I believe that Kevin Rudd is not only adopting Tony Blair style by pushing the Left out of the process, he is telling the National Conference what it should adopt as the Policy Platform for the next Federal Election. Well let see if he escape the National Conference without spilling a little bit of blood on the floor.

I agree that Rudd should not have pre-empted the Conference by leaking a 'draft platform' to 'The Australian' ahead of April. The point of doing so well in the polls ought to be that we DON'T have to adopt all manner of convoluted stance to please conservatives and reactionaries. PPPs for national infrastructure ought be ruled out, there should be an appropriate critique of the casualisation of the workforce - and the undermining of these people's wages and conditions under enterprise bargaining. There should be a commitment to tax reform: but not of the 'flat tax' manner. Tax reform ought make the system more progressive, and bring in additional revenue for desperately-needed social programs. Uranium, also, ought not be exported to countries who refuse to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. Finally, there should be a move back to a more comprehensive Award system, rather than an overly simplified system that fails to protect the most vulnerable. All this ought be discussed at Conference, and the hard Right should not attempt to stifle debate to present Conference as a 'media stunt'.

The Left, here, ought be willing to compromise insofar as it can bring a portion of the Right across to meet it 'half way' on policy. It will need to forment a split in the Right in order to get the numbers. The Left, though, ought draw the line on policy that provides true progress - rather than the 'one step forward, two steps back' scenario that would arise as a consequence of support for regressive 'tax reform', minimal change on the IR front or support for regressive finance initiatives that fleece tax-payers for billions.

Tristan

To anyone sensible
left out there

Some Measure of Care

Part 1: The Uranium Story

I address my remarks to the Labor left and other god-like creatures.
If the truth can be told, so as to be understood, it will be believed.

Ideology like climate is dynamic.
Do you have the balls for it?

There’s blood in the water and you can taste it …
The delicious prospect of being in power and morally right.
Something the Liberals have only ever wondered on!

With all this global warming debacle,
the elephant in the room is uranium.

The masters of minerals have always been the masters of their age.
Today’s master mineral is uranium.
These masters will not sit on their hands much longer…
To deny them, runs the risk of forcing them to come and get it.

The developed world is not going to cripple itself to iron-out injustice.
The edifice of global warming science is an exercise in retreating from reason (see Part 2).
It’s being used as a vehicle to convey the left to the middle of the future – uranium... And (due mainly to your high moral passion) it’s working a charm.

As a stable (politically and geologically) first world country –
we are the prime suspect to supply, enrich and dispose of the nuclear fuel cycle - by leasing our products.

We are in the box seat to take a leading role
in achieving this important transition
between the energy sources of today and the new technologies of the future.

Accept the well endowed wealth of this lucky country.
But do it with secure safeguards based on real science –
not the superstition connived to corner you into this direction.
Be part of the march forward – with “some measure of care”.

Some Measure of Care

Part 1: Uranium

Part 2 : Retreat from Reason

“Sleepers wake” – we are on the cusp of a tipping year.
This is a clarion call, global warming – the Trojan horse

We live on a majestically dynamic planet with intertwining complexes.
Presently we are in an inter-glacial period with relatively minor warming cooling.
The variability in the Sun’s intensity is the controlling factor in Earth’s climate.
Cosmic rays can facilitate the production of clouds -
coupled with sunspot peak frequency,
cycles of global warming and cooling pulse like ocean waves.
Periods of Earth warming and cooling occur within small-scale cycles of about 40 years
existing within larger-scale cycles of 400 years,
which in turn exist within ice age cycles of 20,000 years.

Scenarios for future climate involve natural equations of infinite variables.
To assume human induced carbon emissions alone will significantly alter predictions is pretentious pseudo-science.
Advocating carbon change will change the way you live, but will not change future climate.

Climate environmentalism is a political mission,
offering disciples the delicious prospect of being in the right
and running things under the motherhood banner of saving the planet.
Superior morality supersedes factual argument and confers instant authority on disciples.

To accept the mantra of evil carbon is to invite the death of nationalism to dinner.

Belief in man-made global warming is also a religious phenomena.
In the battle between nature and humankind,
scientists and media have connived to make a good story,
and politicians of all colours have not been slow to see the advantages.

Future climate is not about your “belief”.
Science does not work by consensus (IPCC).
The process trickles incrementally, independently verifying facts.
The Greenhoax science will unravel by Xmas.

Human impact on future climate is a matter of degree
and needs to be assessed with “Some Measure of Care”.
Scaremongering sensationalism will result in the wrong measure.
Good environmental decision making means maximising future choice.
The decarbonisation road will end in a dead end, limiting individual and social choice for well into the future.
Wake-up and be counted this year.