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• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
  4 days ago

• EU Poised to Give Heavy Industry Free Carbon Permits

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 620
  European industries including metals, building materials, textiles and ceramics will benefit from free carbon permits, starting in 2013, under the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme.Operators in those industries complained that not having free pollution permits would make them uncompetitive with their counterparts in ...
  6 days ago

• If other countries jumped off a cliff, would we do it too? [update 2]

  
  Not PC — Authority: 571
  In the wake of that NZIER report saying, essentially, that NZ’s environmentalists should stop obsessing about feelgood bullshit like “greenhouse gas emissions” and “zero waste” [on which Crampton offers enthusiastic commentary ] Nick Smith admitted in the midst of a TV3 report last night that the ...
  1 week ago

• Burning the Mona Lisa to cook dinner

  
  frogblog — Authority: 568
  An odd Flikr photo from Dead Scene Well known conservative commentator Thomas Friedman contends that destroying our biodiversity to fuel unregulated economic growth is like burning the Mona Lisa to cook dinner. The issue of how we should treat natural capital in our economy resurfaced today. A new NZIER report on ...
  1 week ago

• Poor leadership linked to soldier’s death

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Deficiencies in training, leadership and deployment readiness may have contributed to the death of Lieutenant Michael Fussell in Afghanistan last year, a Defence inquiry has found. The Major in charge of the operation in which Lieutenant Fussell died on November 27 has now been stood down from his command. ...
  1 week ago

• The Verdict’s In: Cap and Trade Will Not Work

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 758
  Over the summer The Washington Post called Europe’s experience with cap and trade as “Exhibit A” of what not to do on climate. Yesterday, the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Iain Murray brought evidence to the jury – that jury being Senate Environment & Public Works Committee. Murray detailed the ...
  1 week ago

• Poll shows 60% of Public Supports Cap-and-Trade

  
  Global Warming is Real — Authority: 513
  As the Senate Energy and Public Works Committee began hearings today on the Kerry-Boxer Clean Energy Jobs and American Act , the Senate version of climate and energy legislation, a CNN/Opinion Research poll shows 60% of respondents favor cap-and-trade , the central mechanism limiting greenhouse gas emissions. In ...
  2 weeks ago

• Carbon Trading in the USA

  
  arezzo1.com — Authority: 142
  | Sourced From ABC.net.au |ANNE KRUGER, PRESENTER: The debates over the Emissions Trading Scheme is just as contentious and politically fraught in the United States as in Australia. Americans, too, are waiting their politicians to pass historic new climate change laws that will take them into a new low carbon world. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Harbour Bridge picnic may become annual

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  This mornings massive breakfast picnic which closed the Sydney Harbour Bridge could become an annual event. Sydneys first Breakfast on the Bridge, held as part of a city-wide food festival, has been hailed a success, with about 6,000 picnic goers in attendance. The eight lanes of bitumen were given a temporary ...
  2 weeks ago

• 6,000 eat brekkie on Harbour Bridge

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Six thousand people have found the best picnic spot in Sydney this morning - sitting down to breakfast on the Harbour Bridge. The citys first Breakfast on the Bridge, held as part of a Sydney-wide food festival, was hailed a success. Picnickers say the event was well organised and there have been very few ...
  2 weeks ago

• How You Can End Climate Change by Buying Pollution Permits on the Cap and Trade Market

  
  Green Options — Authority: 147
  Here’s a revolutionary plan from Sandbag that enables you and me to end carbon emissions by simply buying up and destroying European pollution permits by retiring them off the market, at $40 per permit or ton of CO2. Sandbag buys up carbon credits from those who have already made energy efficiency  investments ...
  2 weeks ago

• Australia faces famine, expert warns

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  A food production expert says Australia may face a massive famine if governments fail to address an impending global food shortage. A conference of food productivity experts in Sydney this week heard the greatest threat to the world is not climate change, but food production on land and in the water. Science ...
  2 weeks ago

• Swindler Madoff king of ‘wild sex and drug parties’

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Convicted Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff presided over an office fuelled by sex and drugs, with wild late night parties that included topless entertainers, a lawsuit said. His "affinity for escorts, masseuses, and attractive female employees was well known in the office culture," said the suit which was filed in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Don’t Buy the A-REITs

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 551
  In todays Daily Reckoning, we take a look at what the hedge funds are buying (resource companies) and which corporate insiders are selling. And dont forget! Its GDP and industrial production week in China. What could that mean? Also, five time-bomb property investments to dump now. If you didnt catch yesterdays ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sailor remembered for ‘living twice as hard’

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Sailing veteran Andrew Short is being remembered as a brave adventurer, a keen businessman and a devoted father at his funeral in Sydney. More than 2,500 people have gathered at the service at St Marys Cathedral to farewell the 48-year-old sailing veteran who was killed when his yacht ran aground during a night race ...
  3 weeks ago

• Brimble jury split on Wilhelm verdict

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  The jury in the Sydney trial of a man accused of killing cruise ship passenger Dianne Brimble has reached a verdict on one of two charges. Mark Wilhelm, 37, was charged with manslaughter and supplying a prohibited drug after Ms Brimbles body was found in his cabin on board the Pacific Sky cruise ship in September ...
  3 weeks ago

• Liberals come into the ETS tent: Macfarlane gets green light to talk with Penny Wong.

  
  Woolly Days — Authority: 124
  Federal Opposition climate change negotiator Ian Macfarlane appeared on Sky News’ Sunday agenda with his sleeved rolled up to tell Australia the news about Liberal climate change policy: they would bargain with the government on an ETS but Australian jobs were non-negotiable. You might for a moment think (as ...
  3 weeks ago

• Pakistan army advances on Taliban

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  The Pakistani military has suffered its first casualties in the opening exchanges of a major offensive launched against Taliban militants in their stronghold of South Waziristan. Four soldiers were killed and a dozen wounded as about 30,000 troops supported by tanks, artillery , fighter jets and helicopter gunships ...
  3 weeks ago

• Feds don’t wear blue gumboots

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 580
  Federated Farmers is sometimes referred to as the National Party in gumboots. That has never been the case and nor should it be. Feds is there to look after the best interests of its members and the organisation couldn’t do that if it was aligned in any way with a political party. Any doubts over whether the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Greens launch their Safe Climate Bill

  
  Woolly Days — Authority: 124
  Senator Christine Milne has said Australia needs the Greens’ new safe climate bill because of the Federal Government’s “failure to address climate change in a way the science demands.” Senator Milne launched the bill this week saying it was an “environmentally effective and economically sound” response ...
  3 weeks ago

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