Geoff Lazarus points out that the essence of the GLOBAL WARMING problem is that current world Co2 levels are at 360 parts per million. This has already taken us through some of the tipping points that could lead us to an eventual catastrophic and irreversable climate change later this century. What James Hansen-NASA, David Spratt- [...]
Archive | December, 2008
McQueen: the very right-wing Rev. Rudd
As part of his PR campaign, K. Rudd proclaimed that he had never been any kind of socialist. Instead, while playing Judas to his leader, he paraded his species of Christianity in an article for The Monthly. Rudd extolled the Lutheran pastor, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, whose resistance to Hitler led to his execution in 1945. It [...]
Market meltdown
Canadians debate capitalist crisis See video. The current credit crisis rocking Wall Street may well be the largest market failure within the history of capitalism. The crisis is destabilizing the American economy, and also causing financial crises across the capitalist world. It is now dragging the Canadian economy into recession. The immediate trigger of the [...]
Nuclear disarmament?
Nuclear Disarmament and Uranium Exports Inquiry. PM Rudd has a Federal Parliamentary Inquiry into Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament, to examine the set of international nuclear treaties involving Australia – including Australia’s uranium exports bilateral agreements, and to report on how they may be made more comprehensive or effective and how they may advance Australia’s objectives [...]
MPs pattern bargain but not workers
In the Financial Review yesterday, DPM Gillard remains tough in Labor’s crack-down on pattern bargaining. Pattern bargaining – industry-wide industrial action in pursuit of an industry agreement or identical enterprise agreements – is like workChoices specifically prohibited by her Bill (sections 412 and 422). Her “Fair” Work Bill retains all of the WorkChoices repressive regime [...]
Rudderless in a Sea of Choices: The Defeat of Your Rights At Work
Rudderless in a Sea of Choices The Defeat of Your Rights At Work—Analysis and a Possible Response by Harry Glasbeek The Federal government has laid out its proposals to revamp the federal industrial relations regime. We have been told how the ALP will make good on the explicit and implicit promises it had made during [...]
Not New York education
No, Julia! New York is Not Working New York City Schools Chancellor and prospective US Secretary of Education, Joel Klein, is in Australia next week to spruik his school reforms. The Federal Education Minister, Julia Gillard, claims that reforms such as reporting individual school results are “working†and have produced “remarkable outcomesâ€. She says that [...]
Most read articles in Nov
Too many articles to handle? If you missed out on a great article from last month, here’s a quick digest of the most popular that you may want to check out: A pensioner replies Posted on Thursday, November 6th, 2008 in Social justice – Comments: (0) The ALP’s ditching of social equality has come back [...]
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- Bangladesh: Workers suffering from low wages end days of strikes and riots sparked by disappearance of trade union leader
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