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.

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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.

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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.

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"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.

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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.

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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.