The beginning of the week was all about the earthquake in New Zealand.
A quake that occurs 6 months after another is not an "aftershock" but a whole new quake.
Survivors have been found alive in collapsed buildings 10 days later, but the NZ government decided that after 2 no one was left alive. Well until the Japanese arrived and started the search again for them. I'm not sure if this makes the NZ government the weakest in the world or just plain stupid.
Some descriptions declared that the earthquake was "evil." Anthropomorphising an earthquake might make news but it is certainly not the truth or a fact.
The other big news was the "Carbon" tax. CO2 is not Carbon, CO2 is not a poison and CO2 is not driving runaway global warming. The real news is the Julia lied, that Bob has an inordinate amount of power and that we never want to elect people like Rob and Tony W ever again.
A carbon tax will drive the prices of essentials up for no good reason.
Hopefully in a few years the only Independents left in Australian are Nick and perhaps Mr Katter.
The other news is of course the Middle East. The Left has the analysis completely wrong as usual. This is not about deposing dictators but the new rise of the Caliphate. In two years when Egypt is Iran those from the Left who offered other opinions will deny they ever said anything.
The UN as usual has been completely useless since they are now run by the Arabic block (Islamic).
The Australian had a few good articles on the useless NBN.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Friday, February 18, 2011
Feb 18 - 2010
Front Page
Headline was incorrect and should have said "Gillard pretends to slap down union heavies"
Yes the Greens are running the country.
It is getting more and more common to see English massaged, and real meanings vanishing. Consider the word devout when applied to a Muslim. To be devout you have to follow the teachings of Islam. Consider the word race, Islam is no race but if you say anything against Islam you are called a racist. how can we believe all listen to people that can't even get basic definitions of English words correct. No, I'm not talking about immigrants here, I'm talking about our own journalists.
Page 3
I have zero sympathy for our booksellers. First of all they vigourously fought to keep to the UK distribution system thereby ensuring a book prices remained quite as much as those in the US or more. If they'd removed these restrictions books would've been cheaper, more people would have bought them, and they would have made more profit. Second I walked into a Borders and tried to get them to order a locally published book they refused to do so. When a bookstore won't even order the book after or are incapable of doing so they shouldn't remain in the industry.
Page 4
It seems our immigration Minister, correction our multiculturalism minister, believes that Australia is somehow special and can implement multiculturalism that has failed all over the world. Australia's greatest weakness is its insane belief that we are better at everything and than everyone else.
Page 5
Where the laughing stock of the rest of the world. Ask anyone overseas about how bending over backwards to coddle to the so-called asylum seekers and refugees. The UN declares Afghanistan to no longer be a source of refugees but over 98% are accepted. Once again another apologist article by Sally Neighbour.
Page 6
What a surprise the government had to back off on some of the speed claims for the NBN. They were of course always rubbish.
Page 8
What a surprise The Wall Street Journal says the situation in Egypt has everything to do with money and nothing to do with jihad.
Page 10
For some reason the Muslim Brotherhood's agenda is unclear to Washington. It is however very clear to them they must increase the size of Dar Islam.
Page 11
Yes this is the crux of the issue the Muslim community is high profile. This tiny minority has managed to affect change in the country of Australia to the point where Sharia Law is being considered and our freedoms have been abdicated. Oh, what a surprise, a full-page apologist article by Sally Neighbour.
Page 13
Excellent letter by Zillah Williams and Patricia Smith. Keith Mouatt doesn't get it. A few mandatory ad hominem attacks on Tony Abbott. I sometimes wonder if the staff of The Australian don't write some themselves is not enough have come in.
An unsurprising letter from Barrie Cassidy. He pretends to be fair and balanced but is as left as they come. You only have to watch him to know that he has a bias.
Headline was incorrect and should have said "Gillard pretends to slap down union heavies"
Yes the Greens are running the country.
It is getting more and more common to see English massaged, and real meanings vanishing. Consider the word devout when applied to a Muslim. To be devout you have to follow the teachings of Islam. Consider the word race, Islam is no race but if you say anything against Islam you are called a racist. how can we believe all listen to people that can't even get basic definitions of English words correct. No, I'm not talking about immigrants here, I'm talking about our own journalists.
Page 3
I have zero sympathy for our booksellers. First of all they vigourously fought to keep to the UK distribution system thereby ensuring a book prices remained quite as much as those in the US or more. If they'd removed these restrictions books would've been cheaper, more people would have bought them, and they would have made more profit. Second I walked into a Borders and tried to get them to order a locally published book they refused to do so. When a bookstore won't even order the book after or are incapable of doing so they shouldn't remain in the industry.
Page 4
It seems our immigration Minister, correction our multiculturalism minister, believes that Australia is somehow special and can implement multiculturalism that has failed all over the world. Australia's greatest weakness is its insane belief that we are better at everything and than everyone else.
Page 5
Where the laughing stock of the rest of the world. Ask anyone overseas about how bending over backwards to coddle to the so-called asylum seekers and refugees. The UN declares Afghanistan to no longer be a source of refugees but over 98% are accepted. Once again another apologist article by Sally Neighbour.
Page 6
What a surprise the government had to back off on some of the speed claims for the NBN. They were of course always rubbish.
Page 8
What a surprise The Wall Street Journal says the situation in Egypt has everything to do with money and nothing to do with jihad.
Page 10
For some reason the Muslim Brotherhood's agenda is unclear to Washington. It is however very clear to them they must increase the size of Dar Islam.
Page 11
Yes this is the crux of the issue the Muslim community is high profile. This tiny minority has managed to affect change in the country of Australia to the point where Sharia Law is being considered and our freedoms have been abdicated. Oh, what a surprise, a full-page apologist article by Sally Neighbour.
Page 13
Excellent letter by Zillah Williams and Patricia Smith. Keith Mouatt doesn't get it. A few mandatory ad hominem attacks on Tony Abbott. I sometimes wonder if the staff of The Australian don't write some themselves is not enough have come in.
An unsurprising letter from Barrie Cassidy. He pretends to be fair and balanced but is as left as they come. You only have to watch him to know that he has a bias.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Feb 17 - 2010
Front Page
There is no way the BER construction companies should be going into business.The amount of overcharging that was going on, and still is means that either they are being run by the world's worst money managers or a lot of money got squirrelled away.
The Left are deathly afraid of the One Nation Party. Just the sound of that name as the quaking in their boots to the point where they immediately have to make up crazy stories.
Chris Bowen speaks absolute rubbish when it comes to the subject of multiculturalism in Australia. To suggest that somehow our model is different from anybody else is patently absurd. Multiculturalism was always a failed model.
Page 3
The watered-down Vegemite story sums up our cotton wool society.
So now our students get to write suicide notes what a wonderful education curriculum has been devised for our children.
Page 7
No surprise that the made up on the spot levy from the Labor government turns out to be the most expensive option. Our current government is incapable of coming up with the best least expensive option.
Page 9
So what. The London bomber is a doting father, it's all an act.
Page 10
I notice there was no speculation on who might have attacked and sexually assaulted the television journalist in Cairo. The Islamic religion fully supports such actions on female nonbelievers. No report on Hamas blocking deliveries to Gaza. When Israel does it everybody moans, rings their hands and calls them names. When Hamas does it, not a word.
Page 12
Another good article by Greg Sheridan.
Page 13 – LETTERS
If you could let this today, a few ad hominem attacks on those right of Labor. Rubbish letter by Jim Barnes. With the release of the analogue TV bandwidth there is more than enough spectrum to support the population of Australia on a wireless network. Ask any decent communications engineer. Not sure what David Gerber was on about, but I'm sure they did.
There is no way the BER construction companies should be going into business.The amount of overcharging that was going on, and still is means that either they are being run by the world's worst money managers or a lot of money got squirrelled away.
The Left are deathly afraid of the One Nation Party. Just the sound of that name as the quaking in their boots to the point where they immediately have to make up crazy stories.
Chris Bowen speaks absolute rubbish when it comes to the subject of multiculturalism in Australia. To suggest that somehow our model is different from anybody else is patently absurd. Multiculturalism was always a failed model.
Page 3
The watered-down Vegemite story sums up our cotton wool society.
So now our students get to write suicide notes what a wonderful education curriculum has been devised for our children.
Page 7
No surprise that the made up on the spot levy from the Labor government turns out to be the most expensive option. Our current government is incapable of coming up with the best least expensive option.
Page 9
So what. The London bomber is a doting father, it's all an act.
Page 10
I notice there was no speculation on who might have attacked and sexually assaulted the television journalist in Cairo. The Islamic religion fully supports such actions on female nonbelievers. No report on Hamas blocking deliveries to Gaza. When Israel does it everybody moans, rings their hands and calls them names. When Hamas does it, not a word.
Page 12
Another good article by Greg Sheridan.
Page 13 – LETTERS
If you could let this today, a few ad hominem attacks on those right of Labor. Rubbish letter by Jim Barnes. With the release of the analogue TV bandwidth there is more than enough spectrum to support the population of Australia on a wireless network. Ask any decent communications engineer. Not sure what David Gerber was on about, but I'm sure they did.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Feb 15 - 2010
Front Page
You have to laugh the world is moving towards mobile communication idiots incharge persist in pushing the current NBN. Telstra's got it right the government's got it wrong.
Yet another warm and fluffy article in true apologist style from Sally Neighbour. Every time I see her name I know it's going to be a pro Islamic article.
Page 2
And there on page 2 by Paige Taylor the same kind of thing. What many of these journalists, and we use the term loosely, to realise is that these people have been coached before they arrive and they know exactly what to say to push what buttons.
Page 3
What a surprise the radical preacher Bashir admits to supporting a terrorist training camp. Was there ever any doubt?
Page 6
In what universe does a carbon price not lead to increased our costs? Certainly not in ours.
Page 10
The article by David Aaronovitch is at best disingenuous. He is obviously an apologist for Islam, knows nothing about the term multiculturalism and even less about the teachings of Islam. Of course this article did come from The Times.
Page 12
A whole page that nobody pointing out how dangerous the rapid changes across the Middle East and Northern Africa truly are. It won't take long and even the biggest idiots realise that most of what have been saying is peculative rubbish.
Page 14
There is a strange definition of the word "democracy" being used in relationship to the changes in Egypt. In a number of nations democracy may very well bring a permanent end to democracy in those nations. The misunderstanding of the situation is almost comical.
The Kiwis have a disaster fund. We used to have a future fund that could be used to the same things. The Labor government spent all the future fund and put the country in debt. This is why were in trouble. It's quite simple.
Page 15
Good letter from James Perry. Our electoral system, the ones without optional preferences, is probably one of the worst in the democratic world's.
What a surprise letter from Tim Flannery with no substance but lots of self praise. I can't wait to see that he does next. Mark Sproat summed it up fairly succinctly.
You have to laugh the world is moving towards mobile communication idiots incharge persist in pushing the current NBN. Telstra's got it right the government's got it wrong.
Yet another warm and fluffy article in true apologist style from Sally Neighbour. Every time I see her name I know it's going to be a pro Islamic article.
Page 2
And there on page 2 by Paige Taylor the same kind of thing. What many of these journalists, and we use the term loosely, to realise is that these people have been coached before they arrive and they know exactly what to say to push what buttons.
Page 3
What a surprise the radical preacher Bashir admits to supporting a terrorist training camp. Was there ever any doubt?
Page 6
In what universe does a carbon price not lead to increased our costs? Certainly not in ours.
Page 10
The article by David Aaronovitch is at best disingenuous. He is obviously an apologist for Islam, knows nothing about the term multiculturalism and even less about the teachings of Islam. Of course this article did come from The Times.
Page 12
A whole page that nobody pointing out how dangerous the rapid changes across the Middle East and Northern Africa truly are. It won't take long and even the biggest idiots realise that most of what have been saying is peculative rubbish.
Page 14
There is a strange definition of the word "democracy" being used in relationship to the changes in Egypt. In a number of nations democracy may very well bring a permanent end to democracy in those nations. The misunderstanding of the situation is almost comical.
The Kiwis have a disaster fund. We used to have a future fund that could be used to the same things. The Labor government spent all the future fund and put the country in debt. This is why were in trouble. It's quite simple.
Page 15
Good letter from James Perry. Our electoral system, the ones without optional preferences, is probably one of the worst in the democratic world's.
What a surprise letter from Tim Flannery with no substance but lots of self praise. I can't wait to see that he does next. Mark Sproat summed it up fairly succinctly.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Feb 14 - 2010
Front Page
This statement says it all "an interim carbon tax be imposed from next year and that no targets or trajectories for greenhouse gas emissions be set". In the first place Julia told us they would never be a carbon tax. The real issue here is by implementing one without any concerns that targets is a simple statement that the government is only interested in getting more money and has no interest in global warming is such. The business groups are correct the government had deceived them from the beginning of negotiations.
Page 2
The Business Council of Australia as time and time again shown itself to be a non-forwardthinking organisation. They're calling for a greater number of skilled migrants to be admitted but the truth of this issue is that Australia rarely recognises the skills and many of these need to be retrained here to get the official certifications before they can work. It makes the whole thing wrong.
Page 7
Finally someone is talking about the idiocy of the overhead cables for the NBN.
Time and time again the public is misled when it comes to the alleged children being held in detention. The Indonesians and many others take great joy in tricking Our gullible authorities by telling them they are children. In some cases these "children" are as old as 30. This farce is fully supported by groups like the Western Australian based Indonesia Institute. Better tests need to be used to determine the true age of these individuals.
Page 9
The Muslim Ahmadiyya sect is considered heretical in Indonesia primarily because it is not fundamentalist. Westerners really understand that it is the non-fundamentalist sects are the only ones likely to be tolerant of us.
Page 10
So a couple of days after the new Chinese Ambassador told us how tolerant China is we read that the couple was beaten senseless by security officials who injured them so badly they could not get out of bed but who were not allowed to go to hospital. China has a long history of human rights violations that is often conveniently ignored by countries like Australia.
Page 13
What a surprise. The media is keeping documents under lock and key because someone was afraid of what they had to say. The same thing occurs with documents about global warming there are so many that now show it to be false that the media simply sits on. That documents from which he leaks are also being kept quiet is no surprise whatsoever.
Page 15
"The government is opting for a sensible, modest start" all based on a series of lies about global warming and CO2. The bid after the quote was of course left off what The Australian had to say.
LETTERS
Number of good letters today many warning that the situation in Egypt could parallel the one in Iran when the Shah was deposed. This is of course a very real possibility. The Coptic Christians are fearful and so they should be Islam is not tolerate any religion but their own.
I hadn't realised that bottled water can cost up to twice as much as milk. Makes you think. Byron Kaufman is not appear to be a very deep thinker. The payments Australia makes to Indonesia are considered under Islam as taxes known as the Jizia. A subject I doubt Mr Kaufman knows anything about.
This statement says it all "an interim carbon tax be imposed from next year and that no targets or trajectories for greenhouse gas emissions be set". In the first place Julia told us they would never be a carbon tax. The real issue here is by implementing one without any concerns that targets is a simple statement that the government is only interested in getting more money and has no interest in global warming is such. The business groups are correct the government had deceived them from the beginning of negotiations.
Page 2
The Business Council of Australia as time and time again shown itself to be a non-forwardthinking organisation. They're calling for a greater number of skilled migrants to be admitted but the truth of this issue is that Australia rarely recognises the skills and many of these need to be retrained here to get the official certifications before they can work. It makes the whole thing wrong.
Page 7
Finally someone is talking about the idiocy of the overhead cables for the NBN.
Time and time again the public is misled when it comes to the alleged children being held in detention. The Indonesians and many others take great joy in tricking Our gullible authorities by telling them they are children. In some cases these "children" are as old as 30. This farce is fully supported by groups like the Western Australian based Indonesia Institute. Better tests need to be used to determine the true age of these individuals.
Page 9
The Muslim Ahmadiyya sect is considered heretical in Indonesia primarily because it is not fundamentalist. Westerners really understand that it is the non-fundamentalist sects are the only ones likely to be tolerant of us.
Page 10
So a couple of days after the new Chinese Ambassador told us how tolerant China is we read that the couple was beaten senseless by security officials who injured them so badly they could not get out of bed but who were not allowed to go to hospital. China has a long history of human rights violations that is often conveniently ignored by countries like Australia.
Page 13
What a surprise. The media is keeping documents under lock and key because someone was afraid of what they had to say. The same thing occurs with documents about global warming there are so many that now show it to be false that the media simply sits on. That documents from which he leaks are also being kept quiet is no surprise whatsoever.
Page 15
"The government is opting for a sensible, modest start" all based on a series of lies about global warming and CO2. The bid after the quote was of course left off what The Australian had to say.
LETTERS
Number of good letters today many warning that the situation in Egypt could parallel the one in Iran when the Shah was deposed. This is of course a very real possibility. The Coptic Christians are fearful and so they should be Islam is not tolerate any religion but their own.
I hadn't realised that bottled water can cost up to twice as much as milk. Makes you think. Byron Kaufman is not appear to be a very deep thinker. The payments Australia makes to Indonesia are considered under Islam as taxes known as the Jizia. A subject I doubt Mr Kaufman knows anything about.
Friday, February 11, 2011
Feb 12 - 2010
Front Page
The head of the CIA is an idiot. Who on earth would trust the media as the primary source of information.
What a surprise labour government using a biology student called research as the basis for a whole policy. In this case not clearing growth to prevent bushfires.
Page 2
Now we are listening to Guantanamo detainees?
Peter Alford writes like an apologist for Islam. I've yet to see an accurate definition of moderate Islam.
Page 3
Use the word torture in a military sense there is outrage. Torture and children and you get six years in prison. this is a wonderful legal system.
So the Wiki leaks found is complaining about a book exposing his background what a hypocrite.
Page 10
Good to see the Independent Federal MP is not backing down when it comes to poker machines.
Page 12
If I'd been there once finished rolling on the floor with laughter I would have called the Chinese Ambassador a flat out liar. China has no history of seeking dominance? China has always been a peaceful and friendly nation? I guess if you look at the last couple months that may be so but China has had a long history of aggression and seeking dominance of all of its neighbours to say otherwise is simply a barefaced lie.
Once again we see the lie that ocean surface temperatures are rising. The global graph has shown a decline for a few years now. The article also does not mention the Indian oscillation cycle which in more recent papers has been linked with droughts in Australia. As usual any information on climate, climatology and climate change is not only updated when portrayed in the media completely inaccurate.
Page 15
Why is it that any article on aborigines makes him out to be some amazing forward thinking culture? When a society will we be able to label things as they really are.. There was never a judicious use of fire, it was not planned, it was used indiscriminately by nomadic people.
LETTERS
Lots of good letters on the NBN today. I also challenge one writer Wallace will never be as fast as fibre. Lots of ad hominem attacks. Good letter from the retired Commodore.
The head of the CIA is an idiot. Who on earth would trust the media as the primary source of information.
What a surprise labour government using a biology student called research as the basis for a whole policy. In this case not clearing growth to prevent bushfires.
Page 2
Now we are listening to Guantanamo detainees?
Peter Alford writes like an apologist for Islam. I've yet to see an accurate definition of moderate Islam.
Page 3
Use the word torture in a military sense there is outrage. Torture and children and you get six years in prison. this is a wonderful legal system.
So the Wiki leaks found is complaining about a book exposing his background what a hypocrite.
Page 10
Good to see the Independent Federal MP is not backing down when it comes to poker machines.
Page 12
If I'd been there once finished rolling on the floor with laughter I would have called the Chinese Ambassador a flat out liar. China has no history of seeking dominance? China has always been a peaceful and friendly nation? I guess if you look at the last couple months that may be so but China has had a long history of aggression and seeking dominance of all of its neighbours to say otherwise is simply a barefaced lie.
Once again we see the lie that ocean surface temperatures are rising. The global graph has shown a decline for a few years now. The article also does not mention the Indian oscillation cycle which in more recent papers has been linked with droughts in Australia. As usual any information on climate, climatology and climate change is not only updated when portrayed in the media completely inaccurate.
Page 15
Why is it that any article on aborigines makes him out to be some amazing forward thinking culture? When a society will we be able to label things as they really are.. There was never a judicious use of fire, it was not planned, it was used indiscriminately by nomadic people.
LETTERS
Lots of good letters on the NBN today. I also challenge one writer Wallace will never be as fast as fibre. Lots of ad hominem attacks. Good letter from the retired Commodore.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Feb 11 - 2010
Page 3
The rookie cops crash. The salient points here are police vehicle was speeding, with no lights or siren. The commanders say they were justified in their haste to get to the accident. Even the family said they were trying to do their best on the job these things occur what can you say? Our society is degenerating to the point where nobody is ever held accountable for anything. The police should have had lights on the siren that didn't and that is excused by all.
Page 4
Asylum seekers nearly $2 billion over four years and the Minister says the government was committed to working to develop a sustainable regional response to the issue of increased by arrivals. What a load of rubbish, there are options they are not taking them.
Page 5
Big picture of what might be Australia's biggest idiot.
How can we trust the government to put an environmental activists with almost no knowledge of climate change at the top of the Gillard Climate Commission. if you go back through the reports Tim Flannery has predicted zero things correctly when it comes to climate change. Climate Change Minister says that this commission will allow people in the community to get access to information about climate change, climate science, international developments and the actions other countries were taking to deal with climate change. Translation: the commission will peddle lies, bad science, political positions, international political positions, and no truth whatsoever about the issue of global warming, CO2 and climate change. Remember Flannery is a palaeontologist and mammologist.
Page 6
So poor old retirees are getting hit with a super levy for the flood victims, how fair of the Gillard government.
Page 8
Excellent article by Michael Sainsbury. The key sentence Rudd understands Chinese but doesn't understand China. There are very very few people in Australia let alone in the government that understand China. China however understands us all to well.
Page 11
There's really nothing to say about this Bashir is a terrorist leader.
Page 12
Excellent article by Henry Ergas and another one by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Key sentence in that last one The Muslim Brotherhood all argue for Takayyah or the strategy of deception. The West continues to believe what groups like The Muslim Brotherhood say in public without having any idea what goes on behind closed doors. I guess that makes most of the West idiots.
Page 13
Good to see even more negative press against Channel 7.
LETTERS
Chris Squelch get it right J Tomkins provides a letter that could be used to the definition of inane. Stupid letters by Alan Waller and Mike Puleston because they are simple ad hominem attacks. Ruth Bonetti states it far more clearly. As for the rest yes it is doubtful given the current environment that we could ever crew submarines or fulfil any of our military obligations.
The rookie cops crash. The salient points here are police vehicle was speeding, with no lights or siren. The commanders say they were justified in their haste to get to the accident. Even the family said they were trying to do their best on the job these things occur what can you say? Our society is degenerating to the point where nobody is ever held accountable for anything. The police should have had lights on the siren that didn't and that is excused by all.
Page 4
Asylum seekers nearly $2 billion over four years and the Minister says the government was committed to working to develop a sustainable regional response to the issue of increased by arrivals. What a load of rubbish, there are options they are not taking them.
Page 5
Big picture of what might be Australia's biggest idiot.
How can we trust the government to put an environmental activists with almost no knowledge of climate change at the top of the Gillard Climate Commission. if you go back through the reports Tim Flannery has predicted zero things correctly when it comes to climate change. Climate Change Minister says that this commission will allow people in the community to get access to information about climate change, climate science, international developments and the actions other countries were taking to deal with climate change. Translation: the commission will peddle lies, bad science, political positions, international political positions, and no truth whatsoever about the issue of global warming, CO2 and climate change. Remember Flannery is a palaeontologist and mammologist.
Page 6
So poor old retirees are getting hit with a super levy for the flood victims, how fair of the Gillard government.
Page 8
Excellent article by Michael Sainsbury. The key sentence Rudd understands Chinese but doesn't understand China. There are very very few people in Australia let alone in the government that understand China. China however understands us all to well.
Page 11
There's really nothing to say about this Bashir is a terrorist leader.
Page 12
Excellent article by Henry Ergas and another one by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Key sentence in that last one The Muslim Brotherhood all argue for Takayyah or the strategy of deception. The West continues to believe what groups like The Muslim Brotherhood say in public without having any idea what goes on behind closed doors. I guess that makes most of the West idiots.
Page 13
Good to see even more negative press against Channel 7.
LETTERS
Chris Squelch get it right J Tomkins provides a letter that could be used to the definition of inane. Stupid letters by Alan Waller and Mike Puleston because they are simple ad hominem attacks. Ruth Bonetti states it far more clearly. As for the rest yes it is doubtful given the current environment that we could ever crew submarines or fulfil any of our military obligations.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Feb 10 - 2010
Front Page
What a surprise the Labor government's NBN is the most expensive per head than any other nation on the planet. Also while others are delivering 1 Gb per second and costing less we will be stuck with a fixed line network.
I'm somewhat confused by the definition of "indigenous". The picture of a pretty girl on the front page is not look anything like a full-blooded aboriginal. Indigenous then, must mean anyone who was born in Australia. For the purposes of integration that term "closing the gap" is somewhat absurd because separating one group out because they may have a few strands of aboriginal DNA should be called "broadening the gap". As Mr Cameron from the UK recently said multiculturalism doesn't work. Separating out aboriginals is a form of multiculturalism and it doesn't work.
Page 2
As expected anybody from military making a comment on what Tony Abbott said he is fully behind him and completely against the reporter. It doesn't matter whether they are VC winners or rank and file, they will understand what he meant.
It is becoming somewhat obvious that Julie Bishop is positioning herself to challenge the leadership, mostly over petty stuff.
Page 3
If anybody has ever done Certificate IV in training and assessment, or anything similar, to understand what units of competency are. They are simply a set of standards, both theoretical and practical that an individual must demonstrate to meet a set of requirements set out by some kind of standards body.
In the case of teaching when they say that every teacher will have the same level of competency has any other teacher in any other classroom this does not mean that the individual will be good at getting knowledge and skills across to students. None of these levels of competency can produce an individual who can get the message across well. Building such structures does satisfy some kind of overseer role of the government will never address good teaching. What it will do his foster a culture of teachers who will study and take the next competency units, pass them, and be judged "excellent".
Could not help from laughing out loud at the contention that an iPhone and iPad application, or Android application would be 100% secure. Only non-IT professionals make such statements.
Page 4
The concept that individuals are becoming reluctant to take out insurance while expecting governments to pay up automatically follows from the current round of handouts to the non-insured by the government in wake of the current severe weather events. It is after all basic psychology 101.
The dengue fever outbreak could be handled quite easily by using DDT, he was after all what it was designed for, to kill disease bearing mosquitoes. We can thank the Greens and other do-gooders are not being a will to use the scientifically proven safe technology. My sympathies to those who will catch dengue.
Page 6
So the Liberal Barry O'Farrell wants a bigger Sydney. I guess he must be an economist. If I was living in New South Wales this statement alone is enough to have me worried about voting Liberal.
Page 7
The Victorian police force has shown itself to be essentially useless. There are certain things or crimes that should always be a high priority and high focus. One of these is the protection of children from sex offenders. To use the excuse that they needed additional funding to manage this aspect of the policing spectrum shows how morally poor that group in Victoria has become.
Page 8
Good article on the United Nations needing to condemn blasphemy laws. As highlighted the reason they exist is the 47 member Organisation of the Islamic Conference who have supported this purely to prevent any comment, discussion, analysis or examination of Islam. The resolution has been used to justify the killing of those who make comments on Islam. It has never been used against four example people who have made any comments on Christianity, or Judaism. Yes such a law is a direct violation of freedom of speech, but that doesn't matter to the UN.
Page 9
I'm sure there are a lot of people who would disagree but I and I suspect many others fully support the US threat to cut aid to Pakistan unless the American, with diplomatic immunity, is released. I am somewhat confused as to how somebody with a GPS navigation system in a foreign country is unusual. There are many people in their own country use a GPS. It is also fairly standard practice amongst US embassy employees in countries with high level of violence, like Pakistan, to carry a personal weapon.
Page 11
Stephen Conroy must be proud, he is after all the father of the most expensive commutations baby on the planet. He is also have no surprise that basic maths is being stripped away as an ability. The article reads that we come in at number nine at 16 nations. Looking at the chart where you come in at 10. Anybody who is ill watch golf, as an example, will know that when people are tied those making up the tied number used all of the values they represent. In this case two countries were tied at fourth using up the fifth position. I guess saying we came ninth is better than saying we came 10th.
Page 11
Another excellent analysis by Greg Sheridan. In reality the majority of commenters know nothing about the realities in Egypt, the religion of Islam, and the process of jihad.
Page 12 – Letters
Lots of letters in support of Tony Abbott and the gutter journalism of Riley. Having served in the military comments from the air force individual is not surprising. They always considered themselves "better" and "above" the other services. Brett Allen standard ad hominem attack with no substance. Tom Nilsson has an help our national interest to make sure that hundreds of thousands of children in our nearest, largest neighbour get a thorough education in the tenets of Islam? Linking Tony Abbott to Pauline Hanson is a simple and cheap trick.
According to the president of the Australian veterinarian Association is no solid evidence that treating animals with antibiotics has a significant effect on the spread of mutant superbugs. The medical community at large has an opinion on this. Part of the problem are too many people taking antibiotics when they don't need to. This is however only part of the problem there are studies that show that statistical link between feeding antibiotics like Ethromycin two chickens and other animals helps to build up an antibiotic immunity.
What a surprise the Labor government's NBN is the most expensive per head than any other nation on the planet. Also while others are delivering 1 Gb per second and costing less we will be stuck with a fixed line network.
I'm somewhat confused by the definition of "indigenous". The picture of a pretty girl on the front page is not look anything like a full-blooded aboriginal. Indigenous then, must mean anyone who was born in Australia. For the purposes of integration that term "closing the gap" is somewhat absurd because separating one group out because they may have a few strands of aboriginal DNA should be called "broadening the gap". As Mr Cameron from the UK recently said multiculturalism doesn't work. Separating out aboriginals is a form of multiculturalism and it doesn't work.
Page 2
As expected anybody from military making a comment on what Tony Abbott said he is fully behind him and completely against the reporter. It doesn't matter whether they are VC winners or rank and file, they will understand what he meant.
It is becoming somewhat obvious that Julie Bishop is positioning herself to challenge the leadership, mostly over petty stuff.
Page 3
If anybody has ever done Certificate IV in training and assessment, or anything similar, to understand what units of competency are. They are simply a set of standards, both theoretical and practical that an individual must demonstrate to meet a set of requirements set out by some kind of standards body.
In the case of teaching when they say that every teacher will have the same level of competency has any other teacher in any other classroom this does not mean that the individual will be good at getting knowledge and skills across to students. None of these levels of competency can produce an individual who can get the message across well. Building such structures does satisfy some kind of overseer role of the government will never address good teaching. What it will do his foster a culture of teachers who will study and take the next competency units, pass them, and be judged "excellent".
Could not help from laughing out loud at the contention that an iPhone and iPad application, or Android application would be 100% secure. Only non-IT professionals make such statements.
Page 4
The concept that individuals are becoming reluctant to take out insurance while expecting governments to pay up automatically follows from the current round of handouts to the non-insured by the government in wake of the current severe weather events. It is after all basic psychology 101.
The dengue fever outbreak could be handled quite easily by using DDT, he was after all what it was designed for, to kill disease bearing mosquitoes. We can thank the Greens and other do-gooders are not being a will to use the scientifically proven safe technology. My sympathies to those who will catch dengue.
Page 6
So the Liberal Barry O'Farrell wants a bigger Sydney. I guess he must be an economist. If I was living in New South Wales this statement alone is enough to have me worried about voting Liberal.
Page 7
The Victorian police force has shown itself to be essentially useless. There are certain things or crimes that should always be a high priority and high focus. One of these is the protection of children from sex offenders. To use the excuse that they needed additional funding to manage this aspect of the policing spectrum shows how morally poor that group in Victoria has become.
Page 8
Good article on the United Nations needing to condemn blasphemy laws. As highlighted the reason they exist is the 47 member Organisation of the Islamic Conference who have supported this purely to prevent any comment, discussion, analysis or examination of Islam. The resolution has been used to justify the killing of those who make comments on Islam. It has never been used against four example people who have made any comments on Christianity, or Judaism. Yes such a law is a direct violation of freedom of speech, but that doesn't matter to the UN.
Page 9
I'm sure there are a lot of people who would disagree but I and I suspect many others fully support the US threat to cut aid to Pakistan unless the American, with diplomatic immunity, is released. I am somewhat confused as to how somebody with a GPS navigation system in a foreign country is unusual. There are many people in their own country use a GPS. It is also fairly standard practice amongst US embassy employees in countries with high level of violence, like Pakistan, to carry a personal weapon.
Page 11
Stephen Conroy must be proud, he is after all the father of the most expensive commutations baby on the planet. He is also have no surprise that basic maths is being stripped away as an ability. The article reads that we come in at number nine at 16 nations. Looking at the chart where you come in at 10. Anybody who is ill watch golf, as an example, will know that when people are tied those making up the tied number used all of the values they represent. In this case two countries were tied at fourth using up the fifth position. I guess saying we came ninth is better than saying we came 10th.
Page 11
Another excellent analysis by Greg Sheridan. In reality the majority of commenters know nothing about the realities in Egypt, the religion of Islam, and the process of jihad.
Page 12 – Letters
Lots of letters in support of Tony Abbott and the gutter journalism of Riley. Having served in the military comments from the air force individual is not surprising. They always considered themselves "better" and "above" the other services. Brett Allen standard ad hominem attack with no substance. Tom Nilsson has an help our national interest to make sure that hundreds of thousands of children in our nearest, largest neighbour get a thorough education in the tenets of Islam? Linking Tony Abbott to Pauline Hanson is a simple and cheap trick.
According to the president of the Australian veterinarian Association is no solid evidence that treating animals with antibiotics has a significant effect on the spread of mutant superbugs. The medical community at large has an opinion on this. Part of the problem are too many people taking antibiotics when they don't need to. This is however only part of the problem there are studies that show that statistical link between feeding antibiotics like Ethromycin two chickens and other animals helps to build up an antibiotic immunity.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Feb 9 - 2010
The Front Page
The image of Julia Gillard crying in Parliament was a strange one. The last few years have portrayed Gillard has a wooden, emotionless individual, coolly calculating in everything she says. Her "wooden" handling of the recent flood crisis generated criticism from many areas. Then, suddenly she is weepy at the opening of Parliament. My cynical side says the whole thing is an act, carefully calculated as a political move. There is of course a chance that there were some honesty yesterday. Perhaps she had been bottling this kind of emotion for years. I find it very difficult to believe that this was a true side of Julia.
Page 3
Glad to see somebody exposing the costs of keeping asylum seekers, and this is a term that is used very loosely, in high-class accommodation including four and five-star hotels. Chartered aeroplanes and all of the costs of administration and up to a very expensive bottomline. At the same time nothing is being done to stem the flow of boats from Indonesia and Malaysia.
The treatment of Tony Abbott by the Seven Network shows just how low our leftist media has become. Having served in the military off-hand comments far worse than that tracked down by the reporters are made on a regular basis and understood for what they are. The really sad part about this story is that Abbott should start slamming into the media. I would have immediately asked the reporter if it ever served in the military and if he hadn't I would have ridiculed him making insinuations about things he knows nothing about. I note that the colonel wasn't interviewed or asked any questions simply because he would have backed up a version of the media networks didn't want to hear. As a sidenote the shaking was saw from Abbott was a combination of anger and adrenaline. The reporter was lucky he didn't cop one in the nose, he certainly deserved it. This kind of gutter journalism and media coverage is becoming sadly typical of our networks which is why I very rarely watch them any kind of news any more. What's the point.
So eating junk food before the age of four and lower IQ. In general feeding junk food to kids at a very early age intuitively sounds dumb anyway. The part of the report that will be glossed over his eating habits after the age of three appeared to make no difference to IQ.
Page 6
Even less surprises from the NBN installers. They lay cable down the middle of the street underground and then string a bunch of aboveground to the houses. When questioned about this by the residents nobody ever showed up to explain. The worst part of this story is the apparent inability of the installation company to confirm if that particular area have duplication of infrastructure. This is of course absurd and a manifest lie the plans will show this kind of thing quite clearly, that the plans are supposed to be for.
Page 12
The world in general has been very poor when it comes to the handling of Burma. Brawl of the human rights violations, and democratic violations the ruling junta has been involved in over the past decades but no real action.
The truth of the Lockerbie bomber is that he was handed over to live a free and clear life. Three months to live is turning into years and every day he remains alive is a slap in the face of the victims of that tragedy. The Labour government failed miserably over this one is certainly well within the consistency of a leftist ideology.
Page 14
Sorry Ziggy but the New Scientist is not a respected magazine in many circles. It consistently publishes unverified articles on global warming. The contention that the world can move to unreliable and non-baseload power supplies but at the same time increase population is of course absurd. Our current population levels are based on a ready supply of power if that is taken away a huge amount of pressure is then placed on the population. Yes technology evolves rapidly but there is always a danger in believing that the newest technology in the lab will ever reach public distribution will be feasible. Things always look so much better in a controlled lab environment than they do in the real-world. There are of course many exceptions to this but to bet the whole planet on as yet untested and unproven technologies is just silly.
Page 15 – Letters
Good short editorial on fires pose difficult questions.
Good to see so many people writing in about the expense and technologically backward, going forward, NBN project. Good letter by James Goding. Rubbish letter by Alan Cottrell. Standard ad hominem letter about Tony Abbott. Good point Chris Roylance the editor should cut out such letters, coincidentally including yours.
It is always fun to see the associations that people make between two things. Statisticians do this all the time even when there is no real relationship. Letter writers do it all the time because some people seem to lack the ability to process logic. Instead random things are tied together in their minds and the vitriol flows.
Adam Bent is a classical example of making associations between in this case weather and climate. He is yet another of those who have read none of the scientific materials and blindly believe everything the political arm of the IPCC has said in the past. I wonder if he knows how many senior contributors and reviewers of that group have long since changed their stance and their position on the issues. Perhaps if he did, and many others like him, the dots he is joining together would provide and demonstrate a completely different picture.
Sen Bob Brown on the other hand is simply an idiot. Who else would use a phrase like baseline solar power?
So, no research on GP services before super clinic sites were chosen. In other words the whole system was one big political flag. No surprises there.
The image of Julia Gillard crying in Parliament was a strange one. The last few years have portrayed Gillard has a wooden, emotionless individual, coolly calculating in everything she says. Her "wooden" handling of the recent flood crisis generated criticism from many areas. Then, suddenly she is weepy at the opening of Parliament. My cynical side says the whole thing is an act, carefully calculated as a political move. There is of course a chance that there were some honesty yesterday. Perhaps she had been bottling this kind of emotion for years. I find it very difficult to believe that this was a true side of Julia.
Page 3
Glad to see somebody exposing the costs of keeping asylum seekers, and this is a term that is used very loosely, in high-class accommodation including four and five-star hotels. Chartered aeroplanes and all of the costs of administration and up to a very expensive bottomline. At the same time nothing is being done to stem the flow of boats from Indonesia and Malaysia.
The treatment of Tony Abbott by the Seven Network shows just how low our leftist media has become. Having served in the military off-hand comments far worse than that tracked down by the reporters are made on a regular basis and understood for what they are. The really sad part about this story is that Abbott should start slamming into the media. I would have immediately asked the reporter if it ever served in the military and if he hadn't I would have ridiculed him making insinuations about things he knows nothing about. I note that the colonel wasn't interviewed or asked any questions simply because he would have backed up a version of the media networks didn't want to hear. As a sidenote the shaking was saw from Abbott was a combination of anger and adrenaline. The reporter was lucky he didn't cop one in the nose, he certainly deserved it. This kind of gutter journalism and media coverage is becoming sadly typical of our networks which is why I very rarely watch them any kind of news any more. What's the point.
So eating junk food before the age of four and lower IQ. In general feeding junk food to kids at a very early age intuitively sounds dumb anyway. The part of the report that will be glossed over his eating habits after the age of three appeared to make no difference to IQ.
Page 6
Even less surprises from the NBN installers. They lay cable down the middle of the street underground and then string a bunch of aboveground to the houses. When questioned about this by the residents nobody ever showed up to explain. The worst part of this story is the apparent inability of the installation company to confirm if that particular area have duplication of infrastructure. This is of course absurd and a manifest lie the plans will show this kind of thing quite clearly, that the plans are supposed to be for.
Page 12
The world in general has been very poor when it comes to the handling of Burma. Brawl of the human rights violations, and democratic violations the ruling junta has been involved in over the past decades but no real action.
The truth of the Lockerbie bomber is that he was handed over to live a free and clear life. Three months to live is turning into years and every day he remains alive is a slap in the face of the victims of that tragedy. The Labour government failed miserably over this one is certainly well within the consistency of a leftist ideology.
Page 14
Sorry Ziggy but the New Scientist is not a respected magazine in many circles. It consistently publishes unverified articles on global warming. The contention that the world can move to unreliable and non-baseload power supplies but at the same time increase population is of course absurd. Our current population levels are based on a ready supply of power if that is taken away a huge amount of pressure is then placed on the population. Yes technology evolves rapidly but there is always a danger in believing that the newest technology in the lab will ever reach public distribution will be feasible. Things always look so much better in a controlled lab environment than they do in the real-world. There are of course many exceptions to this but to bet the whole planet on as yet untested and unproven technologies is just silly.
Page 15 – Letters
Good short editorial on fires pose difficult questions.
Good to see so many people writing in about the expense and technologically backward, going forward, NBN project. Good letter by James Goding. Rubbish letter by Alan Cottrell. Standard ad hominem letter about Tony Abbott. Good point Chris Roylance the editor should cut out such letters, coincidentally including yours.
It is always fun to see the associations that people make between two things. Statisticians do this all the time even when there is no real relationship. Letter writers do it all the time because some people seem to lack the ability to process logic. Instead random things are tied together in their minds and the vitriol flows.
Adam Bent is a classical example of making associations between in this case weather and climate. He is yet another of those who have read none of the scientific materials and blindly believe everything the political arm of the IPCC has said in the past. I wonder if he knows how many senior contributors and reviewers of that group have long since changed their stance and their position on the issues. Perhaps if he did, and many others like him, the dots he is joining together would provide and demonstrate a completely different picture.
Sen Bob Brown on the other hand is simply an idiot. Who else would use a phrase like baseline solar power?
So, no research on GP services before super clinic sites were chosen. In other words the whole system was one big political flag. No surprises there.
Monday, February 7, 2011
Feb 8 - 2010
Page 1
The story about the reporters being blindfolded and questioned shows the normal active understanding of foreign countries by Westerners. The journalists had broken curfew which gave immediate justification for the Egyptian authorities to arrest them. Mr Lyons tried to gloss over this by saying that thousands had ignored it already. I'm willing to bet that many Egyptians had also been picked up. (Continued on page 4)
Page 2
Greens sound Carbon and warning.just because the country is well placed, even reasonably so, is not in any way mean that they will ever do so. China has been making lots of claims the quite a while to contribute to the reduction in emissions that same time they were implementing one new coal-fired power plant per week. They continue to do so and have no interest whatsoever in cutting emissions. It's all just political talk. You expect somebody like Prof Garnaut to know and understand this kind of thing but apparently he doesn't. He is simply a tool in the Labor political toolbox.
It will never happen that there will be a 40% increase in defence spending in Australia, not while the Leftist government is in power.
Page 3
The story from Andrew Colley very old news.
Page 5
Yet again we see that lack of burning to clear underbrush in a bush area did not happen. Once again we find that the principal opposition to such burning with the green groups. Once again we see people who have moved from cities into the country having no clue about fire and fire prevention is indicated by those who built their decks right up to the edge of the bush. should we feel some sympathy for the lost? Certainly but we should have no sympathy for government agencies that listen to the green rubbish over what used to be considered, common practical sense.
Page 6
It is very rare to see Julia Gillard concede any lack of value for the BER program.
Page 9
The Americans being held in run after they claimed that they crossed into one run by mistake. I would expect somebody hiking in Kurdistan to have a GPS. If they didn't they were just plain stupid, if they did ditto.
Page 12
The article by Dib and Barker is standard leftist thinking and the fact that one of them is from ANU this reinforces the point.
Page 13
Foley has been a force for good. I've got least one good laugh today.
A number of letters today particularly on the levy and the recent Newspoll. As they point out such a poll is worthless unless it is separated into those who will be paying those who won't. Those who won't care is of course the support it.
I find ad hominem comments against Julia Gillard just as idiotic and banal as those against Tony Abbott. Len MacPhang managed indicate a lack of intelligence in a single paragraph. "What he wrote down" is not the same as an e-mail that was sent out. It is now common knowledge that while he wrote the central text the remainder was added by staffers. So what Tony said is consistent he stands by what he wrote not by what others did.
The story about the reporters being blindfolded and questioned shows the normal active understanding of foreign countries by Westerners. The journalists had broken curfew which gave immediate justification for the Egyptian authorities to arrest them. Mr Lyons tried to gloss over this by saying that thousands had ignored it already. I'm willing to bet that many Egyptians had also been picked up. (Continued on page 4)
Page 2
Greens sound Carbon and warning.just because the country is well placed, even reasonably so, is not in any way mean that they will ever do so. China has been making lots of claims the quite a while to contribute to the reduction in emissions that same time they were implementing one new coal-fired power plant per week. They continue to do so and have no interest whatsoever in cutting emissions. It's all just political talk. You expect somebody like Prof Garnaut to know and understand this kind of thing but apparently he doesn't. He is simply a tool in the Labor political toolbox.
It will never happen that there will be a 40% increase in defence spending in Australia, not while the Leftist government is in power.
Page 3
The story from Andrew Colley very old news.
Page 5
Yet again we see that lack of burning to clear underbrush in a bush area did not happen. Once again we find that the principal opposition to such burning with the green groups. Once again we see people who have moved from cities into the country having no clue about fire and fire prevention is indicated by those who built their decks right up to the edge of the bush. should we feel some sympathy for the lost? Certainly but we should have no sympathy for government agencies that listen to the green rubbish over what used to be considered, common practical sense.
Page 6
It is very rare to see Julia Gillard concede any lack of value for the BER program.
Page 9
The Americans being held in run after they claimed that they crossed into one run by mistake. I would expect somebody hiking in Kurdistan to have a GPS. If they didn't they were just plain stupid, if they did ditto.
Page 12
The article by Dib and Barker is standard leftist thinking and the fact that one of them is from ANU this reinforces the point.
Page 13
Foley has been a force for good. I've got least one good laugh today.
A number of letters today particularly on the levy and the recent Newspoll. As they point out such a poll is worthless unless it is separated into those who will be paying those who won't. Those who won't care is of course the support it.
I find ad hominem comments against Julia Gillard just as idiotic and banal as those against Tony Abbott. Len MacPhang managed indicate a lack of intelligence in a single paragraph. "What he wrote down" is not the same as an e-mail that was sent out. It is now common knowledge that while he wrote the central text the remainder was added by staffers. So what Tony said is consistent he stands by what he wrote not by what others did.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Feb 7 - 2010
Lots to talk about today.
Page 2
So Australians are the world champions for emissions. What a complete load of rubbish. To stay within the paradigm it would be total emissions for the country, not per head, that theoretically affects climate. By that measure China, India, the US, and a number of other nations are well in front of us. Note also that it leased to carbon trading centres have closed down recently. One of which was in Chicago.
On the nuclear subs. While in principle I am in favour of such protection no one has mentioned that with the New Zealand ban on any nuclear powered vessels we would no longer be in a position as the protector of New Zealand.
The patrol and walk into a trap system our soldiers in Afghanistan face on a daily basis begs the question as to why they have such poor support when it comes to intelligence. US patrol patterns vary. They have overhead support looking to changes in people working on installing IEDs. They use technology that detects the heat signatures of people who may be the ones that trigger an explosion. By contrast in general we have poor equipment, poor intelligence, and poor overhead support. Our trip shouldn't be there under such conditions.
Page 3
Mothballs appear to be killing one baby per year according to the report. While the loss of any child should be prevented, there are other areas that cause far more deaths per year. Banning the sale of mothballs may be easier than educating parents with newborn children but it is a continuation of removing responsibility instead of encouraging it.
Page 5
I had to laugh at the marina moorings. Specifically where the pylons were kept shorter aesthetic reasons. The boats moored to these more aesthetic pylons were almost all damaged. When pretty beats sensible and practical I must admit any feelings of sympathy vanish.
How typical for a group like the Housing Industry Association to fight a plan to make buildings safer purely on speculation of price and availability of materials. Where are their costing estimates to challenge those of the Australian Building Codes Board? If I was building in such an area I would pay extra to go above the standard if I knew that during my lifetime I was likely to face a category four or five storm.
Looters, shoot on sight. Okay maybe not real bullets that at the very least tazers. After paedophiles these really are some of the lowest people on earth.
It's good to see so much information coming out about poor preparation of official buildings like emergency shelters and their substandard construction. Will anything be done about this? Probably not and when the same people vote the same people in again they will have no cause for complaint.
What a surprise those responsible are trying to hide the mismanagement of the Wivenhoe Dam. Careful checking of communication, if it could even be done, will uncover the directive is to keep levels higher were based in the outrageous global warming claims of no more rain.
Page 9
Another good laugh on this page "uprising not over religion." Martin Fletcher seems to have done no research whatsoever on the subject of Islam, The Muslim Brotherhood, and Egypt's history. The co-founder of Al Qaeda was born and raised in the Muslim Brotherhood. Just because they have changed from an overt to a stealth jihad mode does not change any of their history, their methodology, their aims, their beliefs, and the fundamentals of Islam. Of course this article did come from the apologist publication The Times.
Page 11
Yes multiculturalism as a policy is a failure worldwide.
Page 13
Yes our power grids are in peril caused primarily by groups like The Greens and the Labor Party. Not a bad analysis by Annabel Hepworth. Bottom line, while the lie of global warming, recouched as climate change, persists then our prices are in trouble.
Page 14
Excellent article by Paul Monk.
No all Australians are not entitled to be insured against natural disasters. Those that build on floodplains knowing that the flood will come have no right to be insured by the government. They do have a right to pay higher premiums to protect themselves however.
Page 15
First letter. The opinion expressed in this letter is in complete contradiction to the actual empirical data. The "predictions "expressed in this letter not only indicate a complete lack of research but are contrary to real peer reviewed papers. These show a drop in the total strength of storms over the past 10 years, and lowering of the number of intense droughts and floods. People who write such letters really look back beyond 30 years before making their conclusions if they did so they would see that within the last hundred and 50 years there have been extreme weather events that have far exceeded those we have seen in recent times.
Logic is rapidly fleeing the minds of most Australians. Take the article on flood levee fear of the GST. The argument is that poor people also pay GST. The implication is that it is an unfair tax because it is equally applied. The lack of logic comes when you consider that people with more money spent more, by more, and so pay more GST.
Page 2
So Australians are the world champions for emissions. What a complete load of rubbish. To stay within the paradigm it would be total emissions for the country, not per head, that theoretically affects climate. By that measure China, India, the US, and a number of other nations are well in front of us. Note also that it leased to carbon trading centres have closed down recently. One of which was in Chicago.
On the nuclear subs. While in principle I am in favour of such protection no one has mentioned that with the New Zealand ban on any nuclear powered vessels we would no longer be in a position as the protector of New Zealand.
The patrol and walk into a trap system our soldiers in Afghanistan face on a daily basis begs the question as to why they have such poor support when it comes to intelligence. US patrol patterns vary. They have overhead support looking to changes in people working on installing IEDs. They use technology that detects the heat signatures of people who may be the ones that trigger an explosion. By contrast in general we have poor equipment, poor intelligence, and poor overhead support. Our trip shouldn't be there under such conditions.
Page 3
Mothballs appear to be killing one baby per year according to the report. While the loss of any child should be prevented, there are other areas that cause far more deaths per year. Banning the sale of mothballs may be easier than educating parents with newborn children but it is a continuation of removing responsibility instead of encouraging it.
Page 5
I had to laugh at the marina moorings. Specifically where the pylons were kept shorter aesthetic reasons. The boats moored to these more aesthetic pylons were almost all damaged. When pretty beats sensible and practical I must admit any feelings of sympathy vanish.
How typical for a group like the Housing Industry Association to fight a plan to make buildings safer purely on speculation of price and availability of materials. Where are their costing estimates to challenge those of the Australian Building Codes Board? If I was building in such an area I would pay extra to go above the standard if I knew that during my lifetime I was likely to face a category four or five storm.
Looters, shoot on sight. Okay maybe not real bullets that at the very least tazers. After paedophiles these really are some of the lowest people on earth.
It's good to see so much information coming out about poor preparation of official buildings like emergency shelters and their substandard construction. Will anything be done about this? Probably not and when the same people vote the same people in again they will have no cause for complaint.
What a surprise those responsible are trying to hide the mismanagement of the Wivenhoe Dam. Careful checking of communication, if it could even be done, will uncover the directive is to keep levels higher were based in the outrageous global warming claims of no more rain.
Page 9
Another good laugh on this page "uprising not over religion." Martin Fletcher seems to have done no research whatsoever on the subject of Islam, The Muslim Brotherhood, and Egypt's history. The co-founder of Al Qaeda was born and raised in the Muslim Brotherhood. Just because they have changed from an overt to a stealth jihad mode does not change any of their history, their methodology, their aims, their beliefs, and the fundamentals of Islam. Of course this article did come from the apologist publication The Times.
Page 11
Yes multiculturalism as a policy is a failure worldwide.
Page 13
Yes our power grids are in peril caused primarily by groups like The Greens and the Labor Party. Not a bad analysis by Annabel Hepworth. Bottom line, while the lie of global warming, recouched as climate change, persists then our prices are in trouble.
Page 14
Excellent article by Paul Monk.
No all Australians are not entitled to be insured against natural disasters. Those that build on floodplains knowing that the flood will come have no right to be insured by the government. They do have a right to pay higher premiums to protect themselves however.
Page 15
First letter. The opinion expressed in this letter is in complete contradiction to the actual empirical data. The "predictions "expressed in this letter not only indicate a complete lack of research but are contrary to real peer reviewed papers. These show a drop in the total strength of storms over the past 10 years, and lowering of the number of intense droughts and floods. People who write such letters really look back beyond 30 years before making their conclusions if they did so they would see that within the last hundred and 50 years there have been extreme weather events that have far exceeded those we have seen in recent times.
Logic is rapidly fleeing the minds of most Australians. Take the article on flood levee fear of the GST. The argument is that poor people also pay GST. The implication is that it is an unfair tax because it is equally applied. The lack of logic comes when you consider that people with more money spent more, by more, and so pay more GST.
Friday, February 4, 2011
Feb 5 - 2010
Front Page
Take a close look at the picture of the brick house, look at the size of the holes in the bricks and think about the strength this design provides to direct force from outside. A decent knock would take this wall out quite easily.
What a surprise Julia Gillard has decided to drop yet another major policy. At this rate she will have none left. It does beg the question can we trust anything that comes out of the current top echelon.
Interesting article from Greg Sheridan. Australia's defence forces are probably at an all-time low in terms of the ability to wage war. China was quite clear about its 50 year plan to take over parts of Asia. In the longer term Australia potentially faces the same fate. Those that are currently actively cutting defence capability will be the first to scream to help from others.
Page 2
The article on travel insurers not paying up to those cancelled flights to Egypt is a testament to the weakness of government in making it clear on travel policies. The government recently said that Australians should not travel to Egypt. Any insurer refuses to honour this should be subject to strict government scrutiny. Chances of this happening approximately zero.
Page 4
Laini Vasek hits the nail on the head. The huge amounts of waste in projects like the BER have drained billions of dollars from the Federal kitty. The Liberal government has been criticised for dropping federal insurance that those doing the criticising are conveniently forgetting that the same government left a substantial positive balance that would have easily covered all the disasters today. Instead the incoming government not only spent all of this but borrowed heavily making it impossible to now cover the disaster payments.
Page 5
"Electricity bills to increase yet again" thank you global warming of advocates. Current price rises can all be tracked back to stupid global warming policies. This is the danger of the global warming environment. All of the flow on effects in terms of power, water and other services all geared towards false predictions. I was at a party last night talking to one of the senior advisers in the water policy. He was completely unaware that the computer models for climate in no way matched real-world data. Given that all of our policies are currently based on theoretical models and none on the real-world data of the last 30 years Australians can expect to be facing far worse hardships brought about from policies based on unscientific, unverified predictions.
There is still a huge reluctance to identify the major groups causing the most violence in our country.
Page 15 – Letters
Finally, a bunch of letters printed targeting Garnaut the Economist was complete lack of understanding of the science behind global warming.
The editorial however shows that like every other Murdoch publication The Australian is a publication of global warming believers. Content to hide behind the truism term climate change the editorial by supporting anything to do with a carbon tax shows itself to be a pure AGW publication that justifies this by publishing the very rare commentary from the other side of the debate.
Page 17
There is a real danger that the Muslim Brotherhood take power in Egypt. I've seen some people indicate they believe there are two groups in this organisation, one overt and one is quieter. This is of course fully consistent within the teachings of Islam. The jihad is described as being both one of violence but also one of stealth.
Page 18
Ross Garnaut is an economist and sees everything in economic terms. His view of global warming is also one of economic terms. His contention that Australia should go it alone is of course the logical in an economic sense which makes so much of what he says even more absurd.
Take a close look at the picture of the brick house, look at the size of the holes in the bricks and think about the strength this design provides to direct force from outside. A decent knock would take this wall out quite easily.
What a surprise Julia Gillard has decided to drop yet another major policy. At this rate she will have none left. It does beg the question can we trust anything that comes out of the current top echelon.
Interesting article from Greg Sheridan. Australia's defence forces are probably at an all-time low in terms of the ability to wage war. China was quite clear about its 50 year plan to take over parts of Asia. In the longer term Australia potentially faces the same fate. Those that are currently actively cutting defence capability will be the first to scream to help from others.
Page 2
The article on travel insurers not paying up to those cancelled flights to Egypt is a testament to the weakness of government in making it clear on travel policies. The government recently said that Australians should not travel to Egypt. Any insurer refuses to honour this should be subject to strict government scrutiny. Chances of this happening approximately zero.
Page 4
Laini Vasek hits the nail on the head. The huge amounts of waste in projects like the BER have drained billions of dollars from the Federal kitty. The Liberal government has been criticised for dropping federal insurance that those doing the criticising are conveniently forgetting that the same government left a substantial positive balance that would have easily covered all the disasters today. Instead the incoming government not only spent all of this but borrowed heavily making it impossible to now cover the disaster payments.
Page 5
"Electricity bills to increase yet again" thank you global warming of advocates. Current price rises can all be tracked back to stupid global warming policies. This is the danger of the global warming environment. All of the flow on effects in terms of power, water and other services all geared towards false predictions. I was at a party last night talking to one of the senior advisers in the water policy. He was completely unaware that the computer models for climate in no way matched real-world data. Given that all of our policies are currently based on theoretical models and none on the real-world data of the last 30 years Australians can expect to be facing far worse hardships brought about from policies based on unscientific, unverified predictions.
There is still a huge reluctance to identify the major groups causing the most violence in our country.
Page 15 – Letters
Finally, a bunch of letters printed targeting Garnaut the Economist was complete lack of understanding of the science behind global warming.
The editorial however shows that like every other Murdoch publication The Australian is a publication of global warming believers. Content to hide behind the truism term climate change the editorial by supporting anything to do with a carbon tax shows itself to be a pure AGW publication that justifies this by publishing the very rare commentary from the other side of the debate.
Page 17
There is a real danger that the Muslim Brotherhood take power in Egypt. I've seen some people indicate they believe there are two groups in this organisation, one overt and one is quieter. This is of course fully consistent within the teachings of Islam. The jihad is described as being both one of violence but also one of stealth.
Page 18
Ross Garnaut is an economist and sees everything in economic terms. His view of global warming is also one of economic terms. His contention that Australia should go it alone is of course the logical in an economic sense which makes so much of what he says even more absurd.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Feb 4 - 2010
Page 1
The fact that there are no backup generators for a major installation like a water treatment plant speaks volumes about the Queensland government at the State and local level.
Page 6
A big cheer for Lanai Vasek For reporting that Stewart Franks, an environmental engineer from the University of Newcastle saying that excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere causing man induced climate change was responsible for la Nina is rubbish. Instead he talked about the cyclical influences of various ocean patterns.
Page 7
This is where you will find an article on the last Digger to die in Afghanistan. Six pages of new stories about rain and wind before getting around to something about an individual who fought and died for Australia. I guess some things aren't that important to our media.
Page 8
A whole page of rubbish about climate change. Graham Lloyd reports on review of the latest literature. I've been reading the latest literature from real scientists in their saying the exact opposite of what is being reported on page 8. That the nation would listen to an of individual like Garnaut who is proven himself to be unreliable in the past just means that we deserve all we get in terms of pain from increased prices across the board. It also shows that telling flat-out lies about what literature says means the debate is now purely political.
Page 11
Amanda Hodge reports on an incident of blasphemy for a 17-year-old student because they scribbled on the margin of an exam paper. I read about similar incidents on a daily basis so this is in no way surprising. The surprising part is that Human Rights Watch said anything about it because most of the time they behaved as friends of Islam. The 17-year-old was arrested and put in prison, this is the kind of society certain groups in Australia want to introduce here.
Islamic nations do not respect any Western ideas, laws, regulations, rules, human rights, et cetera. They're not allowed to because the religious texts tell them they can't.
Page 13
Heroes? This has to be the most abused word in the media English-language.
Page 15 – letters
Good point by Stephen Edwards given that the taxpayers are fronting 75% of the infrastructure rebuild in Queensland why should anybody outside of Queensland the be paying a levy?
The usual number of anti-Abbott letters.
Terence Lee is absolutely correct. David Wright on the other hand, if on translating what is written correctly, he suggesting that 2% of the population be allowed to affect our Constitution. Our Constitution protects all of us equally, to suggest otherwise is disingenuous.David is not really puzzled he simply has his own agenda.
In Cut & Paste we see the bureau of meteorology defending their data fiddling when it comes to temperature to records. Once again its climate models every one of which is shown to be not only inaccurate but unable to predict the immediate past. The data shows decreases in extreme weather over the last few years in contrast to their claims that any increases occurred due to anthropogenic global warming. As always what they say is not match in any way to measured data.
Finally here is my letter that was unpublished:
"As an IT professional I was literally stunned when I read that the NBN contractor had been laying optical cable, above ground, pole to pole. I was less stunned that the government had approved such a process. To do so at all is just plain wrong, to do so in a cyclone prone area defies belief. This is just another reason why the NBN should be scrapped and why no-one should ever believe anything the current government says about wisely spending taxpayer’s money. Imagine for a moment a whole area’s Internet access being taken out after one truck hits a pole. The risk scenarios are almost endless."
The fact that there are no backup generators for a major installation like a water treatment plant speaks volumes about the Queensland government at the State and local level.
Page 6
A big cheer for Lanai Vasek For reporting that Stewart Franks, an environmental engineer from the University of Newcastle saying that excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere causing man induced climate change was responsible for la Nina is rubbish. Instead he talked about the cyclical influences of various ocean patterns.
Page 7
This is where you will find an article on the last Digger to die in Afghanistan. Six pages of new stories about rain and wind before getting around to something about an individual who fought and died for Australia. I guess some things aren't that important to our media.
Page 8
A whole page of rubbish about climate change. Graham Lloyd reports on review of the latest literature. I've been reading the latest literature from real scientists in their saying the exact opposite of what is being reported on page 8. That the nation would listen to an of individual like Garnaut who is proven himself to be unreliable in the past just means that we deserve all we get in terms of pain from increased prices across the board. It also shows that telling flat-out lies about what literature says means the debate is now purely political.
Page 11
Amanda Hodge reports on an incident of blasphemy for a 17-year-old student because they scribbled on the margin of an exam paper. I read about similar incidents on a daily basis so this is in no way surprising. The surprising part is that Human Rights Watch said anything about it because most of the time they behaved as friends of Islam. The 17-year-old was arrested and put in prison, this is the kind of society certain groups in Australia want to introduce here.
Islamic nations do not respect any Western ideas, laws, regulations, rules, human rights, et cetera. They're not allowed to because the religious texts tell them they can't.
Page 13
Heroes? This has to be the most abused word in the media English-language.
Page 15 – letters
Good point by Stephen Edwards given that the taxpayers are fronting 75% of the infrastructure rebuild in Queensland why should anybody outside of Queensland the be paying a levy?
The usual number of anti-Abbott letters.
Terence Lee is absolutely correct. David Wright on the other hand, if on translating what is written correctly, he suggesting that 2% of the population be allowed to affect our Constitution. Our Constitution protects all of us equally, to suggest otherwise is disingenuous.David is not really puzzled he simply has his own agenda.
In Cut & Paste we see the bureau of meteorology defending their data fiddling when it comes to temperature to records. Once again its climate models every one of which is shown to be not only inaccurate but unable to predict the immediate past. The data shows decreases in extreme weather over the last few years in contrast to their claims that any increases occurred due to anthropogenic global warming. As always what they say is not match in any way to measured data.
Finally here is my letter that was unpublished:
"As an IT professional I was literally stunned when I read that the NBN contractor had been laying optical cable, above ground, pole to pole. I was less stunned that the government had approved such a process. To do so at all is just plain wrong, to do so in a cyclone prone area defies belief. This is just another reason why the NBN should be scrapped and why no-one should ever believe anything the current government says about wisely spending taxpayer’s money. Imagine for a moment a whole area’s Internet access being taken out after one truck hits a pole. The risk scenarios are almost endless."
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Feb 3 - 2010
Front Page
Michael McKenna is perhaps better suited to writing fiction novels. he compares the recent cyclone with a nuclear explosion. An explosion's damage is localised and immediate. A cyclone spreads damage over a large area. Depending on the yield of the nuclear weapon the total average damage could be the same but one does not leave and spread nuclear radiation the years afterwards. He also talks about people "cowering in blacked out homes and emergency shelters," great for a fiction novel.
There were people who did not heed the warnings and stayed. To date there have been no casualties reported. I guess the only remaining question is will there be a hurricane levy?
The most revealing news is that Queensland does not have any comprehensive insurance cover for natural disasters. In fact they are about the only state that doesn't. Instead the government pays 75% of all recovery costs. This is why we have a flood levy, because according to Treasury in Queensland insurance was not deemed to be "a value for money proposition."
Page 2
The dangers of Left government are exposed with the news that all of our amphibious support ships are currently out of action or unseaworthy. In general the Left are antimilitary and do all they can to minimise and marginalise the armed forces.
Page 3
Really? Emergency evacuation centres in Queensland are not cyclone rated! no comment required here really.
Page 4
So the brilliant minds in the powers that be decided to lay, or more correctly string, optical fibre cables from overhead power poles. They decided to do this in cyclone prone areas like Townsville. After the damage assessment expect to read that all of this cabling has been stripped off the poles, and perhaps the poles themselves vanished. This is the brilliance of our NBN people.
Page 6
Along the same lines people are already starting to complain that they will be very close to the new cabling but will never be given access. In some cases the cable even passes through a townbut they will never see high-speed connectivity. The NBN strikes again. ironically it appears that only The Australian Newspaper is reporting on any of this.
Page 10
I love the church sign "whoever is praying for snow please stop" in the US.
Once again showing the brilliance of the military it turns out the U.S. Army whistleblower who passed classified cables on to Wikileaks was considered mentally unfit but was deployed anyway because of the shortages of skilled personnel. LOL.
Letters page 15
It is quite easy to figure out which of the letter writers are Greens. They quote made up facts and rage against anybody with any real data. They also promote the idea that we are all doomed. Sometimes they are just plain dumb. I particularly enjoy the use of truisms as in "maybe there is an element of climate change in all of Australia's rapidly escalating extreme weather events" well duh. This of course has nothing to do with human generated global warming.
Good letter from Frank Pulsford and a few others that action referred to the data.
As a final note good analysis in the article NBN Nirvana eludes Tasmania.
Michael McKenna is perhaps better suited to writing fiction novels. he compares the recent cyclone with a nuclear explosion. An explosion's damage is localised and immediate. A cyclone spreads damage over a large area. Depending on the yield of the nuclear weapon the total average damage could be the same but one does not leave and spread nuclear radiation the years afterwards. He also talks about people "cowering in blacked out homes and emergency shelters," great for a fiction novel.
There were people who did not heed the warnings and stayed. To date there have been no casualties reported. I guess the only remaining question is will there be a hurricane levy?
The most revealing news is that Queensland does not have any comprehensive insurance cover for natural disasters. In fact they are about the only state that doesn't. Instead the government pays 75% of all recovery costs. This is why we have a flood levy, because according to Treasury in Queensland insurance was not deemed to be "a value for money proposition."
Page 2
The dangers of Left government are exposed with the news that all of our amphibious support ships are currently out of action or unseaworthy. In general the Left are antimilitary and do all they can to minimise and marginalise the armed forces.
Page 3
Really? Emergency evacuation centres in Queensland are not cyclone rated! no comment required here really.
Page 4
So the brilliant minds in the powers that be decided to lay, or more correctly string, optical fibre cables from overhead power poles. They decided to do this in cyclone prone areas like Townsville. After the damage assessment expect to read that all of this cabling has been stripped off the poles, and perhaps the poles themselves vanished. This is the brilliance of our NBN people.
Page 6
Along the same lines people are already starting to complain that they will be very close to the new cabling but will never be given access. In some cases the cable even passes through a townbut they will never see high-speed connectivity. The NBN strikes again. ironically it appears that only The Australian Newspaper is reporting on any of this.
Page 10
I love the church sign "whoever is praying for snow please stop" in the US.
Once again showing the brilliance of the military it turns out the U.S. Army whistleblower who passed classified cables on to Wikileaks was considered mentally unfit but was deployed anyway because of the shortages of skilled personnel. LOL.
Letters page 15
It is quite easy to figure out which of the letter writers are Greens. They quote made up facts and rage against anybody with any real data. They also promote the idea that we are all doomed. Sometimes they are just plain dumb. I particularly enjoy the use of truisms as in "maybe there is an element of climate change in all of Australia's rapidly escalating extreme weather events" well duh. This of course has nothing to do with human generated global warming.
Good letter from Frank Pulsford and a few others that action referred to the data.
As a final note good analysis in the article NBN Nirvana eludes Tasmania.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Feb 2 - 2010
Front Page
Water prices going up, "to cover the full cost of supply." This is the default position for a Labor government because it maxes out all spending, including any future fund, then reacts to every bump with a tax increase. No sympathy for all of those who voted for this government with so many examples in the last few years as to how they do things.
Page 2
For some reason the Australian authorities still haven't figured out how things in other countries work. It doesn't matter with the UN High Commissioner says and far less so what we say they will do exactly what they want to do to meet their own aims. This includes the non-acceptance of returning asylum seekers.
The even greater idiocy of departments involved in this process is highlighted by the case of Abdul Kadeem. Deported in 2003, was then recently arrested for overstaying on a tourist visa. Has recently been arrested for running a people smuggling business. There are so many questions here not the least of which is how did he get a tourist visa? The ineptitude of our authorities is to stunning for words.
In the same report it says that he and his group sent seven boats to Christmas Island, one of which was intercepted. Again so many questions. Did the other six sink? Did they reach Christmas Island offloaded and vanish? Did they drop their passengers somewhere else? Or did the Navy simply fail to spot and "intercept" the other six?
Page 3
Excellent article by Julie Hare on the state of the universities.
The details on the truckie who missed the turn and later died don't seem to add up. These are not the actions of an experienced truck driver.
Page 4
No surprise that a council would not let their staff finish training. The ineptitude of councils is only exceeded by that of our government.
Page 8
To quote the youth ROTFL. Julia Gillard is going to demand audited financial statements on the flood levy funds. The Australian published audited financial statements on the BER. These showed special payments that ended up in union coffers and were never challenged by the government. An audited statement only works if someone is actually following up on it. Why anybody would trust Julia on this subject is beyond belief.
Page 9
Limits on the use of poker machines would "affect the viability of rural pubs and clubs and be expensive to implement." The implication here is that the only thing keeping rural clubs and pubs going other poker machines. These operations used to run just fine without them but now they can't. Either the owner operators are now all hopeless business people or they just don't want to let go of all that nice profit.
Interesting article on the use of dogs to sniff out early cancer.
Page 10
Excellent article by Brett Stephens, not written in Australia, which perhaps explains such a balanced view of the issue.
The comment about the USA looking to implement an Internet kill Switch under the Obama government highlights just where the man, his supporters and the government sits on the political spectrum.
Page 13
While desperately trying not to the authors indicate that there is no link between climate change and cyclone activity. The graph clearly shows a downward trend but there are so many people we hear in media still trying to link cyclones to man made climate change. Unfortunately for them all the science, all of the data, and all the graphs show the opposite.
Strewth finally raises some excellent points. The Sunday Age example is that one of the normal trend that blindly accepts a piece of information without checking. In this case a massive difference in reality compared to what was reported. The main point and one I have raised on many occasions is why the editor and her staff did not make a simple phone call to check. This is the age of unverified news. It now falls on the reader to do their own investigation to confirm.
Page 14
Daniel Pipes is a historian with great knowledge of all things Middle Eastern. that Barack Obama is seen to be siding with the Islamists is of no surprise to those that have been following this issue for some time.
Page 15
The Australian newspaper was the only one monitoring the Gillard BER scheme. As they correctly point out Treasurer Wayne Swan has ignored the waste as has the Gillard government. Linking the stimulus to this project has also been shown to be inaccurate.
Lots of good letters today. One mandatory one slamming Tony Abbott and one completely inaccurate one about climate change deniers. They probably the part about letters being written but the number published pales in comparison to those published from those supporting global warming.
Water prices going up, "to cover the full cost of supply." This is the default position for a Labor government because it maxes out all spending, including any future fund, then reacts to every bump with a tax increase. No sympathy for all of those who voted for this government with so many examples in the last few years as to how they do things.
Page 2
For some reason the Australian authorities still haven't figured out how things in other countries work. It doesn't matter with the UN High Commissioner says and far less so what we say they will do exactly what they want to do to meet their own aims. This includes the non-acceptance of returning asylum seekers.
The even greater idiocy of departments involved in this process is highlighted by the case of Abdul Kadeem. Deported in 2003, was then recently arrested for overstaying on a tourist visa. Has recently been arrested for running a people smuggling business. There are so many questions here not the least of which is how did he get a tourist visa? The ineptitude of our authorities is to stunning for words.
In the same report it says that he and his group sent seven boats to Christmas Island, one of which was intercepted. Again so many questions. Did the other six sink? Did they reach Christmas Island offloaded and vanish? Did they drop their passengers somewhere else? Or did the Navy simply fail to spot and "intercept" the other six?
Page 3
Excellent article by Julie Hare on the state of the universities.
The details on the truckie who missed the turn and later died don't seem to add up. These are not the actions of an experienced truck driver.
Page 4
No surprise that a council would not let their staff finish training. The ineptitude of councils is only exceeded by that of our government.
Page 8
To quote the youth ROTFL. Julia Gillard is going to demand audited financial statements on the flood levy funds. The Australian published audited financial statements on the BER. These showed special payments that ended up in union coffers and were never challenged by the government. An audited statement only works if someone is actually following up on it. Why anybody would trust Julia on this subject is beyond belief.
Page 9
Limits on the use of poker machines would "affect the viability of rural pubs and clubs and be expensive to implement." The implication here is that the only thing keeping rural clubs and pubs going other poker machines. These operations used to run just fine without them but now they can't. Either the owner operators are now all hopeless business people or they just don't want to let go of all that nice profit.
Interesting article on the use of dogs to sniff out early cancer.
Page 10
Excellent article by Brett Stephens, not written in Australia, which perhaps explains such a balanced view of the issue.
The comment about the USA looking to implement an Internet kill Switch under the Obama government highlights just where the man, his supporters and the government sits on the political spectrum.
Page 13
While desperately trying not to the authors indicate that there is no link between climate change and cyclone activity. The graph clearly shows a downward trend but there are so many people we hear in media still trying to link cyclones to man made climate change. Unfortunately for them all the science, all of the data, and all the graphs show the opposite.
Strewth finally raises some excellent points. The Sunday Age example is that one of the normal trend that blindly accepts a piece of information without checking. In this case a massive difference in reality compared to what was reported. The main point and one I have raised on many occasions is why the editor and her staff did not make a simple phone call to check. This is the age of unverified news. It now falls on the reader to do their own investigation to confirm.
Page 14
Daniel Pipes is a historian with great knowledge of all things Middle Eastern. that Barack Obama is seen to be siding with the Islamists is of no surprise to those that have been following this issue for some time.
Page 15
The Australian newspaper was the only one monitoring the Gillard BER scheme. As they correctly point out Treasurer Wayne Swan has ignored the waste as has the Gillard government. Linking the stimulus to this project has also been shown to be inaccurate.
Lots of good letters today. One mandatory one slamming Tony Abbott and one completely inaccurate one about climate change deniers. They probably the part about letters being written but the number published pales in comparison to those published from those supporting global warming.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Feb 1 - 2010
Front Page
There was as expected the Australian National University rated number one in Australia, in research. The ANU is the most represented University that comes out with pro-anthropogenic global warming nonsense. To indicate that this is a top research university, when so much of what they say on the subject is easily refuse it by looking at the literature, makes the whole process to me a joke. The ANU is also coincidentally the most left positioned University in Australia. It would have been a bigger surprise in a Labor environment if the university had not made top place.
Page Three
A number of years ago I was reading about the installation of a missile defence shield. During the Iraq War quite a bit was made of this technology. To read today on page one and three about our troops getting a new siren warning system, that initially had been delayed until 2018, beggars belief. What it does indicate is how poorly in general our generals treat our troops in combat. Defence is quoted as saying that anti-missile systems are not yet reliable enough is code for we don't want to spend the money.
The article at the top of the page shows just how messed up our legal system is. Here we have a woman remarried, living in the UK, to a very wealthy man demanding $21,000 in child support from old husband. Actually she demanded a lot more but that was as much as the courts were willing to give. The law should be that if remarried and the new husband can provide wealth of the family that the ex-husband should then be free from the burden. Instead the ex in this case is required to pay $110,000 a year. Australia is the only country on the planet that applies such absurd rules.
Page 5
"Not only is the sea temperature warmer" I recently read a fairly detailed analysis on sea temperature trends over the last few years. Both the Argo bouys and other measurement systems show that the sea temperatures have declined. In this case Rosanne Barrett is either global warming believer or just a poor researcher.
Page 7
There are two aspects to this story about the planes sent to Egypt to retrieve Australians. The first one is about the support our consular officers give to Australians abroad. Many years ago I was given a piece of advice while travelling in any situation where Embassy contact is required try the US embassy before the Australian Embassy. The embassy in Egypt is a large one and processes should be in place to contact Australians registered there. That this did not happen simply reinforces the stereotype that the Australian Embassy is not the place to go for help. The other aspect is the continuing trend of Australians not willing to help themselves in any situation. The trend is to immediately cry for help from mummy at the slightest scratch. For those a little older this is a disturbing trend in our culture and society.
Page 9
What a surprise China has once again blocking information on the Internet in this case about what is happening in Egypt.
Page 11
Sally Neighbour is in Islamic apologist. A few of her articles now show are definite leaning towards apologising for Islam. She paints quite a rosy picture of the Muslim Brotherhood. Over the years I've read quite a number of articles about this group. They are acknowledged as one of the primary drivers for the modern Jihadist movement. The group represents returning to a more fundamentalist view of Islam. Ironically this is one that would put Ms Neighbour it is a position of being a poorly treated women in the new society. You only have to read some of the writings of Hassan al-Bannah to understand what this group represents. Ms Neighbour seems to have been reading press releases from the organisation rather than their literature. She would make a good partner for Karen Armstrong.
Page 12
Excellent article by Michael Stutchbury.
Page 13
Top letter by Evan Coumbe takes a very simplistic view of the situation in Egypt. It astonishes me how little we as a nation understand international politics.
Benjamin Burns by contrast, in a very direct way, sums up the situation more succinctly.
Good question by Harry Baker what does "un-Australian" actually mean? Australia seems to accept everything these days the matter how much they may conflict with each other. So in the current economic and political climate everything goes in Australia.
Phillip Adams is our most left-leaning media personality. He always interrupts any guest not on the far left. Sometimes he interrupts because his ego would not allow someone else to talk for so long. There are some individuals to when I'm flipping channels and see them automatically causes me to keep going. He is one.
In Cut-and-Paste we find the reason, or a least one example, of why the new flood levee will be rorted to the max. We have people claiming Centerlink payments other thousand dollars per person simply because they went without power for 48 hours during the floods. This is the same amount, that those forced up onto the roofs of their homes because of rising floodwaters where they spent a day or more, receive.
Others who didn't get flooded a few kilometres from a store or a road was cut to 24 hours can also claim this bonus. It's a lot like the free $900 16,000 people received from the government in the stimulus. With such obvious claims being allowed right now how could anyone possibly trust the government to ensure the billions of dollars will be spent effectively. Can you imagine how much good this money would do in say the hands of the Salvation Army.
There was as expected the Australian National University rated number one in Australia, in research. The ANU is the most represented University that comes out with pro-anthropogenic global warming nonsense. To indicate that this is a top research university, when so much of what they say on the subject is easily refuse it by looking at the literature, makes the whole process to me a joke. The ANU is also coincidentally the most left positioned University in Australia. It would have been a bigger surprise in a Labor environment if the university had not made top place.
Page Three
A number of years ago I was reading about the installation of a missile defence shield. During the Iraq War quite a bit was made of this technology. To read today on page one and three about our troops getting a new siren warning system, that initially had been delayed until 2018, beggars belief. What it does indicate is how poorly in general our generals treat our troops in combat. Defence is quoted as saying that anti-missile systems are not yet reliable enough is code for we don't want to spend the money.
The article at the top of the page shows just how messed up our legal system is. Here we have a woman remarried, living in the UK, to a very wealthy man demanding $21,000 in child support from old husband. Actually she demanded a lot more but that was as much as the courts were willing to give. The law should be that if remarried and the new husband can provide wealth of the family that the ex-husband should then be free from the burden. Instead the ex in this case is required to pay $110,000 a year. Australia is the only country on the planet that applies such absurd rules.
Page 5
"Not only is the sea temperature warmer" I recently read a fairly detailed analysis on sea temperature trends over the last few years. Both the Argo bouys and other measurement systems show that the sea temperatures have declined. In this case Rosanne Barrett is either global warming believer or just a poor researcher.
Page 7
There are two aspects to this story about the planes sent to Egypt to retrieve Australians. The first one is about the support our consular officers give to Australians abroad. Many years ago I was given a piece of advice while travelling in any situation where Embassy contact is required try the US embassy before the Australian Embassy. The embassy in Egypt is a large one and processes should be in place to contact Australians registered there. That this did not happen simply reinforces the stereotype that the Australian Embassy is not the place to go for help. The other aspect is the continuing trend of Australians not willing to help themselves in any situation. The trend is to immediately cry for help from mummy at the slightest scratch. For those a little older this is a disturbing trend in our culture and society.
Page 9
What a surprise China has once again blocking information on the Internet in this case about what is happening in Egypt.
Page 11
Sally Neighbour is in Islamic apologist. A few of her articles now show are definite leaning towards apologising for Islam. She paints quite a rosy picture of the Muslim Brotherhood. Over the years I've read quite a number of articles about this group. They are acknowledged as one of the primary drivers for the modern Jihadist movement. The group represents returning to a more fundamentalist view of Islam. Ironically this is one that would put Ms Neighbour it is a position of being a poorly treated women in the new society. You only have to read some of the writings of Hassan al-Bannah to understand what this group represents. Ms Neighbour seems to have been reading press releases from the organisation rather than their literature. She would make a good partner for Karen Armstrong.
Page 12
Excellent article by Michael Stutchbury.
Page 13
Top letter by Evan Coumbe takes a very simplistic view of the situation in Egypt. It astonishes me how little we as a nation understand international politics.
Benjamin Burns by contrast, in a very direct way, sums up the situation more succinctly.
Good question by Harry Baker what does "un-Australian" actually mean? Australia seems to accept everything these days the matter how much they may conflict with each other. So in the current economic and political climate everything goes in Australia.
Phillip Adams is our most left-leaning media personality. He always interrupts any guest not on the far left. Sometimes he interrupts because his ego would not allow someone else to talk for so long. There are some individuals to when I'm flipping channels and see them automatically causes me to keep going. He is one.
In Cut-and-Paste we find the reason, or a least one example, of why the new flood levee will be rorted to the max. We have people claiming Centerlink payments other thousand dollars per person simply because they went without power for 48 hours during the floods. This is the same amount, that those forced up onto the roofs of their homes because of rising floodwaters where they spent a day or more, receive.
Others who didn't get flooded a few kilometres from a store or a road was cut to 24 hours can also claim this bonus. It's a lot like the free $900 16,000 people received from the government in the stimulus. With such obvious claims being allowed right now how could anyone possibly trust the government to ensure the billions of dollars will be spent effectively. Can you imagine how much good this money would do in say the hands of the Salvation Army.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Jan 31 2010
Today's News is mostly about Egypt. There are only a few countries in that whole region that provide stability. They include Jordan, Egypt, Israel and to some extent Saudi Arabia. As today's front-page points out the Muslim Brotherhood is the group most likely to cause destabilisation in Egypt. A bit more on this later.
Page 2.
"See the university rankings today on www.theaustralian.com.au" go to the website and the word university doesn't appear anywhere on the front page. using their search tag tried "University rankings" still couldn't find it. I must admit the only reason I was looking was to see how low ANU placed though I suspect I would have found it near the top as the most Left supporting university in Australia.
Page 3
It seems that its hard-pressed to find any addition of a newspaper without at least one barefaced lie concerning climate change. Today it was about the Arctic's melting glaciers. Anybody who has read the literature knows that these don't exist. They would have also seen the satellite shot of the waste dust from China moving north up the coast and impacting that side of the Arctic ice sheet. This effect has of course nothing to do with global warming. The source of the story was The Sunday Times. Amount checking by the editor zero. As a side note any time of tried to point out the inaccuracies in the published material, even when I supplied links to the appropriate scholarly documents, I've been ignored. This has in no way surprise me.
Page 8
As expected the ANU, or in this case one associate Prof, is not a supporter of a regional processing centre for refugees. Anyone on the Left, with true leftist leanings, wants all processing in Australia. Australia is about the only country on the planet that gives refugees and asylum seekers full access to their court system thereby weakening any case made against illegal immigrants.
It never ceases to amaze me as to the stupidity of those at the top in our legal system. In this case it is about the jailed "boy" smuggler. If you can get access to the photos of the people claiming to be minors just from a visual examination you will be able to find people as old as 30 in this category. You will of course need to have spent some time in Asia to be a spot this easily. For some reason our legal eagles are willing to believe any claim about age. There are multiple methods that can be used to determine age including hip x-rays and other methods. Ironically when these people are caught out on a lie they immediately switch to another approach and the authorities seem to immediately forget that they lied about their age.
Page 10
Excellent article by Martin Ivens. The key sentence here and one that is almost universally ignored by the West is that Islam (and not just one strand) does not recognise democracy as being legitimate. Everything must only come from the dictates of Allah.
Page 11
Where is the world or in this case the USA going to realise that Pakistan is not our friend? This latest example of not recognising diplomatic immunity is yet one other case where many within Pakistan don't recognise anything that comes from the world of the infidels. As an aside expect to see Veena Malik either killed or attacked in the near future for daring to challenge the more militant within Pakistan on her right to dress provocatively.
Page 14
An excellent article from Mirko Bagaric. At least the professors from Deakin University know what they're talking about.
Letters
Good letters from Michael Cunningham, Martin Fitzgerald, Peter Edgar and Des Moore Gowda went. The confusing letter comes from Tory Puglisi concerning the Red Cross and the Salvation Army not constructing roads or railways. Of course the usual batch of anti-Coalition letters are almost mandatory in any newspaper published in Australia. As usual apart from the ad hominem attacks they contain little substance.
It was good to see some of the opinion pieces written in a well-balanced and thoughtful manner today.
The situation to watch in the coming weeks is the one in each of. If militant Islam, i.e. true Islam, is allowed to gain a foothold in Egypt's this will place great pressure on Israel to strengthen its stamps in the region. The chip has a large standing army and one that will be used by followers of Islam to attack Israel at the earliest opportunity. It would also not bode well for the Coptic Christians who live in Egypt. There are diminishing number of countries in the region where anybody following other than the Islamic faith can live for exist with any semblance of peace. Expect any Leftist run Western nation to offer little support if the situation changes.
Page 2.
"See the university rankings today on www.theaustralian.com.au" go to the website and the word university doesn't appear anywhere on the front page. using their search tag tried "University rankings" still couldn't find it. I must admit the only reason I was looking was to see how low ANU placed though I suspect I would have found it near the top as the most Left supporting university in Australia.
Page 3
It seems that its hard-pressed to find any addition of a newspaper without at least one barefaced lie concerning climate change. Today it was about the Arctic's melting glaciers. Anybody who has read the literature knows that these don't exist. They would have also seen the satellite shot of the waste dust from China moving north up the coast and impacting that side of the Arctic ice sheet. This effect has of course nothing to do with global warming. The source of the story was The Sunday Times. Amount checking by the editor zero. As a side note any time of tried to point out the inaccuracies in the published material, even when I supplied links to the appropriate scholarly documents, I've been ignored. This has in no way surprise me.
Page 8
As expected the ANU, or in this case one associate Prof, is not a supporter of a regional processing centre for refugees. Anyone on the Left, with true leftist leanings, wants all processing in Australia. Australia is about the only country on the planet that gives refugees and asylum seekers full access to their court system thereby weakening any case made against illegal immigrants.
It never ceases to amaze me as to the stupidity of those at the top in our legal system. In this case it is about the jailed "boy" smuggler. If you can get access to the photos of the people claiming to be minors just from a visual examination you will be able to find people as old as 30 in this category. You will of course need to have spent some time in Asia to be a spot this easily. For some reason our legal eagles are willing to believe any claim about age. There are multiple methods that can be used to determine age including hip x-rays and other methods. Ironically when these people are caught out on a lie they immediately switch to another approach and the authorities seem to immediately forget that they lied about their age.
Page 10
Excellent article by Martin Ivens. The key sentence here and one that is almost universally ignored by the West is that Islam (and not just one strand) does not recognise democracy as being legitimate. Everything must only come from the dictates of Allah.
Page 11
Where is the world or in this case the USA going to realise that Pakistan is not our friend? This latest example of not recognising diplomatic immunity is yet one other case where many within Pakistan don't recognise anything that comes from the world of the infidels. As an aside expect to see Veena Malik either killed or attacked in the near future for daring to challenge the more militant within Pakistan on her right to dress provocatively.
Page 14
An excellent article from Mirko Bagaric. At least the professors from Deakin University know what they're talking about.
Letters
Good letters from Michael Cunningham, Martin Fitzgerald, Peter Edgar and Des Moore Gowda went. The confusing letter comes from Tory Puglisi concerning the Red Cross and the Salvation Army not constructing roads or railways. Of course the usual batch of anti-Coalition letters are almost mandatory in any newspaper published in Australia. As usual apart from the ad hominem attacks they contain little substance.
It was good to see some of the opinion pieces written in a well-balanced and thoughtful manner today.
The situation to watch in the coming weeks is the one in each of. If militant Islam, i.e. true Islam, is allowed to gain a foothold in Egypt's this will place great pressure on Israel to strengthen its stamps in the region. The chip has a large standing army and one that will be used by followers of Islam to attack Israel at the earliest opportunity. It would also not bode well for the Coptic Christians who live in Egypt. There are diminishing number of countries in the region where anybody following other than the Islamic faith can live for exist with any semblance of peace. Expect any Leftist run Western nation to offer little support if the situation changes.
Friday, January 28, 2011
Sat - 29 Jan 2011
Front Page
According to Malaysia's Prime Minister he knows nothing of the East Timor plan. Of course not one word on the Opposition's Nauru plan. The government's anal-like opposition to Nauru is a processing location is making them the laughing stock of the world.
Page 3
It was good to see the Kindle being given to book prize judges instead of the hundred plus physical versions of each book. With the current price of the Kindle by the time you read 100 books it has paid for itself easily.
Page 4
The story about Muslim numbers is worth reading. Too bad it will be a long time before there is any commentary on how this will affect Australia in any negative way.
Page 10
How can Julia Gillard be surprised by the amount of water flowing downstream from Queensland? This is high school physics and was predicted some weeks back.
Page 12
The article on the lives lost is both poignant and accurate. That senior officers told rescue trained individuals to stand down and wait is eminently believable. That there are too many agencies and that they did not work together also highlights the bureaucratic heavy focus of any government organisation. The lack of warning for many areas, in light of the early warnings given by non-government individuals, also highlights the need to move much of this as far away from the government as possible.
Page 13
A large article the inability of current power generation to meet future needs. Not a single word on the root cause of this problem being the Green push for alternate energies sucking the life out of real power generation to impose hardship on future Australians. Also not a word on how these useless alternate energy structures are dramatically pushing up the price of power.
I used to have a lot of respect for Noel Pearson but in light of his new divisive stance to separate and treat as different aboriginal Australians from other Australians that respect has been severely diminished.
Page 14
What a surprise that Sally Neighbour is surprised that young Australians love our flag. In general those of the Left, with true Leftist leanings, hate Australia and by extension Australia's flag. Instead of expressing surprise Sally should be commending in promoting Australians supporting Australia and should all of her media friends. I do however support her implied dislike of Aussie, Aussie, Aussie Oi, Oi, Oi.
Letters page 15
Ms Lord urges people to donate generously and not complain about the levy because in her words one goes to the people and the other to infrastructure. Actually this is not correct the levy money will be handed out to individuals on a case-by-case basis. To call people petty are complaining about the levy speaks volumes about her own character.
Mr Puleston repeats the warmest mantra that extreme weather events are increasing in frequency and intensity and that human induced climate change is the main underlying factor. Scholarly peer reviewed papers are easy to find on this subject and this contention has been shredded in a number of these papers. Being Green doesn't mean mindlessly following what a few politically minded individuals are saying. Of course for some individuals this is exactly what Green means.
Mr Hedley is correct in one sense but what he ignores is the government used up all of our future fund that would have been used to assist in instances like the flood.
Ms McLauchlin is of course correct the Davidson letter was incredibly narrow and single-minded focus. It ignores all of the reasons and cases why parents send their children to private school.
According to Malaysia's Prime Minister he knows nothing of the East Timor plan. Of course not one word on the Opposition's Nauru plan. The government's anal-like opposition to Nauru is a processing location is making them the laughing stock of the world.
Page 3
It was good to see the Kindle being given to book prize judges instead of the hundred plus physical versions of each book. With the current price of the Kindle by the time you read 100 books it has paid for itself easily.
Page 4
The story about Muslim numbers is worth reading. Too bad it will be a long time before there is any commentary on how this will affect Australia in any negative way.
Page 10
How can Julia Gillard be surprised by the amount of water flowing downstream from Queensland? This is high school physics and was predicted some weeks back.
Page 12
The article on the lives lost is both poignant and accurate. That senior officers told rescue trained individuals to stand down and wait is eminently believable. That there are too many agencies and that they did not work together also highlights the bureaucratic heavy focus of any government organisation. The lack of warning for many areas, in light of the early warnings given by non-government individuals, also highlights the need to move much of this as far away from the government as possible.
Page 13
A large article the inability of current power generation to meet future needs. Not a single word on the root cause of this problem being the Green push for alternate energies sucking the life out of real power generation to impose hardship on future Australians. Also not a word on how these useless alternate energy structures are dramatically pushing up the price of power.
I used to have a lot of respect for Noel Pearson but in light of his new divisive stance to separate and treat as different aboriginal Australians from other Australians that respect has been severely diminished.
Page 14
What a surprise that Sally Neighbour is surprised that young Australians love our flag. In general those of the Left, with true Leftist leanings, hate Australia and by extension Australia's flag. Instead of expressing surprise Sally should be commending in promoting Australians supporting Australia and should all of her media friends. I do however support her implied dislike of Aussie, Aussie, Aussie Oi, Oi, Oi.
Letters page 15
Ms Lord urges people to donate generously and not complain about the levy because in her words one goes to the people and the other to infrastructure. Actually this is not correct the levy money will be handed out to individuals on a case-by-case basis. To call people petty are complaining about the levy speaks volumes about her own character.
Mr Puleston repeats the warmest mantra that extreme weather events are increasing in frequency and intensity and that human induced climate change is the main underlying factor. Scholarly peer reviewed papers are easy to find on this subject and this contention has been shredded in a number of these papers. Being Green doesn't mean mindlessly following what a few politically minded individuals are saying. Of course for some individuals this is exactly what Green means.
Mr Hedley is correct in one sense but what he ignores is the government used up all of our future fund that would have been used to assist in instances like the flood.
Ms McLauchlin is of course correct the Davidson letter was incredibly narrow and single-minded focus. It ignores all of the reasons and cases why parents send their children to private school.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Fri - 28 Jan 2011
The word of the day is Levy.
Everybody's talking about the flood levy, Julia Gillard’s one-year tax. No one is talking about the potential for this process to be rorted as thoroughly as the pink bats and BER. When this was raised in a press conference Julia umm-ed and aah-ed dodging the question.
There are so many reasons why this levy is not only a bad idea but will be applied unequally and inconsistently. The levy is not taxable a donation is. There are a number of Australians, perhaps even a significant number, that have made donations to the flood effort. These people will be forced to donate further. All those people who are planning to donate will no longer do so because the government has decided to force the issue.
In the past people have claimed to be a victim of a fire or flood and later found to have had nothing to do with it. This is of course only those who are caught. Now we have a case where those considered to be flood victims are not subject to the levy. It would be interesting in a year’s time to be able to track the amount of the levy wasted on this determination process. We are after all talking about the government here.
Very wealthy individuals will benefit from the levy if they are flood victims. I'm not sure if those insured are covered by the terms outlined by the government seem to indicate that they maybe. If they are not then those who did not take out insurance are being rewarded by the government while those who were prudent, sensible, and wise would not be. The message then would be don't do anything the mother government will look after you. This is of course socialism at its finest.
So the donors get to pay, the volunteers get to pay, a number of victims will get to pay, businesses who were wiped out may get to pay and so the Socialist machine rolls on. The one industry to benefit once more as it has in all of the other failures of the Labor government is once again the building industry. They're talking about bringing people from all over the country, relocating them to free, to help in the effort. This is not the issue so much as the new potential for this favoured industry to overcharge and make large sums of money on the backs of the rest of Australians.
Page 12.
Keeping in line with Gillard’s "Education Revolution" which is not a revolution at all but a devolution we read an article, and a well-written one, about the poor quality of both English curriculum and the NAPLAN testing of English. At the same time in this article there is an indication that the testing should be weakened to accommodate non-native English-speaking individuals. To quote "other questions are written in ways that rely on native speaker into wish and, or common sense and logic, rather than a solid grasp of how English works."
Anyone who has spent any time in a non-English-speaking country, particularly one in Asia, will know that these people will often know more about grammar than a native English speaker but often has difficulty in basic conversation. Those joining a society are far more useful if they can speak and understand that if they know what a hanging participle is. Focusing on the inner technical workings of English rather than the ability to understand or answer questions about it is somewhat elitist. Given that one of the writers comes from ANU however based on previous experience listening to people from this facility this is not unusual.
The article from Tony Kevin on the SIEV to 21 incident, or the boat that crashed into Christmas Island, is both self-serving and a little disingenuous. He claims that the Jindalee operational radar network or JORN allowed Australia to detect and safely intercept 220 of 221 boats. Given that two of the boats were 'intercepted 'after they had touched the jetty, and many others either reached land or came very close this claim is somewhat spurious. The other issue is of course that everybody is focusing on the intricacies of the issue, and coming up with some wild solutions, rather than focusing on the core issue which is of course the weakness of the Australian policies and the huge number of boats leaving Indonesia.
Letters
As usual in today's letters we have a few people Abbott bashing without any substance whatsoever. One writer talked about putting his donation on hold, representing many, many more doing the same.
Two letters of note. One by Frank Pulsford raising the issue that even aborigines are not sure that all those claiming to be Aboriginal are, in fact, so. This is one of the many issues swept under the rug when dealing with Aboriginals. At the very least this question is going to cause division in both the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities.
The other letter by Ray Carman pointed out that President Obama’s wireless solution makes our cable solution look positively prehistoric. As an IT professional I would of course agree.
Peter Davidson's letter is yet another calling the division. The contention is that private students deserve no support from government. You are either for equality or against it. When it comes to children at the very least they should be treated equally. If their parents can afford to pay the extra money, well above and beyond that paid by other parents, then good for them. Socialists of course want everybody brought down to a particular level, socialism never ever elevates people in societies. By calling for a withdrawal of a subsidy for private school children Mr Davidson appears to be calling for special treatment of non-private school students. In other words he only favours looking after one group of children. If people have worked hard to make more money so that their children can go to private schools, and in many cases having to give up other luxuries so that their child can go to a private school, why should they be penalised for this. Again socialism does not reward those who work harder or try to distinguish themselves.
Everybody's talking about the flood levy, Julia Gillard’s one-year tax. No one is talking about the potential for this process to be rorted as thoroughly as the pink bats and BER. When this was raised in a press conference Julia umm-ed and aah-ed dodging the question.
There are so many reasons why this levy is not only a bad idea but will be applied unequally and inconsistently. The levy is not taxable a donation is. There are a number of Australians, perhaps even a significant number, that have made donations to the flood effort. These people will be forced to donate further. All those people who are planning to donate will no longer do so because the government has decided to force the issue.
In the past people have claimed to be a victim of a fire or flood and later found to have had nothing to do with it. This is of course only those who are caught. Now we have a case where those considered to be flood victims are not subject to the levy. It would be interesting in a year’s time to be able to track the amount of the levy wasted on this determination process. We are after all talking about the government here.
Very wealthy individuals will benefit from the levy if they are flood victims. I'm not sure if those insured are covered by the terms outlined by the government seem to indicate that they maybe. If they are not then those who did not take out insurance are being rewarded by the government while those who were prudent, sensible, and wise would not be. The message then would be don't do anything the mother government will look after you. This is of course socialism at its finest.
So the donors get to pay, the volunteers get to pay, a number of victims will get to pay, businesses who were wiped out may get to pay and so the Socialist machine rolls on. The one industry to benefit once more as it has in all of the other failures of the Labor government is once again the building industry. They're talking about bringing people from all over the country, relocating them to free, to help in the effort. This is not the issue so much as the new potential for this favoured industry to overcharge and make large sums of money on the backs of the rest of Australians.
Page 12.
Keeping in line with Gillard’s "Education Revolution" which is not a revolution at all but a devolution we read an article, and a well-written one, about the poor quality of both English curriculum and the NAPLAN testing of English. At the same time in this article there is an indication that the testing should be weakened to accommodate non-native English-speaking individuals. To quote "other questions are written in ways that rely on native speaker into wish and, or common sense and logic, rather than a solid grasp of how English works."
Anyone who has spent any time in a non-English-speaking country, particularly one in Asia, will know that these people will often know more about grammar than a native English speaker but often has difficulty in basic conversation. Those joining a society are far more useful if they can speak and understand that if they know what a hanging participle is. Focusing on the inner technical workings of English rather than the ability to understand or answer questions about it is somewhat elitist. Given that one of the writers comes from ANU however based on previous experience listening to people from this facility this is not unusual.
The article from Tony Kevin on the SIEV to 21 incident, or the boat that crashed into Christmas Island, is both self-serving and a little disingenuous. He claims that the Jindalee operational radar network or JORN allowed Australia to detect and safely intercept 220 of 221 boats. Given that two of the boats were 'intercepted 'after they had touched the jetty, and many others either reached land or came very close this claim is somewhat spurious. The other issue is of course that everybody is focusing on the intricacies of the issue, and coming up with some wild solutions, rather than focusing on the core issue which is of course the weakness of the Australian policies and the huge number of boats leaving Indonesia.
Letters
As usual in today's letters we have a few people Abbott bashing without any substance whatsoever. One writer talked about putting his donation on hold, representing many, many more doing the same.
Two letters of note. One by Frank Pulsford raising the issue that even aborigines are not sure that all those claiming to be Aboriginal are, in fact, so. This is one of the many issues swept under the rug when dealing with Aboriginals. At the very least this question is going to cause division in both the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities.
The other letter by Ray Carman pointed out that President Obama’s wireless solution makes our cable solution look positively prehistoric. As an IT professional I would of course agree.
Peter Davidson's letter is yet another calling the division. The contention is that private students deserve no support from government. You are either for equality or against it. When it comes to children at the very least they should be treated equally. If their parents can afford to pay the extra money, well above and beyond that paid by other parents, then good for them. Socialists of course want everybody brought down to a particular level, socialism never ever elevates people in societies. By calling for a withdrawal of a subsidy for private school children Mr Davidson appears to be calling for special treatment of non-private school students. In other words he only favours looking after one group of children. If people have worked hard to make more money so that their children can go to private schools, and in many cases having to give up other luxuries so that their child can go to a private school, why should they be penalised for this. Again socialism does not reward those who work harder or try to distinguish themselves.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Thurs - 27 Jan 2011
Page 3 "were unable to call Australia home" in the story about the stranded Qantas passengers. Really? Who makes the kind of dissociation people miss flights all the time, flights are delayed all the time. It makes it sound like all the passengers were either deported or denied access to the country by the authorities.
Same page story about Coles and the Israeli fruit boycott. The real story here is the Left's hatred of America and all who support all allies with them. Yes, this means they also hate Australia. Conversely they seem to love anything that is anti-capitalism, anti-democracy,and pro-socialism.this is the real reason behind the anti–Israel bent that some people are on these days.
Page 12. Here and elsewhere the old saw about the mythical inequality of women in the workplace is raised by none other than someone who has access to the literature that says otherwise. I had an opportunity to write a Masters level paper on the subject. This meant I was required to research the peer reviewed literature on this subject. It takes a little bit of work is not that hard.
Every time you read about pay inequality, or position of equality, or lack of promotion, or lack of women at the top, the evidence used is a normalisation of the data without looking at any of the underlying principles involved.
So here is, you can look it all up for yourself.
1. A woman and a man doing the same job in Australia with the same roles and responsibilities, in the same organisation are paid the same.
2. Due to biology women need to take time off to have a baby. While they are doing this a man who started at the same time they did in the same organisation, in the same department will in some cases progress to a higher position. When the woman comes back to work at the same place she may then be at a lower pay rate than the man who started same time she did. This difference in rate has nothing to do with inequality, but with the fact that the woman was absent for a period of time, i.e. was not working, gaining skills etc.
3. Some positions within an industry may contain dangerous that preclude women from holding those roles. Such positions often come with danger bonuses and high salaries. Normalising across an industry for men and women will buy this very process show an 'inequality' that can hide this kind of information.
4. Because of point 2 earlier women may take longer to reach the top. By contrast women who don't start a family are often the first to reach the top, case in point the new Premier of Tasmania.
The inequality, if one does exist is purely one of biology.
As for the letters today there are the usual mix of the good, the inane, and the music. Excellent cartoon by Nicholson today. Labor is really showing its colours with its inability to cut unnecessary programs to fund the flood requirements and instead looking to add yet another tax to the Australian people.
Same page story about Coles and the Israeli fruit boycott. The real story here is the Left's hatred of America and all who support all allies with them. Yes, this means they also hate Australia. Conversely they seem to love anything that is anti-capitalism, anti-democracy,and pro-socialism.this is the real reason behind the anti–Israel bent that some people are on these days.
Page 12. Here and elsewhere the old saw about the mythical inequality of women in the workplace is raised by none other than someone who has access to the literature that says otherwise. I had an opportunity to write a Masters level paper on the subject. This meant I was required to research the peer reviewed literature on this subject. It takes a little bit of work is not that hard.
Every time you read about pay inequality, or position of equality, or lack of promotion, or lack of women at the top, the evidence used is a normalisation of the data without looking at any of the underlying principles involved.
So here is, you can look it all up for yourself.
1. A woman and a man doing the same job in Australia with the same roles and responsibilities, in the same organisation are paid the same.
2. Due to biology women need to take time off to have a baby. While they are doing this a man who started at the same time they did in the same organisation, in the same department will in some cases progress to a higher position. When the woman comes back to work at the same place she may then be at a lower pay rate than the man who started same time she did. This difference in rate has nothing to do with inequality, but with the fact that the woman was absent for a period of time, i.e. was not working, gaining skills etc.
3. Some positions within an industry may contain dangerous that preclude women from holding those roles. Such positions often come with danger bonuses and high salaries. Normalising across an industry for men and women will buy this very process show an 'inequality' that can hide this kind of information.
4. Because of point 2 earlier women may take longer to reach the top. By contrast women who don't start a family are often the first to reach the top, case in point the new Premier of Tasmania.
The inequality, if one does exist is purely one of biology.
As for the letters today there are the usual mix of the good, the inane, and the music. Excellent cartoon by Nicholson today. Labor is really showing its colours with its inability to cut unnecessary programs to fund the flood requirements and instead looking to add yet another tax to the Australian people.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Wed - 26 Jan 2011
The story of the day is the Constitution.
The Constitution of Australia stands out as one of the most stable in the world. It has weathered challenges on a number of occasions and when changes are suggested it is the one time that Australians tend to stir from their lethargy and think about an issue. This latest challenge comes from a few people in the indigenous community.
Noel Person suggests that the Constitution serves everybody but the aboriginal population. He is of course missing the point. Just because the Constitution doesn't specifically refer to aboriginals doesn't mean that they aren't covered by. In fact the contrary is true. It should and does cover all people recognised as Australian citizens equally.
The moment any individual group is allowed to be treated in a separate or special way the concept of equality vanishes.The definition of the word aboriginal means one native to that country. How many generations are required before this comes into effect? The current indigenous population moved here across the land bridge from the North. Given that there is evidence they wiped out the indigenous population they have effectively replaced those here.
Some families not of aboriginal descent are fifth and sixth generation. A large number of those considered aboriginal have less than half "aboriginal blood" in them. As a country we have this weird worldview that even the tiniest amount of aboriginal blood entitles that person to be called aboriginal. In some cases no aboriginal blood at all is required in the mix. In what strange universe does this makes sense?
The Constitution should not be modified to name any individual group. The special treatment of aboriginals to date has fostered division, seen huge sums of money turned to dust, and all of the plans of the fluffy headed socialists fail.
We are either Australians will not. The Constitution is for all Australians Black, White, Brown, Yellow and none of this should allow this to be changed.
In Letters to the Editor today there are the usual mix of mono dimensional letters from those whose sole source of news is from the mainstream media. I don't understand why the Editor publishers such trite material
The Constitution of Australia stands out as one of the most stable in the world. It has weathered challenges on a number of occasions and when changes are suggested it is the one time that Australians tend to stir from their lethargy and think about an issue. This latest challenge comes from a few people in the indigenous community.
Noel Person suggests that the Constitution serves everybody but the aboriginal population. He is of course missing the point. Just because the Constitution doesn't specifically refer to aboriginals doesn't mean that they aren't covered by. In fact the contrary is true. It should and does cover all people recognised as Australian citizens equally.
The moment any individual group is allowed to be treated in a separate or special way the concept of equality vanishes.The definition of the word aboriginal means one native to that country. How many generations are required before this comes into effect? The current indigenous population moved here across the land bridge from the North. Given that there is evidence they wiped out the indigenous population they have effectively replaced those here.
Some families not of aboriginal descent are fifth and sixth generation. A large number of those considered aboriginal have less than half "aboriginal blood" in them. As a country we have this weird worldview that even the tiniest amount of aboriginal blood entitles that person to be called aboriginal. In some cases no aboriginal blood at all is required in the mix. In what strange universe does this makes sense?
The Constitution should not be modified to name any individual group. The special treatment of aboriginals to date has fostered division, seen huge sums of money turned to dust, and all of the plans of the fluffy headed socialists fail.
We are either Australians will not. The Constitution is for all Australians Black, White, Brown, Yellow and none of this should allow this to be changed.
In Letters to the Editor today there are the usual mix of mono dimensional letters from those whose sole source of news is from the mainstream media. I don't understand why the Editor publishers such trite material
Monday, January 24, 2011
Tuesday – Jan 5, 2011
Front page quotes around the word cleared in reference to the navy being held accountable for the boat that crashed into the rocks. Really? The incident occurred in high seas on the side of the island where there was no landing. For some reason the writers seem to believe that the navy is somehow tracking all wooden boats departing from Indonesia heading for Australian shores. Given the limited resources it is not surprising that a boat can arrive at the jetty before being detected. Somehow however the boat that crashed on the rocks were supposed to have been detected and saved. The fault here lies with the Indonesian captain not the Australian Navy. Move on to page 2 and there is an emotive story from one of the relatives already on Christmas Island.Yes this is an emotive issue that as usual the underlying issue of the business of entering Australia by bypassing the normal process, often by people who are not asylum seekers, is ignored.
Page 12. Not written by any below could journalists that the now almost mandatorily Israel bashing article. The tiniest amount of research will discover that the building on the East Bank is well within both international law and previous agreements. One day after giving over land Israel shelled, or more accurately rocketed. After this happened they are still criticised for not giving up high ground from where this could happen, or would happen again.
Letters to the Editor. Let from John Sandilands. This is nothing more than a Coalition bashing letter and offers nothing to the debate. The same from John Murphy and John Sumner but for different reasons.
Page 12. Not written by any below could journalists that the now almost mandatorily Israel bashing article. The tiniest amount of research will discover that the building on the East Bank is well within both international law and previous agreements. One day after giving over land Israel shelled, or more accurately rocketed. After this happened they are still criticised for not giving up high ground from where this could happen, or would happen again.
Letters to the Editor. Let from John Sandilands. This is nothing more than a Coalition bashing letter and offers nothing to the debate. The same from John Murphy and John Sumner but for different reasons.
The Australian - Intro
The Australian newspaper describes itself as one that presents both sides of an issue, or is balanced. In reality it is part of the left-leaning media in Australia but is a little more clever in how it does this. Yes it does publish the occasional article towards the centre of the political spectrum but if you examine what is written, what is published, and what is contained in the letters you can find an obvious bias to the left.
As time permits this blog will analyse some of the content of The Australian to point out where this bias lies and correct or add comment to what is written. There will also be the occasional letter to the editor, unpublished of course, to show how the editor inserts bias in the selection process.
As time permits this blog will analyse some of the content of The Australian to point out where this bias lies and correct or add comment to what is written. There will also be the occasional letter to the editor, unpublished of course, to show how the editor inserts bias in the selection process.
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