politics
Fix Our Politics
For the 80% of us in the sensible centre of Australian life
Website: www.sensiblecentre.org.au
We think both Right and Left have failed to empower ordinary citizens and instead created a political and managerial class that puts its own interests before the community and national interest. We also think that about 80% of Australians are of the same mind.
In Praise of climate deniers (not)
Well not really praise as such but, bear with me, while I justify wandering into this absurdity. I know it's difficult to say nice things about MP Craig Kelly, who claimed that people would die because renewables were raising electricity prices. He was perhaps unaware that the World Health Organisation in 2008 calculated that coal particulate pollution caused one million deaths across the world.
The Left Has Been Highjacked
The left has been hijacked by unwitting servants of the neo-liberal agenda.
I was talking to a friend the other day explaining how I always considered myself left wing, but now apparently I wasn’t. I explained why and she declared that the left has been hijacked.
Things are Desperate - a Last Chance at Change Through Politics
Hi Everyone,
This is a call to arms. The science and other evidence is now without doubt - we are in the final days of our civilisation, whatever it might be called by history; it is hardly Western Civilisation anymore, since the destruction of nature (and I would argue human values, and quite possibly humans) has extended now across the globe.
Practical Ways in Which Everyone Can Improve Society
The problem is power, and our failure to learn
No politicians with ideas, please!
Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull like many other politicians seem to think of themselves as ideas men. Do we really need politicians with 'ideas' or are they a liability?
How Jackson, Lawler and Abbott tangled Thomson with the HSU - by Peter Wicks
There are many suspicious features about Craig Thomson’s Health Services Union imbroglio, but notable among them are the apparently close links between HSU “whistleblower” Kathy Jackson and Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott.
There Are Limits To Conservation
Neither The BC Liberals Nor the NDP Will Question The Population Growth Which Drives Energy Consumption
You-tube film: The Story of Your Enslavement
US Corporations threaten peoples' internet - read and act
Republished from http://www.colorofchange.org/opennet/
Dear friends,
Is 'Incentivisation' and Coercion Needed to meet the Population Challenge?
Originally published 22 January, 2010
I wish I could be sure that including what some may see as ‘coercive’ population policies to achieve global sustainability and avoid massive human catastrophes were unnecessary.
Joe Toscano - Your local anarchist on podcast; antidote to the Jon Faine & Madonna Kings of the airwaves
This week - 25 August 2009 - it's about creating a citizens bank. Joe points out that Australians demanded a peoples' bank in 1909 (after the 1890 depression) and got it. Unfortunately they made it the property of the government, and the Hawk Government sold it off.
French Caterpillar workers detain management on-site since Tuesday
Here's something the Australian Press would probably rather not report on, so we had better, because it is very important.
“Caterpillar management taken hostage by workers in Dijon. New signs of social radicalisation in France”, begins Tuesday’s France2 TV news.
Polluters, Pollies or Pettifoggery?
Well done GW: It's a dirty job but someone has to do it
Illustration adapted from original at http://www.lowbird.com/data/images/2008/02/george-w-bush.jpg
Harold Pinter has died
Excerpts plus comments posted by Frank Holland
Harold Pinter has died.
His Nobel speech summed up many European's view of the USA, I wonder how Obama will address those truths.
The battle for Brown Mountain is on
Story by Jill Redwood
The immense trees that have sheltered and raised hundreds of generations of owls and gliding possums are now being hacked down by VicForests. The understorey of tree ferns and waratahs, twining silkpod and musk daisy bush are being crushed into the mud by 40 tonne bulldozers.
Same money, same message: Barrack Obama (US) and Jack Layton (Canada)
(Original source: http://problemsoftheworld.com/archives/tag/painted-girls/; uploaded by bgn59)
Wall Street money talks while the Lips of Barrack Obama and Jack Layton move in sync.
High-immigration lobbyist blames high immigration for housing crisis on April Fools Day.
Time, money and patience wasted by incompatible computers, printers and software
What is this thing called "Progress"?
Are nuclear fusion, fission and 'renewables' viable alternatives to fossil fuels?
Mayors of South East Queensland seek help from developers to push growth plan
Sustainable Population Australia South East Queensland Branch Media Release Monday, 25 June 2007
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