The night my dad grabbed his gun: Ray Martin reveals in autobiography
RAY Martin has revealed he never saw his father from the age of 11 after domestic violence forced his mother to leave the marriage.
This is an example of a man with integrity (Ray Martin) describing his difficult upbringing in an edifying way. Compare it with Wayne Carey who parades a stream of excuses for himself. Apparently football does not build character. - ed.
The families of three Americans detained in Iran say videos prove their loved ones were on vacation and had no hidden motives when they crossed into country from Iraq
GOP Warns Gov't Plan Will Dominate Market
Republicans say government insurance plan with new taxes on insurers will lead to rise in private plan premiums
8 U.S. Troops Killed in Afghan Blasts
Rash of bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan claims the lives of eight U.S. troops
Three Melbourne footballers bailed on pack rape charges
A PACK of drunken footballers are accused of luring and trapping two teenage girls before raping them for hours, a Victorian court heard late last night.
'Qantas passengers exposed to toxic air'
QANTAS operated a plane even though an oil leak led to toxic air entering the cabin, book claims.
Asylum seekers' boat not allowed to dock
THE Oceanic Viking, with 78 asylum seekers aboard, has been refused permission to dock.
PM risks looking inept on asylum seekers
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd risks appearing inept and hypocritical if he does not sort out the "shambles" of policy on asylum seekers, the Federal Opposition says. Senior Liberal MP Tony Abbott said overnight Mr Rudd had put out the welcome mat for boat people and the problem was now clearly getting on top of him. His comments came after an Australian Customs vessel anchored off Indonesia's Bintan Island with 78 asylum seekers aboard was refused permission to offload them by the island's governor. - Rudd looked inept a long time ago, but the media have not reported it. - ed
Not on a beach with kids
There will have been a lot of breakfasts ruined in Sydney this morning after a newspaper decided to publish a photo of convicted paedophile Dennis Ferguson sitting on a beach in budgies. In the background are some adults - and some children playing in the sand and surf.
Body in barrel is woman's: police
POLICE say the identity of a woman whose remains were found in a barrel is still a mystery.
Mum's the word at kids' playgroups
DAD'S suspicion has been confirmed - playgroups are more about the mums than the kids.
Governor-General's trip cost $700,000
TAXPAYERS paid $700,000 for the Governor-General's trek to Africa to help win a UN seat.
Scientology convicted of fraud
A FRENCH court convicted the Church of Scientology and one of its leaders of fraud today, but stopped short of banning it.
Letterman sexual politics 'demeaning'
FORMER Late Show writer says female employees benefited from sex with high-ranking men.
Taliban strikes at UN in capital
FIVE UN staffers have been killed as the Taliban sends a bloody warning to Afghans.
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The "Right" Direction?
Is a conservative candidate what the GOP needs to take back the White House in 2012?
Gov. Tim Pawlenty weighs in on the debate!
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Inside the Elections
As the big November races tighten, which ones are putting the White House on edge? Bret has the surprising answers!
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J-Lo's Legal Dilemma!
Why is the star taking action against her former flame? Our "Is It Legal" team examines the heated case!
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The Public Option Problem!
It's the political dilemma dividing the Dems. So, could this split in the party trigger the deathblow to their reform? Greta has it covered!
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TIME Magazine Columnist Says Fox News Lies
By Bill O'Reilly
For the last few weeks, there hasn't been a lot of news in America. The health care debate goes on forever, Afghanistan is not going well, the economy is still stuck in the mud, but those stories have been around for months.
So when the White House attacked Fox News, the media woke up. Something new, something controversial. Everybody had an opinion. But some of the opinions are downright irresponsible.
Enter TIME magazine columnist Joe Klein, who can be astute. Not this time. Klein writes:
"Fox News peddles a fair amount of hateful crap. Some of it borders on sedition. Much of it is flat out untrue."
But even though he has plenty of space, Klein fails to illustrate his point. He provides no examples of what he says is untrue.
So I, being a fair guy, gave Klein a chance to come on "The Factor" Monday evening to provide backup, to make his case specifically rather than irresponsibly. A TIME publicist told us Mr. Klein is unavailable. Sure.
The truth is Mr. Klein is scared. As a truth-seeker myself, I'd like to know exactly how, as Klein puts it, Fox News spreads seditious lies to its demographic sliver of an audience. That's rich. "The Factor" reaches more people in one hour than TIME does in a week. Talk about slivers.
Now, what's the point of this, other than to hold Joe Klein accountable? Excellent question.
I think the continuing hysteria surrounding Fox News illuminates our increasing influence in America. This is now the network of record, and the left does not like it.
But not all liberals are like Joe Klein. Some see the absurdity of the White House attacking FNC:
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
KEN RUDIN, NPR POLITICAL EDITOR: It's not only aggressive, it's almost Nixon-esque. You think of what Nixon and Agnew did with their enemies list and their attacks on the media, and certainly Vice President Agnew's constant denunciation of the media. Of course, then there was a conservative president denouncing a liberal media, and of course a lot of good liberals said, "Oh, that's ridiculous. That's an infringement on the freedom of press." And now you see a lot of liberals almost kind of applauding what the White House is doing to Fox News, which I think is distressing.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
Soon after he said that, Ken Rudin apologized for comparing Mr. Obama to Mr. Nixon in the enemies list deal. But his basic point is valid. Any attack on Fox News — no matter how unfair — is celebrated by the left because FNC has the ear of the country.
Finally, I think it's time for the Fox News controversy to fade. I hope it does. I like working here and I am amazed that we are so powerful. But I want the nation to see us as a force for good, as giving voice to all kinds of opinion, which we do.
So I am ready to go trick or treating with Rahm Emanuel. What a scare that would be.
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BUZZER PUZZLE
Tim Blair
A CNN insider explains why the network’s anchors keep getting beaten on TV game shows:
“They are reporters … the buzzer is complicated.”
This doesn’t explain, however, why CNN is also getting beaten in its alleged area of expertise. Or maybe it does; if a buzzer confuses these people, keeping an audience must be akin to building a Large Hadron Collider.
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SOME EMISSIONS REALLY SHOULD BE REDUCED
Tim Blair
“We invented wind.” John Kerry announces a design breakthrough, then demonstrates it. Another highlight: according to Kerry, current African instability is due to global warming. This is in contrast to previous African centuries, noted above all for their serenity.
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THEY’VE GOT PORTABLES
Tim Blair
Sing along with Killara High School students:
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RIAU ROW
Tim Blair
Kevin Rudd’s Indonesian solution is working beautifully:
The open hostility of Governor Ismeth Abdullah and other politicians in the Riau Islands to the arrival of the Oceanic Viking has cast serious doubt over the deal between Mr Rudd and President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for Indonesia to take in Australia-bound asylum seekers …So who does the government blame?
Officials in the Riau Islands are not only furious at being expected to host the Sri Lankans, but say they are unable to. Nur Syafriadi, speaker of the provincial legislature, told The Age that the arrival of the boat was a ‘’humiliation’’ for his province, and that the central Government had not consulted with local authorities. ‘’Riau Islands is not the place for accommodating people like this,’’ he said. ‘’Why won’t Australia accept them? … Stop using Riau as a dumping ground.”
Local villagers yesterday protested at Kijang port, brandishing signs saying, ‘’Send them back. Riau is not the place to accommodate the Sri Lankans.’’
Immigration Minister Chris Evans said the Indonesia solution had actually begun under former prime minister John Howard …UPDATE. Following those successful Indonesian negotiations, Rudd is invited to befriend a chair:
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will play an increased role in helping to secure a deal at the Copenhagen international climate change talks.But Rudd still hasn’t decided if he’ll actually go to hopeychangey Copenhagen:
Mr Rudd has been asked by Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen to serve as a friend to the chair - along with Mexico and the United Nations - in the lead up to the talks in December.
“The Prime Minister will attend if the meeting becomes a leaders’ meeting and if his attendance will make an effective outcome at Copenhagen more likely,” the spokesman said.Translation: Rudd won’t go unless Obama does. As for effective outcomes:
Just weeks before an international conference on climate change, the United Nations signaled it was scaling back expectations of reaching agreement on a new treaty to slow global warning.Bring on the catastrophes!
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Wanted: more public servants to help wreck jobs
Andrew Bolt
Global warming has become a gigantic industry, fed by billions of taxpayers’ dollars. Here’s the Rudd Government’s latest advertisement for people to fill entirely non-productive - in fact, anti-productive - jobs:
Climate Change is one of the most complex policy challenges facing governments today. The Department of Climate Change is a new and dynamic organisation at the forefront of delivering the Australian Government’s response to this important global issue.It’s frightening, how much this madness is now costing - and how many people now have a vested interest in keeping it all going.
Australian Climate Change Regulatory Authority ... will regulate the cap and trade scheme, national greenhouse and energy reporting and the renewable energy target.
We are looking for people to work in Australia’s newest regulator on this major national reform. If you have a background in economics, regulation, law, market intelligence and analysis, compliance, environment, communication and/or corporate support, we’d like to hear from you.
Anticipated Vacancies – Ongoing and Non-ongoing (Employment offers may depend on the relevant legislation being passed)
Several Roles at APS4, APS5 and APS6 Levels – (Salary Range $56,430 - $77,330)
Several Roles at EL1 and EL2 Levels – (Salary Range $83,600 - $131,670)
Canberra based positions…
Market Analysts – will develop the regulatory and analytical processes, tools, models and forecasts to support the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme…
Public Affairs and Communication Officers – will deliver a broad range of communication and stakeholder engagement strategies, advice and services…
ICT and e-Business Officers – will deliver the ICT capabilities to support the regulator…
Corporate and Governance Officers – will develop and manage the infrastructure, systems and processes for the new regulator…
Program Management Officers – will contribute to the establishment of a project management centre of excellence, support the delivery of multi-disciplinary projects and consolidate reporting for the executive management team…
Regulatory Policy and Compliance Officers – will develop and apply best-practice regulatory approaches to facilitate compliance with the relevant legislation...
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About time someone asked
Andrew Bolt
It seems incredible that no one in 91 years has asked this question, so who can object to the Rudd Government now spending $524,000 to find out the answer? From the latest list of approved Australian Research Council Grants:
Approved Project TitleThe last time this area was investigated, it cost Australian taxpayers zero and resulted in a much-admired besteller. How the allies won in Iraq might actually be a better guide to undertaking future operations, but that’s been written, too, and again at zero cost to taxpayers.
How the Allies Won the First World War
2010 :$ 106,000
2011 :$ 107,000
2012 :$ 105,000
2013 :$ 105,000
2014 : $ 101,000
Primary RFCD 4301 HISTORICAL STUDIES
ARF Dr EP Greenhalgh
The University of New South Wales
Wars are expensive undertakings, and an understanding of Australia’s successful part in the First World War will prove helpful in avoiding expensive mistakes in any future coalition operations to which Australia might contribute. This research will provide a better understanding of Australia’s military contribution in 1914-18 by revealing how the international coalition worked. In addition, the success of 1918, in contradistinction to the failed offensive on Gallipoli, should provide lessons for military planners, logistics experts, and civil-military relations generally. The analysis of how wars end will provide especially useful lessons as the messy conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan follow the Vietnam War into history.
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Rudd’s Indonesian shambles
Andrew Bolt
Seems like Kevin Rudd may need a Pacific Solution, after all, and for precisely the reasons John Howard did:
KEVIN Rudd’s Indonesian solution was last night in chaos as Indonesian officials confirmed they were locked in a standoff with 78 asylum-seekers who were refusing to leave an Australian Customs vessel…Worse, Rudd cannot rule out what he most demonised in Howard:
Yesterday, Indonesian officials indicated they were prepared to defy an order from President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono directing the Viking to land its human cargo at the Australian-funded Tanjung Pinang detention centre on Bintan Island.
But after earlier telling reporters Indonesia was not a “dumping ground” for refugees, provincial governor Ismeth Abdullah softened his remarks but queried the detention centre’s readiness.
“Who is going to give (the Sri Lankans) their food?” he asked The Australian. “Where is the money going to come from for all their expenses?” ...
The standoff creates a dilemma for Australian officials, with government sources confirming any forcible removals from the Oceanic Viking would be the responsibility of the Australian crew, and not Indonesian police.
Yesterday Prime Minister Kevin Rudd refused to guarantee that children among the group won’t be detained behind razor wire at the Tanjung Pinang detention centre on Bintan Island.And even if the Sri Lankans get off the Oceanic Viking, it’s doubtful we’ll be allowed back with more:
The Indonesian official, Governor Ismeth Abdullah, has indicated the asylum seekers onboard an Australian customs vessel could be taken but only on the condition they stay no longer than a month.I do not criticise Rudd for trying to get Indonesia to take these Sri Lankans. Indeed, Howard would have tried to do precisely the same.
Wha offends me is Rudd’s former easy damnation of Howard for having done what Rudd himself is driven to do now. It’s the hypocrisy, the moral grandstanding ... and the double standards of the Greek chorus that purports to be our human rights lobby.
UPDATE
It could get ugly:
THE 78 Sri Lankan asylum-seekers aboard the Oceanic Viking have threatened to kill themselves rather than walk off the ship and be interned in Indonesia.UPDATE 2
Sergei DeSilva-Ranasinghe disagrees that the Tamil Tiger fighters among the refugee represent no threat to Australia:
For instance, a 2006 Human Rights Watch report, Final War: LTTE Intimidation and Extortion in the Tamil Diaspora, reported serious LTTE infringements of law and order in the West, including extortion, wanton intimidation, violent repression of dissenting Tamil voices and even homicide.,,UPDATE 3
Examples of serious LTTE infractions of the law in the West include: the murder of a French policeman; suspected murder of dissident Tamil journalist Sabaratnam Sabalingam; death threats to the dissident Tamil Broadcasting Corporation in Britain; assault and intimidation of dissident Norwegian-Tamil journalist Nadaraja Sethurupan; and, according to the Asian Tribune, alleged death threats against Selliah Nagarajah, a political columnist and law lecturer at the University of Western Sydney. In addition, dissident liberal Sri Lankan Tamil group University Teachers for Human Rights-Jaffna claims that the LTTE was responsible for the murder of Subramaniam Muthulingam, an Australian citizen who was on holiday in Sri Lanka and was known to have refused to co-operate with LTTE attempts to streamline fundraising from a Hindu temple in Perth.
David Marr is at least one on the Left who’s just beginning to hold Rudd to (almost) the same standards he held John Howard - this time on the locking up of children. Mind you, I actually doubt Rudd has much alternative, but this approach to consistency is at least welcome.
UPDATE 4
Mutiny on board:
Labor MP Julia Irwin, when asked by reporters whether the group should be brought to Australia, said: “If they are genuine refugees, yes they should be’’.UPDATE 5
Now that its “Indonesian Solution” is going pear-shaped, the Rudd Government suddenly decides it was actually the idea of ... you know who.
UPDATE 6
Australian readers work out sailing times - and pose a question:
The Oceanic Viking could have done a return trip to Sri Lanka by now instead of sailing in circles for the past eight days.
Mike Fenton
Bunbury, WA
If we are welcoming Tamil “freedom fighters”, who seem to be people who set off bombs in civilian areas in the hope of convincing the government to allow them to secede, does this also mean we will be accepting Taliban “freedom fighters” in the unlikely event that they are defeated by the Afghan government and its helpers?
Hilary Mercer
Rockhampton, Qld
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The amendment Rudd won't consider
Andrew Bolt
Rudd ignores key objections to his mad plan to tax everything to cut emissions:
The Government should defer the legislation until after global climate talks in Copenhagen this December, Mr Turnbull said.
If Turnbull believes that, why doesn’t he include this demand among his list of amendments to Rudd’s legislation? That at least would formalise the one real difference likely to be left between the two parties, and give the Opposition something understandable to fight on. You could even call it the “Shag On A Rock” amendment, to make the message even more clear.
Of course, a better platform would be to reject this suicidal nonsense on its entirety....
UPDATE
Meanwhile, to underline this insanity, here’s a paper by Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of the space research laboratory of Russia’s Pulkovo Observatory, that declares global warming is over:
Observations of the Sun show that as for the increase in temperature, carbon dioxide is “not guilty” and as for what lies ahead in the upcoming decades, it is not catastrophic warming, but a global, and very prolonged, temperature drop. [...] Over the past decade, global temperature on the Earth has not increased; global warming has ceased, and already there are signs of the future deep temperature drop… It follows that warming had a natural origin, the contribution of CO2 to it was insignificant, anthropogenic increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide does not serve as an explanation for it, and in the foreseeable future CO2 will not be able to cause catastrophic warming.UPDATE 2
New Zealand works out the cost of such lunatic policies:
The cost of government protection of Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto from carbon and electricity charges means taxpayers will pay the equivalent of $225,000 for each job at the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter, says a carbon expert.
“It would be cheaper for the New Zealand taxpayer to pay every single Tiwai Point worker and contractor $200,000 per annum for the rest of their lives to simply stay home,” said Kent Duston of Wellington-based Autonomic Consulting....
Representatives of the smelter operation earlier this year told a select committee Tiwai Point would be the first smelter in the world to come under an emissions trading scheme (ETS). However, the National Government has revised the previous Labour government’s ETS and taxpayers will subsidise polluters to a greater extent during a transition period .
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Losing Turkey
Andrew Bolt
Daniel Pipes notes three developments which show that Turkey is giving up the West - and Israel - and joining the Iranian and Syrian axis. Worrying news.
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The real scandal is not Bryce’s bill
Andrew Bolt
It’s not the cost that’s the scandal, but Bryce’s open politicking - and for such a worthless cause at that:
TAXPAYERS have been left with a $700,000 bill from Governor-General Quentin Bryce’s controversial 18-day trek to 10 African countries earlier this year.“Heavily criticised”? Maybe by me, but I recall far less media support on this than Bryce so richly deserved. But be grateful, had it not been for Kevin Rudd’s intervention, Bryce’s bill could have been much, much higher.
Ms Bryce visited the countries in March and April as part of a campaign to win Australia a seat on the UN Security Council.
Heavily criticised for lobbying on behalf of the Rudd Government, she faces fresh attacks over the extraordinary cost.
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The terrorists Rudd won’t see
Andrew Bolt
KEVIN Rudd is either a fool or a fraud when he claims he’s “disgusted” by Opposition warnings that a few boat people may be terrorists.
If the Prime Minister is not worried, too, by this renewed threat, especially on boats from Sri Lanka, he is disgracefully blind to danger.
But I suspect he’s merely conning you, as he does so often.
Just check his recent record. First he falsely claimed that his weakening of our laws against boat people had nothing to do with the twelvefold explosion this year in arrivals.
As I showed last week, even asylum seekers have said Rudd’s changes lured them once more to the boats.
Next his Government falsely claimed there was “no evidence” 25 boat people had died this year in trying to get here.
As I proved last week, the known death toll so far is at least 42.
Then last Tuesday Rudd had his ministers falsely claim that the real reason he was now paying Indonesia to lock up 78 Sri Lankans we’d rescued at sea two days earlier was that “we had a young girl on board who was unwell” and this was a “humanitarian result”.
But yesterday, a full week after this “humanitarian” deal to save Rudd’s hide, all 78 Sri Lankans were still stuck on an Australian ship, waiting for permission to land in Indonesia.
Yet even this hand-washing, overlooking of corpses or hiding behind a sick girl couldn’t match what followed.
Desperate to again distract the easily distracted media from his bungling of our border protection, Rudd last week leapt on these comments by Liberal backbencher Wilson Tuckey:
"There could be the occasional terrorist in a boatload of people. If you wanted to get into Australia and you have bad intentions, what do you do? You insert yourself in a crowd of 100 for which there is great sympathy for the other 99. You go on a system where nobody brings their papers, you have no identity, you have no address.”And here’s how Rudd exploited them:
“I think these are deeply divisive, disgusting remarks and they do not belong in any mainstream political party. (Opposition Leader Malcolm) Turnbull should show some leadership and withdraw his support for Mr Tuckey’s preselection as a Liberal candidate for the next election.”Rudd’s stunt worked. You’ve since seen the media having a picnic on Tuckey’s flayed hide. Yet Tuckey had told no more than the truth - and the least of it.
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If Hamilton wins, I’ll agree with him
Andrew Bolt
THIS sure is a strange way for Professor Clive Hamilton to spend the few years that he - and we - have left.
I mean, if you thought the end of the world was nigh, would you really waste your last moments trying to become the next member for Higgins?
Still, who knows what now goes on in the grim skull of the Greens candidate for the Melbourne seat just vacated by former treasurer Peter Costello.
And who understands what dark currents swirl in the brains of the thousands who will vote for him on December 5, in a poll that will measure how mad these times now are.
Hamilton has a CV that might make an innocent reader, impressed by titles, think: “Wow! This man must be smart.”
He describes himself as a “public intellectual”. He’s written books and is professor of public ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. The Rudd Government made him a Member of the Order of Australia.
Yet that CV measures not Hamilton’s greatness, but this country’s idiocy.
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Rudd not sorry for doing what’s easy
Andrew Bolt
We’ve already noted this recent bit of spin of Kevin Rudd’s:
Kevin Rudd makes no apology on The 7.30 Report on Thursday for his latest verbal tic:I ACTUALLY believe in a big Australia. I make no apology for that.With journalists at Murray Bridge on October 14:I MAKE no apology whatsoever for adopting a hardline approach when it comes to illegal immigration activity.In a May 28 press conference:THIS is a hard-working government, I work hard, I make no apology for that.On The 7.30 Report June 16, 2008:IT’S a tough business being in government. I make no apology for that.
Annabel Crabb disagnoses this not-sorry with great precision:
HERE’S the trick of the non-apology apology. First, you take a proposition of which the listener is odds-on to approve. Caring for puppies, let’s say. Then you profess to uphold that principle “unapologetically”. “I am an unapologetic supporter of puppies.” This first endears you to the listener and affirms their own views. But the use of the term “unapologetically” does something else, too. It implicitly suggests that the listener is part - along with you - of a small but courageous minority. It says: “To those who hate and revile puppies, let them today understand that this government will - fearlessly and without thought of political fashion or fortune - fight for the rights of puppies everywhere, especially the ones who are so teensy that the back legs fall over every now and again.” By the time you are finished, you and your listener are brothers-in-arms, visionaries swimming bravely against the tide of a brutal orthodoxy. All because you have promised to be unapologetic about holding a perfectly unexceptionable view.
What makes the past week an exceptional performance - almost deserving of a special Not Sorry Day - is that the Prime Minister has now mastered the art of unapologetically endorsing two conflicting concepts at once.
In the space of a single answer in question time, Mr Rudd described his immigration policy as “unapologetically tough” and “unapologetically humane”. That, ladies and gentlemen, is champagne unrepentance.
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How many billions is Rudd promising to hand over?
Andrew Bolt
Like me, Janet Albrechtsen thinks Christopher Monckton is exaggerating, but not by much, when he says the Copenhagen meeting on global warming will consider creating a new world government.
But Albrechtsen says the draft document to be discussed in that December meeting has disturbing clauses that the Rudd Government and media should be querying sharply:
Clause after complicated clause sets out the requirement that developed countries such as Australia pay their “adaptation debt” to developing countries. Clause 33 on page 39 says that by 2020 the scale of financial flows to support adaptation in developing countries must be at least $US67 billion ($73bn), or in the range of $US70bn to $US140bn a year.UPDATE
How developed countries will pay is far from clear. The draft text sets out various alternatives, including Option 7 on page 135, which provides for “a (global) levy of 2 per cent on international financial market (monetary) transactions to Annex I Parties”. This means industrialised countries such as Australia, if we sign…
Ask yourself this: why has our government failed to explain the possible text of a treaty it wants Australia to sign? There has been no address from any Rudd minister to explain the draft treaty. No 3000-word essay from the thoughtful PM. No speech in parliament. No interview. No press release. Nothing…
(T)he draft text provides much detailed specificity about obligations on developed nations to transfer millions of dollars to developing countries under formulas to be set down by an unelected body. So why the silence?
Yet more evidence of the insanity in Rudd’s plan to have Parliament approve his giant tax on emissions before the Copenhagen meeting to set an example - that none will follow:
Just weeks before an international conference on climate change, the United Nations signaled it was scaling back expectations of reaching agreement on a new treaty to slow global warming.
Janos Pasztor, director of the secretary-general’s Climate Change Support Team, said Monday “it’s hard to say how far the conference will be able to go” because the U.S. Congress has not agreed on a climate bill, and industrialized nations have not agreed on targets to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions or funding to help developing countries limit their discharges.
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Down to second on the superstition hit list
Andrew Bolt
From Watts Up With That comes this latest polling data:
Not scary enough: more Americans believe in haunted houses than human caused global warming
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