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Solar City for Adelaide marginals

admin /30 August, 2006

Light on the hill: Australia’s first "solar city" set within most marginal electorates as Adelaide Solar City Consortium implements $53m energy-saving project in Wakefield and Makin
The Adelaide Solar City Consortium (ASCC) – which includes the Salisbury, Playford and Tea Tree Gully councils in the marginal seats of Makin and Wakefield – beat 20 groups to win approval from the federal Government for a $53 million energy-saving project, reported The Australian (30/8/2006, p.4).

Queenslanders lead green power charge

admin /30 August, 2006

Queensland Energy Minister John Mickel told Parliament over 65,000 Queenslanders purchased green power accredited renewable energy in the last financial year. This equated to over 122,000 megawatt hours of renewable electricity, resulting in a saving of almost 100,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions. The state government had purchased $1.4 million of renewable energy each year through the Government Energy Management Strategy.

India seeks Australian gas

admin /30 August, 2006

Australia among potential winners as India eyes non-Middle Eastern LNG sources
Imported LNG may be more expensive for India than piped gas but it has the advantage that its supply, by sea, is less vulnerable, according to The Australian Financial Review (30/8/2006, p.16).

Gush in oil shares continues

admin /30 August, 2006

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a8.npkbUIflo&refer=home

July 27 (Bloomberg) — Exxon Mobil Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell Plc, the world’s biggest and third-largest oil companies, posted combined second-quarter profits of almost $18 billion on record crude prices.

Net income at Exxon Mobil rose 36 percent from a year earlier to $10.4 billion, or $1.72 a share, the Irving, Texas- based company said today in a statement. Shell, based in The Hague, said its profit jumped 40 percent to $7.32 billion, or $1.13 a share. Both companies exceeded analyst expectations.

“The energy sector is again poised to be among the best- performing sectors in 2006, with a strong second half ahead,” said Gene Pisasale, who helps manage $25 billion, including 4.9 million Exxon Mobil shares, at Mercantile Bankshares in Baltimore. “Investors are underestimating the earnings power of this group.”

Today’s ‘Islamic Fascists’ Were Yesterday’s Friends

admin /29 August, 2006

by Brendan O’Neill
According to President George W. Bush, America is at war with " Islamic fascists." Commentators who support Bush’s military interventions also argue that the West faces new religious enemies who do not play by the old rules of warfare. Hezbollah (which literally translates as "Party of God") says its wants to obliterate Israel, and Hamas (an abbreviation of "Islamic Resistance Movement") has taken the reins of power in Gaza and the West Bank; meanwhile, al-Qaeda and its associates continue to carry out sporadic, scrappy attacks designed to restore the Islamic caliphate. All of this has led one British newspaper columnist to argue that there is a new "World War being waged by clerical fascism against free societies."

In a nutshell, the wars over state, territory, and politics that defined the Cold War era have given way to cosmic battles between "good" and "evil" – between a West apparently keen to defend secular, democratic values and its twisted opponents who prefer the idea of autocratic Islam.

Shut up and listen

admin /29 August, 2006

If You Get Your News
From the Corporate Media:
Just Shut Up and Listen!!!

Advice to the Uninformed
From TvNewsLIES
http://tvnewslies.org/html/shut_up_and_listen.html

It’s very important in life to know when to shut up: Alex Trebek
THE ADMONITION

Enough!  Just stop.  You’ve had your say over and over and over. You’ve repeated yourself ad nauseam for years without making an iota of sense. You’ve accomplished nothing constructive, absolutely nothing.  You’ve repeated the same nonsense over and over without knowing a single fact. So just cut it out.  Now it’s time to close your mouth and open your ears.

Just shut up and listen!

All this time you’ve ignored people who know things you can’t even imagine.  You’ve shut your eyes and your mind to people who have spent years gathering information and checking out their sources.  You’ve dismissed people with skills and credentials you can’t even pronounce.  And you’ve demeaned people with knowledge and experience you can’t even come close to.

All this time you’ve refused to hear a single thing they’ve said.  You’ve strutted around like an arrogant peacock, believing you knew more than they. You had no basis for what you claimed to know. You just decided it was true. What unadulterated stupidity. It’s time to stop being a total idiot.

It’s time to just shut up and listen.