"In the 16 years we have been coming to these conferences, there has been no global warming at all. If we were to take action, the cost of that would be many times greater than the cost of taking adaptation measures later. So my recommendation is that we should initiate a review of the science to make sure we are all on the right track."
He was booed and heckled by other delegates.

As a mid-level Aboriginal bureaucrat working in various government and community sector agencies, I had for some time been feeling uneasy about the deference given to my opinions, the leniency around my work standards and the indulgence of my behaviour that did not extend to my “non-Aboriginal” colleagues to anywhere near the same degree. As an Aboriginal employee, I was a valuable acquisition—one that demonstrated my employer’s commitment to “reconciliation” and to “closing the gap” in Aboriginal disadvantage.
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In my years of working as a professional Aborigine, I don't think I did anything that really helped anybody much at all, and I know that I was a party to unfairness, abuses of power, wastefulness and plain silliness in the name of 'reconciliation' and 'cultural sensitivity'.
Aside from a nagging sense of feeling like a complete fraud, things were reasonably OK until I made the mistake of reading works by Kwame Anthony Appiah, Amartya Sen's Identity and Violence and Thomas Sowell's Affirmative action around the world: an empirical study. (Please - stop reading what I have to say right now. Go and read this instead).
After that, I could no longer ignore the fact that my career was built on racism. Not 'reverse racism' or 'positive discrimination' - just plain racism, of benefit to nobody except a select gang of privileged people with the right genes and a piece of paper to prove it. In other words, of benefit only to people like me.
About 18 months ago I burned my 'proof of Aboriginality' documentation (a letter from the NSW Department of Education acknowledging that I was Aboriginal, on the basis that my local Aboriginal Lands Council at that time, circa 1990, had said so). I walked away from the Aboriginal industry for good.
It hasn't been easy, and I am still working out what to do with myself from here, but it has been rewarding. It feels great to simply identify as a human being, and to work alongside colleagues that only know me as another ordinary wage-slave, and not as a pampered mascot with the power to ruin a career with an accusation of 'insensitivity'.
It also feels good to do proper work; sitting around a government office essentially being paid to be Aboriginal is both undignified and boring. I miss the money of course, but I don't miss the racism.
7.3 earthquake off the coast of Japan:
http://us.cnn.com/2012/12/07/world/asia/japan-earthquake/index.html
They have invented the invisibility cloak!sort of
According to the company the lightweight and inexpensive fabric is able to 'bend light waves'.
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See clip here - http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/te...ldier-camouflage/story-fn7bsi21-1226534374087
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...er-proposed-laws/story-e6freuy9-1226535227751
Further to the story about banning the word "mate" now no more sledging in sports and other name calling.
How is this gonna be policed?
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Big surprise that, once again, so called "progressives" (whose idea of "progressive" is actually to be more about "don't do this, don't say that" etc etc as they busily grow an even bigger expensive beast of bureacrazy and busybody government that both mirrors and serves the wicked purposes of the enemy of our souls; lucifer) reveal themselves to be all for limiting, restricting, and controlling by way of law and fear of punishment, anything that exposes them as being evil deservedly hell-bound scum that they have chosen to be.
Basically, they can't handle the truth so seek to silence and bury it.
Time Oz got something similar to the USofA constitution, especially the bit about the right for the poplace to be armed in order that it can stand guard against tyranny in government
As per Thomas Jefferson's quotes from here: http://jpetrie.myweb.uga.edu/TJ.html ... which also includes this:
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News toady in Melbourne - cancer machines to be banned, ie Vic is banning tanning beds/solariums, about time![]()
Have you been drinking? You want to play cowboys and shooting massacres???
Revelation 19:11-15
(11) I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and makes war.
(12) His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself.
(13) He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God.
(14) The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean.
(15) Out of his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. “He will rule them with an iron scepter.” He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty.
Revelation 6:16 and 17
(16) They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne [God] and from the wrath of the Lamb!
(17) For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?”
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US judge disciplined for saying rape victims' bodies can prevent rape:
http://www.news.com.au/world/outrag...can-prevent-rape/story-fndir2ev-1226536893797