Anti Global Warming Propaganda
The Great Global Warming Swindle was something I discovered on pp.1 & 2 of The Age of Thursday May 24th. This is presented as a documentary questioning the science behind climate change.
read more »Peace Convergence:
This year Australia will host the largest ever joint military exercise — Operation Talisman Sabre. Nearly 14,000 US personnel and over 13,000 Australian military personnel will participate. This will be the start of a new era of Australia’s unwavering support for, and subordination to the US military.
read more »NoWar presents its first film fundraiser for 2007
Sunday 3 June 2007
Death of a President
Winner of the International Critics’ Prize at the Toronto Film Festival.
At the Palace Cinema, Rundle Street, Adelaide
3pm
Sunday 3 June
Tickets: $15 waged; $10 unwaged
Phone: 0414 773918 to book your ticket.
“Range has taken a contentious subject and used it to invite introspection about America, the media and society in general.
read more »U.S. show of force in Gulf alarming: Afghan paper
By Sayed SalahuddinSat May 26, 12:15 PM ET
A U.S. navy show of force on Iran’s doorstep is “greatly alarming” for the region and the United States risked a bloody quagmire if it invaded Iran, a state-run Afghan newspaper said on Saturday.
read more »Australia: Behind the $33.49 million package for Macquarie Bank’s chief executive
Howard’s remarks are utterly bogus and driven entirely by the approaching national election, which, according to recent polling, could produce a landslide defeat for the government. The Howard government and its Labor predecessors—state and federal—over the past two and a half decades have done their utmost to remove any obstacles to the amassing of huge profits by Macquarie Bank and other companies.
The announcement last week that Australia’s highest paid executive Macquarie Bank chief Allan Moss received a massive 57 percent hike in his annual remuneration package last year further highlights the vast and widening gulf between ordinary workers and the handful of super-rich that control the economy.
read more »German police to sniff out G8 protestors
German police are compiling a database of human scents to track down possible violent protesters at the Group of Eight (G8) summit in June.
The method, once used by East Germany’s Stasi secret police, involves collecting scent samples in advance from selected targets.
The scents are then passed to police equipped with sniffer dogs, who can pick the individuals out from a crowd.
read more »Can climate change get worse? It has
e world is now on track to experience more catastrophic damages from climate change than in the worst-case scenario forecast by international experts, scientists have warned.
The research, published in a prestigious US science journal, shows that between 2000 and 2004 the rate of increase in global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels was three times greater than in the 1990s.
That is faster than even the worst-case scenario modelled by the world’s leading scientists in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports, published over recent months, because the updated emissions figures were not available in time to be included.
read more »Pine Gap Four to face trial
Niko Leka
On May 29, an unpredictable drama will begin. Attorney-General Philip Ruddock will try to overcome a series of embarrassing blunders by the entire Australian chain of command at the joint Australia-US Pine Gap spy base in the Northern Territory, and four activists will face trial in Alice Springs for entering a prohibited site.
The blunders arise from the government’s mishandling of a peaceful protest in December 2005 at Pine Gap.
read more »Polar ocean ’soaking up less CO2′
By Paul Rincon
Science reporter, BBC News
The Southern Ocean is an important natural carbon sink
One of Earth’s most important absorbers of carbon dioxide (CO2) is failing to soak up as much of the greenhouse gas as it was expected to, scientists say.
The decline of Antarctica’s Southern Ocean carbon “sink” – or reservoir – means that atmospheric CO2 levels may be higher in future than predicted.
These carbon sinks are vital; they mop up excess CO2 from the atmosphere, slowing down global warming.
read more »Macquarie Bank fronts for foreign takeovers
More than once Vanguard has commented on the rise of equity investments in recent years. In just 5 years to 2005, the Macquarie Bank’s growth in its international income has recorded a steady upward climb, accounting for 46 percent of the total, or $954 million.
Where has this international income come from? This is a very good question.
read more »Rainwater tanks a viable urban water solution
A new study shows rainwater tanks are a cost-effective solution to the urban water problems plaguing Melbourne, Sydney and South-East Queensland.
The report – prepared by economists Marsden Jacobs Associates for the Australian Conservation Foundation, Environment Victoria and the Nature Conservation Council of NSW – found the widespread installation of rainwater tanks in Australian capital cities would mean big savings in water, energy and money.
The study found:
Rainwater tanks are cost competitive with dams and desalination plants.
read more »John Pilger: Washington’s war on democracy
Pablo Navarrete
John Pilger is an award-winning journalist, author and documentary filmmaker, who began his career in 1958 in his homeland, Australia, before moving to London in the 1960s. He has been a foreign correspondent and a front-line war reporter, beginning with the Vietnam War in 1967. He is an impassioned critic of foreign military and economic adventures by Western governments.
read more »Climate change ‘can be tackled’
Tackling climate change need not cost the Earth, the IPCC says
The growth in greenhouse gas emissions can be curbed at reasonable cost, experts at a major UN climate change conference in Bangkok have agreed.
Boosting renewable energy, reducing deforestation and improving energy efficiency can all help, they said.
This is the third report this year from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and aims to set out the costs and benefits of various policies.
read more »Cycle Against the Nuclear Cycle III
by Beck Pearse
Cycle Against the Nuclear Cycle is happening for the 3rd time. We’re riding for clean, renewable energy and a nuclear free Australia. From Port Augusta 25 June to Canberra 2nd September we’ll hold public meetings and visit schools to rally opposition to the nuclear industry in Australia. read more »
Cycle Against the Nuclear Cycle is happening for the 3rd time. We’re riding for clean, renewable energy and a nuclear free Australia. From Port Augusta 25 June to Canberra 2nd September we’ll hold public meetings and visit schools to rally opposition to the nuclear industry in Australia. read more »
Warming for Arctic wolves, suicide
GLOBAL warming has sent marauding wolves into an Alaskan hamlet, killed Norwegian reindeer with unlikely parasites and may even spur suicide among Inuit youth, Arctic leaders said today.
As scientists and government officials in Bangkok put the finishing touches on a report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on what to do about global warming, the three Arctic emissaries came to Washington to tell how the phenomenon was making their lives more difficult now.
Sarah James, a member of the Gwich’in nation, said climate change had brought formerly unheard-of species – black bears, beavers and cottonwood trees – to the small community of Arctic Village, Alaska, where she lives.
read more »Power station harnesses Sun’s rays
By David Shukman
Science correspondent, BBC News, Seville
A field of 600 mirrors reflects rays from the Sun
How the tower works
There is a scene in one of the Austin Powers films where Dr Evil unleashes a giant “tractor beam” of energy at Earth in order to extract a massive payment.
Well, the memory of it kept me chuckling as I toured the extraordinary scene of the new solar thermal power plant outside Seville in southern Spain.
From a distance, as we rounded a bend and first caught sight of it, I couldn’t believe the strange structure ahead of me was actually real.
read more »Wife put excrement in man’s curry
Jill Martin pleaded guilty to culpable and reckless conduct
A disgruntled wife has admitted feeding her husband a curry containing dog excrement after their relationship broke down.
Jill Martin, 47, pleaded guilty at Paisley Sheriff Court to culpable and reckless conduct against former husband Donald Martin.
During the hearing, defence solicitor Terry Gallanagh likened the case to “an episode of Desperate Housewives”.
read more »Gillard barren, priests horny
LIBERAL Senator Bill Heffernan says he stands by comments that Labor Deputy Leader Julia Gillard is not qualified to lead the country because she is deliberately “barren”.
In an interview with The Bulletin magazine to be published tomorrow, the NSW senator and Prime Minister John Howard’s right-hand man stands by the controversial remarks he made about Ms Gillard last year.
He also repeat his comments that priests should be permitted to marry because they, “like the rest of us, wake up with a horn at four in the morning”.
read more »Chopper Read sleeps through court date
IT was a “wonderful day” in court for celebrity criminal Chopper Read when the judge was told he had “no relevant priors” over a traffic accident.
Read, whose first name is Mark, appeared to be asleep for part of his appearance in Melbourne Magistrates Court for hitting a car as he tried to park his ute in the inner Melbourne suburb of Clifton Hill.
He said later that court rooms always put him to sleep.
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