If I Were the Devil

Rather than a prescient warning, this ABC Radio April 3rd, 1965, broadcast by presenter Paul Harvey might give us some reassurance that we’ve resisted before a culture that is hell-bent on its own demise.

Fracking Hell

It’s like pulling teeth in many countries and the ‘sky-high-energy-prices’ UK is still pursuing its energy strategy even though the horse’s head is very much dead. With creeping trepidation, the ominous-sounding Climate Change Committee makes its usual noises, shouting “Environmental blasphemy!” at every turn. It is indeed something akin to a morality play when the government…

Fiscal Cliff

In this “extra ranty” video, PJ Media’s ‘Trifecta’ pundit Steve Green takes on the fiscal cliff guff in this ‘Hair of the Dog’ clip. [guff: trivial, worthless or insolent talk or ideas – pretty apt!]

Yes, We ICANN

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has what it describes as a: …bottom-up, consensus-driven, multi-stakeholder model… This is from its site [see here]: Bottom up. At ICANN, rather than the Board of Directors solely declaring what topics ICANN will address, members of sub-groups in ICANN can raise issues at the grassroots level.…

A Farewell to Internet

The World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT), in that beacon of freedom, Dubai, is looking at the future of the internet. And naturally the future of the internet should include opinions from dictatorships as well as freedom-loving countries as anything else would be unfair and unrepresentative. There appears to be three angles through which governments…

Environmental Burkha

Breathing is definitely bad for Mother Earth. This video from CFACT shows just how far eco-fascists are prepared to go to remove those pesky humans from the planet. Is it really implausible to think that if these Doha, Qatar COP18 delegates are prepared to mask their own children, what kind of punishments would be in…

Climate Mitigation, Adaptation & Compensation

The Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) is looking to shakedown anyone or everyone once again at the munificent climate change conference circuit in Doha. Apparently we have breezed past the mitigation phase, where evil, rich countries must deindustrialize. We have also blown by the adaptation phase, where evil, rich countries must build windmills at…

Please Sir, I Want to Give Some More

Bizarre. Is this a sign of the new times we are in? In Europe governments need ever more copious amounts of revenue (tax) so that it can make its investments (transfer payments). When a corporation calculates its tax liability the formulas are fairly simple: GROSS INCOME less ELIGIBLE BUSINESS EXPENSES equals NET INCOME NET INCOME…

Christmas Boxes

  The cost? Well it isn’t mentioned but I suppose we can assume it costs approximately 1,000 times more than a real tree. The reason for the change? The usual: a tree is a religious symbol apparently, it might hurt some feelings perhaps, it is meant to appease the Muslim community, it’s more modern, it’s…

Turkey’s Missiles

Turkey is a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). As such other member states are obliged to its mutual defence. With this in mind NATO will deploy Patriot missiles to its southern border to protect itself (only defensively of course) from potential aggression by the Syrian government. The problem is that NATO (just…