CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:

Yes, here it is.

norp posted:

You realise that the tin roof is hot because it absorbed the sun's energy rather than because it's reflecting it right?
A mirror in the sun will be relatively cool in comparison.

Shiny things reflect things back into space instead, it's one of the feedback loops of the melting of the ice caps - White snow sends a lot of light back into space

norp posted:

You realise that the tin roof is hot because it absorbed the sun's energy rather than because it's reflecting it right?

SadisTech posted:

God Helen Razer is a gigantic turd. Her pretentious contrarian schtick is getting so old it's gone moldy.

Facebook posted:

But back to you and your claims. Coal equates to 85% of energy generation and produces 37% of the emissions in Australia. Switching to gas now will cut those emissions by 18.5% and also do away with the issues that are threatening the Great Barrier Reef from spoil dumping. This can be achieved in as little as 2 years. Oil provides 1% of power generation and 15% of emissions. Gas would reduce this to 11%. Therefore, switching to gas right now, which is achievable, will cut emissions by 22.5%. (my numbers are rough ball park.)

But guess what, that is nothing as your touting of your beaut green technologies misses one very significant point. Stationary electrical power generation only accounts for 36% of the emissions. So all your green tech is making very little difference overall and we cannot afford the 25 years it is going to take you to wake up to this fact. That, along with the economics, is the lesson we can learn right now from the plight of Germany who have wasted billions of euros and priced the poor out of the market with their green revolution for no net gain.

Want to make more cuts and do the hard work now, which will never happen as all parties lack the political will, including the greens. Lower demand significantly right now by placing a ban all air conditioners from housing and most low level offices, they use huge amounts of energy and they are not really required. I grew up in a house that was not air conditioned, as did my parents and so on and so on. My dad never had AC’s in his office, yet here we all are. Also, mandate that every house must have LED lights, no tumble dryers (dishwashers are ok as they save another valuable resource, water) and all the other labor saving BS.

Stop deforestation, this accounts for 15% of emissions, yep a whopping 15%... The govt must put in place first rate mass public transport like places like Japan, Holland and Germany have in all urban areas, then ban cars within that area. Passenger cars are by far the highest contributor to emissions, along with trucks they account for another 37%.

Ban facebook, twitter and all the other BS social networks that do nothing in reality except have people wanting the latest phone / ipad so they can twitter about the place. This uses up a huge amount of resources (hello rare earths) that can be better utilized elsewhere and the fat little pricks can go get some exercise. Mobile phones without the processors uses very little, but should be made a lot more expensive none the less. Are you keeping up with this sport?

These are the hard yards that need to be done now. Doing this will drop emissions far below what the Kyoto agreement says, But I will tell you now that this is a must that no pollie will commit to it as they would never get elected. We, the people need to drive this, but good luck on that as long as there is greed and envy in the world. All the other poo poo that you and the green brigade postulate is about as effective as putting a band-aid on a severed formal artery in the first instance, and unviable due to limited resources in the second instance.

And you tell me I do not see the realities, not true, I just don’t see your delusional version of reality...

However, all the above is pointless until we bring the exploding population under control, stop paying waste to what we have left of the Amazon and African forests. Ensure that we are not jumping the waste that we ban into Africa as the EU does now (inefficient old cars / trucks etc). Again lack of political will. And we will need those planes to enforce it. Yes, we will have to enforce it... But what do you want, a nice PC world that is doomed, or a world that we can survive on. The left nambie pambies of the world need to make a choice right now.

http://concit.org/australia-under-islam-in-25-years-islamic-constitution-of-australia/ posted:

USTRALIA UNDER ISLAM in 25 years

The Islamic Party of Australia Hizb-ut Tahrir have openly posted their draft Islamic Constitution of Australia—they claimed on its release to the public that it would take 25 years before Australia will be under Islamic rule.
Every mosque just brings that closer.

Murodese posted:

The salties are poo poo, crows.

Also:

Marguerite Iliescu
@Marguerite_____
Likes: 60s Soul, taxidermy, freedom.
Dislikes: Statists, bad grammar, taxes.

CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:

They are indeed poo poo, the 'Australia's leading left wing newspaper' thing is their own tagline. I am just proud my brother is taking an interest in politics and isn't a libertarian.

quote:

Don't change leaders lightly, says PM

Published: 8:40 pm, Thursday, 4 December 2014

Prime Minister Tony Abbott says people might feel dismayed, disappointed and even surprised at the government's performance.

But would he consider stepping aside if it continued to trail Labor ahead of the next election in 2016?

Mr Abbott said on Thursday night that was a fair question but a fundamental lesson from the former Labor government was that you don't lightly change leaders.

'Governments that change their leaders haven't done very well lately,' he told ABC television.

Mr Abbott said much had happened in 12-14 months and circumstances did change, with Labor's promised $18 billion deficit actually coming in at $48 billion.

'People, sure, may well feel dismayed, disappointed, occasionally even surprised. But I think that they also understand that governments have to respond to the circumstances that they find themselves,' he said.

Mr Abbott said the government had kept faith with the Australian people because it had fundamentally honoured core commitments to stop the boats, repeal the carbon tax, build the roads and start the job of budget repair.

He said there had been a lot of unjustified cries that he had broken his promises.

On ABC funding cuts, he said plainly he did say the night before the election there would be no cuts to the national broadcaster.

'We flagged a very urgent task of budget repair,' he said.

'It's interesting that in the run-up to the budget, the messages we were getting back from our constituents and, yes, from Liberal Party polling, was people were frightened we would squib it,' he said.

Mr Abbott said he was saying to the Australian people there was a need to adjust to changed circumstances and the government was deadly serious about returning the budget to surplus.

'If you are trying to get from point A to point B and one way is blocked you find another way. You don't abandon your objective,' he said.

Mr Abbott said he would not flag potential compromises to get stalled budget measures through the Senate.

'That's going to be a matter for discussion and negotiation with the crossbench,' he said.

'There will be further things to be announced by this government. We will be governing right up until Christmas Eve.'
- See more at: http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stories/2014/12/04/don-t-change-leaders-lightly--says-pm.html#sthash.amw1ofom.dpuf

Tokamak posted:

Lid posted:

LEADERSHIP SPECULATION IS BACK BABY

Haters Objector posted:

I subscribed to Red Flag for a bit. The envelopes the send it in say RED FLAG in big text on the front so I'm sure I'm on a watch list by now

Redeye Flight posted:

I understand how she feels, though I'm certain I disagree with everything she stands for.

You bastards are lucky you have an even remotely relevant left-wing party.

Lid posted:

'There will be further things to be announced by this government. We will be governing right up until Christmas Eve.'

Lid posted:

LEADERSHIP SPECULATION IS BACK BABY

Lid posted:

LEADERSHIP SPECULATION IS BACK BABY

Tokamak posted:

Oh boy, can we expect a lovely 12 days of Liberal Christmas?

Jumpingmanjim posted:

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=793839397357208

owns

Jumpingmanjim posted:

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=793839397357208

owns

quote:

First home buyers continue to disappear from the property market as investors dominate

FIRST homebuyer figures have plummeted to their lowest levels in a decade as aspiring property owners get pushed further out.

New figures by one of the nation’s largest mortgage broking firms, Australian Finance Group, show entry-level buyers fell to disastrously low records in Victoria, NSW and South Australia.
In November first home buyers figures in Victoria dropped to 7.4 per cent (down from 11.4 per cent in November last year), in South Australia 6.3 per cent (down from 16 per cent) and in NSW 1.9 per cent (down from 2.8 per cent).

At the same time the proportion of investors has climbed to its highest level in a decade and nationally made up 40 per cent of all new loans.
AFG chief executive officer Mark Hewitt said the record-low first home buyers figures were “extremely concerning.”
“We are seeing an emerging generation of people who aren’t going to be owning their own homes,’’ he said.
“Investors quite often use equity in their existing property so why their property grows their equity grows and their buying power increases.
“People who aren’t involved in the property market like first-home buyers aren’t having that type of asset growth and are having to save the cash, this can be difficult when they are likely to be renting.”
The dumping of the first-home buyers grant has also been blamed for the demise in entry-level buyers.
Nationally of all loans, first homebuyer figures made up 7.3 per cent — down from 10.3 per cent in November last year.
The overall average home loan size in November was $454,000 compared to $436,000 12 months ago.

This week the Reserve Bank of Australia kept the cash rate on hold at 2.5 per cent and for the 16th consecutive month.
But despite the grim first-home buyers figures, the latest Adelaide Bank/ REIA Housing Affordability Report released yesterday (Wed) found a slight improvement to house prices for potential buyers.
The proportion of income required to meet loan repayments fell by 0.5 per cent to 30.4 per cent during the September quarter.
REIA chief executive officer Amanda Lynch said while housing affordability remained out of reach for many potential buyers it was “improving.”

Jumpingmanjim posted:

This isn't normal. This can't go on forever

Jumpingmanjim posted:

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=793839397357208

owns

quote:

ACA demonised the family for six consecutive nights. Only in one story (of the total of eight) did ACA provide air time to anybody prepared to defend the family: this was Chris Puplick from the Anti-Discrimination Commission who pointed out, to no effect, that it was in fact illegal to require anyone to cut their hair in order to gain employment unless it was an issue of health or safety.

... In his column in the national daily, The Australian, Phillip Adams suggested just where he would like to stick Ray Martin's recent Gold Logie award. A talkback radio announcer in Melbourne came out in support of Shane Paxton, attacked ACA and the Nine Network (a key advertiser with his station) and promptly lost his job.

Anidav posted:

Been making the rounds on facebook. God I hate social networks.

thatbastardken posted:

I might be pulling this out of my arse but I thought that widespread home ownership was pretty much a 20th century phenomenon?

Jumpingmanjim posted:

This isn't normal. This can't go on forever

News Ltd. posted:

The Abbott Government’s secret plan for a media blitz on higher education

THE government has secretly accumulated market research and “slick” video advertisements, ready for a massive campaign aimed at selling its changes to higher education funding to young people.
The campaign to reassure potential higher education students about their fees could include Twitter and Facebook spots in addition to placements in newspapers and on radio and television.
Yesterday, Education Minister Christopher Pyne said the government might “look at” an “education campaign” — but planning has actually been underway since October.

Mr Pyne credited the idea to an Independent senator, John Madigan, who has angrily denied the claim today.
On Tuesday night, the government’s legislation to change funding to universities and deregulate fees was rejected by the Senate. The next day, Mr Pyne introduced a similar bill, to be debated next year.
The Education Minister also raised the prospect of an advertising campaign on Wednesday after talking to cross bench senators, including Mr Madigan.
“One of the things that Senator Madigan asked for was that an education campaign be run by the government to quell some of the concerns that people have in the community,” said Mr Pyne. “We’ll look at that of course.”

However, Senator Madigan has angrily denied it was his idea, and attacked Mr Pyne for his claim.
“Clearly the government has not sold its policies well,” Senator Madigan said on Facebook. “Its engagement with the public and the crossbench has been patchy. “Unequivocally, I never called for an advertising campaign using taxpayers’ money and I would never support such a measure.”
Proposed “slick and lively” television ads tell viewers university graduates earn 75 per cent more than non-graduates, a source has told news.com.au.
There was a theme, said the source, that the government would pay half of the cost of a university fee and HECS pays the rest, with zero dollars upfront.
There was no mention of the size of the fees, with Labor insisting the government’s reduced funding and deregulation could produce $100,000 degrees.
A proposed full-page newspaper advertisement featured a dollar sign divided down the middle to indicate the government would cover half the university fee.
A long video has been shot to be run on Facebook.

You Am I posted:

Solutions:

- Get rid of negative gearing

- Kill all Baby Boomers who have investment properties

- Kill you'reself

gay picnic defence posted:

Is that taxpayer money or political donations paying for that. Pretty poo poo if its government funded.

Jumpingmanjim posted:

Jumpingmanjim posted: