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Talking Headlines - June 2008

Mugabe reveals the hypocrisy of western democracies

June 28th 2008 04:30
Mugabe has exposed the hypocrisy of the western democracies. Like Iraq Zimbabwe has oppression, torture, murder , and random killings. Unlike Iraq, under Saddam Hussein and the US, Zimbabwe also has starvation, massacres, rampant inflation, and a leader who can't control his homicidal rages. So, given that Mugabe is worse than Saddam why haven't the western democracies invaded in the way they have in Iraq? It's a very simple answer. Mugabe has no oil. He understands the significance of this and realises he can behave as outrageously and malevolently as he wishes without fearing physical retaliation.



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CARBON TRADING IS DEAD IN THE WATER

June 25th 2008 15:35
Carbon trading to beat climate change can't work for the following reasons.

Governments will place a price on carbon emissions (price recommended seriously so far is $15 a ton) and private enterprise will simply add that cost to the prices of their products. Like banks that raise their interest rates on mortgages to recover their losses in other, unwise, lending areas, it will be the consumer that pays.

This means that any penalty (or license to pollute) won't restrict them in the least. They'll barely notice it. For them it won't be a penalty.

And what of those who receive payments to perform acts to neutralise carbon emissions - by planting trees or preventing the destruction of rain forests? Because this work will be undertaken in our corrupt countries where monitoring will be non-existent (and will the polluting companies care?) they'll continue to secretly cut down forests, or neglect the trees they have planted. They won't be paid further monies for nurturing them. Imagine Indonesian or Brazilian criminals giving up the criminal logging they already perform against international concerns.


It is human nature that will prevent carbon trading having success, just as it has been human nature that caused the need for such a concept.

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AS PREDICTED NO BLOW TORCH FOR OPEC

June 23rd 2008 09:57
As I wrote earlier our trading partners would treat us with contempt if we tried to apply the blow torch to OPEC on oil prices. Poor old Martin Ferguson, the minister for nuclear waste, didn't even raise his hand, let alone a blow torch to protest oil prices at the OPEC meeting.

My sympathies are with Kevin Rudd in this matter for he's a poor bastard who's trying to do his best, but he's surrounded by a staff that is as arrogant and innocent as he is.
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KEVIN RUDD'S ABYSMAL IGNORANCE ON CLIMATE CHANGE

June 23rd 2008 09:45
Why isn't Kevin Rudd running a scare campaign on climate change? A scare campaign is all that will motivate us to do those things to avoid the catastrophe that is building. Not that the opposition has any idea about the devastation climate change is going to inflict on us either. But for Kevin Rudd to think that he can win points by accusing his opponents of being scared of climate change shows the abysmal ignorance of his government.

For him to imagine that a scare campaign on climate change is a dishonorable thing is close to pathetic. But it does alert the rest of us that we are being led by a government of the blind. Haven't they looked at the physical evidence haven't they read the reports and the research? As an example no one disputes that all the ice in the Arctic will have disappeared by 2013. Apparently that isn't enough to frighten our venerable leaders.

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OBAMA IS BEING CIRCLED

June 23rd 2008 04:29
Obama will not be allowed to give away Iraqi oil. The war has been fought for it and it’s so close to the US that motorists on freeways can smell it. They don’t know the deals that are bringing it closer but they just assume that they will be looked after.

Neither the oil business or the military business will allow the deals be dribbled away because there is no American military there to protect it. How do I know this? It’s very easy. Look at the strategy. Iraq has 115 trillion barrels of known oil and the US draft legislation for the Iraqi Congress gives the West 80%.

Say the war eventually cost 3 trillion dollars, that is barely tipping (not American tipping anyway) money for the 115 trillion barrels at say, $US150 a barrel. There is an estimated 350 trillion barrels that hasn’t been properly surveyed yet and that all goes (yes, 100%) to the West.

How does Obama argue against the economics here? Presumably he won’t mention it before the election and neither will anyone else. Put your minds to rest though, the circling of Obama has begun.
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PUPPET McCAIN CAN'T SURRENDER

June 21st 2008 05:29

With the use of up-market ad agencies the republicans have always struck out for enlightening symbolism in their campaigns.

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Australian horseracing totally corrupt

June 20th 2008 04:21
Australian horseracing is like the game all over the planet – it’s totally corrupt.

Note that the media never break corruption stories (as in the Tony Mokbel scandals) they only cover the stories that are uncovered by police or those in the industry. I always claim that if racing writers covered politics we would be living in a fascist state right now. They are simply not motivated to expose the habits of trainers, jockeys and big gamblers; they are only prepared to listen to the rumours on a horse’s chances in a particular race


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ANGRY BLOGGERS AND SOLDIERS BEWARE

June 17th 2008 02:05
Angry bloggers and soldiers beware. The Pentagon is backing a device to track potentially dangerous brainwaves. The name of the device – the Cognitive Technology Threat Warning System program, or CT2WS – is ostensibly to be used to focus on angry brain waves. However the $6.7 million grant to develop the device is phrased in such a way that there is a great deal of confusion on how they will work.

Surely it’s a typo when they say, “ the device will tap a user’s brainwaves to hone in on threats.” This could be amusing. Do they give the device to an individual on their own side that they suspect of showing increasing dissatisfaction with soldiering? The device begins exploring his brain patterns and rhythms and, finding a subversive anger, it blows the brains out


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The Resources Industries should pay for their very own inflation boom

June 13th 2008 13:22
The resources industries should pay for their own inflation boom. They created it and they should pay. Why do they and the reserve bank feel the responsibility of controlling inflation should be placed on the poorer Australians? The middle-class and above (those who own unmortgaged houses) aren't going to be much effected by rises in prices for essential products like food and fuel, but those families who are struggling with mortgage payments and rising rents certainly do. .

So why do we have to cocoon those great, booming industries, and the greedy people who own and run them


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WITH A SMILING HAND SHAKE KEVIN RUDD HELPS THE WHALE KILL

June 13th 2008 04:42
Once again the diplomat gives into his instincts and training and licks the fingers of his Japanese counterpart - conceding that the Japanese should continue their bogus whale research without serious protest from the Australian government. We have Rudd in a smiling betrayal.

Diplomats don't have a eye on reality because they are always looking for the break in the deal that allows smiling and hand kissing. PM Rudd's diplomatic past is springing to the forefront in his delivering diplomatic concepts to be devoured by us. Kevin's smile as he shakes the hand of PM Fukuda is reminiscent of Gareth Evans's smile as he betrayed East Timor on what he imagined was the last word in Australia, America and Indonesia stealing the oil in the Timor Sea


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THE NUCLEAR ARMS SPIN IS TO MAKE US FORGET ABOUT THE WORLD'S WASTE

June 10th 2008 01:04
The spin is on to convince Australians that their government is very concerned about nuclear arms and it's going to do its best to neutralise them. That announcement by Kevin Rudd in Japan was close to ridiculous. It makes it appear that we're going to lead the world to nuclear disarmament by example and announcement.

The problem is that we aren't a nuclear-armed nation, and that means anything we say will be completely ignored. If you don't know the political machinations, and don't have a bureaucracy dedicated to such arms manufacture, it's a little like listening to a pony club rider tell a race jockey how to win


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MARTIN FERGUSON HAS PUT AUSTRALIA ON LINE TO TEND THE WORLD'S CRAPULOUS NUCLEAR WASTE

June 8th 2008 23:53
The moves for Australia to be the nuclear waste dump for the world are rapidly being slotted into place.

On a public holiday, and with the pm Rudd on his Japanese trip - no doubt talking up a deal to take Japanese waste - Martin Ferguson, our esteemed Resources and Energy Minister shows his scheming attitude to this outrageous project that will turn Australia internationally into a total pariah, agriculturally, culturally, and into an example of how to turn a country from being one of the freest to one of total lock down. It is the reason the Rudd government has not even begun looking at the oppressive laws on so called terrorism


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PM Kevin's Rudd hubritic revelry

June 8th 2008 05:02
PM Kevin has sprung himself: he's been drinking too often from his well of hubris. He wants a united Asia in the style of the European Economic Union. Explained quickly, in one sentence, it appears to be impressive. Looked at a fraction more closely there appears to be a clash of cultures, a clash of style as far as governments are concerned, and a clash of currency. The Euro was the choice of all. Imagine pulling in Thailand, Burma, Vietnam, New Guinea, Indonesia, East Timor, Singapore, and any others that Kevin would suggest on his overdose of vanity, and then his choosing a currency that would suit all.

Of course if you paid a few of them in any currency at all they would fall into line


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HUGE BONUSES FOR THE DREDGING CREWS WORKING PORT PHILLIP BAY

June 6th 2008 09:35
The Queen of the Netherlands, the Port Phillip Bay dredge, is two months ahead of its schedule. It's ahead because it's various captains and crews have worked quickly and roughly and without thought for the bay's condition. The crew is in for huge bonuses for avoiding the ignorant eyes of those that monitor its methods.

My informant says that there have been several near misses by ships negotiating the bay waters because the pilots appear not to be able to use the new computer systems. The most dangerous incident occurred when a ship came within ten metres of the dredge. The accident was avoided because the Netherlands has fins of steel it can lock in to the surrounding sands and rocks and bring it to a shuddering halt


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KEVIN RUDD'S GLIBNESS ON CLIMATE CHANGE MAKES HIM IRRELEVANT

June 6th 2008 00:11

Kevin Rudd's "fine tuning" of the response to climate change is a little frightening. He doesn't yet understand what climate change is about. It's arriving in the form of cyclones, drought ( we're in the middle of one, remember Kevin; doing some fine tuning on that are we?) killing heat and fire.

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More evidence that we're on track to take world's nuclear waste

June 2nd 2008 06:10
Evidence continues to mount that Australia is to become the planet's nuclear waste dump. Now we are to take spent fuel rods from Europe, under an international agreement and, as The Age notes today, dispose of them.

And how long will it take to dispose of them? Well an estimate is from between 350,000 to 500,000 years. Australia will be responsible for their safe-keeping during that time. Of course we will be paid for such upkeep , provided of course that the country we're looking after the spent fuel rods for is still a legal entity and hasn't been absorbed by a neighbor, who of course will not want the responsibility of such expense


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Luke Darcy is sacked from the Olympics, now we can sack the murderous hosts with impunity

June 1st 2008 00:09
THE TREATMENT OF BRUTAL FORMER OLYMPIC SWIM TEAM MEMBER, LUKE DARCY, HAS REVEALED THE HYPOCRISY THAT IS ENDEMIC TO THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT. IT'S FINE THEY'VE SACKED HIM FOR HIS COWARDLY AGGRESSION BUT IT MEANS THEY HAVE TO SACK THE BRUTAL AND MURDEROUS HOSTS OF THE OLYMPIC GAMES.

THE IMPRISONMENTS, TORTURE AND MURDER THAT CHINA IS INFLICTING ON TIBET IS HORRENDOUS AND AGAINST ALL WE STAND FOR IN WESTERN DEMOCRACIES, ALTHOUGH OUR NASTINESS IS SLOWLY CREEPING OUT IN SECRET TORTURE AND KIDNAPPING OF TERRORIST SUSPECTS


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