RIP Australia

[azza33]

Btw its not called global warming...because that a known inaccuracy.... The new term is climate change  

Fuck me sideways... The climate is actually changing ...always wondered how we went from an ice age to the present... Guess the aborigines must have burnt a lot of wood

[Torurot]

Here's another one to add to your misery. Yet another monoploy

Foxtel gets closer to Austar swoop
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07...ar_deal_close/
Regulatory approval still pending for monopoly

[Torurot]

China recognises that it's pollution is/was out of control and IS doing something about it.  Faster than a number of other first world countries.  China also did something NO other country has done about population control.  Credit where it is due.


Countries are cutting down Rain forest to plant Palm Oil plantations, and Sugar Cane to make "ecologically sound" ethanol fuels that are giving LARGE tax payer subsidies to LARGE corporations.    What a scam    


The last word on climate change.

The emerald planet : how plants changed Earth's history.
ISBN          978-0-19-954814-9 ( 0199548145 )
ISBN        978-0-19-280602-4 (alk. paper) ( 0192806025 )
Call Number        581.38 BEE
Personal Author        Beerling, D. J.
Title        The emerald planet : how plants changed Earth's history.
Publication and distribution area        Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008, c2007.
Physical Description Area        xviii, 288 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 20 cm.
Bibliography note        Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary        POPULAR SCIENCE. Plants have transformed our planet over the last 400 million years as they invaded the land and diversified into the astonishing variety we know today. But their influence has reached even further: they have profoundly moulded the Earth's climate and the evolutionary trajectory of life. Far from being 'silent witnesses to the passage of time', plants are dynamic components of our world, shaping the environment throughout history as much as that environment has shaped them. In The Emerald Planet, David Beerling puts plants centre stage, revealing the crucial role they have played in driving global changes in the environment, in recording hidden facets of Earth's history, and in helping us to predict its future. There could be no more important time to take a close look at plants, and to understand the history of the world through the stories they tell.

[azza33]

Getting a little off the theme.

As for the monopoly in pay tv... well easy option ... i don't have to subscribe to it - no big deal.    No escaping this carbon tax nonsense. We are fucked no matter - stripped of choice.

Would have thoughts the fucktard's NBN rollout would be a more pointed example.

1) Government debt spirals further out of control
2) Force several other public company to shut down competing technology
3) Force public who want a home phone to use the NBN network
4) Ability to control internet
5) Go back to monopoly wholesale provider model
6) No future proofing in the technology

This government is scum~ !!!!

[Torurot]

Something to help with your convalescence    

Taxing CO2 without hitting the less-well-off
By Tim Worstall €¢ Posted in Environment, 11th July 2011 22:00 GMT
Aussie carbon tax in actually-makes-sense shocker

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07..._in_australia/

Careful reading the comments. There are currently over 90 of them You are going to be apoplectic.
http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum....stralia

[Tomcat]

(azza33 @ Jul. 12 2011,20:45) This government is scum~ !!!!

They are all scum Azza.. just that some are more slimey than others..

As for China.. i wouldnt believe anything their Govt states, its all bullshit for public consumption or the West..depends on whos talking but lies are a plenty.

[rusty nail]

Amen...

I've seen Christmas pantomimes with more credibility than any governments.

They are by nature thieving dishonest scum...

[seamus]

Bad day then Azza Power to the people

[Tomcat]

The govts are buggerd tax wise as in most most developed countries people are living longer and smoke less and so Govts are getting less taxes in the coffers.

perhaps make smoking compulsory in some areas and withdraw all medical care. Sounds like a good plan to me.

[Torurot]

Tiois one is for Azza.  Even though we need to do SOMETHING about pollution of many kinds you can still get a "laugh" out of stuff like I got today in my Inbox.  Polluters LOVE excuses to carry on and do NOTHING and what better than to get a scientist to do your dirty work for you.  

If you google "Professor Ian Plimer" he gets a fair roasting and is probably in the pay of Mining or Petroleum or both.  despite the evidence in Australian Geology, fossils & etc he's a climate change denier unlike my previously mentioned Prof David Beerling.


Anyway Azza here ya go!

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Professor Ian Plimer could not have said it better! If you've read his book you will agree, this is a good summary.  

   Australians showed  sense in resisting the govt pressure to agree to a carbon tax before the Copenhagen Conference - which  seems years ago now.  


Are you sitting down?

Okay, here's the bombshell. The volcanic eruption in Iceland, since its first spewing of volcanic ash  has, in just FOUR DAYS, NEGATED EVERY SINGLE EFFORT you have made in the past five years to control CO2 emissions on our planet - all of you.
Of course you know about this evil carbon dioxide that we are trying to suppress - it€™s that vital chemical compound that every plant requires to live and  grow and to synthesize into oxygen for us humans and all animal life.

I know, it's very disheartening to realize that all of the carbon emission savings you have accomplished while suffering the inconvenience and expense of: driving Prius hybrids, buying fabric grocery bags, sitting up till midnight to finish your kid's "The Green Revolution" science project, throwing out all of your non-green cleaning supplies, using only two squares of  toilet paper, putting a brick in your toilet tank reservoir, selling your SUV and speedboat, vacationing at home instead of Bali, nearly getting hit every day on your bicycle, replacing all of your $1 light bulbs with $10 light bulbs ...well, all of those things you have done have all gone down the tubes in just four days.

The volcanic ash emitted into the Earth's atmosphere in just four days - yes - FOUR DAYS ONLY by  that volcano in Iceland, has totally erased every single  effort you have made to reduce the evil beast, carbon. And there are around 200 active volcanoes on the planet spewing out this crud any one time - EVERY DAY.

I don't really want to rain on your parade too much, but I should mention that when the volcano Mt Pinatubo erupted in the  Philippines in 1991, it spewed out more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than the entire human race had emitted in its entire YEARS on earth. Yes folks, Mt Pinatubo was active for over one year - think about it.

Of course I shouldn't spoil this touchy-feely tree-hugging moment and mention the effect of solar and cosmic activity and the well-recognized 800-year  global heating and cooling cycle, which keep happening, despite our completely insignificant efforts to affect climate change.

And I do wish I had a silver lining to this volcanic ash cloud but the fact of the matter is that the bush fire season across the western USA and Australia this year alone will negate your efforts to reduce carbon in our world for the next two to three years. And it happens every year.

Just remember that your government just tried to impose a whopping carbon tax on you on the basis of the bogus €œhuman-caused€ climate change scenario.

Hey, isn€™t it  interesting how they don€™t mention €œGlobal Warming€ any more,  but just €œClimate Change€ - you know why? It€™s because the planet has COOLED by 0.7 degrees in the past century and these global warming bull artists got caught with their pants down.  

And just keep in mind that you might yet have an  Emissions Trading Scheme - that whopping new tax - imposed on you, that will achieve absolutely nothing except make you poorer. It won€™t stop any volcanoes from erupting, that€™s for sure.

But hey, relax, give the world a hug and have a nice day!

PS: I wonder if Iceland is buying carbon offsets?

[Tomcat]

If the USA defaults on Aug2nd it will be tits up for all of us. Around a 25% chance it seems of a default now..

This will be the world headlines any day now. Its going to get rough folks very soon for the US and EU. Buying property now seems the only way out of losing ones savings and shirt in the long term

There will many more RIPs soon

[Torurot]

Or a couple or few Kilos of the yellow metal

[Tomcat]

Indeed, Gold and Copper are the new currencies as are many other rare metals. One third of all property in London is now bought by Chinese buyers as this also is looked upon as foolproof in the long run... unlike Shanghai where the bubble is going to burst big time in property 

The gold standard will come back , the trust in currencies must be at an all time low

[Torurot]

If any of you Aussie guys expect to fly up to Thailand tomorrow on Qantas.......you ain't!!!

Qantas Airways grounds global fleet due to strikes
http://news.yahoo.com/qantas-....58.html

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) €” Qantas Airways grounded its global fleet indefinitely and locked out workers Saturday after weeks of disruptive strikes, and the disappointed Australian government was seeking emergency arbitration to end the strikes.

Flights in the air continued to their destinations, but others were stopped even taxiing on the runway, according to one flier. Booked passengers were being rescheduled at Qantas' expense, chief executive Alan Joyce said.

Bookings already had collapsed after unions warned travelers to book with other airlines through the busy Christmas-New Year period, and Joyce told a news conference in Sydney the unions' actions have caused a crisis for Qantas.

"They are trashing our strategy and our brand," Joyce said. "They are deliberately destabilizing the company and there is no end in sight."

The grounding of the largest of Australia's four national domestic airlines will take a major economic toll and could disrupt the national Parliament, due to resume in Canberra on Tuesday after a two-week recess. Qantas' budget subsidiary Jetstar continues to fly.

British tourist Chris Crulley, 25, said the pilot on his Qantas flight informed passengers while taxiing down a Sydney runway that he had to return to the terminal "to take an important phone call." The flight was then grounded.

"We're all set for the flight and settled in and the next thing €” I'm stunned. We're getting back off the plane," the firefighter told The Associated Press from Sydney Airport by phone.

Crulley was happy to be heading home to Newcastle after a five-week vacation when his flight was interrupted. "I've got to get back to the other side of the world by Wednesday for work. It's a nightmare," he added.

Qantas offered him up to 350 Australian dollars ($375) a day for food and accommodation, but Crulley expected to struggle to find a hotel at short notice in Sydney on a Saturday night.

The government has called an emergency arbitration court hearing on Saturday night to rule on the strike action and the airline's response.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard said her center-left government, which is affiliated with the trade union movement, had "taken a rare decision" to call an emergency arbitration court hearing on Saturday night to terminate the strike action.

"I believe it is warranted in the circumstances we now face with Qantas ... circumstances with this industrial dispute that could have implications for our national economy," Gillard told reporters.

Transport Minister Anthony Albanese described the grounding as "disappointing" and "extraordinary." Albanese was angry that Qantas gave him only three hours' notice.

All 108 aircraft in as many as 22 countries will be grounded until unions representing pilots, mechanics, baggage handlers and caterers reach agreements with Qantas over pay and conditions, Joyce said.

"We are locking out until the unions withdraw their extreme claim and reach agreement with us," Joyce said, referring shutting staff out of their work stations.

"This is a crisis for Qantas. If the action continues as the unions have promised, we will have no choice but to close down Qantas part by part," he added.

Staff will not be paid starting Monday, and Joyce estimated the grounding will cost the airline $20 million a day. It already had reduced and rescheduled flights for weeks because of strikes and overtime bans as workers worry their jobs will move overseas.

Richard Woodward, vice president of the pilot's union, the Australian and International Pilots Association, accused Qantas of "holding a knife to the nation's throat" and said Joyce had "gone mad."

Steve Purvinas, federal secretary of the mechanics' union, Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association, described the grounding as "an extreme measure."

The recent strike action has most severely affected Qantas domestic flights.

In mid-October, Qantas grounded five jets and reduced domestic flights by almost 100 flights a week because aircraft mechanics had reduced the hours they were prepared to work.

Qantas infuriated unions in August when it said it would improve its loss-making overseas business by creating an Asia-based airline with its own name and brand.

The five-year restructure plan will cost 1,000 of Qantas' 35,000 jobs.

Qantas is the world's 10th largest airline and among the most profitable.

Qantas announced in August that it had more than doubled annual profit to AU$250 million, but warned the business environment was too challenging to forecast earnings for the current fiscal year.

[Tomcat]

Almost as bad a British Airways this mob and they used be owned by such. Maybe they still are

Q and BA
both airlines i would never ever fly with unless they paid me a thousand dollars

I hope they both collapse