http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH0Ryek7rHk Here you will see Al Gore being grilled by Congressman Andrew Scalise. Al Gore tries to deny an association with Ken Lay the ex CEO of Enron and David Blood the then CEO of Goldman Sachs.

Note a few weeks ago, Clive Palmer has a meeting with Malcolm Turnbull who was the head of Goldman Sachs Australia back in 2001.In the above video Al Gore gets caught out trying to deny his association with Blood and Lay in establishing and ETS.

After his meeting with Malcolm Turnbull at that Chinese Restaurant in Canberra, Clive Palmer comes out espousing the merits of an ETS with no other than Al Gore.

I voted for Palmer last election hoping he would be rich enough to be beyond politics and do something for his country. Clive is my view is just another greedy scumbag who wants more power.

So in other words Arjay, he's a typical Aussie politician?
The main difference would seem to be that he spent his own money getting there, or the Chinese money if you want, rather than dudding all of us for the privilege as the two main Partys do?
Works for me!
Anything and/or anyone that disturbs the LibLab grip on power is axiomatically a good thing for Australia as a whole.

Anything and/or anyone that disturbs the LibLab grip on power is axiomatically a good thing for Australia as a whole.
G'day bruce,
I wholeheartedly agree but, & a big but it is, that anything/anyone must have more than just an ability to unbalance because once unbalanced the first thing that needs to brought in is balance.
Clivie boy is gauging the situation after all he is from a practical background, not a lawyer/academic one. He creates revenue & employs people unlike the others.
The hangers-on WILL drag the major ones down.

Got this email today.

Serious trouble for Australia
True, Very True
We are in trouble...
The population of this country is 24 million.
8 million are retired.
That leaves 16 million to do the work.
There are 8.5 million in school.
Which leaves 7.5 million to do the work.
Of this there are 4 million on the dole and invalid pensions.
Leaving 3.5 million to do the work.
200,000 are in the armed forces
Which leaves 3.3 million to do the work.
Take from that total the 1,160,000 people who work for state and local
Governments. And that leaves 2,214,000 to do the work.
At any given time there are 39,800 people in hospitals.
Leaving 2,100,200 to do the work.
Now, there are 100,198 people in prisons.
And 267,500 travelling at any one time
That leaves just two people to do the work.
You and me.
And there you are,
Sitting on your ar$e,
At your computer, reading jokes. Nice. Real nice.

Great! No wonder we got troubles.

Yes we have a problem, if anyone takes that as indicative of any truth, lol.
It's actually been around in one form or another from long before home computers were even invented, let alone the internet, I remember reading a version of it somewhere as a schoolboy in the early 60's!
Only the numbers are bigger now.

Big Clive has shown how gutless he really is. The fat bloke has had to eat humble pie and apologise to the Chinese for his "mongrels" comments.
That must come as a shock to some on here who though Palmer was some kind of Messiah, not so, just another plonker! Suck it in lads!

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-08-26/clive-palmer-letter-of-apology-to-chinese-ambassador-australia/5696494