Headlines Friday 7th November

Flannery washed out again
Andrew Bolt
Let’s revisit yet another prediction of Alarmist of the Year Tim Flannery:

Speaking last night at the State Government’s Sydney Futures forum, Dr Flannery warned of a city grappling with up to 60 per cent less water. As temperatures around the world warmed by 2 to 7 per cent, Sydney could glimpse its future by looking at the devastating impact that global warming had already had on Perth… ”I think there is a fair chance Perth will be the 21st century’s first ghost metropolis,” Dr Flannery said.
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Rudd’s own “non-core” tax promise
Andrew Bolt
Just another tax-and-spend Labor Government, after all:

KEVIN Rudd’s $6 billion ambition of abolishing the top tax rate is on hold, with the Government blaming the global financial crisis… Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner confirmed today that the so-called “aspirational” tax cuts were now on the backburner. The decision to rip them out of a future budget has allowed the Government to forecast a $6.7 billion surplus in 2011/12. If the Government had not stripped back the ambition that would have been a surplus of just $700 million.
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Moving, but wrong
Andrew Bolt
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Where’s our own Obama?
Andrew Bolt
In America:
A man of mixed race has now reached the pinnacle of U.S. power only two generations since the end of Jim Crow. This is a tribute to American opportunity, and it is something that has never happened in another Western democracy—notwithstanding European condescension about “racist” America… While Mr. Obama lost among white voters, as most modern Democrats do, his success is due in part to the fact that he also muted any politics of racial grievance.

In Australia:

Indigenous leader Patrick Dodson has delivered the 2008 Sydney Peace Prize lecture… Mr Dodson used the platform to call for compensation for Aboriginal people and for the ownership of Indigenous land to be recognised in the constitution. ..
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Everything is global warming
Andrew Bolt
Climate scientist Roger Pielke Jnr reports:

Maue of Florida State University documents that Northern Hemisphere tropical cyclone activity is the lowest that has been observed in the past 30 years. Before you get all excited and jump to conclusions, I am happy to report that the latest research shows that more, less, or the same level of tropical cyclone activity is perfectly consistent with predictions of climate models. So the record inactivity should definitely be seen as vindicating the prediction of climate models as well as a potential harbinger of things to come, or perhaps the calm before the storm, or something.
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Iran’s degree of stupidity
Andrew Bolt
And these geniuses run a theocracy that’s close to building an atomic bomb:

IRANIAN President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad suffered a humiliating and politically damaging setback yesterday when his Interior Minister, Ali Kordan, was impeached for deception after he confessed to holding a forged law degree from Oxford University…
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Do these guys know how to steer?
Andrew Bolt
John Howard’s time will soon seem golden:

FUTURE tax cuts, major road and rail projects and the reform of federal-state relations are on the budget chopping block as the world financial crisis strips $40billion from Rudd government revenue…

Wayne Swan unveiled updated budget forecasts yesterday, showing ... the surplus will drop from a budgeted $19.7 billion next year to just $3.6billion, and will fall to $2.6billion in 2010-11. ...
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Former premier charged with corruption
Former West Australian premier Brian Burke and ex-minister Julian Grill have been charged with corruption after an inquiry into their conduct.
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Promising employment figures won't last: Gillard
Despite the global financial crisis, employment in Australia has surged, but even the government admits there will still be thousands of job losses in the coming months.