After thankfully shutting down the Copenhagen Conference last year, the Chinese are now beginning to phase out the draconian One Child Policy.
"Chinese experts have told the Herald five provinces are to relax the policy next year and the trial may spread nationwide by 2013 or 2014..."
Overpopulation is, by definition, a myth. There can never be too many human beings in existence, not only because the creation of more human life is a beautiful thing, but because the very existence and sustinence of human beings, means, self-evidently, that there is no unsustainable surplus.
Australia, in fact, is one of the least densely populated areas in the world, and rural and regional businesses are starved of labour.
With future technological advances and colonisation of other planets, there is no limit to the number of human beings that can come into existence
Ironically, at a time when the green disease is infecting more and more westerners, Communist China is looking like a beacon of freedom. #
After instituting a series of policies that will reduce the real wages of working Australians, Prime Minister Julia Gillard has given herself, and her fellow robber barons, a pay-rise:
PRIME Minister Julia Gillard's salary will soar by $90,000 to about $470,000, making her more highly paid than US President Barack Obama and British PM David Cameron.
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Only days after the Gillard Government announced plans to slash public spending as part of a savage mini-budget to bring government coffers back into surplus, The Courier-Mail can reveal the base salary for even the most junior parliamentarian will jump from $140,000 to at least $180,000.
And the robber barons are, of course, not limited to the Labor Party. Read more
A committee, assessing whether fluoride should be introduced into Carnarvon's water supply is planning a telephone survey to help gauge the community's position on the proposal.
At the end of last year, the Health Department announced plans to fluoridate Carnarvon's water.
Residents opposing the plan presented the Minister for Health with more than 800 letters rejecting it.
Immigration can be a divisive issue for libertarians (see Hoppe Vs Block), however there is one thing that ought to be agreeable to all, and that is, coercively taxing Australians to provide asylum seekers and refugees with tax-payer funded housing and welfare is immoral.
The simple fact is that 85 per cent of humanitarian refugees are on Centrelink benefits within their first five years in Australia and only 31 per cent of these refugees were considered "employed" after five years. These payouts are costing billions, and adding to our mounting debt and deficit. Read more
With fluoride in our water supply, socialised mass-medication is an everyday reality.
But now, an Irish psychiatrist is calling on his Government to add lithium salts to the public water supply in a bid to lower the suicide rate and depression among the general population.
At a mental health forum on “Depression in Rural Ireland” in Ennistymon, Co Clare, Dr Moosajee Bhamjee said that “there is growing scientific evidence that adding trace amounts of the drug lithium to a water supply can lower rates of suicide and depression”.
Lithium is used by doctors as a mood stabiliser in the treatment for depression.
Dr Bhamjee said: “A recent article in the British Journal of Psychiatry found the beneficial uses of lithium when it was added to the water supply in parts of Texas.” Read more
Every year, the estimated number of U.S. households owning TV sets goes up. Until now. According to Nielsen’s annual “Television Audience” report that was released this week, the number of households with a TV set will decline. The rising trend of TV ownership has been leveling off in recent years, and now the number has dropped from 115.9 million homes in 2011 to an estimated 114.7 million in 2012. As TV Barn pointed out, that’s a 1 percent decline despite the number of households rising.
A good sign that people are ditching mainstream media. Permalink
The reality is, without guns, a population is utterly useless in defending themselves against the government over-reach that is so historically ubiquitous, and continues today, albeit more veiled.
When you ban guns, you don't actually remove guns completely. You simply leave guns in the hands of two groups, criminals and the government (I suppose "criminals" would've covered both).
The reality is that it is YOU, the Australian people, are the "nuts", for so cowardly and gullibly allowing your government (working with the United Nations) to take away your right to defend your families and homes from both criminals and governments (both domestic and foreign).
This is one of the very few things that makes me ashamed of my country.
"Lynching, torture, kidnapping are rampant. Not that it matters. The US struck a blow against the Chinese companies that had been developing the oil. They were tossed out, and their massive investments lost, and the CIA-Pentagon-Big Oil complex took it all over"Permalink
The European Union demanded Wednesday sweeping powers to override national budgets and proposed issuing joint eurozone bonds to help resolve and prevent a repeat of the debt crisis.
Tony Windsor won his seat of New England from the National Party’s Stuart St Clair at the 2001 federal election. Prior to Windsor’s victory, the National Party had held the seat since the 1920’s. Given that, one would immediately expect someone like Tony Windsor to express similar views to those of Bob Katter. However, when you first hear the bloke talk, you get quite a shock.
When, in recent days, he has been asked to express what issues are important to him, he rattles off what sound like a series of Green party talking points. He likes to talk about ‘Renewable Energy’ and has said he is in favour of a price on carbon. He also speaks positively on Labor’s debt-monster, the National Broadband Network (NBN), a re-nationalisation of the telecommunications industry. Read more
The following choice quotes from Prince Phillip, give you a better idea of what environmentalim is really all about.
Reported by Deutsche Press Agentur (DPA), August, 1988.
In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.
Prince Philip, in his Foreward to If I Were an Animal; United Kingdom, Robin Clark Ltd., 1986.
I just wonder what it would be like to be reincarnated in an animal whose species had been so reduced in numbers than it was in danger of extinction. What would be its feelings toward the human species whose population explosion had denied it somewhere to exist.... I must confess that I am tempted to ask for reincarnation as a particularly deadly virus.
Press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on the occasion of the ``Caring for Creation'' conference of the North American Conference on Religion and Ecology, May 18, 1990.
It is now apparent that the ecological pragmatism of the so-called pagan religions, such as that of the American Indians, the Polynesians, and the Australian Aborigines, was a great deal more realistic in terms of conservation ethics than the more intellectual monotheistic philosophies of the revealed religions. Read more
Has anyone noticed that the streets around Melbourne aren’t as bright as they used to be?
That’s because various local councils have been rolling out “energy-efficient” street lights, which cost the tax-payer a fortune, while making our streets significantly darker and hence less safe.
But the councils have come up against a brick wall. They don’t have the funding they need to replace what remains of the older, brighter street lights, that, by the way, are in perfect working order. They need the state and federal governments to put up $40 million dollars of tax-payers money in addition to the $80 million of tax-payers money that they are putting up themselves.
The group promoting this insanity is the Municipal Association of Victoria (MAV), which represents the collective local councils of Victoria. Read more
Of course, nobody wants the house next door to look like a garbage dump but there is the question of how "useless items or items of limited value" is defined.
Could this be the foot in the door for something bigger? Perhaps regular and involuntary home inspections by local councils to see whether you are living "green" enough, checking your carbon emissions and whether you are recycling correctly. Permalink
... for once. No cheap shots or outright lies either, as might be expected. A suprisingly large photo also, with no unsightly facial expressions, which is a common subliminal tactic of the mainstream media.
THE Bligh Government has made a complete mockery of its "Buy Local" flood recovery campaign after buying cheap imported T-shirts from overseas to promote the program.
Public servants even tried to cover up the bungle by cutting off the shirts' tags displaying the country of origin.
As Julia Gillard teams up with the Greens to push through an economy-crippling carbon tax, out of the other side of her mouth, she is calling the Greens "well intentioned but unrealistic".
"The Greens wrongly reject the moral imperative to a strong economy," she said. "The Greens have some worthy ideas and many of their supporters sincerely want better politics in our country. They have good intentions but fail to understand the centrepiece of our big picture - the people Labor strives to represent need work. Read more
Ted Baillieu is now Premier of Victoria but don't think that this means we're going to get smaller government and lower taxes in Victoria. The man is so left that many call him "Red Ted". In fact, as opposition leader, he often tried to outflank John Brumby to the left.
He made well over 4 billion dollars worth of election promises.
He backed John Brumby's target of 20% carbon emissions reductions, a lunatic enterprise that will drive up the price of food, fuel, electricity, housing and everything else.
He committed to massive spending on so-called "public transport". Over 1.5 billion, in fact. Read more
Kevin Rudd has suggested that force be used to integrate a reluctant China, into the "international system", meaning the globalist international power structure centred on the United Nations and the IMF.
China has been rightly reluctant to submit to this power structure, choosing instead to take its own path, as a seperate centre of power in the world.
Of course, China is not a libertarian wonderland, it is a totalitarian state, however their reluctance to submit to the religion of the UN and the western elite, environmentalism, means they are very useful as a wrecker of that international agenda, as they were in Copenhagen in 2009. Read more
Having cannabis illegal whilst alcohol remains legal is the height of hypocrisy. Particularly heinous though is when governments prevent the use of marijuana for medical use, when it is proven useful for certain conditions.
It is apt that conservatives would vote to legalise, since drug prohibition is not a feature consistent with the founding principles of that country, nor of Australia. Drug prohibition is largely a creature of the mid-late 20th century. Permalink
Governments have all sorts of agendas that don't equate with keeping the population fit and healthy, hence is it any wonder that the Government regulator has approved a flu shot that has caused fits?
Having a Government regulator in the drug industry causes a 'crowding out' effect because people simply assume that whatever the government says must be "official" and correct. There is no market for private operators to test the safety and efficacy of drugs on the market.
This creates a very dangerous situation given we know that many people in Government are not interested in your health. A series of competing private operators would mean choice, higher quality and efficiency. Permalink
It is an acronym for 'quasi non-governmental organisation' as well as the (sometimes well-meaning and sometimes sadistic) people who work in them. These are organisations that are funded by government with legislative charters, but whom are "independent" and often deal with left-wing cover issues like so-called "Human Rights", "Environment", "Racism", "Sexism" etc. You get the picture.
Britain is supposedly having a "bonfire of the quangos" at the moment. However it ridiculously mild.
I propose we have a bonfire in Australia. In fact, why not bonfire the whole government? Permalink
The Australian have run an article today by an apologist for the ABC, defending its position as a coercive leech on the Australian taxpayer and a pusher of eco-socialist propaganda. This fellow writes:
"what makes [people who bash the ABC] think that taxpayers aren't funding the commercial media? We all pay for the huge cost of commercial radio, television and internet services through the advertising margin added to the price of goods and services we buy. Not only do we pay for these costs, but for the profits of the commercial media as well. Everyone pays those margins, not just taxpayers."
The difference, of course, is that commercial operators are not forced to advertise (and add to costs) nor are consumers forced to buy products that do advertise. Consumers have a choice. With the ABC they have no choice. They pay up, like it or lump it.
The difference could not be more stark. It's like the difference between jumping off a building or being pushed off.
The New Zealand Government is engaged in what only can be termed 'soft eugenics' with a government 'Down Syndrome Screening' program touted to result in an increased number of abortions.
Back in February this year, the NZ Government instituted the so-called "Antenatal Screening for Down Syndrome and Other Conditions - Quality Improvements" programme.
It was presented simply as "an expanded, safer screening programme to detect Down syndrome during pregnancy" and recieved little press attention.
However, pro-life sources in NZ have obtained, under the NZ Official Information Act, documents that state the outcomes of the programme will be a reduction in the number of births of babies with Down syndrome, with some 90 per cent of unborn children diagnosed with the condition being aborted. Read more
Has anyone else noticed the streets in suburban Australia are alot darker these days?
Well the reason they are darker is because various local councils around the country are replacing the existing bright streetlights with "energy-saving" dim ones under the Unted Nation Agenda 21 manifesto. But don't be fooled, having dimmer street lights will not save you a dime. The massive taxpayer-funded cost that goes into producing the new street light means we are paying more money for less light.
So why the insanity?
Well the green-obsessed local councillers want people to get used to living in the dark, because that is what they have planned for us in the future.
Today it's dimmer lights, tommorow it will be NO lights. It's back to nature folks! Permalink
The UK Global Warming Policy Foundation yesterday published a detailed assessment of the Climategate inquiries set up by the University of East Anglia and others. It finds that they avoided key questions and failed to probe some of the most serious allegations.
The report The Climategate Inquiries, written by Andrew Montford, finds that the inquiries into the conduct and integrity of scientists at the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia were rushed and seriously inadequate. Read more
Kevin Rudd says the UN must "up its game". I say the UN must stop playing altogether and Australia should get out.
When we here this gobbledy-gook language coming out of advocates of global government, like Mr Rudd, we should recognise that the UN afficionados have a number nice-sounding, subtle little ways of calling for more massive power transfers to the UN. You may have heard some these:
"We need the UN to be more effective"
"We need UN reform"
"The UN needs modernisation"
Rudd's "The UN must up its game" is just another addition to this list.
It’s understandably difficult to choose sides in the ongoing debate over keeping the constitutional monarchy or moving to a republic. On the one hand you have a royal family full of environmental fanatics who seem to enjoy promoting genocide; on the other hand you have the leftist intellectual elite in Australia, sitting on their taxpayer-funded thrones in our universities and our bloated bureaucracy, hell-bent on destroying any official symbol or reference that reminds us that we are a western nation and that most of our ancestors came here from Europe (and more specifically, the United Kingdom).
Given the obsession of the royal family, particularly Prince Charles and Prince Phillip, with the cult of environmentalism, it may seem odd that the leftists in this country have a problem with a constitutional connection to the British monarchy. After all, if Prince Charles did become King and decide to intervene in Australian politics, it is difficult to envision that he would ever act out of line with the leftist agenda. Why? Because the leftist agenda and the mindset of an oligarch like Prince Charles are in essence completely the same. Communism and the eco-feudal monarchy that Prince Charles professes both represent absolute governmental control over the lives of individuals. Both ideologies reject economic and civil liberties and both reject prosperity, technological progress and increasing standards of living. Both are totalitarian and therefore must be opposed. Read more
Property-rights campaigner Leon Ashby founded the Australian Climate Sceptics Party in early 2009 and now he has an excellent chance at winning a Federal Senate seat in his home state of South Australia.
The Climate Sceptics Party are running senate candidates in all six states as well as running House of Representatives candidates in a series of marginal seats. Those seats are:
Barker -SA
Bennelong - NSW
Boothby - SA
Hasluck - WA
Hindmarsh - SA
Makin - SA
Mayo - SA
The Climate Sceptics Party is, unfortunately, not a party focused on drastically reducing the size and scope of government, however with no other party explicitly stating the fraud of anthropogenic global warming, they are an important voice. Read more
Shadow Treasurer, Joe Hockey went on triple J radio yesterday and said the Coalition will vote against Labor's plans for ISP-level mandatory internet filtering. Some enlightened conservatives in the Liberal Party have realised that the filter is being set up, in large part, to target conservative and libertarian activism on the internet, including censorship of so-called "conspiracy theories".
Coalition opposition means the filtering legislation is effecively dead in the Senate.
Political rumblings over "boat people" in this federal election campaign seem to have largely missed the point.
Yes, in paying-up to reach Australian waters illegally by boat, foreigners risk their lives in unseaworthy vessels and enrich some very shady individuals. If they manage to reach Australian waters, they are generally rescued by Australian military personnel, who themselves risk serious injury in undertaking these dangerous rescue operations.
In addition, all of these things are massively expensive. Asylum seekers are rescued by a taxpayer-funded vessel and taken to a taxpayer-funded housing facility where they receive taxpayer-fundedhealth and welfare services, income support, legal assistance and Medicare whilst they await the taxpayer-funded processing of their refugee applications. This costs the Australian taxpayer over a billion dollars per year. Read more
For how long now have governments been trying to end poverty? And yet we still continue this nonsense:
Anglicare Australia and the Salvation Army have teamed up with other charitable religious organisations to call for the next federal government to develop a 10 year national plan aimed at tackling poverty and disadvantage in the community.
I constantly hear politicians and Australian political commentators saying one party or another "has a lot of talent on their backbench" ... or such and such a politician "is very talented".
Is it just me, or do other people get that vomit-like taste in their mouth when they hear this?
People might be forgiven for thinking that Rupert Murdoch's Australian newspaper is on our side. It does run decent material on occasion, but behind the scenes, it is firmly in the Neocon camp (see below). In fact, the foreign editor, Greg Sheridan is today supporting Obama in his endeavor to somehow save himself at the US mid-term elections by bombing Iran. As if that would work out for him.
"Some months ago I wrote that I thought Washington had given up serious effort to stop Iran getting nuclear weapons. A week in Washington has convinced me that the Obama administration has significantly toughened its approach and its resolve on Iran. And that's a good thing. And that's the most important thing. "
It is important for Australians to distinguish between Neoconservatism and Conservatism because these things filter over here, with journalists like Andrew Bolt, who claims he is "conservative" but is, in reality, a crude Neoconservative. Neocons are pro-war left-wingers (former Trotsky cultists, in fact) who have no interest in reducing the size of government. They infiltrated right-wing politics because they thought this would be the easiest way to push through their agenda. Arch-Conservatives in the United States oppose the Iraq war. Their prime spokesperson is former Presidential Candidate Pat Buchanan and Congressman Ron Paul.
Genuine conservatives, in both Australia and the United States, support limited constitutional government in the tradition of documents like the Magna Carta, and oppose military adventurism, adhering to the Christian theory of the 'just war'. Neocons support the welfare state and endless warfare.
The Greens Party and their growing vote share, represents the most dire threat to Australia's freedom, sovereignty and prosperity that exists in this country today. The green virus is massively infecting this federal election campaign. In fact, as you navigate through the SMH site, you may even be confronted with three greens ads ON THE VERY SAME PAGE. I mean wtf!
The first-stated aim of the Federal Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry is to ensure "sustainability" in the Agricultural Industries of Australia. This word is littered all over the policy of leftist political parties and of course, is gospel at the United Nations. The problem is that noone can explain what it is or how it is a good thing. How could it be so important as to justify it being the very first aim stated for a whole federal government department? If anything, shouldn't the purpose of all government activities be to maximise the standard of living of the citizens?
The answer is that "sustainability" is a propaganda word that is used to justify the depressing of industry, massive government tax-spend policies and therefore the depression of the general standard of living. "Sustainability" translates to higher taxes, higher electricity prices, higher grocery prices, higher peterol prices and everything else. It has no benefit to anyone except those who want to control society.
It should not be forgotten that "sustainability" hits your budget twice. Once to fund the massive government departments that engage in this nonsense, and secondly the massive costs the policies themselves add to the cost of everyday items.
Most young people, having not experienced the realities of work, taxes and basic economics, are susceptible to fluffy socialist rhetoric that proclaims to give people everything for nothing.
Of course, if young people get a part-time job they take on board some basic economic facts, and in doing so will slowly throw off the propaganda. Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who was a member of the communist-sympathising 'Socialist Forum', wants to prevent this from happening and hence her totalitarian industrial relations regime is preventing two Victorian teenagers from keeping their after-school jobs. Permalink
A few days ago the Gillard Labor Government released a further 2.1 billion dollars of borrowed money into the 16 billion dollar black hole, paradoxically named ‘Building the Education Revolution’. The cash was released despite widespread taxpayer rip-offs and school dissatisfaction under the program.
We’ve seen buildings overpriced by hundreds of thousands of dollars. We’ve seen exorbitant administration and management fees. We’ve seen pot plants costing 23 thousand dollars. We’ve seen a tiny school charged $77,000 for "design documentation, field data and site management" even though they didn't get a new building. All of this is your money. It was borrowed from China on your behalf, by the current Labor regime, and you and your children will be paying it back at interest. Read more
In yet another sign of just how insane nanny-statism is getting in Australia, federal government anti-tobacco legislation is being used to justify the banning of T-shirt designs.
Often measures against smoking are justified on the basis that they reduce taxpayer funded healthcare costs. The real solution is to eliminate socialised healthcare aswell, which only makes healthcare lower quality and more expensive. If the government cannont run insulation and school building programs, why do you allow it to run healthcare? Permalink
The ABC Green Zealots are at it again, with an article on how Australians are the 'world's worst polluters'.
The 'pollution' they refer to is of course actually carbon dioxide, a colourless, odourless gas which is essential for our survival and allows food crops to grow faster in increasing concentrations. Hence, the fact that Australians are the largest per capita CO2 emitters in the world, is a badge we ought to wear with honor.
Rudd and Gillard are forcing schools recieving stimulus money to put up signs which advertise the spending. The signs must remain up "until the completion of the BER (Building the Education Revolution) program on 31 March 2011 or project completion", which is, conveniently, shortly after the next election.
The signs themselves will cost a whopping $3.8 million dollars of your tax-payer money.
... and China is starting to realise it.
After instituting a series of policies that will reduce the real wages of working Australians, Prime Minister Julia Gillard has given herself, and her fellow robber barons, a pay-rise:
Immigration can be a divisive issue for libertarians (see 
Reported by Deutsche Press Agentur (DPA), August, 1988.
Ted Baillieu is now Premier of Victoria but don't think that this means we're going to get smaller government and lower taxes in Victoria. The man is so left that many call him "Red Ted". In fact, as opposition leader, he often tried to outflank John Brumby to the left.
The New Zealand Government is engaged in what only can be termed 
It’s understandably difficult to choose sides in the ongoing debate over keeping the constitutional monarchy or moving to a republic. On the one hand you have a royal family full of environmental fanatics who seem to enjoy promoting genocide; on the other hand you have the leftist intellectual elite in Australia, sitting on their taxpayer-funded thrones in our universities and our bloated bureaucracy, hell-bent on destroying any official symbol or reference that reminds us that we are a western nation and that most of our ancestors came here from Europe (and more specifically, the United Kingdom).
Victorian journalist, Andrew Landeryou's website VexNews, 
Property-rights campaigner Leon Ashby founded the 
Political rumblings over "boat people" in this federal election campaign seem to have largely missed the point.
The Australian Federal T-shirt Police are 