Academics show that emissions trading
schemes produce fraud but no emissions reduction
Despite strong opposition from both business and the wider electorate, Julia Gillard is hell-bent on ramming through her carbon tax in order to appease Bob Brown and thus keep herself in power.
Even more concerning is her proposal to convert the carbon tax to an emissions trading scheme in 2014. Because a carbon credit is an intangible good, trading in it is open to fraud and scams. In December 2009
Europol, the European criminal intelligence agency warned that ETS fraud had resulted in around 5 billion Euros in lost revenues and as much as 90 percent of the entire market volume on emissions exchanges was caused by fraudulent activity.
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Global warming an unproven hypothesis
The global warming believers claim that there is scientific consensus on global warming. But science is not based on consensus. Advancements in science are based on
the application of the scientific method. Although there are some variations, it is generally accepted that
the scientific
method consists of four distinct steps. [Read
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Academics opposed
to free speech
On 24 January 2010 a group of 50 academics and PhD students put their
names to an open letter
calling on Notre Dame University in Fremantle Western
Australia to stop Lord Christopher Monckton from giving a lecture scheduled to
be held at the university later in the week.
Lord
Monckton, renowned climate change sceptic, was due to give a speech
lambasting climate change alarmists and the rent-seekers living off lavish
taxpayer-funded grants to promote the perceived dangers of global warming. [Read
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Shariah and the stealth
jihad
In most Muslim countries the people are
subjected to the totalitarian socio-political doctrine that Islam calls shariah,
where women are repressed and draconian laws prevail. Under shariah, polygamy, marital
rape, wife abuse, female genital mutilation and underage forced marriages are
rife.
Translated as "the path", shariah is a comprehensive legal and
political framework. Though it certainly has spiritual elements, it would be a
mistake to think of shariah as a "religious" code in the Western sense
because it seeks to regulate all manner of behaviour in the secular sphere -
economic, social, military, legal and political.
Shariah has been, for over a half-century, lavishly financed and propagated
by Islamic regimes (particularly Saudi Arabia and Iran), through disciplined
international organisations such as the Muslim Brotherhood and the Organisation
of Islamic Conference. [Read more]
Global warming according to James Delingpole
The Man Made Global Warming industry is a crock, a scam on an epic scale, fed by the world’s biggest outbreak of mass hysteria, stoked by politicians dying for an excuse to impose more tax and regulation on us while being seen to “care” about an issue of pressing urgency, fuelled by the shrill lies and tear-jerking propaganda of activists possessed of no understanding of the real world other than a chippy instinctive hatred of capitalism, given a veneer of scientific respectability by post-normal scientists who believe their job is to behave like politicians rather than dispassionate seekers-after-truth, cheered on by rent-seeking businesses, financed by the EU, the UN and the charitable foundations of the guilt-ridden rich, and promoted at every turn by schoolteachers, college lecturers, organic muesli packets, Walkers crisps, the BBC, CNBC, Al Gore, the Prince Of Wales, David Suzuki, the British Antarctic Survey, Barack Obama, David Cameron and Knut – the late, dyslexic-challenging, baby polar bear, formerly of Berlin
Zoo.
From an article in The Telegraph by UK-based writer, journalist and
broadcaster, James Delingpole http://jamesdelingpole.com
Afghanistan - the unwinnable war
Although there is no direct threat to Australia, the Australian government continues to sacrifice the
lives of young soldiers in an unwinnable war in the far-off hell-hole of
Afghanistan.
The war against the Taliban is a war that can never be won. Cells of
terrorists can attack coalition troops and then melt into a population that is
either friendly or gives tacit support.
A special breakdown of Budget figures shows the Afghan conflict will cost at
least $10 billion by the time the Diggers are pulled out in three years time.
The amount is enough for seven central teaching hospital or 450 public
schools. [Read
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GetUp exposed: George Soros' tentacles reach into Australia
The left-wing activist group, GetUp claims it is “an independent
grass-roots community advocacy organisation.”
GetUp’s founders David Madden and Jeremey Heimans are
heavily involved in a number of
similar US and global left-wing
activist groups, each of which is tied to the shadowy billionaire, George Soros.
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The National Broadband Network - an expensive dud?
The federal Labor government has committed, without any
detailed cost-benefit analysis, $43 billion of mostly taxpayers' money, to
build the National Broadband Network (NBN), a high-speed broadband network based
on providing fibre optic cable to 93% of Australian homes over an eight year
period.
The most expensive infrastructure project in
Australia's history could turn out to be a massive waste of taxpayers' money by
being superseded even before it is completed, as a revolutionary new wireless
broadband system is about to hit the US market. [More]
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