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The Forum > General Discussion > I actually think that green power may be a good move.

I actually think that green power may be a good move.

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@Morgan,
Your last comment is even more illuminati-ing (and incriminating ) than Bob’s. Reading the post I get the distinct impression that you see Bob’s error as being less that he covets world govt and more that he was foolhardy enough to talk openly of it (wiser by far to treat the electorate like mushrooms!)

And despite your assurance that Bobs favored model would not impact on national sovereignty. One does not have to be a rocket scientist to figure that if the keystone is to be one person one vote, the sovereign nations of the West are not going to get too many things passed –and may not stay sovereign very long, either.

I do however agree with you about weaning ourselves off fossil fuels. But this can be done without pushing the dubious and divisive AGW agenda.
The Ludwig doctrine (since he was the first to enunciated it on OLO) is eminently more sensible, and saleable : Less about AGW and more about sustainable and clean living.

What solutions we eventually get --as with AIDS, Smallpox and a million other issues --will likely to be financed and engineered by the developed world and the rest of the world will ,as usual, simply free ride. Free ride and breed some more, to be all the better positioned for Bob’s one person one vote brave new world!
Posted by SPQR, Friday, 15 July 2011 8:43:16 PM
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Morg old chap, thanks for the apology, nice to see you admit when you are wrong.

Actually it's a pity some of you twits, with enough screws loose, [you wouldn't have enough room between the rocks for roos], to follow these radical ratbags, don't sit down & take stock.

Better to be humiliated privately, as you see your folly, than continue making fools of your selves on the net.

Take a leaf out of Ludwig's book. He picked the best of what they had to offer, but dumped the ratbag stuff.
Posted by Hasbeen, Friday, 15 July 2011 11:42:13 PM
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What impresses me the most about this stream is the extreme right views of rehctub, hasbeen and colrouge and others banging on about the crazy zealous greens.

What you don't realise, dear friends, is that you are far more right, of centre than the Greens are left of it. Not to mention way more zealous.

I often find it amusing even when you call the ALP leftist, when they are clearly mildly right of centre.

I suppose when you're so far right everyone is to the left of you.

I really am getting sick of ignorant extremists, left and right, making most of the noise in the public discourse.

The Greens, ALP and independents, straddling either side of the centre, seem to be making a good coalition, despite having the self-interests of the Murdoch empire to contend with.
Posted by TrashcanMan, Saturday, 16 July 2011 12:31:53 AM
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Another one from the net.

10 Reasons Why I Voted for Bob Brown & the Greens

I voted Green because I believe oil companies profits of 4% on a litre of petrol are obscene, but my government taxing the same litre of petrol at 27..5% isn’t.

I voted Green because I believe my government will do a better job of spending the money you earn than you would.

I voted Green because Freedom of Speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it.

I voted Green because I believe that people who can’t tell us if it will rain on Friday can tell us that the polar ice caps will melt away in ten years if I don’t start driving a Prius.

I voted Green because I think illegal aliens have a right to free housing, health care, education, and welfare benefits – and the right to change our society to suit their cultural demands .

I voted Green because I believe that business should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest away to my government for redistribution as we Greens see fit.

I voted Green because I believe ‘enlightened, progressive’ judges need to rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit some fringe kooks who would never get their agendas past the voters.

I voted Green because I think that it’s better to pay billions to people for their oil who hate us, but not drill our own because it might upset some endangered beetle or frog.
I voted Green because I want to convert Australia to a ‘carbon neutral green economy’ to create jobs – even after Spain has proven the green economy destroys three times as many jobs as it creates and leads to 20 percent unemployment.
I voted Green because my head is so firmly planted up my a*se, it’s unlikely that I’ll ever see another point of view.
Posted by individual, Monday, 18 July 2011 6:21:34 AM
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"I suppose when you're so far right everyone is to the left of you."

True. It all started way back when those loony latte lefties Hawke and Keating did radical right wing things to the economy to liberalise it. Things like floating the dollar and deregulating the banks.

The new Hawke Labor government had moved further to the right than the Liberals. The Liberals then became so wedged between Labor on their right and their fear of differentiating themselves by moving to the left and becoming liberal Liberals they remained impotent until Keating finally ego'd himself out.

Along came Pauline Hanson. A dream come true for non liberal Liberals. She tested her far right policies on the electorate with such success that it alarmed Howard into incorporating them into his platform neutralising Hanson at the same time. The Liberals were now free to be as far right as they liked.

Labor did not want to move back to the left and remained impotent until Howard tried to murdoch his battlers with workchoices.

So now we have a centre right government and a Howard legacy opposition who have strayed so far to the right that their perspective is unbalanced.

The Greens and independents are merely filling the void created by our unbalanced and dysfunctional political duopoly.

Now if only the odious shrilling from the extremists could be harnassed toward balance...
Posted by Neutral, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 3:45:07 PM
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Ive been away for 6 weeks so am late on posting. The One World Government is a Socialist Concept of the 1960s. Headquarters were built in the old USSR during the Cold war.
Posted by Philo, Friday, 22 July 2011 9:23:26 PM
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