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le conservatism at the barricades...
Deputy Prime Minister Wayne Swan says he is "appalled" after an Opposition MP compared Prime Minister Julia Gillard to embattled Libyan leader Moamar Gaddafi. As part of the heated carbon tax debate, Liberal MP Sophie Mirabella said Ms Gillard was as "deluded" as Mr Gaddafi, whose sanity has been questioned in recent days. "If Ms Gillard believes Australians want to pay higher electricity and higher petrol prices, she is as deluded as Colonel 'my people love me' Gaddafi," she said.
from the world of strangelove .....The next generation of body scanners to be rolled out in airports will literally be able to see inside the human body, as security personnel gear up to trial machines that use deep penetrating radiation, the same kind hospitals use to examine internal organs and bones.
the noise before defeat .....Julie Bishop: deputy opposition leader, Orientalist, tactician. The Prime Minister has accused her of being able to bend spoons with her famous glare, but her talents extend further. During yesterday's party room meeting, Bishop urged her Coalition colleagues to adopt the battle methods of Sun Tzu, the famous military tactician and author of the ancient tome The Art of War. ''Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory,'' she told the joint party room. ''Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.''
vandal at work .....Tony Abbott has sharpened the political choice by promising he would repeal a carbon tax. But it is a strategy with risks and costs. It means that if the tax starts mid-next year, businesses won't know for about a year after that (assuming the Parliament runs full term) whether they have to live with the tax permanently. Yet what business wants from politicians on both sides is certainty. With the prospect of the tax being rescinded, some businesses may delay investment decisions and the doubt could pay havoc with risk premiums.
special privileges .....Why is it acceptable for Australians to donate money (and receive tax deductions) to illegal settlements in the West Bank but the Australian government isn't able to openly provide aid to citizens living under the rule of Hamas and Hizbollah? The corruption of international aid by politics. Here's an interesting report on PressTV.
in a word .....Rolling Stone reporter Matt Taibbi, whose new piece in Rolling Stone outlines the complete lack of accountability for Wall Street crooks, tells Democracy Now!,
the dark side of the moon .....As politicians are asking ordinary Americans to sacrifice their education, their health, their labor rights, and their wellbeing to tackle budget deficits, some of the world's richest multinational corporations are getting away with shirking their responsibility and paying nothing. ThinkProgress has assembled a short but far from comprehensive list of these tax dodgers - corporations which have rigged the tax system to their advantage so they can reap huge profits and avoid paying taxes:
screen gems .....Silvio Berlusconi is an internationally renowned figure, but not for his good reputation as an upright and respectable statesman, rather as a notorious man who can be called one of the most corrupt politicians of the world in all terms. An unflappable and defiant politician who has accumulated a collection of criminal charges for which he hasn't been held accountable so far, Berlusconi is approaching the first stages of punishment for several crimes he committed during his three terms of premiership in Italy.
bloodletting...
letter to prueAn open letter to Prue McSween from Gus Leonisky
whinge, whinge, say no more...Deputy Opposition Leader Julie Bishop says the announcement is a betrayal of trust for the Australian people. "This represents a fundamental breach of an election promise that the Prime Minister gave solemnly to the Australian people on the eve of the last election," she said. "She said there would be no carbon price, no carbon tax under any government that she led. "She has broken the trust the Australian people put in her at the last election. "It's another example of the Labor Party being in government, but the Greens being in power."
Malcolm is back niggardly online...
back from the grave...Last night on Lateline (ABCTV) Malcolm the Debonair explained to Tony Jones, with great smiles and affability, that ALL his Liberal colleagues we uninamous on embracing multi-culturalism in Orstraylia...... That is not the impression we got from a few of them including Tony the Little Rattus. Transcript should be available soon...
the idiots are at it again...A Climate Skeptic With a Bully Pulpit in Virginia Finds an Ear in Congress RICHMOND, Va. — For nearly a year, Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, Virginia’s crusading Republican attorney general, has waged a one-man war on the theory of man-made global warming.
wooing....TONY ABBOTT'S hopes of encouraging the federal independents to switch sides before the next election have taken a blow, with Rob Oakeshott saying he will not be attending any more weekly meetings with the Opposition Leader because of the Coalition's ''personal attacks''. The final straw for Mr Oakeshott was an address by the shadow treasurer, Joe Hockey, at a function in his electorate on Friday night for a NSW state National Party candidate, where Mr Hockey delivered a message on behalf of the radio announcer Alan Jones that ''a vote for an independent is a vote for Labor''. Jones pulled out of the event at the last minute due to illness.
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