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» 18/07/2016 9:16:24 AM The writer of these columns has found an avenue for free publicity for his business (".....
» 13/06/2016 1:45:31 PM "William Hill is a graduate from the Australian National University with a Bachelor o.....
» 1/06/2015 11:13:08 AM Mr Leyonhjelm can judge the insightfulness of the comments he has generated. They exceed, .....
» 3/11/2014 11:52:11 AM So. Hayek. An economist. Kindly help me out here, Mr Champion. What are Dr H's key assu.....
» 2/12/2013 9:19:57 AM Good article. The current Australian government appears to be undermining the legislation.....
» 1/07/2013 9:22:21 PM Hasbeen, if you cannot identify your local members, then you plainly don't know how to us.....
» 28/05/2013 9:00:48 PM No Worries, Rhian, you may enjoy reading this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2.....
» 27/05/2013 10:48:48 PM This screed of twaddle is the work of someone who is able to write a responsible report? ?.....
» 18/02/2013 11:52:44 AM Mr Lang, I am surprised that an erudite man such as yourself would appear unable distingu.....
» 18/02/2013 11:14:34 AM Mr Lang, What may appear irrational to one depends a lot on differences in opinions and un.....
» 8/02/2013 5:46:58 AM Mr Lang, This item came up, on lithium batteries and grounding of aircraft fleets, and na.....
» 2/02/2013 8:16:48 AM Mr Lang, The context you keep asking for is something I believe I provided in my post of.....
» 30/01/2013 8:25:11 PM Mr Lang, Your comments make me wonder that no-one has thought to coin the term "gree.....
» 30/01/2013 4:47:09 PM Mr Lang, your facts do not address the low-probability high-risk nature of nuclear electri.....
» 30/01/2013 5:15:35 AM Mr Lang, I don't believe I missed your point. You responded to my comment, and I gave yo.....
» 29/01/2013 8:03:05 PM Peter Lang, I thought I made clear that I was talking about "social dislocation and s.....
» 29/01/2013 8:51:08 AM Mr Kemeny's article makes the point that "Australia is a country hungry for energy .....
» 29/12/2012 3:05:43 PM Raycom, You have missed my point entirely. Enjoy your day......
» 28/12/2012 10:43:56 AM Raycom, you have missed my point entirely. As I stated in my first post, there is no pro.....
» 27/12/2012 8:45:58 PM Good luck to those of you who are in personal denial about the strength of scientists' con.....
» 27/12/2012 9:52:17 AM Don, I spent the better part of 40 years teaching science, and doing my best to convince m.....
» 11/12/2012 2:16:41 PM David G and Yuyutsu, your views as expressed are as gross and simplistic as Mr Singer's di.....
» 10/12/2012 10:34:08 PM csteele, Thanks for the shortcut about Palestine announcing its intentions to join the min.....
» 15/09/2012 8:36:27 AM And if you should think it possible that you might lose faith in your air conditioner, coh.....
» 14/09/2012 5:25:33 PM Yes, Cohenite, it's all about faith. Never give up. As for the rest of your post, I agree.....
» 14/09/2012 3:33:35 PM Bazz, One common error in AGW discussions is to conflate the "environmental" wi.....
» 10/09/2012 9:22:55 AM A speech delivered to an obscure audience, then recycled as text, by a professor who perha.....
» 20/08/2012 9:25:44 AM Well done. I hope this article facilitates the exposure of our Clayton's CCM law for the d.....
» 10/08/2012 5:54:12 PM Interesting article, Dr Pert. My concern is that Syria has been intentionally provoked a.....
» 7/06/2012 1:01:57 PM Julie, some of your suggestions regarding Australia bolstering its soft power are valuable.....
» 23/04/2012 11:49:54 AM Were the author a teacher or other education professional, his argument might have offered.....
» 22/02/2012 11:13:58 AM Local fallout from the Heartlands doco leak: "Peter Gleick, a widely published US sc.....
» 22/02/2012 8:13:30 AM JonJ, there is no new information in your update, only your opinions. Other readers may w.....
» 21/02/2012 8:22:11 PM Curmudgeon, of course I am talking about finite resources. Kindly list all the infinite .....
» 21/02/2012 3:55:38 PM JonJ, You and others will find a far more coherent report of events in the New York Times......
» 21/02/2012 9:39:35 AM The three short comments above underscore Sam Powrie's idea that many (if not most) people.....
» 24/01/2012 9:54:29 AM PHume, your viewpoints are interesting up to a point, but as I said, I won't bother you wi.....
» 23/01/2012 11:13:58 AM Pericles, Thank you for taking the time to read the economics of the Mises School. I expe.....
» 22/01/2012 6:32:47 AM PHume, you say: "Profit and loss are the means by which the masses direct the entire.....
» 21/01/2012 11:37:12 AM Here's another puff piece for Ron Paul. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va.....
» 20/01/2012 9:53:41 PM P Hume, whether or not I am projecting is a moot point, as I may also have greater expecta.....
» 20/01/2012 11:48:55 AM Bonmot, thanks for the link......
» 19/01/2012 7:54:02 PM David Hume, let me make it clear then. In my humble opinion, Ron Paul has nothing to off.....
» 19/01/2012 10:35:30 AM Well, Jennifer, if you are agreeable to the proposition, then we can agree to disagree. .....
» 19/01/2012 10:00:41 AM Jennifer, you say "it is great to read something from a Greens councillor that shows.....
» 19/01/2012 6:36:56 AM Well put, david f. A libertarian doth not a leftist make. Ron Paul is more isolationist t.....
» 18/01/2012 4:33:58 PM Cohenite, read my previous text again, then read yours again, then decide what is "us.....
» 18/01/2012 3:30:49 PM Further to the preceding comments and Mr Kile's stimulus material, Mr Kile, I offer the fo.....
» 14/01/2012 8:47:43 AM For the aficianados, another bone to growl over, an answer to the conundrum: If the world'.....
» 10/01/2012 6:05:50 AM Here's another insidious warper of childrens' minds at work. fortunately, they are in Sand.....
» 8/01/2012 8:56:52 AM Cohenite, Finally, a succinct answer. Thank you.....
» 7/01/2012 10:30:50 PM Mmmm there's Cohenite, yet again either unable or unwilling to answer a simple question wi.....
» 6/01/2012 11:51:15 AM ... I hear the trolls a-singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me .....
» 5/01/2012 7:39:24 PM Don't read too much into things, Cohenite. Enjoy yourself, but don't read too much into th.....
» 5/01/2012 4:14:57 PM Cohenite, thank you for the opportunity. And the coy answer. But I cannot imagine what it .....
» 3/01/2012 9:01:13 PM Perhaps Cohenite would like to assure us of his expertise, by citing his formal and/or inf.....
» 31/12/2011 12:15:33 PM SpinDoc, you say: "Michael Kile’s article is about frightening children with doom st.....
» 30/12/2011 12:56:50 PM It's worth having a look at the Author's earlier contribution on climate change, to be fou.....
» 19/12/2011 10:11:13 AM Mr Hitchens was trenchant, incisive in his criticisms of Henry Kissinger, but eventually s.....
» 11/11/2011 7:01:12 AM Australia will be participating in the CCW process next week, and my opinion is that succe.....
» 31/10/2011 12:35:00 PM Saul Eslake, Thanks for the links......
» 31/10/2011 9:49:54 AM Three current graphs would greatly assist my appreciation of Mr Eslake's numbers: Austral.....
» 23/09/2011 11:47:32 AM I wonder about the energy efficiency of author Creighton's long bow, and what, exactly, he.....
» 15/09/2011 7:23:17 AM As for the ABC being a niche broadcaster, Kath and Kim drew a wide following. I wonder wh.....
» 16/07/2011 1:23:49 PM Custard, you note that "The fact [cluster munitions] are not being used "CUR.....
» 15/07/2011 1:06:35 AM Thank you for your further opinion, Custard. Was that your last stand, or are you willin.....
» 12/07/2011 8:16:05 PM Many well-put points, Adelaide. By the bye, to the best of my knowledge, cluster munition.....
» 7/06/2011 8:56:38 PM Danielle, An afterthought: see http://blog.refugemediaproject.org/2011/06/07/upcoming-ev.....
» 7/06/2011 8:43:46 PM Danielle, I have drawn my line in the sand. I decline to discuss the issue further; I hav.....
» 7/06/2011 1:05:44 PM Danielle, your term "a painfree method of extracting information against a person's w.....
» 7/06/2011 10:23:10 AM Danielle, I'd be grateful if you could help me to put your comments in context, by answeri.....
» 16/05/2011 5:49:50 PM Readers may be interested in the summary and links below. Zombie typists might show some e.....
» 7/05/2011 9:28:59 AM The United States military insists that cluster munitions are useful, but to the best of m.....
» 31/03/2011 12:29:05 PM Mr Terpstra says "people on my side are more willing to serve our PM critical-thinkin.....
» 19/03/2011 9:11:52 AM Dear rpg re your comments: "surviva "Who told you that? " US Army officia.....
» 18/03/2011 4:10:48 PM Dear rpg re "Cluster bombs used by the US, self detonate after a time .. cluster bom.....
» 5/03/2011 6:56:13 AM Thanks for a timely article, Chris Doran. Chickens are indeed coming home to roost. Thes.....
» 3/03/2011 4:13:07 PM The most authoritative list of who has signed the treaty, and who has ratified it is avail.....
» 2/03/2011 8:40:48 PM Hasbeen, I don't understand what you're asking. How can I answer your question if you do.....
» 2/03/2011 1:01:52 PM Hasbeen, You may be interested to know that, by the current lists easily available, 10 NA.....
» 2/03/2011 11:33:42 AM Skeptic and Raise the Dust To me, the discouraging thing about this issue is that its cru.....
» 28/02/2011 3:44:07 PM Kenny, I've read some and searched through many of the cables, for snippets of interest. .....
» 10/02/2011 8:05:08 PM Gobsmacked and Shadow Minister - flagrant in their opinions, demure about their facts. - S.....
» 8/02/2011 8:43:05 AM Hasbeen's comment brings to mind the maybe apocryphal exchange between F Scott Fitzgerald .....
» 7/02/2011 8:44:13 PM Gobsmacked, you point out that the higher income brackets pay more in GST because they spe.....
» 6/02/2011 12:47:54 PM Shadow Minister, you say: "When Labor pushed the peak tax rate to 66%, the skills fle.....
» 5/02/2011 8:41:52 PM Shadow Minister, Looking at the article that you cited, it appears to me that the money is.....
» 5/02/2011 8:15:24 AM Shadow Minister, you say: (1) "The tax was actually not at evenly distributed, nearl.....
» 4/02/2011 3:31:28 PM Hi Flo, Could Gina be worried that Squiggy might run out of marmalade?.....
» 4/02/2011 9:42:37 AM Saul says "The Government could have borrowed some or even all of the $5.6bn it estim.....
» 13/01/2011 9:40:46 AM Having grown up in the USA, I can safely guess that we here will never do more than philos.....
» 3/11/2010 9:08:30 AM Mirko, we have never met, so I can't say whether I like you or not. It's your arguments,.....
» 2/10/2010 10:29:56 PM The page below is also from Banktrack. The content speaks for itself, but merits a visit. .....
» 30/09/2010 10:46:46 PM The following site provides interesting information. The stories are linked to the search .....
» 30/09/2010 7:07:14 AM Well then, Curmudgeon, I see you have made the honourable choice and declined to prevarica.....
» 28/09/2010 4:03:01 PM Curmudgeon, I wonder if you read beyond my Wikipedia quotes, as they were just two of the .....
» 28/09/2010 6:29:13 AM Curmudgeon, your fixation on presentation and style puzzles me. Ms Fahy is talking about h.....
» 16/09/2010 1:29:42 PM Runner, regarding your statement that "Think of all the time scientist have wasted o.....
» 16/09/2010 11:42:26 AM Amicus, regarding your second post to me, you seem to be the kind of person who likes simp.....
» 15/09/2010 4:47:32 PM Runner, The Origin of Species can't be stupid, that act is reserved for humans like you & .....
» 15/09/2010 12:08:32 PM To the author: I will apologise (entirely against their will)for stevenlmeyer and the ot.....
» 29/07/2010 1:32:50 PM The overall picture is of energy conservation and greenhouse gas reduction by more economi.....
» 29/07/2010 9:40:21 AM That's OK, Shadow Minister, you just go on focusing on the trees, instead of grasping the .....
» 28/07/2010 12:11:25 PM Shadow Minister, Why not read the Rocky Mountain Institute material I have linked, above,.....
» 28/07/2010 8:00:19 AM Loxton, What I find so amusing about SM is his myopic fixation on electricity generation......
» 25/07/2010 1:30:39 PM HasBeen and Byork, I admire your obstinacy, but not your judgement.Time, tide, economics .....
» 25/07/2010 10:10:46 AM Byork, re your comment, "The good news is that in 2006, the US, Russia and the EU ag.....
» 24/07/2010 10:14:20 PM Byork, Fusion energy has been "just around the corner" for some several decades.....
» 23/07/2010 5:59:00 PM Shadow Minister: I like you, You're funny......
» 23/07/2010 4:17:28 PM Well, King Hazza, you are the only poster so far that has mentioned "security", .....
» 9/06/2010 8:45:24 AM JJ Ariel's post of 8 June is devoid of evidence, but ripe with opinion. He doesn't even of.....
» 8/06/2010 5:52:13 PM Otokonoko American literature is no more of an oxymoron than any other category. http://.....
» 7/06/2010 12:02:54 PM Mr Ariel chooses to set the tone of his article with a link to a sophomoric parody, then e.....
» 4/06/2010 9:50:57 PM A few more (secondhand) details of the Hamas refusal to allow aid across the border into G.....
» 4/06/2010 2:17:57 PM Different times, Bazz. These days, I expect it's hard for young people to believe that Ch.....
» 4/06/2010 9:51:04 AM ALGORE is RICH: No offence taken......
» 4/06/2010 9:41:15 AM Well, Custard, it will be interesting to hear your assertions spinning along on the Larger.....
» 3/06/2010 7:04:20 AM ALGOREisRICH (HEisALSOSEPARATINGFOMTIPPERGORE) My guess is that God is on both our sides,.....
» 2/06/2010 11:34:10 AM Dearie me, someone is strutting about with a miraculous bulletproof vest, claiming divine .....
» 25/05/2010 12:04:02 AM Well put, TAC Seems to me that the trick, regarding training, is to find the optimal bala.....
» 18/05/2010 7:33:40 AM Nairbe says "I'm the first to sink the boot into the hard headed closed shop attitude.....
» 17/05/2010 11:27:00 AM It is not necesarily accurate to call Cheryl a Troll. She could be an automatic response. .....
» 17/05/2010 10:53:21 AM Thank you to Andrew Leigh. re "So many teachers applied to the program that recruit.....
» 13/05/2010 10:22:47 PM Cheryl, perhaps for you it is not opium, but pot - as in the pot calling the kettle black?.....
» 13/05/2010 1:49:44 PM Did Malcolm visit http://www.population.org.au/ ??.....
» 12/05/2010 10:36:59 AM Malcolm says: "The climate changers have not proved their thesis. Even if one employs.....
» 29/04/2010 4:41:09 PM So, Shadow Minister, the Electrical Engineer, dismisses the the NYAS Annals volume tit.....
» 28/04/2010 10:51:31 PM Thank you for your review of the UN report of the Chernobyl Accident, published in the Was.....
» 28/04/2010 10:29:44 AM Shadow Minister, I have been following the story of the IAEA's conflicted brief for over 3.....
» 28/04/2010 8:12:09 AM qanda, Thank you for your generous words and thoughts. I am not so quick to respond at su.....
» 27/04/2010 8:26:35 PM Shadow Minister, I think you ought to find a nearby university library which subscribes,.....
» 27/04/2010 10:10:12 AM The nuclear debate is alive and well, it seems, but the debate is not served well by the I.....
» 27/04/2010 12:31:43 AM qanda, I am opposed to GenIV reactors. This opinion is consistent with my prior links, for.....
» 26/04/2010 9:00:58 PM RaeBee say "any port in a storm", but: "Chernobyl Radiation Killed Nearly .....
» 25/04/2010 9:31:55 AM "STATEMENT ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE SPOKESPERSON FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL ON THE 24TH AN.....
» 23/04/2010 2:35:00 PM "One reason for making the choice of hard-path vs. soft-path as explicit as I have is.....
» 13/04/2010 1:52:07 PM Shadow Minister, I don't get it. I asked about volumes and you responded with dollars. Ple.....
» 13/04/2010 11:55:52 AM Shadow Minister re your earlier calculation, Did your calculation include the specific g.....
» 12/04/2010 11:43:48 AM Yesterday morning on the ABC show Insiders, three cab drivers were interviewed in a Melbou.....
» 11/04/2010 10:01:05 PM Hi Protagoras, Protagoras, That's about the longest link I recall seeing, but it works. .....
» 11/04/2010 2:56:37 PM qanda, No I am not a Vanuatuan, I'm Australian, and I know bugger-all about Vanuatu, so th.....
» 10/04/2010 12:05:41 PM Fester, you say that "For small island states, renewables with diesel generator back.....
» 9/04/2010 8:11:49 AM qanda, re: "Sir Vivor, do you understand the Statutes of the International Atomic Ene.....
» 9/04/2010 5:40:37 AM Fester says: "Perhaps what is needed is for nuclear power to operate under internatio.....
» 8/04/2010 9:05:02 PM Qanda and Fester believe in genIV reactors, but I do not. As I suggested in my earlier pos.....
» 8/04/2010 5:41:11 PM Shadow Minister, you say: "I have not spent any time breaking rock, but product hand.....
» 6/04/2010 4:50:51 PM An interesting article on wind-generated electricity can be found at http://www.pnas.org/c.....
» 6/04/2010 7:04:14 AM As Wikipedia articles go, the entry on the IFR does not fare well. The first citation sou.....
» 5/04/2010 2:18:34 PM Re: " ... the fact is that nuclear is currently the only viable non-carbon alternativ.....
» 3/04/2010 8:12:57 AM Another current item on reactor nuclear waste disposal, by acknowledged expert Robert Alva.....
» 3/04/2010 5:49:56 AM Protagoras and others may be interested in these links concerning the French company Areva.....
» 31/03/2010 7:49:49 PM Graham Y and others, here is the Wikipedia entry on "Geothermal gradient": &quo.....
» 29/03/2010 2:27:54 PM Shadow Minister and Scott Ludlum, Perhaps you could both provide more citations and links.....
» 29/03/2010 10:53:49 AM Amicus says "The next generation want to be live in a modern world, not go back to .....
» 6/01/2010 5:39:49 PM Mutikonka and Michael Slezak, why don't you check the studies cited in the article and ide.....
» 6/01/2010 8:14:23 AM Stezza, I can only guess at the answer to your question, but for me, the bottom line rests.....
» 5/01/2010 3:11:59 PM " ... journalists should not be expected to research the material presented in peer-r.....
» 19/12/2009 6:48:06 PM Thanks Keith, An easily understood model of CO2-related global warming can be found at: .....
» 23/11/2009 2:12:03 PM Thank you for writing this article, Ms Hamka. It is a shame that so may of those who pos.....
» 13/10/2009 9:08:54 PM Here's how the French deal with some of their nuclear waste - another disaster waiting to .....
» 3/10/2009 4:09:03 PM Shadow Minister, You say "if you throw a dice 1 million times, the poison distributi.....
» 2/10/2009 9:38:39 PM Thanks for the link, Richard B. It leads to http://www.sortirdunucleaire.org/index.php?me.....
» 30/09/2009 6:10:01 PM Spindoc, I gave you the last word, but you largely spent it on the person you imagine me .....
» 28/09/2009 4:33:19 PM Shadow Minister, you say: "In the unlikely event that the top experts in the world .....
» 27/09/2009 9:42:20 PM Spindoc, You maintain the values on your list of deaths per GWy for different energy gener.....
» 26/09/2009 9:25:53 AM Spindoc, You appear to have missed my point entirely. I expect you and I will also have t.....
» 25/09/2009 11:35:08 PM Shadow Minister, I expect you will see things as they appear to you, but as we all know, a.....
» 24/09/2009 10:39:37 PM Richard Bramhall, , I for one hope that I am not missing your point. I have been concerned.....
» 23/09/2009 6:29:06 PM Shadow Minister, Richard Bramhall stated in his email above is that the (1) IAEA has deni.....
» 21/09/2009 12:50:34 PM Spindoc, re: "where in the world is any nation achieving more than 10% of its energ.....
» 19/09/2009 10:12:24 AM Spindoc, you say: "There are many who intuitively feel that the more socially comple.....
» 18/09/2009 3:07:31 PM Shadow Minister, Thank you for clarifying your background. As I said in a previous post, .....
» 17/09/2009 11:44:10 PM Shadow minister, you said "I have 20+ years in heavy manufacturing a portion of whic.....
» 17/09/2009 2:48:49 PM Spindoc & Shadow Minister: Where were you when semiconductors eclipsed thermionic valves.....
» 16/09/2009 11:48:23 AM Mary Olsen, re-read your Amory Lovins webpage. It states in its first paragraph that: &qu.....
» 15/09/2009 4:14:48 PM Anti-Green, can you tell me whether Dr. Switkowski's "best record" statistics ap.....
» 15/09/2009 11:42:57 AM The statistics to do with leukemia have been and will continue to be arguable, but the bal.....
» 16/07/2009 6:59:46 AM Nigel of jerrabombarra says "The author needs to concentrate on treating warts and s.....
» 29/06/2009 10:24:56 PM Thanks to James H for the interesting item on Veolia in SA. One of the comments Kenneth Da.....
» 25/06/2009 11:27:01 AM mike-servethepeople, I tried the link you suggested, but it appears faulty. Any suggestio.....
» 24/06/2009 4:07:49 PM Glad to see the typos corrected, can't say I was upset by them. Thanks to CJM sticking his.....
» 24/06/2009 10:29:28 AM Thank you for a very informative article. It is not just our local, state and federal gove.....
» 16/05/2009 1:13:42 PM Thanks Bushbasher, Here are some links to perspectives on the debate and the publishing e.....
» 15/05/2009 10:14:03 AM Mr Cook, you write: "Tipping points are a non-scientific myth," snorts Plimer. .....
» 9/05/2009 3:08:27 PM ATO mining our economy? That's socialism. Junior exploration companies getting tax deduc.....
» 16/04/2009 10:22:18 PM so,regarding the social implementation of Marxism, "the reality was that HUMAN NATUR.....
» 16/04/2009 2:57:30 PM My post of Monday, 30 March, expressed concern at the way Sells used the term "libera.....
» 14/04/2009 11:58:06 AM The author notes that: " ... by focusing on ideology [in his The Monthly essay], Rudd.....
» 11/04/2009 8:10:46 AM "the left" is not so nimby selfish and greedy as to save all the selfishness for.....
» 7/04/2009 4:53:44 PM The survey which the author links includes this amusing quote: "Unfortunately, most .....
» 7/04/2009 7:28:44 AM An interesting paragraph about humanism, David F, but have you made a selective quote? &q.....
» 3/04/2009 10:04:34 AM David F, you ask which God I am talking about. You may re-read my question if you wish, an.....
» 2/04/2009 12:44:14 PM David f, How would you substantiate your assertion that "... Christianity, like all o.....
» 1/04/2009 5:00:49 AM Dietrich Bonhoeffer's life provides some background for a more nuanced view of the relatio.....
» 31/03/2009 12:24:45 PM It seems to me, Sell, that you might admire Australia’s Exclusive Brethren, who seem to st.....
» 30/03/2009 11:19:09 AM What is Liberalism? You say: "The point I was trying to make is that liberalism has l.....
» 30/03/2009 10:23:31 AM The author says: "The ethics of liberalism is the line of least resistance. This is w.....
» 19/03/2009 11:25:36 AM I've guessed that "trading" will not save us from the polluting effects of CO2 e.....
» 18/03/2009 1:41:42 PM Bigmal, re: "My criticism of the bonuses is not so much as to their bad timing but t.....
» 17/03/2009 4:54:50 PM I owe an apology to all about this Portuguese centipede business. It should have been mill.....
» 17/03/2009 12:31:54 AM Unfortunate that the author couldn't resist jumping on the old carousel and riding the old.....
» 6/03/2009 8:40:33 AM Dance de Merengue - too clever by half Merengue (dance) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedi.....
» 5/03/2009 12:57:59 PM Dan,I have already answered your question. You appear to have dismissed it as an example o.....
» 5/03/2009 5:11:54 AM "People who continue to question the completeness of existing theories will continual.....
» 3/03/2009 10:27:43 PM Paul L; without wishing to cast any aspersions whatever, I suggest whether the Maquis was .....
» 3/03/2009 4:48:40 PM John Pilger's book "Heroes", in my opinion marks him for life as a very genuine .....
» 3/03/2009 7:19:39 AM In my previous post, I overlooked my substitution of the word exclamation with the word ex.....
» 3/03/2009 6:09:18 AM As I made clear, I know of no currently accepted thermodynamic mechanism to explain molecu.....
» 2/03/2009 9:26:09 PM For those interested, the Graham & Alford article, "The power behind the screen".....
» 1/03/2009 5:07:36 AM There seems to be a bit of controversy around your priority of commandments, Dan see: htt.....
» 28/02/2009 11:25:59 AM re: "The problem with Darwin’s thinking was that he ascribed creative tendencies to u.....
» 26/02/2009 9:42:23 AM Experimental evolution is a pressing policy issue. Dan, instead of denying evolution, you.....
» 25/02/2009 1:32:02 PM So, Dan, you accept the literal truth of the Bible, at least some of the time, and are wil.....
» 25/02/2009 8:28:43 AM Mac, I kept getting these sneaking suspicions that private debt (foreign and domestic) can.....
» 24/02/2009 11:50:23 AM We know where Peter Costello stands, alright. He stands in the middle of flatland, holdin.....
» 23/02/2009 5:19:04 AM re: "I am in search of good science as well as good theology. I don’t see how evoluti.....
» 21/02/2009 7:09:53 AM Neo-Darwinism is also known as "the modern synthesis" Dan, you say that: ".....
» 18/02/2009 12:50:34 PM Bennie, I'm OK about giving Runner a bit more oxygen. He could be right. For example, .....
» 18/02/2009 6:16:08 AM Runner, you seem to be able to quote every argument against evolution, but you cannot unde.....
» 16/02/2009 4:17:03 PM AFJA, Israel has a choice, had a choice, will continue to have a choice. They can treat Pa.....
» 15/02/2009 8:52:25 PM Grim, You provide an example of the care taken to assure the faithful reproduction of bibl.....
» 15/02/2009 5:01:23 PM But AFJA, Israel has been negotiating with Hamas all week. See: http://www.alternativenew.....
» 15/02/2009 11:09:48 AM AFJA, what authority backs your personal opinion? I'm OK about admitting I will never kno.....
» 15/02/2009 7:38:24 AM Grim is confusing faith-based experience with dogmatism. One person may add to our human.....
» 14/02/2009 4:11:44 PM All animals with backbones have a common ancestor. That includes we humans, our primate a.....
» 14/02/2009 1:26:10 PM Israel can be divided into land, government and people. That is perhaps simplistic, but no.....
» 14/02/2009 8:14:28 AM Press reports often beg for skepticism. AFJA, while it seems unlikely to you that soldie.....
» 13/02/2009 10:31:10 PM "Science never proves anything" Gregory Bateson said that, (and I believe him)......
» 13/02/2009 3:13:48 PM Thanks Phil, I assume you are confident that is the case throughout Australia. My previou.....
» 12/02/2009 9:35:46 PM Israel-Palestine events back in 2000 aren’t as clear-cut as you say, AJFA. Here’s an “unbi.....
» 12/02/2009 9:08:07 AM I intend no "slur on the state of Israel". AJFA, you reply that "Nation st.....
» 11/02/2009 10:41:57 AM AJFA, Israel is a state: a corporate body with neither soul nor sense - no more human tha.....
» 10/02/2009 5:52:17 PM You think proportional response is nonsense, but you are ignorant of international law. P.....
» 10/02/2009 10:03:03 AM The value of a view is significant "Interestingly, the buyer in Bossichix v Martinek.....
» 10/02/2009 8:41:19 AM "Hamas are the recognised terrorists ..."? Leigh, your comment that "Hama.....
» 9/02/2009 2:36:55 PM Religious-ethnic tension and Israel are inseparable at this moment in time. Kurt, I readi.....
» 4/02/2009 12:27:02 PM "The Rudd essay is a political tract designed to fashion a narrative where hitherto n.....
» 30/01/2009 8:23:30 PM Mac, It's true, as Lincoln said, "you can't fool all the people all of the time.&quo.....
» 30/01/2009 8:41:08 AM Mac, you say that. "Your presence on this site is QED to that proposition, we are in.....
» 29/01/2009 7:03:23 PM Mac, your argument includes the statement that "Since the majority of people in non .....
» 29/01/2009 8:14:20 AM It seems as though most people posting here have missed the point of Professer Gordon's ar.....
» 28/01/2009 8:51:19 AM I have no problem criticising the current Israeli administration's members for committing .....
» 27/01/2009 10:22:32 AM Thank you, Neve Gordon. Finally, not everyone buys the idea of "ethical warfare, par.....
» 27/01/2009 8:49:51 AM All: This discussion is about hypocrisy. It is not about me and you. I refer you to the U.....
» 24/01/2009 7:40:56 AM All, re: "Now I know that you know what white Phosphorous is; it is a canister with .....
» 23/01/2009 7:10:40 PM All, Are you really so confused about white phosphorus munitions? They are incindiary (ca.....
» 23/01/2009 7:14:35 AM Googling Alls nomenclature: "the Chompa": 85 hits along the lines of the item .....
» 22/01/2009 3:16:12 PM Harking back to the title of the piece which stimulated so much comment, "Hypocrisy a.....
» 20/01/2009 9:56:15 PM Despite Israel's democratic ideals and pretensions, it suffers a fatal flaw. See: http://.....
» 20/01/2009 6:54:50 AM Thank you for dusting off the Domino Theory, dear Phillip Tang. Fortunately, you are as i.....
» 19/01/2009 2:59:43 PM For those wondering how the cease-fire has been faring, below is a current report. Hamas r.....
» 18/01/2009 5:44:40 PM White Phosphorus burns and fires are reliably documented See, for example: - = + = - .....
» 18/01/2009 9:41:04 AM Bigmal, Blind Freddy can "see there is a lot more to it". But then, Blind Fredd.....
» 16/01/2009 2:07:43 PM It was not Germany that was ashamed and stigmatised after WWII, but rather, individual Ger.....
» 16/01/2009 1:07:48 PM The essay says: "For Israel to have created more instability and uncertainty in the M.....
» 15/01/2009 9:10:37 PM Yuytsyu says "People in Gaza have no life, because they are hijacked by a murderous c.....
» 15/01/2009 8:36:23 AM Like so many others around the world, I know very little of the Israeli Knesset. A Finnish.....
» 14/01/2009 12:11:17 PM Bren Carlill's article is titled Hypocrisy and the War in Gaza. Bren complains about hypoc.....
» 13/01/2009 3:47:00 PM Postscript Seems as though no-one has any more to say, but we are none the wiser about Is.....
» 13/01/2009 8:07:27 AM Polycarp, regarding your post of 12 January 2009 1:54:55 PM: I am pointing out one specifi.....
» 13/01/2009 5:31:18 AM Otokonoko, It is not OK for any nation to ignore International Humanitarian Law (IHL) dur.....
» 12/01/2009 10:03:16 PM Polycarp is happy to justify Israeli government policy and actions,by quoting the Koran. .....
» 12/01/2009 8:52:42 AM Froggie and others, there is a connection between the behaviour of suicide bombers and the.....
» 12/01/2009 6:11:20 AM Have a look at this, you brave defenders of war on women and children: "Five women –.....
» 10/01/2009 10:22:13 PM Sassy, you say: "I agree on one aspect. We have to be brought up to hate and fear. T.....
» 10/01/2009 3:59:36 PM Ozzie, This is not about Jews (or Muslims or Christians), this is about criminal behavio.....
» 9/01/2009 5:01:07 PM rpg says "Why don't the UN move the Palestinians out of the refugee camps to OTHER CO.....
» 9/01/2009 1:34:32 PM Paul L, you say, regarding goals: "I think Israel is trying to prevent Hamas from bei.....
» 9/01/2009 9:43:14 AM re: "Israel has attacked only military targets. Yes, Israel is using more firepower .....
» 9/01/2009 8:32:16 AM Socratease, thank you for the interesting links. Here's where one of them led me: http://.....
» 8/01/2009 12:55:42 PM Paul L: Regarding white phosphorus as an indiscriminate weapon, you say: "The subtex.....
» 7/01/2009 10:32:56 PM An afterthought for Paul L. Several issues I did not revisit, in your post. The Israeli r.....
» 7/01/2009 9:19:43 AM Hi again, Paul L, Thank you for your reply. I don’t expect you to agree with my views, b.....
» 6/01/2009 5:42:28 AM Paul L, You have focused on the first paragraph of my reply, with no evident consideration.....
» 5/01/2009 10:13:24 AM Paul L, I have not read the Hamas Charter, and am no more interested in reading it than I.....
» 4/01/2009 8:15:16 AM Paul L As for your question about whether I "honestly believe that Hamas has ANY int.....
» 4/01/2009 7:01:16 AM Paul L, I share your frustration regarding the public prominence of some issues and publi.....
» 3/01/2009 6:04:12 AM Interesting op-ed in the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/opinion/30morris.htm.....
» 2/01/2009 5:32:34 PM Socratease, by all means share the links to some of the websites you mention. As for nam.....
» 2/01/2009 5:06:42 AM Polycarp, I note that you are hoping that Jews and Muslims will "embrace Christ as Me.....
» 1/01/2009 5:20:15 PM Interesting, the lumping together of Haaretz and the Green Left Weekly. I would put Haar.....
» 31/12/2008 10:46:02 PM Polycarp tries for third place in the kneejerk competition. Sorry but I'm out of wooden sp.....
» 31/12/2008 1:56:45 PM Congratulations to S Meyer and Leigh for winning first and second prizes in a kneejerking .....
» 1/12/2008 11:52:37 AM The author's comments about central banks seem poorly informed. For example, a look at Wik.....
» 4/11/2008 12:33:25 PM Katherine Parker from Kintore, NT Having thought over your situation and my limitations, .....
» 3/11/2008 11:25:45 AM This causes me to wonder what the Minister thinks of Home Education: From: http://www.jen.....
» 3/11/2008 10:02:35 AM re: "Jenny Macklin, threatens to withdraw government support from remote communities.....
» 25/09/2008 5:44:14 AM Hey, Paul L, Maybe Sarah Palin and Joe Biden can do a VP debate on Friday? It looks like .....
» 24/09/2008 9:37:44 AM Here is Sarah Palin's big chance for a policy statement which shows insight into good gove.....
» 23/09/2008 9:53:12 PM Paul L, you ask: "How does Obamas experience as a "community organiser" fo.....
» 20/09/2008 3:35:09 PM re rpg's comment: "Talk about a civil war being the worst kind of war, you're all so .....
» 20/09/2008 10:25:47 AM Mssrs Terpstra & Tang should get along well. Newsmax should provide them with a vivid hall.....
» 2/09/2008 12:13:55 PM We'll see how long she lasts. If a near-worst-case scenario sees this person ascend to the.....
» 21/08/2008 8:01:27 PM Hi Peter, Thanks for the link to the Waters, Ball & Dudgeon book. I was unaware of it. C.....
» 20/08/2008 11:59:47 AM Thank you for your reply, Peter Sure, Georgia can ask the US for help. But help from anyo.....
» 20/08/2008 10:40:13 AM re True Democracies & Genuine Free Markets Peter Coates states that: "Rising energy.....
» 7/08/2008 9:52:44 AM Welcome words. The thing that gets me is how some groups expect the biggest polluters to.....
» 31/05/2008 1:39:42 PM Interesting background information in your posts, Daeron. Can you provide a web link to th.....
» 29/05/2008 5:53:11 PM Well, Steel, as I said, I don't expect anyone to be rational. You go off on a pretty ira.....
» 29/05/2008 4:23:33 PM Thank you for posting your story, Helen54. A psychiatric nurse living across the street fr.....
» 22/05/2008 12:42:25 PM re the author's comment: "The Cold War has gone, but the battle between democracy and.....
» 25/02/2008 9:12:55 PM A thoughtful article. I need to read the pdf's before I say much more, beyond briefly gues.....
» 22/01/2008 7:37:02 PM The author, TQ, writes about Mark Diesendorf's article: " ... The Base Load Fallacy .....
» 6/01/2008 9:01:43 PM T names several countries which may or may not be supporting insurgency in Pakistan, and b.....
» 5/01/2008 6:01:54 PM Lots of labels, but little evidence from Themistocles. Partisans, insurgents, terrorists,.....
» 4/01/2008 12:05:50 PM "Benazir’s assassins were likely known to the ISI and quietly or actively encouraged&.....
» 28/12/2007 10:08:44 AM Interesting one, ybgirp. I'd forgotten about Soylent Green. I was not very clucky at the t.....
» 21/12/2007 3:20:32 PM Now here's a novel idea which ought to have been posted on OLO, but instead winds up on th.....
» 17/12/2007 12:19:42 PM Thanks for posting an interesting article. You have made evident that population growth is.....
» 5/12/2007 2:53:16 PM The author quotes Rae McGrath extensively, but overlooked including a link to the Handicap.....
» 25/11/2007 8:13:21 AM (continued) Gregory Bateson, in his out-of-print book "Mind and Nature: A Necessary .....
» 25/11/2007 8:12:12 AM Bill Williams, regarding your comment: "Paul, I think its wise and prudent to have S.....
» 23/11/2007 4:14:56 PM Paul L, Your remark that Julian Cribb is not a scientist throws the baby out with the bat.....
» 20/11/2007 11:31:38 AM An interesting evaluation, Ben. Another example is the issue of Clusters munitions. At th.....
» 14/11/2007 9:19:21 PM Interesting but little known and little appreciated; The Kyoto Protocol charts a soft ener.....
» 10/11/2007 5:13:32 PM Find below the opening paragraphs of an article published two years ago, describing the ou.....
» 9/11/2007 1:04:05 PM Shadow Minister, If you want to find a pack of mongrels barking mad and baying at the moon.....
» 8/11/2007 5:22:33 PM re: "These half-wit nuclear slaggers haven't got the brains to know that I and they a.....
» 8/11/2007 12:05:24 PM Re: "1. Australia is mining and will mine yellowcake. Your fruitless anti-mining argu.....
» 7/11/2007 4:29:28 PM Dickie, re: "After Chernobyl, levels of cesium-137 went up in both reindeer and carib.....
» 7/11/2007 11:59:04 AM re Shadow minister's statement about "toxic progeny": It's best to look at the w.....
» 4/11/2007 9:29:13 PM Dickie, I expect that KAEP hasn't a clue about much beyond his own patent opinions. One of.....
» 1/11/2007 9:19:22 PM You're right, Democritus, you've hit a nerve, and you hit it again when you said "Th.....
» 1/11/2007 6:29:20 AM Democritus says "A study involving looked into various technologies including nuclear.....
» 30/10/2007 10:52:52 PM Of course you're welcome to your opinions, Sylvia. I notice you have put a few simple asse.....
» 30/10/2007 8:36:25 PM Sylvia, re your remark: "You don't need to go past the title page to know where it's.....
» 29/10/2007 10:21:52 PM Perseus, re: "The way Sir Vivor et al continue with this totally baseless notion tha.....
» 29/10/2007 6:40:46 AM Xoddam, re: "The argument from water usage is indeed based on fact;" I'm satisf.....
» 28/10/2007 9:48:56 PM The article states that: "The water consumption of renewable energy sources and ener.....
» 27/10/2007 2:39:48 PM So Perseus replies: "And Ludwig wants me to treat them as anything but lying low life.....
» 27/10/2007 8:02:51 AM Perseus says: "Clearly, most of the water is not lost or used up (ie discharged as st.....
» 22/10/2007 4:14:50 PM "Natasha, I assume you are reading this and other comments. re: "The Australia.....
» 20/10/2007 9:30:28 PM Have a look at this: http://www.nirs.org/climate/background/austriangovtreport607.pdf Nuc.....
» 17/10/2007 8:54:35 AM KAEP, you may be interested in this wikipedia article on "The Maximum Power Principle.....
» 16/10/2007 4:13:16 PM KAEP, I have fatal difficulties with your argument in general and these statements in part.....
» 16/10/2007 11:59:06 AM Perseus, thank you for that very cogent and interesting reply, concerning the precautionar.....
» 15/10/2007 4:10:57 PM re: "So in a theoretical scenario where every one of those 24 records exhibits an equ.....
» 15/10/2007 3:46:56 PM KAEP, Thank you for the first link, a brief summary by B. Van Zeghbroeck, of UColorado. I.....
» 14/10/2007 9:14:19 PM KAEP, re: "If you add energy to any closed system, its order will increase". T.....
» 14/10/2007 12:57:16 PM Perseus re: " ... UK Met data was used because it was such a significant change over .....
» 14/10/2007 9:57:03 AM The item below, from Wikipedia, succinctly articulates the polarity implicit in the views .....
» 13/10/2007 8:39:29 PM Johncee, re your dire prediction: "The globalization of production has rendered [poli.....
» 13/10/2007 3:48:52 PM Persues, thank you for your comments and your link. Looking at the link, I can't help but.....
» 12/10/2007 10:04:25 PM Perseus, you say "Most of the, as yet, only minimal global warming is in warmer mini.....
» 12/10/2007 7:48:03 AM Belly, re: "That sorry idea that we can better manage the bush than the million year .....
» 12/10/2007 6:33:27 AM Further to my previous comment about space science, consider this article: “Concentrating .....
» 12/10/2007 5:05:57 AM Oliver, you cite your hospital CEO as saying: "it is easy to raise money for children.....
» 11/10/2007 8:47:39 PM My recollection of fire risk factors, from my days long ago as a fire lookout, suggests th.....
» 11/10/2007 10:41:55 AM An interesting article; Thank you for that. You may also be interested in the excerpt bel.....
» 10/10/2007 10:37:58 AM John, re: "Whatever man does to alter his environment, if nature does not like it, th.....
» 10/10/2007 9:29:30 AM Paul L - let’s examine your comments, that Melody doesn't "have much of a clue about .....
» 8/10/2007 5:56:14 PM Chris Shaw, I am still puzzling about your posting of an abridged version of Tennyson's &.....
» 6/10/2007 10:26:28 AM Xoddam, I was in a hurry and should have done a final edit for good sense. My concern is a.....
» 5/10/2007 6:15:08 PM re Pericles: " ...I have to say, if humankind decides that exploration for exploratio.....
» 5/10/2007 5:39:24 PM Anyone besides me looked at the Rolling Stone article? I say better efficiency and smart.....
» 5/10/2007 11:03:28 AM re: "That's just plain silly: did we fix Europe before embarking for the Far East and.....
» 5/10/2007 10:07:51 AM KAEP Thank you for the Wikipedia link. That article says: “The AVR [German pebble bed test.....
» 4/10/2007 8:13:44 AM KAEP, re: "2. The Chinese already have Car sized PBR reactors that are portable.".....
» 3/10/2007 12:04:01 PM Dickie, Those are interesting points, but I do not think KAEP is prioritising the safe di.....
» 2/10/2007 5:45:30 PM Hey, Shadow Minister, Maybe the reason Rolling Stone (a Rock Magazine) is now an “Authori.....
» 30/09/2007 6:25:49 PM As for ad hominums suggesting I'm a raving left-wing greenie nutcase, if so, I would be un.....
» 30/09/2007 1:56:54 PM Shadow Minister says: “Advocating neuclear power is political suicide in this country, the.....
» 29/09/2007 9:46:47 AM re Shadow Minister's kind reply: "Sir Vivor, Thanks for your emotional response to a.....
» 29/09/2007 8:10:55 AM Shadow Minister says that: "A windless evening at 7 o'clock when everone is cooking .....
» 26/09/2007 5:10:16 PM 15 states, but how many resource bases? It seems to me that each state ought to have the w.....
» 20/09/2007 3:21:10 PM re Timberjack: "Both ECF bleaching and TCF bleaching of kraft pulps are considered to.....
» 20/09/2007 2:27:00 PM re xoddam: "Australian environmental and energy policy should focus on improving dome.....
» 19/09/2007 6:16:12 PM I heard part of the parliamentary debate today on university funding. The subject of resea.....
» 18/09/2007 1:14:53 PM Well then, Julian, if you insist on ad hominum categories like "naif", I'll sock.....
» 17/09/2007 2:21:09 PM Re Mirko's faith that: " ...in an opulent society in Australia where we have virtual.....
» 14/09/2007 11:58:15 PM re: " ... Malcolm Turnbull announced that he received over 30,000 submissions on the .....
» 14/09/2007 9:56:48 AM Sybil, re: "Clean air is a right and carbon trading is a furphy ... " The arg.....
» 13/09/2007 2:03:17 PM Julian Cribb, I think you've oversensationalised this one. Nanotechnology has its dark, d.....
» 11/09/2007 6:04:46 PM re: "There are plenty of adverse impacts from tourism, fishing and agriculture, I won.....
» 11/09/2007 6:50:00 AM Well then, Dr Nick and Faustino, the weekend has gone by and you plainly had nothing to wr.....
» 10/09/2007 10:52:24 PM Tragic says "At the end of the day there are winners and there are losers. It's a pit.....
» 10/09/2007 10:22:01 AM Tragedy and allied tragics: Put it this way, your justifications for the chopping and chan.....
» 7/09/2007 8:12:59 PM Well then, Dr Nick and Faustino, a week has gone by with no reply. Are you unable to thin.....
» 7/09/2007 5:48:45 PM A shame I can't find the link to a transcript of Alexander Downer's justification, this mo.....
» 5/09/2007 8:25:46 PM Alzo's facile riposts do a sloppy slalom around rock solid paragraphs such as: "The .....
» 3/09/2007 4:07:16 PM More Arithmetic for Alzo, given: "No environmental impact outside the small mixing z.....
» 1/09/2007 11:01:57 PM Faustino, You say that "regulation should be a last resort used only when certain .....
» 1/09/2007 10:10:20 AM Yes, my arithmetic is mistaken, and easily checked: 1 microgram per litre = 1 microgram .....
» 31/08/2007 6:54:46 PM Alan, re your remark that: "These concerns over dispersion models ignore the fact th.....
» 29/08/2007 11:27:46 PM Thank you, Nick. I am not an economist or financier, nor have I ever had any confidence th.....
» 29/08/2007 12:30:32 PM re: "The report also argues that firms with a proven commitment to excellence should .....
» 24/08/2007 11:43:23 PM re: "Sir Vivor thanks for quoting the Christian Science Monitor...and alerting us to .....
» 23/08/2007 10:15:45 PM re hot years in 1934 - see: http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0823/p02s01-wogi.html?s=hns &q.....
» 13/08/2007 4:46:44 PM Many thanks to Simon Bedak for his link to http://www.abc.net.au/rn/counterpoint/stories/.....
» 11/08/2007 11:02:26 PM re: "According to the ABC website, the ABC Charter outlines that the principal functi.....
» 11/08/2007 9:59:38 PM Have a look at: http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2007/810/3?etoc "C.....
» 9/08/2007 9:16:44 AM re Keiran's: "I am very much an environmentalist believing CO2 is beneficial." .....
» 8/08/2007 7:12:50 PM Perhaps Keiran looks toward resurrection in the coming millenium - in which case he or she.....
» 7/08/2007 4:56:22 PM re: "Science is progressed by studying new data and hypothesis and testing the curren.....
» 6/08/2007 6:49:54 AM Yabby, re: "What the Americans do has little to do with that. If you go to the US, e.....
» 4/08/2007 9:52:03 AM re: "global warming zealots are stifling debate". not here, it seems, so we cl.....
» 30/07/2007 7:01:11 PM A timely argument. One further point worth mentioning is the matter of protein in a vegeta.....
» 29/07/2007 3:03:32 PM re: "- because of the part played by the Left which, following the collapse of intern.....
» 26/07/2007 11:55:39 PM Here's news of Professor Ian Plimer featuring at the National Party Conference in Brisbane.....
» 26/07/2007 11:58:29 AM re: "Science has no consensus, science is anarchistic as it submits to no authority, .....
» 25/07/2007 7:06:49 PM dver, re: "Having spend all this time gatherinng information and contemplating the t.....
» 25/07/2007 10:01:20 AM Interesting question, HRS. I'm hoping the author is reading the comments, as I'm sure ther.....
» 24/07/2007 4:56:25 PM Oliver and stickman, My preference is to gather information before expressing an opinion......
» 23/07/2007 12:02:18 PM Thank you, Oliver, for some clarification, and congratulations on your distinguished readi.....
» 23/07/2007 8:46:14 AM A quick Google retrieves "Laws of Ecology" aplenty. Try http://www.maf.govt.nz/.....
» 21/07/2007 3:22:47 PM Oliver, re: " ... socio-anthropologist, Harry Trandis, suggests, personality is a pr.....
» 20/07/2007 2:02:21 PM Some of those who watched the ABC presentation of The Great Global Warming Swindle last we.....
» 19/07/2007 6:16:09 PM Oliver, re: "I am saying that one must adopt bevaviours which comply to the Laws of .....
» 18/07/2007 10:28:10 PM Good to see you back, Oliver, but now you're off again, busy. I hope you have some busy-ti.....
» 18/07/2007 7:00:38 AM Aqvarivs, re: "You can be as religious or culturally grounded as you please just leav.....
» 17/07/2007 4:09:08 PM re "... a single vibrant society exhibiting pride of accomplishment from family ties .....
» 15/07/2007 9:34:04 PM Oliver, you say: "Elders have power in a clan community and community members will li.....
» 10/07/2007 4:53:34 PM RE: Runner's comment that: "Anyone who believes the dumb unscientific theory of evol.....
» 27/06/2007 1:33:29 PM A shame that so many are dipping out, citing other's poor level of response (a descent int.....
» 27/06/2007 9:59:38 AM It strikes me as very ironic that the same Premiers and state governments that the current.....
» 25/06/2007 11:20:30 AM re "See http://www.radscihealth.org/RSH/ or look up the work of Rosalyn Yalow. Horm.....
» 22/06/2007 6:46:10 PM antigreen - re: “.. the relevance of [international influences] to a civil Australian nucl.....
» 21/06/2007 1:31:50 PM re: "subsidised industry producing nuclear electricity ..." This appears to be .....
» 21/06/2007 10:44:56 AM re: "Given that the laws of physics are universal one can always make the claim that .....
» 20/06/2007 12:09:00 PM re: "My own view is that this subject [non-proliferation] is for specialists. Prolife.....
» 19/06/2007 10:37:09 PM Try Googling this - it’s worth a read. Reactor Science and Technology October 1952 TID-20.....
» 9/06/2007 12:42:27 AM Mr Turnbull, It is so disappointing to me to see intelligent people forced to spout such .....
» 2/06/2007 1:14:01 PM re the CDC information on Gardasil, Minutes from the ACIP (US CDC Advisory Committee on Im.....
» 1/06/2007 5:37:51 PM re we must not ignore the risks: in response? "Articles such as this undermine the .....
» 1/06/2007 11:29:13 AM Thanks for the very interesting item, Tom Clark. Since the day the Higher Education Endow.....
» 25/05/2007 1:24:28 PM re; I don't know weather to feel disgusted or sorry for these people, but you've got to fe.....
» 24/05/2007 5:25:57 PM Perseus lacks perspicacity: "This whole concept of "peak anything" is mired.....
» 24/05/2007 3:58:36 PM Anthony Marinac might then line up behind Melody Kemp as one who appears to offer no solut.....
» 23/05/2007 10:20:56 AM Bill Weller, Congratulations on your up-front, intelligent post. I'm guessing that comp.....
» 15/05/2007 7:08:41 AM Thank you, Tim A Your evidence is arguable, but not conclusive. Maybe you watched the &qu.....
» 14/05/2007 5:57:07 PM Dear Mr Anderson, Re: "Bob Brown now supports the war in Afghanistan, [and] has wea.....
» 11/05/2007 10:05:51 AM re: "[The Treasurer's] big idea this year was the $5 billion endowment fund for unive.....
» 7/05/2007 4:59:17 PM Perseus posits: "For the record, 98% of IT experts were absolutely convinced of the c.....
» 4/05/2007 6:01:01 PM I have had others "play the man" before, but no-one has ever been so perfidious .....
» 4/05/2007 1:24:43 PM maracas - I doubt if "gadget" has read the rest of the discussion, let alone s.....
» 2/05/2007 9:57:35 AM I wonder who wrote this editorial for JH? The idea that the current Australian Gov't is s.....
» 30/04/2007 10:43:39 AM HRS: My two sons' teachers, male and female, were with one exception, "good enough&q.....
» 28/04/2007 12:43:06 PM re HRS's comment: "Most people are paid according to the skills they are using. Teach.....
» 25/04/2007 9:31:09 PM re HRS' comment: "At this following government web-site, you will find many statistic.....
» 24/04/2007 2:49:23 PM HRS says: "Mention a decline in student marks, and the automatic response is to say t.....
» 23/04/2007 3:07:52 PM Others than HRS may more fully appreciate that the author has a set of interesting and wel.....
» 22/04/2007 11:58:34 AM Anyone can comment here, or submit articles, for that matter. The authority of the comment.....
» 20/04/2007 4:25:30 PM My apologies to both Jonathan Ariel and Simon Templar for confusing their names in my prev.....
» 19/04/2007 3:08:29 PM Simon, you say, at the end of your article: "Last week, at COAG, we saw the Rudd tai.....
» 19/04/2007 9:32:06 AM Well said, Philip Roberts. Your article strengthens my suspicions that most of the opinion.....
» 18/04/2007 4:28:35 PM Simon Says: "No Sir Vivor, let’s not have anything to do with accountability or any r.....
» 18/04/2007 10:39:23 AM "Jonathan Ariel is an economist and financial analyst. He holds a MBA from the Austra.....
» 15/04/2007 10:39:16 PM An afterthought. I think this item below reflects poorly on Professor Seitz. You be the ju.....
» 15/04/2007 2:48:16 PM I will leave Grey to strain at gnats and swallow camels. Straining at gnats? such as ste.....
» 14/04/2007 9:57:30 AM I have read and re-read Arjay's first paragraph, and cannot find the sense in it. The best.....
» 13/04/2007 9:59:41 AM I would be interested in statistics showing the pattern of weekly incomes and hours worked.....
» 11/04/2007 11:03:05 AM Grey sees red? "The overwhelming evidence is so obviously false ..." Perhaps t.....
» 10/04/2007 11:28:51 AM The issue of population growth is revisited, but I worry that it is mentioned or considere.....
» 28/03/2007 1:16:24 PM Dear Mr Townsend, Have another look at your remark: "The [curriculum related]resour.....
» 23/03/2007 10:48:59 AM Tim, You say: "Our Defence Department recently announced that it’s in the process o.....
» 21/03/2007 10:11:25 AM "Since the book and the movie deal were announced, Plame-Wilson Inc have been the ben.....
» 6/03/2007 4:34:01 AM Would that I could be so certain as Mr Rouge. I'm hoping to read a dissertation from him .....
» 5/03/2007 10:16:29 AM I appreciate Marshall's clarifying comment. I misconstrued the meaning of the word "c.....
» 1/03/2007 1:58:35 PM Here we have it, assumptions unquestioned: "In June 1986 the Australian Education Co.....
» 1/03/2007 1:58:21 PM Here we have it, assumptions unquestioned: "In June 1986 the Australian Education Co.....
» 21/02/2007 2:59:05 AM "It might be germaine to point out that the carbon trading scheme in the EU has virtu.....
» 15/02/2007 10:31:37 AM Bagaric says "...gross distortion in our ethical priorities is so acute that it can.....
» 1/02/2007 2:48:52 PM Terrorism - dumfarkistan style. If the German government is acting, then it must mean som.....
» 31/01/2007 11:11:24 AM "Argentine investigators also found ample evidence to indicate orders for the bombing.....
» 16/01/2007 5:21:26 PM re: "Only a mental ingrate would attempt to make the Vietnam War one of American resp.....
» 16/01/2007 5:41:53 AM re "The Yanks, or some of them, still don't get it, after all this time. Just owning.....
» 15/01/2007 6:40:52 AM Propaganda from the "leftie" press: On Iraq, U.S. Turns to Onetime Dissenters B.....
» 14/01/2007 3:20:24 PM re: " ... G.W.Bush and his Republicans believe the billions spent to help bring demo.....
» 12/01/2007 12:39:30 PM Well, it seems that Democracy, whatever that means, is on the highest pillar and make no m.....
» 11/01/2007 4:48:01 PM re: "The Iraqi Government, their law and their courts system constitute proper autho.....
» 11/01/2007 10:02:11 AM re: "Britain and the United States offered assurances and continued to do business w.....
» 10/01/2007 5:10:52 AM Saddam hanged for nothing much more than others’convenience? Did Saddam Die For Our Sins?.....
» 9/01/2007 11:06:24 PM Once more, a failure to distinguish fact from opinion: "Society cannot control the p.....
» 8/01/2007 9:55:55 AM Carsten, Where is your evidence on costs? In Australia, it costs in the order of $40,00.....
» 6/01/2007 2:29:17 PM re: " … continental USA has a history as fragmented as Europe." That's grossly.....
» 3/01/2007 6:56:44 AM Dear Mr Bagaric, Regarding your comment: "There are few people in human history who a.....
» 2/01/2007 12:40:10 PM Mr Bagaric Was Saddam Hussein hung? I have no evidence. Was he hanged? It appears so. W.....
» 22/12/2006 11:08:26 AM Re: : "The ratio of left-wingers to right-wingers in many schools and Universities in.....
» 20/12/2006 11:54:05 AM Dozer, Read and listen: “Nobody's going to take notice of just another University Sociali.....
» 19/12/2006 11:35:04 PM This British site has achieved some noteriety (aka public notice) for highlighting oversig.....
» 18/12/2006 4:32:02 PM For Colonel Makeup, who misses entirely the point of the article, another old saying is pe.....
» 18/12/2006 2:21:07 PM Interesting item. Not mentioned, but worth a mention, is the impact of ethical investment.....
» 16/12/2006 5:13:10 PM Hi Ranier, Seriously, I think you've given HRS oxygen poisoning. I'd cut off the flow, g.....
» 15/12/2006 7:33:59 PM "The schoolteachers are now good at excuse making instead of problem solving. They ha.....
» 14/12/2006 1:10:56 PM "Having induction days for new students and showing a video to those students of the .....
» 14/12/2006 11:31:24 AM Dear Mr Donnelly You may not be aware of a newly posted item of interest: http://www.csmo.....
» 13/12/2006 9:32:00 AM Dear Mr Castles, How does your fundamentalist-relativist dichotomy apply to PM Howard, in.....
» 10/12/2006 8:01:59 AM TIME TO WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE? Richard, if you have stock in any of the retrogress.....
» 9/12/2006 9:07:52 PM HRS re: " ... after talking to many other P&C association members, it leads me to be.....
» 9/12/2006 10:53:13 AM Dear Mr Castles, Brendan O’Neill’s remark about Tony Juniper deserves further considerati.....
» 8/12/2006 4:34:37 PM Dear HRS, I am satisfied that chaplains in schools will wield a positive influence, in mo.....
» 8/12/2006 12:59:14 PM Dear HRM, A quick Google search found the following PR, pertinent to our Australian school.....
» 7/12/2006 8:28:30 PM Dear RichardC, O’Neill names Tony Juniper, of Friends of the Earth UK, among others: htt.....
» 7/12/2006 1:15:53 PM Dear HRM re: "I’ve talked to teachers. I’ve lived with a number of teachers. Why is .....
» 7/12/2006 10:51:22 AM Dear Mr Castles, re [abridged]: "I apologise for not addressing your questions. ........
» 7/12/2006 10:33:48 AM Ah - another dishup from Kevin. Same suet of vague ideas and throwaway lines about curric.....
» 7/12/2006 9:33:21 AM Fosbob says “Obviously, CSIRO is certain that the future is only more and more warming - .....
» 6/12/2006 3:07:37 PM Dear Mr Castles, Re Perseus’ query, which begs a response: "When asked what manageme.....
» 6/12/2006 10:31:26 AM Dear Mr Castles, See “Mother-earthism infects climate change debate” By Bob Carter - poste.....
» 5/12/2006 2:25:42 PM Dear Mr Castle, While you may know who John Rennie is, other readers may not be so aware,.....
» 5/12/2006 10:04:24 AM Mr. Castle, I’m disappointed not to have my questions addressed. You seem willing enough t.....
» 3/12/2006 9:46:43 PM Mr Castle, I'm pleased to read your posts regarding the comments on your article. A few .....
» 1/12/2006 11:41:04 PM re: “It is astounding that on an issue of such alleged urgency, leaders such as [Kofi] Ann.....
» 27/11/2006 9:14:44 PM What a relief to find I can be reviled simply because I’m looking old and wrinkled. He als.....
» 21/11/2006 12:09:03 PM “So Sir Vivor would have us believe that once thawed, peat suddenly starts degrading and e.....
» 20/11/2006 12:14:21 PM re: “The classic BS from Cribb and his expert was the item about the permafrost melting an.....
» 16/11/2006 3:57:04 PM Who gets shocked remains to be seen, but I'm putting my money on the precautionary princip.....
» 15/11/2006 9:07:53 AM Richard42 re geosequestration " unproven ... and energy intensive and expensive, wher.....
» 14/11/2006 9:08:08 AM Interesting post and link, Richard 42. I've been curious to know whether there are any re.....
» 12/11/2006 4:44:52 AM Owen, Cathy, Froggie, Col, Ludwig, Have you read “Chanticleer” in the Australian Financia.....
» 9/11/2006 7:31:53 AM Dear Kevin, You have answered a question with a demand (or was it a question?). But tha.....
» 8/11/2006 9:37:04 PM Hey, Kevin, Remember my earlier 3 questions? ”(1) It's good to know that you have at so.....
» 8/11/2006 7:41:03 PM KAEP, you haven’t carefully examined your argument. Read this +aloud+ to yourself : “Desp.....
» 8/11/2006 10:25:39 AM For those who haven't yet read Naomi Oreskes' essay, in Science Magazine (published by the.....
» 7/11/2006 2:26:49 PM Iain, A Google Advance Scholar search for Christopher Monckton provides no evidence of .....
» 7/11/2006 5:58:56 AM Interesting to look in more detail, at two of the quotes from the above replies: http://w.....
» 6/11/2006 10:06:27 AM Well said, Andrew. Oxfam has a daunting job at the present, and it promises to get more di.....
» 5/11/2006 7:54:47 AM Dear Mr Donnelly, re: "The fact is I taught for 18 years, enjoyed it very much and pu.....
» 3/11/2006 3:54:39 PM Dear Mr Donelly, re: " ... I taught for 18 years and I have spent the last two years.....
» 3/11/2006 6:01:06 AM Kevin, I'm giving you a C- on this one. How long has it been since you've been in a school.....
» 30/10/2006 11:03:55 PM Arjay says "The State is a poor substitute for a caring family." My opinion is .....
» 24/10/2006 10:38:58 AM The institute of deregulation has spoken, but only told a bit of the truth. Have a look at.....
» 4/10/2006 8:48:41 AM What evidence will there ever be that paying 3 times as much (or considerably more) for a .....

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