Australia’s mining companies sink to the Lord Monckton level of low credibility
I was amazed to read that the Association of Mining and Exploration Companies (AMEC) are having Lord Monckton as speaker at their conference next week. I was also amazed that Liberal Party leader Tony Abbott is to appear on the same platform. Also sadly the Independent, Rob Oakeshott – a man who seemed to have a bit of that rare quality , integrity. (Perhaps Oakeshott is simply naive?)
Don’t Tony and Rob know what sort of a person Lord Monckton is?
Monckton is the chief proponent of a very far-fetched conspiracy theory, and he has been thoroughly discredited in this, in his home country, England.
Monckton’s theory is uncannily like the extremist theories of Australia’s Eric Butler and the League of Rights, – and, yes, it has echoes of Nazi theory, too. Just as Hitler adopted the idea of the “Jewish Conspiracy” – that the Jews were plotting world domination, so Monckton also sees a shadowy group plotting world domination.
In Monckton’s belief, this evil group has managed to manipulate all the (?stupid) scientists into proposing man-made Climate Change. According to Monckton, there is no truth in man-made Climate Change, but the scientists push it, so that governments will adopt regulations and carbon taxes – and these will lead to World Government, and a global slave state for all of us.
Australia’s mining companies have apparently been quite duped into taking Monckton seriously. Surely they are not so calculatedly greedy as to use this crackpot in order to fight the government’s carbon tax. As for Abbott – well, clearly Abbott will do whatever it takes to promote Abbott. But this time, I think he’s made a wrong choice, don’t you? – Christina Macpherson
Lord Monckton and Tony Abbott speakers at mining companies’ conference
The British peer is scheduled to speak at the Association of Mining and Exploration Companies (AMEC) conference in Perth next week. Opposition Leader Tony Abbott, who met Lord Monckton last year, will also address the AMEC conference along with independent MP Rob Oakeshott and Liberal Senator Mathias Cormann.
Monckton compares Garnaut to Hitler ABC News 23 June 11 A British politician has called the Australian Government’s chief climate change adviser, Professor Ross Garnaut, a fascist. Footage has been posted on the internet of a speech Lord Christopher Monckton gave to a conference in Los Angeles earlier this month. In it he displayed a Nazi swastika next to a quote from Professor Garnaut.
Lord Monckton compared statements made by Adolf Hitler to Professor Garnaut’s suggestion that people should accept the mainstream science of climate change. Continue reading
Aboriginal fight for alternative to NT Intervention comes to Sydney
On Saturday June 25, the Stop the Intervention Collective Sydney (STICS) will hold a demonstration demanding an end to the NT Intervention and support for a new alternative program ‘Rebuilding from the Ground Up’. The program was launched at a strong demonstration in Darwin on Tuesday by Aboriginal leaders from across the Northern Territory.
The 11 point plan includes the re-establishment of Aboriginal community councils, abandonment of the ‘hub towns’ model and investment in all communities, an end to compulsory acquisition of Aboriginal land, the rescinding of all leases signed under the NTER and recognition of the importance of Aboriginal customary law. Continue reading
AUSTRALIA’S ROLE IN THE FUKUSHIMA DISASTER
John Ritch – ….believes that the Fukushima disaster is simply a lot of fuss over the flooding of a few diesel generators – is one who is pushing for Australia to take the world’s waste…..Halliburton built the railway link between Alice Springs and Darwin and the railway line is managed by Serco, a UK nuclear waste disposal and transport expert. There is little traffic on the line
Fukushima disaster, cover-up and fears of nuclear explosion Independent Australia 20 June 11 Environment correspondent Sandi Keaneprovides detailed up-to-date analysis on the Fukushima nuclear disaster, including an exclusive interview with Dr Helen Caldicott. Experts raise the grim possibility of nuclear explosion at the disintegrating plant.
“……….And what of Australia’s role in this global catastrophe? No meaningful dialogue about the morality of the nuclear experiment can occur without questioning our export of uranium, which, no doubt, ended up at Fukushima.
We may be one of the world’s biggest exporters, but did you know that we earned more selling cheese in 2010 than uranium? Check it out with the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Continue reading
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