and the Dow Jones Industrial had its worst performance for the month of May in 60 years.
This underlines the fragility of the global economic recovery. The IMF is forecasting that in fact we will have a fragile and protracted recovery for the global economy and, therefore, the world is by no means out of the woods yet. The IMF expects the global economy will grow by 3.9 per cent in 2010. On current IMF projections, real potential output for the global economy is not expected to return to precrisis levels until 2014. This puts in absolute stark contrast the importance of responsible economic management. This puts into absolute relief the responsible economic management policies of the Australian government.
During the global financial crisis, 31 of the 33 IMF advanced economies went into recession; Australia did not. Eight of Australia’s top 10 trading partners went into recession; Australia did not. Australia is the only one of the major advanced economies not to go into recession. Australia, as a result, has had the fastest growth, the lowest debt, the lowest deficit and the second lowest unemployment of all the major advanced economies. Without stimulus the Australian economy would have shrunk 0.7 per cent in 2009 and we would have had 200,000 more Australians out of work. Had we followed the Leader of the Opposition’s prescription for responsible economic management and gone down the New Zealand road, we would have had hundreds of thousands of Australians out of work on top of those who had lost their jobs already.
When the national accounts are revealed tomorrow, Wednesday, our fiscal position will be underlined again as being the envy of the developed world, given the fact that so much of the rest of the world has barely begun the trajectory to economic recovery. The success of our strategy is reflected in the point made just before by the Treasurer—that is, through prudent financial management the government will return the budget to surplus in three years time, three years ahead of time, and will also halve net peak debt. This is a critical achievement given the concerns about sovereign debt levels around the world and across OECD economies.
This is not the time to follow the prescription of those opposite to pull the rug from under economic recovery by the abolition of stimulus. That would be absolutely the wrong call now and it is the call made by the Leader of the Opposition, who says repeatedly he has no interest in economics and who the former Treasurer said he would never have as the Treasurer of the Commonwealth. But go to the specifics of the cuts proposed by those opposite and it becomes even more concerning. It would be the wrong time, for example, to be slashing training programs—cuts that will deny training to nearly 400,000 Australians. It is the wrong time to be denying tax cuts to 2.4 million Australian small businesses, the wrong time to be jacking up the company tax rate as opposed to bringing the company tax rate down and the wrong time to be cutting and slashing trade training centres across Australia. These centres are necessary in order to build up the skilled workforce of the future.
These are fundamental reforms for the future, all aimed at underpinning the skills needs of our economy for the future. The alternative approach by them is to abolish stimulus and to slash and burn—cuts in schools, cuts in training, cuts in computers, cuts in trade training centres, cuts in health, on top of the billion dollar gouge out of health he took last time. On the question of reform and keeping the economy strong, we have had a debate today and yesterday about tax reform. In fact, those opposite have abandoned the real debate. They have now gone onto a debate purely about advertising. Can I say one of the reasons they have abandoned the debate on tax reform is the Leader of the Opposition does not even understand what tax is being debated. Today the Leader of the Opposition was asked a very simple question. Journalist: ‘If I point to that product over there, can you explain to me how that tax would interact with it and how?’ Abbott’s answer: ‘Well, the tax falls on everything which is extracted.’ That is not right, Leader of the Opposition. But it goes on.
[2 word question]
Opposition members—Why not?
[166 word answer]
Mr RUDD —Why not? Come in spinner. Journalist: ‘But can you explain the detail of how like if I point to that product over there, can you explain to me how that tax would interact with it?’ Abbott replied: ‘Well, well, the tax falls on everything which is extracted from the ground.’ That is the point, Leader of the Opposition. This is not an extraction tax. It is not a production tax. It is a tax on profits. On the first principle of tax reform, he does not get it. He says it is a royalty tax based on extraction as opposed to a tax on profit. The Leader of the Opposition, we know from the former Treasurer, Peter Costello, does not actually think economics is interesting. We know from the former Treasurer that he would never have appointed him as Treasurer of Australia, but not to even understand that the RSPT is a tax on profits and not on volume and extraction and production fails Economics 101
Categories: Politics
100 Good Reasons
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
1. Summit with 1,000 Best & Brightest minds, works out to $2+million = 9 usable ideas.
2. Save the whales (using the navy to confront Japanese)
3. Fight Inflation Genie – Oops GFC.
4. Taxes up (Gas, Diesel, Transport, Alcopops, Cigs) – inflationary
5. Fuelwatch – cost $21 million – stunt.
6. Grocery Watch, err, Choice – June, 2009 abandoned its $13 million election promise to force grocery prices down.
7. Arresting Iranian leaders – Stunt
8. Bank Guarantee – still over 200,000 bank accounts frozen from September 2008 – blunder locking up $25 billion of savings for possibly 4 years.
9. Education Revolution – still revolving
10. National Broadband Network (from $4b, to $7b to $43 billion) – inexplicable
11. Cash Splash 1 – borrowed
12. Cash Splash 2 – also borrowed = $42 billion
13. Work Choices /Fair work – Will cost jobs. Awards Backflips – special dispensation for Tourism/Food industry. Horticultural Industry warning new awards will put farmers out of business, eg, casual pickers weekend rates. – No response from Gillard yet. Aug 19, 09.
14. Immigration/Refugees/Asylum Seekers = Open door – +/- 50 SIEV deaths so far. Oceanic Viking – now facilitating SIEV’s and legitimising blackmail/extortion from illegal immigrants
15. Defence – cut expenditure & increase weaponry?
16. Homeland Security Department – “a non-core promise” broken Nov 28, 2007
17. Global Cooling/Warming/Climate Change/Carbon Reduction – Scam
18. Budget Surpluses – Ancient history.
19. Economic conservatism – new words, still not in ALP dictionary.
20. The buck stops with me!
21. Electric cars /Hybrid Cars – $6.2 billion – Toyota for one bemused & grateful.
22. Job creation & security from IR reforms – for Trade Union leaders.
23. Securing water on the Murray/Darling – it’s secured alright – well out of sight.
24. IVF Program – cuts – the caring ALP.
25. Medicare/Private Health – rebate not to be touched – key election promise – outright lie
26. Dental Scheme – gone – the caring ALP
27. Cataract Surgery – costs doubled – the caring ALP
28. Superannuation – the government needs it more than you.
29. Home Savers Grant – a fizzer, not enough people saving
30. First home Owners grant – increased, not aimed to generate building, inflating house prices
31. One Stop Super Childcare Centres – maybe in 2095
32. GP Super Clinics – $275 million borrowed – 1 open Palmerston NT, ALP stronghold – struggling to provide even most basic service, . 3 approved SA – Noarlunga ALP stronghold, Playford North, ALP stronghold, Modbury , ALP stronghold.
33. No compulsory University Union Fees – an outright lie voted down
34. Coastguard – huh!
35. Maternity Leave – out in the never never
36. Worker Share Options, June 2009 – on, off, on, off, on like a light switch – blunder
37. Carbon emissions reduction – LPG conversion subsidies being phased out l – June 2009
38. Carbon Emissions reduction Part 2 – Household Solar Rebate axed 9/6
30. Schools Stimulus/? Infrastructure Program – absolute chaos. – Subject to AG inquiry.
40. Flood Relief NSW North Coast June 2009 – serves them right for living there. Qld got it so all OK
41. Ruddbank – fizzer.
42. ABCCC – back flip with twist
43. Federal takeover of hospitals by mid 2009 if no improvement. – To dream the impossible dream
44. Indigenous conditions – worse
45. Reduce consultancies by $112 million = increase to $800 million (6354 consultancies)
46. Govt will pay small business invoices on time = takes a lot longer
47. No nuclear Waste Dump NT – election promise – broken June 2008
48. $15 million to rural research & development corporations – election promise – broken May 2008.
49. A – E reporting on childcare standards & universal pre-school for 4 year olds – election promise – broken June 2009
50. Increased Skilled Immigration in economic downturn – leads to lack of work for young people. (GFC forces older workers to work longer plus additional jobs going to immigrants rather than our youth) – blunder, blunder, blunder.
51. ALP Uranium Policy/stance – in tatters. Garrett approves uranium mine.
52. Open and accountable government – no results yet 5 dead SIEV boat. NO Response to 53+ missing presumed dead on SIVE the Government knew about.
53. Diplomacy – Japan – biggest customer – snubbed first jaunt. India – Uranium contract cancelled at first opportunity. USA – conversations (real/imaginary) released to media. China, May 2009 – “difficult to deal with” Australia led Asia Pacific Body – thud.
54. NBN – July 2009, Senate Committee told by finance analysts believe plans for the national broadband network are in shambles. – blundering money wasting. Experts advise costs could be as high as $20,000 per connection making $43 billion a major understatement,
55. Selling scarce arable land to foreign mining interests.
56. Boost funding for aboriginal Legal Aid – lie – actuality = cuts to funding in first budget.
57. Scale back Intervention – ignored review recommendations.
58. Revitalise aboriginal languages – $9 million for 200 languages of which how many have been translated to written language?
59. Homes /renovationsfor indigenous – not one shovel lifted to date – scheme mishandled to the point that one State govt could fall. August 09– NT Govt just scrapes in. Controversy still rife. Still nothing done.
60. Digital TV –Conroy, 2008, slash $22m from costs of changeover, figures make no sense – original estimate $16m now to cost $66m (advertising costs ?)
61. NBN plan – lack of organisation leads to inability to generate meetings with business in Tas. Already appearing to fall over.
62. Cheaper Better Childcare – Govt regulations will see Childcare costs going up by about $1500pa on July 1, 2010
63. NBN – Experts are now saying it will cost in the region of $20,000 PER CONNECTION. $43 Billion could be quite an underestimate on those figures.
64. SORRY! Feb 8, 08. K Rudd
“We apologise especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, their communities and their country.”
Aug 22, 09 The Australian
“WELFARE workers have swooped on the opal mining town of Lightning Ridge
in northwest NSW, removing more than 40 Aboriginal children from
decrepit homes in shanty towns……..
Aboriginal women,
stunned by the removals, say it amounts to a “modern-day Stolen
Generation”, but the most recent statistics on child removals show
Aboriginal children are being taken from their parents in numbers much
greater than the Stolen Generations.”
65. During the 2007 federal election Labor promised it would ‘’encourage sourcing of forests from sustainable forest practices and seek to ban the sale of illegally logged timber imports’’. – broken promise Aug 2009.
66. Oops missed one from March 2008. “Labor promised bi-partisan support to pass legislation that would enable the removal of criminal convictions from fishermen caught fishing by accident in Great Barrier Reef ‘green zones’ prior to December 14, 2006.” “Minister Garrett’s statement, that the criminal convictions will stand, shows the true value of their phony pre-election promises of justice for these fishermen,” Senator Boswell said
67. January 2009. CONTROVERSIAL prison operator G4S will have its contract to run Australia’s immigration detention centres extended until at least July 31 despite Labor’s pre-election promise that the public sector would manage the centres.
68. Skills Program , Sept 2009, The Australian – “ Kevin Rudd’s $2bn skills plan in disarray”
69. More affordable Housing – October 2009 – prices forecast to go up 20%
70. Cheaper Books for Australians – backflip to protectionist policies
71. Stern Hu – still incarcerated and the Australian reports “‘Inflexible’ Canberra hindered the release of tortured Somalia hostage “ by at least 12 months
72. ETS, Versions 1&2;–FAIL senate.
73. 2007 Rudd promises a new era in cooperation between Federal Government & States. 2009 Rudd loses patience with NSW ALP.
74. Copenhagen conference – EPIC FAIL – CLASSIC COMEDY
75. Tough on border protection - more boats arive than ever before.
76. Kev's insulate your home on me package - FAIL
77. Federal control of the hospital system - they can't even put fluffy stuff in roofs.
78. Solar Panel initiative - wait until this hits the fan.
79. Force ISP's to use blacklists - communist style restrtiction FAIL.
80. Kev's Nation Building - FAIL! FAIL! FAIL!
81. Multi-billion dollar Education Revolution = 1 WEB site.
82. 750 NEW Aboriginal Houses - So far, $46 million dollars spent and NOT ONE house built.
83. $10 Million Spent Defending Terrorists - Over $10 million has been spent on legal fees defending the rights of 9 Sydney terrorists who were found guilty of terrorism offences - more than $1 million for each terrorist.
84. Labor Spends $2 Million to Cut Travel Costs - Two separate consultants were hired - one for $1.4 million and the other for almost half a million dollars to do scoping studies on how to meet Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner’s goal of saving $26 million on travel.
85. Million Dollar Rent to Impress High Flyers - The Federal Government has been caught out spending $950,000 a year of taxpayers money for office space in Sydney’s CBD just so it can impress potential investors.
86. $1.3 million to Stop Accidents that Never Happened - $1.3 million has been spent re-aligning roads around Parliament House in Canberra to prevent accidents that never happened, while at the same time security staff were being laid off to cut costs.
87. Copenhagen costs taxpayers $1.5 million - The Rudd Labor government has spent an estimated $1.5 million on travel and accomodation to send a massive delegation to the failed Copenhagen Climate Change conference, according to Nine News.
88. Whale of a time could cost $1 million - The Rudd Labor Government has spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayers dollars on a special envoy to help stop whaling - but has nothing to show for it.
89. Labor hit $1 billion jackpot on consultants - The Rudd Labor Government have hit the jackpot, awarding $1 billion in consultancy contracts since coming to power in November 2007.
90. Legal fees higher than first thought - Spending on lawyers in 2007/08 rose $100 million to $510m and again to $555m in 2008/09.
91. Labor Waste in the Billions - $130 for every Australian - on waste and mismanagement since being elected just 2 years ago.
92. Labor Wastes 900 Pages a month on Reports - The Rudd government is pumping out Reports at the rate of more than one a week or 900 pages a month and while in office has produced more than 140 reports spanning nearly 20,000 pages.
93. Billions wasted on schools - The Rudd Government failed to undertake any cost-benefit analysis before spending more than $18 billion on its ‘Building the Education Revolution’ program and on its bungled ‘Laptops in Schools’ program.
94. Rudd Throws $50 Million at PR Spin - The Rudd Government spent more than $49 million of taxpayer money on 418 media advisers, media monitoring and PR spin last year, despite Kevin Rudd’s pre-election promise to cut ministerial staff by 30 percent to bring levels in line with those of 1996.
95. One Student School gets $250,000 Library! - The school didn’t even apply for the funds under the governments $16.2 billion Building the Education Revolution program.
96. Education Revolution ‘Blowout’ hits $1.5 billion! - The Government would now have to take more than $1.5 billion from other programs to keep the school funding going.
97. $2400/hour for Labor’s Small Business Advice - Labor is planning to spend $10 million over the next two years - the equivalent of $2400/hr - for a small business support line which is of highly questionable value to small business.
98. $42 Billion Cash Splash Sends Taxpayer’s Money Overseas, to Criminals and Pets - The Government will not say just how much of its latest cash splash has gone offshore. To receive the cash bonus you must have filed a 2007/08 tax return.
99. $1.4 Million for iPod Docking Stations - The Rudd Labor Government is planning to spend $1.4 million helping a recreation hall in the ACT install iPod docking stations.
100. 15,934 Dead People to receive $14.3 Million - The Rudd Labor Government has or will make 15,934 tax bonus payments to, believe it or not, dead people!.
This doesn't include the shams of 2010.
Categories: Politics
Sorry Bill, I'd rather kiss my new boss
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Asylum
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
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Categories: Politics
How a Stimulus Package Works
Sunday, May 30, 2010
It is a slow day in the small town and streets are deserted.
Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody is living on credit.
A rich tourist visiting the area drives through town, stops at the motel, and lays a $100 bill on the desk saying he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs to pick one for the night.
As soon as he walks upstairs, the motel owner grabs the bill and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher.
The butcher takes the $100 and runs down the street to retire his debt to the pig farmer.
The pig farmer takes the $100 and heads off to pay his bill to his supplier, the Farmer's Co-op.
The guy at the Farmer's Co-op takes the $100 and runs to pay his debt to the local prostitute, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer her "services" on credit.
The hooker rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill with the hotel owner.
The hotel proprietor then places the $100 back on the counter so the rich traveler will not suspect anything.
At that moment the traveler comes down the stairs, states that the rooms are not satisfactory, picks up the $100 bill and leaves town.
No one produced anything. No one earned anything... However, the whole town is now out of debt and now looks to the future with a lot more optimism.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how a Stimulus package works.
Categories: Politics
Cross the Border
Sunday, May 30, 2010
LET ME SEE IF I GOT THIS RIGHT.
IF YOU CROSS THE NORTH KOREAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET 12 YEARS HARD LABOR.
IF YOU CROSS THE IRANIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU ARE DETAINED INDEFINITELY.
IF YOU CROSS THE AFGHAN BORDER ILLEGALLY, YOU GET SHOT.
IF YOU CROSS THE SAUDI ARABIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE JAILED.
IF YOU CROSS THE CHINESE BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU MAY NEVER BE HEARD FROM AGAIN.
IF YOU CROSS THE VENEZUELAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE BRANDED A SPY AND YOUR FATE WILL BE SEALED.
IF YOU CROSS THE CUBAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE THROWN INTO POLITICAL PRISON TO ROT.
IF YOU CROSS THE AUSTRALIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET
· A JOB,
· A DRIVERS LICENSE,
· CENTRELINK BENEFITS
· WELFARE ASSISTANCE
· CREDIT CARDS,
· SUBSIDIZED RENT OR A LOAN TO BUY A HOUSE,
· FREE EDUCATION,
· FREE HEALTH CARE,
· A LOBBYIST IN CANBERRA
· BILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS PRINTED IN YOUR LANGUAGE
· THE RIGHT TO CARRY YOUR Countries FLAG WHILE YOU PROTEST THAT YOU DON'T GET ENOUGH RESPECT
· AND, IN MANY INSTANCES, YOU CAN VOTE.
I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE I HAD A FIRM GRASP ON THE SITUATION
Categories: Politics
