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Pay attention to the audio in and early segment where Radio 2GB's Ray Hadley asks NSW Green MP Lee Rhiannon
Despite the government selling off most of the countries assets the national debt continues to rapidly grow and now exceeds $1.5 trillion. Costello is telling us we have never had it so good, he and his mates maybe but for the rest of the population it is a struggle as they and future generations are saddled with enormous debt.
CO2 TAX SWINDLE
Turnbull is the minister for the CO2 swindle. Howard has announced that over $600 million will go towards it. This money should be spent on healthcare etc. rather than fattening the pockets of CFR brokers who skim up to 45% brokerage fees from fictitious carbon trading. Believe Turnbull has connections to one of them?
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Troubled Macquarie Bank Take Over Offer
Working with other peoples money will always catch the greedy.
Suffering massive wounds under the financial adjustments in the USA, and the panic merchant in Australia, has revealed the vulnerability of those self-proclaimed giants of the finance world, Macquarie Bank.
Chest pumping with recent profits and executives claiming over 100 million dollars in salary for jobs well done, now sees them more like an item on a BBQ - "well done"
So to advert the humiliation of telling the people they could not see this stock market move, Shit Creek Paddle Store have put together a salvage kit in the for of a powepoint presentation.
The channel nine TODAY show, Thursday 16th August, featured and interview with Pauline Hanson (pictured), candidate for the senate at the
pending elections, again was subjected to castigation by overpaid, overrated hosts Lisa Wilkinson, and Karl Stefanovic.
Most obvious was their attack team routine so well rehearsed for their scripted agenda, that it must make their puppet master proud to overcome this fumbling duos adlib
cover of presenter incompetence.
Disgusting is what these termites of television bestowed on Ms Hanson, confirming again she is a threat to the dictators in politics and their bureaucracy.
Akin to the united liberal- Labor amalgamation, never before seen in Australian politics, formed battle plans to discredit Pauline Hanson's threat of people power removing the status-quo to the One Nation Party, who, unfortunately at that time, represented the people - this the chosen two could not handle at any cost. .
Love or Hate Pauline Hanson, please run this video link of that disgusting video interview - click here
It highlights total arrogance of Wilkinson, and Stefanovic, now setting to zero their journalistic credibility - and justly deserved.
Editor
From news.com.au
Pauline Hanson has lodged an application with the AEC to federally
register a political party called Pauline's United Australia Party.
If the application is successful, the party's abbreviated name, "Pauline",
will appear above the line on the Senate ballot paper.
Pauline Hanson said to ABC Radio today (Wednesday) "I think that we need
to look at getting out of the 1951 convention of refugees, and not being
forced into taking refugees in this country that bring in diseases, who
are incompatible with our lifestyle."
Tariffs should also be raised to protect local industry and manufacturing
from "cheap imports", she said.
Of Queensland's six Senate spots up for grabs at the election, five are
held by the major parties, with the remaining seat held by Australian
Democrats Senator Andrew Bartlett.
PH will be up against The Australian Democrats Andrew Bartlett, the
Greens' Larissa Waters and Family First's Jeff Buchanan for the required
14.5 per cent of the vote to gain a Queensland Senate seat.
The Electoral Commissioner will call for objections before the possible
registration of Pauline's United Australia Party, which could occur next
month.
Water Debate
Dear Editor,
I write here below and previously as published in SOS-NEWS as a private farming citizen and in such writings espouse only my views as such. These writings do not convey any official stance on the topics and subjects raised by any organisation, or department unless they themselves convey such stance.
Natural Resource Management in Australia has moved away from valuing historical knowledge and lifetime associations with land. Instead, Australia has adopted a theory-based approach that instead of using science to enhance knowledge and outcomes, the theory has actually sought to replace practical knowledge. Public debate on issues has also become highly emotive and political opportunism has evolved.
This, prompted my initial reply to Acacia Rose's letter to the editor in regard to Water Management in the Murray Darling Basin.
It appears that Acacia Rose has taken some liberties with particular interpretations of my points and I feel such a stand is consistent with a political approach on issues that tends to generalise without a full analysis of details.
Two issues, that suggests a common concern. They are the need for long term planning for urban water infrastructure and impacts on catchment hydrology and the environment, from uncontrolled wildfire. Other points appear to have been generalised and therefore I maintain an independent view.
However, in relation to the specific points below, I am concerned that her interpretations do not recognise the complexities of the issues. In Acacia's recent letter she indicated:
MIS schemes impacting on sober water management impacting on food production.
(my response) The expansion of MIS schemes for plantation forestry has been driven from two major policies. One resulting from environmental advocates closure of natural timber harvesting in our public forests and two, Australia's commitment to meet our international obligations on greenhouse whereby afforestation targets were deemed cheaper and less detrimental on both State & Federal Governments budgets, than reducing pollution at the source, ie coal fire power stations. For example, the NSW State Government budgets are heavily supported from coal royalties and dividends from its coal fired power stations. Equally the Federal Government recognises the broader economic benefit from coal.
In December 2005, an international study with contributions from the CSIRO, raised concerns about unplanned plantation forestry for carbon sequestration and potential impacts upon water yields. Today, there is increasing recognition of the potential adverse environmental impacts from significant landscape change resulting from those original afforestation targets. In addition, communities directly impacted by plantations have expressed strong concern in regard to local stream flows, social & economic impacts. However, the policies remain in place supported by all sides of politics.
Water trading causing strong flows in the Murray unavailable to farmers.
(my response) Unfortunately this statement does not reflect the complexity associated with this issue and I will attempt to address and define those complexities for readers at a later date.
Action on salinity and regional differences for example, West Australian forests.
(my response): Consideration of the regional differences with salinity predictions need to preclude application of Western Australia assumptions across other parts of Australia. Western Australia's Forest management is a separate issue. The specifics of Western Australia relate more to soils, rainfall and other factors.
Need to apply a carbon tax instead of carbon trading to control emissions.
(my response) I would like to refute Acacia's inference that I personally support a Carbon Tax or carbon trading scheme. Reducing emissions at the source with innovative policies, Government investment and efficiencies may be a more cost efficient and effective method of reducing greenhouse emissions. Government policies also need to encompass a range of issues including forests and flexible land management. The design of an emissions scheme would need to evaluate the full economic considerations to both consumers and general business and the potential for actual emission reductions need full evaluation prior to scheme implementation. It is easy to call for an emission scheme, it is the design of such a scheme that will determine its effectiveness and limit its affects on the broader economy..
In conclusion, I encourage public managers; policy makers and private owners to forge practical land management strategies that share and respect historical knowledge.
By building on the true principles of sustainability - economic, social and environmental- Australia could move into a new era of land management that creates genuine partnerships to deliver long term environmental outcomes
Yours sincerely
Louise Burge
Farmer
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One who'll call, not wait for weeks.
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Pulls out my chair and opens my door,
Massages my back and begs to do more.
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Knows what to answer to "how big is my behind?"
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Carbon Market Encourages Chopping Forests, says Study - Reuters Aug 14, 2007
WASHINGTON-The current carbon market actually encourages cutting down some of the world's biggest forests, which would unleash tonnes of climate-warming carbon into the atmosphere, a new study reported on Monday.
Under the Kyoto Protocol aimed at stemming climate change, there is no profitable reason for the 10 countries and one French territory with 20 percent of Earth's intact tropical forest to maintain this resource, according to a study in the journal Public Library of Science Biology.
The Kyoto treaty and other talks on global warming focus on so-called carbon credits for countries and companies those plant new trees where forests have been destroyed. Trees and other plants absorb carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas emitted by petroleum-fuelled vehicles, coal-fired power plants and humans.
At this point, there is no credit for countries that keep the forests they have, the study said.
"The countries that haven't really been the target of deforestation have nothing to sell because they haven't deforested anything," said Gustavo Fonseca, one of the study's authors.
"So that creates a perverse incentive for them to actually start deforesting, so that in the future, they might be allowed to actually cap-and-trade, as they call it: you put a cap on your deforestation and you trade that piece that hasn't been deforested," Fonseca said in a
telephone interview.
The countries most at risk for this kind of deforestation, because they all have more than half their original forests intact, are Panama, Colombia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Peru, Belize, Gabon, Guyana, Suriname, Bhutan and Zambia, along with the French territory of French Guiana.
These places need a system of credits to involve them in the "global deforestation avoidance market," said Fonseca, of the World Bank's Global Environment Facility.
Under this kind of system, these countries could agree to keep deforestation rates below the global average and get credit for how much below the average they are, Fonseca said.
These market mechanisms are still being worked out and are likely to be debated at a series of international meetings on climate change this year at the United Nations, in Washington and in Bali, Indonesia.
Besides curbing greenhouse gas emissions, this system could offer other benefits that intact forests provide, according to Russell Mittermeier, a study co-author and president of the environmental group Conservation International.
Intact forests protect watersheds, encourage pollination and preserve biodiversity, Mittermeier said by telephone.
Mittermeier said perhaps 20 to 25 percent of world carbon emissions come from the destruction of tropical forest, but this issue is not at the center of the global warming discussion.
The channel nine TODAY show, Thursday 16th August, featured and interview with Pauline Hanson (pictured), candidate for the senate at the
pending elections, again was subjected to castigation by overpaid, overrated hosts Lisa Wilkinson, and Karl Stefanovic.
