Over the weekend we saw yet another awful consequence of the implimentation of The Greens' policy on asylum seekers. A refugee boat sank off the coast of Indonesia en route to Australia with the drowning of over 200 people.
The broadsheet press are trying to pin the blame onto a certain people smuggler who is being described as "a snakehead". But aren't they missing the point? The whole people smuggling industry had been closed down by the Howard government in the early 2000s with the Nauru solution and offshore processing. When Labor came to power in 2007 there was one asylum seeker in detention. Only 43% of refugees processed under the Nauru solution came to Australia, the rest were either sent back home or resettled in other countries. All that changed under Labor which dismantled the Nauru solution in 2008 and brought in what they touted as "a more compassionate approach to asylum seekers". Australia was open for business again, a new generation of people smugglers came onto the scene and Australia was swamped.
Under Labor and The Greens over 500 people have drowned trying to come to Australia. My my, what a compassionate approach to asylum seekers!
During the year we saw several silly thought bubbles by Gillard regarding possible "solutions" blurted out before anybody was ever consulted. First she said a detention centre would be built in Timor-Leste. Oh no, said the Timorese, we're not going to wear that. Then she said the Manus Island detention centre would be reopened. The Papua New Guineans quickly put the kybosh on that. Then she came up with the so-called Malaysian solution. The Greens stomped on that by deserting their coalition partners and refusing to vote for it in parliament. In a breathtaking display of failing to see the wood for the trees, she and others in the Labor party tried to blame Tony Abbott. As a consequence we now have The Greens' open door asylum seeker policy in place. Come one, come all. Disappear into the general community, live off Centrelink benefits and bring your relatives in a few months. Is it any wonder the people smugglers are now doing a roaring trade with thousands rushing to get onto the boats?
The awful immaturity and naivety of The Greens and their moronic far-left policies has been exposed by the screams of the latest asylum seekers as they disappeared under the water and their dead bodies floated away from their sunken boat. The Greens are as guilty of mass murder as if they boarded the boat themselves with semi-automatic weapons and opened fire.
The Greens are now the Martin Bryants of politics. How anybody can consider still voting for them after this outrage is totally beyond comprehension.
Monday 19 December 2011
Thursday 1 December 2011
Climate change lobby has really flipped this time
It has been a bit quiet on the climate change front in recent weeks. The hard left and their buddies in GetUp! - the Hitler Youth wing of the Australian green movement - got what they wanted, a savage new tax and a massive bureaucracy to indulge their fantasies. They've been content to sit back smugly and let Gillard divert the public's attention with her sashaying up to foreign dignitaries. All of that was shattered by the release of a new report from the Climate Commission which is nothing short of bizarre.
The report claims that climate change will cause untold medical problems - gastroenteritis, dengue fever, increased suicide rates and even post traumatic stress syndrome. When I heard all this guff I really did believe that the climate change brigade had finally flipped. More and more people are waking up to the climate change hoax so it was necessary to pump up the volume and resort to over the top scare tactics. Nobody is buying it.
The disturbing thing about this report is the reverential way it was treated by the print and television media. The newspapers carried the story and the alarmist findings in the report without critical analysis, but the treatment by the TV stations was staggering. Channel Nine pulled out all the stock footage of smoke stacks, air pollution, signs showing temperatures of 45 degrees, mosquitoes on peoples' arms and any other scary stuff they had in the vaults. Channel Seven had an interview with the government's climate change guru Tim Flannery. Yes, *that* Tim Flannery who has the beach house on the banks of the Hawkesbury River and runs off to ratbag leftist websites like Crikey! misrepresenting anybody who dares criticise him or his views. A very soft interview which even allowed Flannery to attack so-called "climate sceptics" (I prefer to call us climate realists). The ABC as usual trotted out all their typical hard left cliches and had it as the lead story in their news.
By contrast, radio presenters like Ray Hadley and Alan Jones ridiculed the report and gave it the treatment it so richly deserved. It had me thinking that there is a huge gap on TV for a nightly current affairs program similar to The Bolt Report which takes a similar approach to the so-called "shock jocks". It is disturbing that anybody who didn't listen to radio and only watched television received a totally one-sided, supportive view of the climate report and there was no criticism at all of it.
I've written before about the climate change hoax. This is a multi-million dollar, government funded industry with just one aim - the redistribution of wealth in line with socialist principles. Climate scientists are in the government's pocket, being the recipients of lavish research grants to obligingly bring out reports supporting climate change theory. You don't bite the hand that feeds you. The public servants whose salaries are paid for by the government - including the Climate Commission which brought out the latest report - have as their full-time job the promotion of apocalyptic doom caused by climate change. Whole industries have been set up to promote "the clean energy future" - these companies also receive government grants. Left wing unions and green groups - political and financial supporters of the government - are being showered with money to promote climate change and the carbon tax. This is a massive juggernaut, it isn't just concerts and solar panels anymore.
There are very powerful interests ensuring the climate change bandwagon not only stays on the rails but grows ever bigger. A few days ago we saw a very tough economic statement with massive spending cuts including the cutting of family benefits. Incredibly, "action on climate change" was quarantined from the cuts. A staggering ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS (!!) will be spent on another advertising campaign selling the carbon tax, with grants also being given to green groups to distribute supportivepropaganda. Now this is just disgraceful. A totally warped and cockeyed set of priorities.
We should all brace for more of this garbage. Billions of dollars going down the climate change plughole, and all for nothing. Meanwhile we can all reflect on the epidemic of sickness which will supposedly come our way due to "climate change". Perhaps the government might start up another new bureaucracy to advise public servants of exotic new climate change-related diseases they can put on their leave forms when they take sickies. Nothing would surprise me about this government.
The report claims that climate change will cause untold medical problems - gastroenteritis, dengue fever, increased suicide rates and even post traumatic stress syndrome. When I heard all this guff I really did believe that the climate change brigade had finally flipped. More and more people are waking up to the climate change hoax so it was necessary to pump up the volume and resort to over the top scare tactics. Nobody is buying it.
The disturbing thing about this report is the reverential way it was treated by the print and television media. The newspapers carried the story and the alarmist findings in the report without critical analysis, but the treatment by the TV stations was staggering. Channel Nine pulled out all the stock footage of smoke stacks, air pollution, signs showing temperatures of 45 degrees, mosquitoes on peoples' arms and any other scary stuff they had in the vaults. Channel Seven had an interview with the government's climate change guru Tim Flannery. Yes, *that* Tim Flannery who has the beach house on the banks of the Hawkesbury River and runs off to ratbag leftist websites like Crikey! misrepresenting anybody who dares criticise him or his views. A very soft interview which even allowed Flannery to attack so-called "climate sceptics" (I prefer to call us climate realists). The ABC as usual trotted out all their typical hard left cliches and had it as the lead story in their news.
By contrast, radio presenters like Ray Hadley and Alan Jones ridiculed the report and gave it the treatment it so richly deserved. It had me thinking that there is a huge gap on TV for a nightly current affairs program similar to The Bolt Report which takes a similar approach to the so-called "shock jocks". It is disturbing that anybody who didn't listen to radio and only watched television received a totally one-sided, supportive view of the climate report and there was no criticism at all of it.
I've written before about the climate change hoax. This is a multi-million dollar, government funded industry with just one aim - the redistribution of wealth in line with socialist principles. Climate scientists are in the government's pocket, being the recipients of lavish research grants to obligingly bring out reports supporting climate change theory. You don't bite the hand that feeds you. The public servants whose salaries are paid for by the government - including the Climate Commission which brought out the latest report - have as their full-time job the promotion of apocalyptic doom caused by climate change. Whole industries have been set up to promote "the clean energy future" - these companies also receive government grants. Left wing unions and green groups - political and financial supporters of the government - are being showered with money to promote climate change and the carbon tax. This is a massive juggernaut, it isn't just concerts and solar panels anymore.
There are very powerful interests ensuring the climate change bandwagon not only stays on the rails but grows ever bigger. A few days ago we saw a very tough economic statement with massive spending cuts including the cutting of family benefits. Incredibly, "action on climate change" was quarantined from the cuts. A staggering ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS (!!) will be spent on another advertising campaign selling the carbon tax, with grants also being given to green groups to distribute supportivepropaganda. Now this is just disgraceful. A totally warped and cockeyed set of priorities.
We should all brace for more of this garbage. Billions of dollars going down the climate change plughole, and all for nothing. Meanwhile we can all reflect on the epidemic of sickness which will supposedly come our way due to "climate change". Perhaps the government might start up another new bureaucracy to advise public servants of exotic new climate change-related diseases they can put on their leave forms when they take sickies. Nothing would surprise me about this government.
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