The Carbon Sense Coalition today called on the federal government to reduce the burden of the Climate Industry on all taxpayers and consumers.

The Chairman of Carbon Sense, Mr Viv Forbes, said that the biggest national scandal today was how the whole government apparatus, including the nationalised research and media industries and parts of the opposition, was totally captive to a religious belief that a destructive war on carbon energy will somehow provide benefits to some future generation of Australians by cooling the climate and preventing extreme weather events.

“This is a delusion.”

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It was the great Milton Friedman who said “There is only one tax on the people and that is government spending”.

Cutting expenditure, not re-arranging expenditure, must be the total focus of this budget.

And the first candidate for spending cuts must be the totally useless Climate Change Industry.

Every department, program, research grant, travel grant or salary with climate, warming, carbon, sustainability, renewable, sequestration, clean coal, ethanol or IPCC in its title or mission statement should be abolished forthwith together with its staffing.

This list must include but not be restricted to:

• The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (Arena) and its dependants, saving about $3.2 billion.
• The Clean Energy Finance Corporation, saving about $10 billion.
• The Emerging Renewables Program, saving about $126 million.
• The Clean Technology Innovation Program, saving about $200 million.
• Subsidies to Coal-fired electricity generators, saving about $5.5 billion. (This has to be the ultimate madness - the government levies a crippling carbon tax on coal-fired electricity generation to force them to close and then pays huge subsidies to the same generators to delay their closure).
• All Climate Change “Research” focussed on carbon dioxide, saving about $300 million.
• “Contracts for Closure” - payments to ensure closure of some electricity generators (unbelievable - surely the carbon tax will do this).
• The Coal Sector Jobs Package - payments to coal mines to offset the cost of the carbon tax- just abolish the tax.
• Coal Sector Assistance Package - Subsidies to some Coal Mines (another stupidity - repaying some of the carbon tax they took in the first place).
• Everything funded under the Clean Energy Future Plan.
• All renewable energy subsidies.
• The Low Emissions Technology Demonstration Fund.
• The Ethanol Production Grants Program – a subsidy per litre of ethanol produced.
• All climate change officials, lawyers, inspectors and auditors everywhere, maybe 13,000 of them saving, say, $2 billion per year.
• The offices of the Climate Commissioner and the Clean Energy Regulator – whatever they cost is wasted money.
• The whole Carbon Capture and Storage empire – The National Low Emissions Coal Initiative, the CCS Flagships Program, the National Carbon Dioxide Infrastructure Plan, and the Carbon Capture and Storage Institute.
• Support for all the International Climate Forums and Conferences via APEC, CEM, G20, IEA, IEF, IPEEC, IRENA, IPCC and all the travel costs associated with attendance.
• All handouts under the Green Precincts Fund - $15M spent to date.
• All government advertising, market research, media monitoring, media advisers and logo designers promoting the carbon tax, the Department of Climate Change, smart meters or other climate and green energy initiatives.
• Donations to Green Friends such as the Climate Institute, the Australian Conservation Council, Climate Works Australia, Green Cross Australia, and the ACTU - $3 million spent already.
• To “balance” all of these reduced expenditures the government must also abolish the carbon tax and all fuel taxes not related directly to public road usage and applied to road construction and maintenance.

 

In the eighties, voting was made easier, although no one seemed to be complaining about having any difficulty in voting.

The potential for fraud is substantial, both in enrolling and at the point of voting. In this interview, 2GB’s Michael McLaren discusses these questions with Dr. Amy McGrath and Professor David Flint

    If it were to do with the live cattle industry it would be every where.  Few outlets are reporting about the case of  Dr. Kermit Gosnell.  He is an abortionist now on trial in Philadelphia charged with seven counts of first-degree murder--he allegedly cut the spinal cords of late-term aborted babies who were born alive--apparently used to joke about the large size of some the infants he aborted and in one case, according to what a co-worker told the grand jury, said, “This baby is big enough to walk around with me or walk me to the bus stop.”

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/abortionist-joked-baby-big-enough-walk-around-me-or-walk-me-bus-stop

 

The Immigration Minister Brendan O’Connor and the Gillard government’s “dog whistling” over 457 visas have been exposed as fabricated.

 Prime Minister Gillard, some ministers and her trade union allies are generally believed to have complained about rorting of the 457 visas as a distraction against their loss of control over the borders and the flood of illegal immigrants coming in because of their negligence.

Both the government and trade unions have employed staff under 457 visas, including the pM’s chief taxpayer funded spin doctor.

Brendan O’ Connor has been unwisely claiming that the rorting or “ illegitimate use of 457s numbers in the thousands. It's not negligible. I would say it would exceed over 10,000.”

But when he went on ABC AM on 3 May Tony Eastley revealed that if there were a rort , it was by the Minister. The trouble with this government is they think the people are not too bright.

This is what was said:

TONY Eastley: The federal Immigration Minister Brendan O'Connor is defending his declaration that more than 10,000 foreign worker visas have been rorted by employers, but he now says the figure he quoted was an "estimate" or a "forecast". He was responding to a paper from his department, obtained by the opposition through Freedom of Information, which says rorting of 457 visas is rare.

O'CONNOR: What the paper shows is last year the department identified problems with the 457 scheme and identified ways to fix them. On the 23rd of February I announced the reforms, most of which were of course contained within that paper that was provided to the advisory council.

Reporter Alexandra Kirk: Except that the report says discrimination in favour of foreign workers is rare. It doesn't mention anything about rorting; it doesn't say anything about widespread rorting. It provides absolutely no backing for your claims about rorting.

O'Connor: Well, it provides, it provides recommendations to reform the actual 457 visa.

Kirk: You claim that more than 10,000 of the 457 visas issued are used illegitimately. The information didn't come from the Department of Immigration. Where did it come from?

O'Connor: What I've done since the paper was look at the fall in nominal and real wages in certain occupations and certain sectors and look at the fact that there is a massive widening gap between the total employment growth rate in certain segments ...

Kirk: But how have you come up with a figure of 10,000 visas being rorted, one in 10?

O'Connor: Well, what I've said, well it's actually less than one in 10, but the point is I was asked to sort of give an estimate and that is my estimate.

Kirk: You haven't said where you get the 10,000. The opposition says you're making it up.

O'Connor: Well, I'm making a forecast. I'm making a forecast like others have made forecasts. The difference is I seem to be being challenged - fine.

 

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/457-visa-rort-figure-a-forecast-minister-admits-20130503-2ix3t.html

 

 

So now some scientists are saying CO2 is actually cooling the planet, according to a report from NASA. The next Australian government should not only repeal the CO2 tax, they should abandon the massive spending on direct action, renewable energy, thus also lowering electricity prices. They could also wind up all those climate change agencies.

NASA's Langley Research Center has collated data proving that “greenhouse gases” actually block up to 95 percent of harmful solar rays from reaching our planet, thus reducing the heating impact of the sun. The data was collected by Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry, (or SABER). SABER monitors infrared emissions from Earth’s upper atmosphere, in particular from carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitric oxide (NO), two substances thought to be playing a key role in the energy balance of air above our planet’s surface

 

Read more: http://principia-scientific.org/supportnews/latest-news/163-new-discovery-nasa-study-proves-carbon-dioxide-cools-atmosphere.html