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Aug 082011
 

AUSTRALIA’S national debt is threatening to crash through the $1 trillion mark for the first time because of government stimulus spending and private borrowing to fund the mining and infrastructure boom.

A recent Treasury analysis of the flow of cash into and out of the country shows net foreign debt could reach 85 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) in the next decade – up from 60 per cent now.

Australia’s GDP was $1.2 trillion last year.

The Federal Government will pay $48 billion in interest over the next four years.

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Under APA we will not see this sort of uncontrolled spending, overseas borrowing or interest being paid to the RBA.

Please view our monetary policy

 

Jul 312011
 

Something amazing is happening across all corners of Australia, encompassing the true Aussie spirit of mateship, unity and fight. It’s people power, and it’s coming to a politician near you…

. National Road Freighters Association president, Mick Pattel, is literally the driving force behind the idea, which started as a way for truckies to take a stand, and voice their concerns regarding the live export crisis and the proposed carbon tax.

But overnight the idea became a sensation, and hundreds of other concerned Aussies with a similar ‘have wheels, will travel’ kind of view, have now jumped on board.

Beef farmer and mum of four Cate Stuart has donned the role of publicity officer. She says the best thing about the convoy so far is that is has given people a reason to believe they can make a difference. “I’m just a mum,” Cate says. “But this convoy has given people, just the mums, just the dads, just the kids, the confidence to stand up and say, I’ve got an issue with the way our country is being run.

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This is great to see more people who have had enough stand up against this tyrannic Government

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jul 302011
 

(NaturalNews) Throughout the history of agriculture across the globe, farming has always been a diversified sector of the economy. Small, self-sustaining, family farms were the order of the day in most cultures. Even as small farms grew larger and more specialized over time, many of them still saved seeds or purchased them from other farmers, which kept control of farming in the hands of the people.

But today everything has changed, as large chemical and agribusiness firms have acquired or merged with seed companies and other agricultural input companies. They have successfully gained a foothold on genetically-modified (GM)cropswith transgenic traits.

These primary factors and several others have facilitated a crescendo towards the global domination of agriculture bycorporations, and thus the world’sfood supply.

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Jul 302011
 

According to the University of Alabama:

Data from NASA’s Terra satellite shows that when the climate warms, Earth’s atmosphere is apparently more efficient at releasing energy to space than models used to forecast climate change have been programmed to “believe.”

The result is climate forecasts that are warming substantially faster than the atmosphere, says Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist in the Earth System Science Center at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.

The previously unexplained differences between model-based forecasts of rapid global warming and meteorological data showing a slower rate of warming have been the source of often contentious debate and controversy for more than two decades.

“The satellite observations suggest there is much more energy lost to space during and after warming than the climate models show,” Spencer said. “There is a huge discrepancy between the data and the forecasts that is especially big over the oceans.”

Not only does the atmosphere release more energy than previously thought, it starts releasing it earlier in a warming cycle. The models forecast that the climate should continue to absorb solar energy until a warming event peaks. Instead, the satellite data shows the climate system starting to shed energy more than three months before the typical warming event reaches its peak.

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These data are examined in a new paper:

Spencer, R.W.; Braswell, W.D. On the Misdiagnosis of Surface Temperature Feedbacks from Variations in Earth’s Radiant Energy Balance. Remote Sens. 2011, 3, 1603-1613.

Read the full paper here.

Jul 192011
 

WHY?

“I have asked the colleagues to present the results clearly, but not to interpret them,” reports veteran science editor Nigel Calder on his blog. Why?

Because, Heuer says, “That would go immediately into the highly political arena of the climate change debate. One has to make clear that cosmic radiation is only one of many parameters.”

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Really starting to get sick on all this crap!

Full Conversation Here:

Welt Online: The results of the so-called CLOUD experiment, exploring the formation of clouds, are awaited with great excitement. Could these results still be important for understanding global climate change?
Heuer: This is indeed a matter of understanding better the formation of clouds. In nature there are many parameters at work – including temperature, humidity, impurities and also cosmic radiation. In the experiment, CLOUD investigates the influence of cosmic rays on cloud formation, using radiation [meaning particles] coming from the accelerator. And in an experimental chamber one can study, under controlled conditions, how the formation of droplets depends on the radiation and particulate matter. The results will be published shortly. I have asked the colleagues to present the results clearly, but not to interpret them. That would go immediately into the highly political arena of the climate change debate. One has to make clear that cosmic radiation is only one of many parameters.

 

Jul 132011
 

PRIME Minister Julia Gillard has conceded her decision to pursue a controversial carbon tax was influenced by the number of Green and Independent MPs in Parliament.

Asked why she had gone back on her pledge that there would be no carbon tax under her government, Ms Gillard seemed to admit the make-up of Parliament after the election had forced her hand.

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Jul 102011
 

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says “millions of Australians will be worse off” under the Government’s carbon price scheme.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has unveiled the details of the scheme she says will chart Australia’s course to a “clean energy future”, saying the price on carbon pollution will start at $23 per tonne from next year and then increase by 2.5 per cent above inflation until a market-based trading scheme takes over in 2015.

More than $15 billion is being set aside to compensate households via tax reform and direct payments, and the Government says the average household will be 20 cents a week better off.

Mr Abbott said that when the Government said 90 per cent of households would get compensation and 40 per cent would be overcompensated, it really meant that 10 per cent of households would get “absolutely nothing” and 60 per cent would be either worse off or “line ball”.

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As more details comes to light, I will post more information about this tax no ones wants and is being shoved down our throats!

 

 Posted by at 5:54 pm
Jul 092011
 

All the informatino below is copied from http://www.notoriouslyconservative.com/2009/03/global-warming-hoax-refuted.html

I have done a straight copy and paste because this information seems to disappear from time to time :-/

The following charts are from the Heartland Institute sponsored, 2009 International Conference on Climate Change in New York, (you wont see these in the news)

This one, by Dennis Avery, puts the climate swings of the last 12,000 years (i.e., since the last Ice Age) in perspective.

This one, by Syun Akasofu, also takes a long-term view, and compares the politically-driven prediction by the UN’s IPCC with the historical trend as the earth has recovered from the Little Ice Age.

Don Easterbrook makes the basic point that, contrary to the hysterical predictions of the alarmists, the earth is cooling, not warming.

This one by Dennis Avery shows the lack of any correlation between atmospheric CO2 and temperatures in the atmosphere.

Don Easterbrook compares the correlations of solar activity and CO2 concentration to temperature. It seems pretty obvious where the explanation for fluctuations in temperature lies.