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Stephen Conroy proves that the critics of his policy were right. Rudd Labor Government mis -uses its power to scrutinise citizens on the Web The Australian Commonweath Government is apparently trawling the web looking for sites that are critical of the Australian Labour Party 's broadband policy and ISP based internet filtering interventions. If this is so, Stephen Conroy is a dangerous and stupid man who should not be trusted with power. In his capacity as the Federal Minister for Communications he is authorising taxpayer dollars to be spent to check on Australian citizens who express criticisms of his Government's policies on the Internet and broadband infrastructure. By doing this Senator Conroy conclusively demonstrates his unfitness for office. Australia is still, just, a liberal democracy not a totalitarian dictatorship of the governing party. As a minister of the crown spending the taxpayers' compulsorily appropriated wealth he is behaving unethically and illegal...

What our current crop of neo -socialist Dear Leaders really need right now is a good ol ' Inter-planetary Poison Pollution Preliminary Prevention Plan (" IPPPPP ") As I understand it from dimly remembered high school chemistry classes (which I hated but did dutifully persist with), carbon dioxide is a colourless odourless life cycle gas that is essential for photosynthesis and plant growth. I'm told biology classes (which irresponsibly I did mostly skip) taught us that CO2 is emitted in the respiration process by mammals and reptiles. That is, we humans emit carbon dioxide each time we breath out ( Who'da thunk it?). And these social democratic geniuses currently running what was formerly known as the free world, now want to tax this life cycle gas as a pollutant. Frequently Avoided Questions (FAQs) on CO2 and IPPPPPs Why do our dear Leaders want to tax CO2 ? Mostly 'cos it seems to be getting hotter and experts think the world's climate is changing. Doe...

Fiscal stimulus: relief, but no lasting satisfaction. Its almost organic. No wonder greenies love it so. But to what should we apply this alluring and organically onomatopoeic label: " Obama Onanism "? Obama himself and his imitators* , with their simply massive self congratulatory stimuli ? or The Obamanics , who continuously spill their seed into such an empty vessel? or both? What is it about modern democracies that allows all these ethically challenged moral high ground clambering Dear Leaders: Barack, Brownie* and Kevin* ; to get away with inflicting these massive expiatations of debt funded spending on their electorates, without regard to the long term consequences. Why aren't they called for being the wankers that they are by the fourth estate ? Why are journalists in the mainstream media not holding these social democratic governments to account for this spectacular irresponsibility? (Ed: It could be because they don't want to. They enabled these populis...

ALP considers tree preservation adverse to people's housing needs The Victorian State Government appears to be seriously considering the idea that it may not be in the best interests of Victorians to have their housing and development planning being determined by environmental activists and conservationists. The Age, the Victorian outpost of Fairfax Media's plantation of green left enabling sheltered workshops, reports today (lid dip to Tim Blair ) that: LAWS governing the clearing of native vegetation are under review as part of the Brumby Government's response to the bushfire crisis. ... Ideas have included transferring responsibility for managing native vegetation in areas zoned for housing from the Department of Sustainability and Environment to the Department of Planning and Community Development....About 2000 homes were destroyed in the bushfire disaster. "We need to make sure that they treat native vegetation differently in areas approved for building," ....

The Great Recession Cage Match Rudd's tactic : Give out cash prizes to the grateful punters. (Hope nobody notices that the cupboard is now bare) Klaus' game plan : Treat it like flu: let it go through. (If you don't cure it, it takes 7 days. If you do, it takes a week) Quick quiz: Which of these is good management and which is good politics? On 19 February 2009 Vaclev Klaus, the President of the Czech Republic (not to be confused with his predecessor , as I have done, Vaclev Havel), addressed the European Parliament (Lid dip to Eric Falkenstein ). Here is the text of his speech . In amongst the many gems in this magnificent speech, which touches on the excessive restrictions on freedom and the absence of true democracy in the European Union, there is this: . ... the present economic system of the EU is a system of a suppressed market, a system of a permanently strengthening centrally controlled economy . Although history has more than clearly proven that this is a dead e...

Was it a case of missing the forest of fuel, for the love of trees; or missing the fire of trees for the forest of global warming? Either way all the spending and commitment of communities and government was worthless because their strategic decisions were wrong. Out of the despair and grief from the ashes of these horrendous fires there may yet be some forgotten wisdom to be re-learned. Over-indulgence in feel-good greenish solutions and an excessive tilt towards fashionable natural rather than human shaped landscape in habitats in semi-rural Victoria, has contributed significantly to the appallingly high loss of life and injury from Victoria's February bushfires . A failure to heed the outcome of numerous previous enquiries after bushfire disasters throughout the 20 th century, nearly all of which have recommended hazard and fuel reduction by regular hazard reduction burning in forests and the clearing of vegetation around settlements, has significantly contributed to the sca...

Dutch parliamentarian banned from entering UK for holding political views about Islam that the UK government thinks will threaten its community harmony. The news out of Britain just keeps getting worse. The Brits just don't seem to get the importance of human freedom anymore. Neither their government nor their media adequately understood quite what was at stake a couple of months ago when the Cabinet Office and the Speaker countenanced the Met's anti-terrorism squad raiding an Opposition immigration spokesman's office in Westminster over leaks of immigration statistics from the Home Office. And this latest outrage confirms that they truly have almost completely lost any sense of the value of freedom for their citizens. The British Secretary of State for the Home Department (you'd think these people spoke English as a second language the way they label their government offices), via the British Embassy in the Netherlands, has advised Geert Wilders , a member of the D...