The Journal
Current Affairs
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Solar Panel Subsidies
The Kangaroo Island Council has decided it will take responsiblity for local management of a government subsidised scheme to install solar panels on the roofs of homes. Even with proposed government subsidies, the installation of solar panels will not be…
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Science A Political Tool
John McLean has some interesting comments on the politics of climate change in an article in yesterday’s Australian. THE notion that human activity has an alarming influence on climate is based on Intergovernmental Panel on Climate…
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Pakistan, The Taliban And The Tamil Tigers
Sri Lanka’s now virtually complete victory over the Tamil Tigers has been all but ignored in the western media. But it may very well have been a motivating factor in the March 3 shooting attack on the…
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Disabled Protestors Arrested Outside White House
This is hardly a news flash – it happened a week ago. But I had seen nothing about this in the mainstream media, and only heard of it this morning from Uppity Woman. A fuller version…
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French Fail To Surrender – Inquiry Launched
A group of Somali pirates attacked a French war ship near the Seychelles. The captain of the frigate Nivose, Lieutenant Commander Jean-Marc le Quilliec, sent out commandos in small boats, with a helicopter for air support. Within…
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Turnbull Shows Some Sense On Emissions Trading
Malcolm Turnbull is too weak to back the government’s proposed emissions trading legislation, according to hot air minister Penny Wong. Wrong. Malcolm Turnbull has yet to be convinced that global warming theory is bankrupt. But he…
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Saudi Arabia Clamps Down On Women’s Gyms
In Saudi Arabia women’s gyms can only operate legally inside hospitals, where they are called health centres. They are so expensive (over $250 per month) that only the very wealthy can afford them. Other, cheaper gyms for women…
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WHO – Widespread Outbreaks Of Insufficient Panic
People aren’t scared enough, according to the World Hysteria Organisation. A spokeperson says the WHO may raise the global pandemic alert level to six – the highest possible. In an interview with the Spanish newspaper El…
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Three Abus Grilled
That’s what the headline says: 3 Abus surrender, undergo grilling. That is, three members of terrorist organisation Abu Sayyaf have surrendered, and are assisting with investigations. Philippine officials say they expect to ‘extract information’ from the three terrorists…
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Swine Flu Not Scary Enough? Don’t Worry
There’s always another reason to panic. According to Alzheimers Australia, we are facing an avalanche of dementia. If avalanche is not scary enough, try ‘dementia tsunami’, a reference to the ageing baby boomers who are living…
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Climate Change Hits Indigenous Australians Hardest
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Tom Calma, recently returned from the UN’s Conference for Racism and Anti-Semitism, says that Australia’s indigenous people will be hardest hit by climate change. If temperatures in North…
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Those Gentle Caring Greenies
A $1.2 million arson attack on forestry equipment. Selfish, irresponsible, idiotic, criminal. But pretty much no risk of anyone being harmed. But attaching wires to trees where loggers cannot see them to make those trees fall in…
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D-Day (Dimwit Day) In South Australia
The Rann government’s ban on lightweight plastic shopping bags starts today. I predict chaos and frustration at supermarkets around the state. Tim Blair notes that the people who grow marijuana are subject to a fine of $300,…
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Menacing Matriarch Moans
Poor Rabiah. Former surfie chick turned jihad groupie Rabiah Hutchinson is complaining about the nightmare of living under ‘constant surveillance.’ After all, she is just a 55 year old grandmother with diabetes and arthritis. So why is anyone…
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Swine Flu Transmitted Via Baggage – Not
Any excuse for a day off. Baggage handlers at Paris’ Orly airport walked off the job claiming their lives and health were at risk from Swine Flu if they carried baggage on flights from Mexico or Spain. French…
