Malcolm Turnbull crosses the floor to vote with Labor on the Emissions Trading Scheme
* AAP
* From: AAP
* February 11, 2010 1:34PM
FORMER Liberal leader Malcolm Turnbull has crossed the floor of federal parliament to vote in support of Labor's emissions trading scheme.
Mr Turnbull sat with government MPs in the lower house on the second reading vote to pass the carbon pollution reduction scheme (CPRS), also known as the ETS. He was joined by independent MP Rob Oakeshott.
But the coalition avoided further embarrassment when it declined to call for a division on the final vote.
It was passed on the voices alone with MPs remaining in their seats.
Some coalition MPs appeared to want a division but the manager of opposition business in the house, Christopher Pyne, jumped to his feet to make sure it didn't happen.
"No division," he repeatedly told the deputy speaker.
The legislation now goes to the Senate, where it faces almost certain defeat for a third time.
Earlier, the government used its lower house majority to gag debate and bring on the ETS vote before midday, when Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered his second Closing the Gap progress report on indigenous disadvantage.
Opposition MPs said it was "outrageous" and "scandalous" that 13 speakers still listed to debate the ETS legislation missed out on having their say.
Liberal frontbencher Steve Ciobo expressed further outrage when Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Health Minister Nicola Roxon were allowed into the chamber to vote on the gag motion after the deputy speaker had asked for the doors to be closed.
"Do the honourable thing and walk out," he yelled to the pair unsuccessfully.
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009
EVIL NEW WORLD ORDER CENTRAL BANK PLANS AUSTRALIAN BONDS - IS THIS AN ATTEMPT TO UNDERMINE THE AUSTRALIAN ECONOMY?
BREAKING NEWS by Tetractys Merkaba, Editor-in-Chief.
THE NEW WORLD ORDER CENTRAL BANK might be planning to undermine the local Australian economy with the planned release of the jingoistically titled, "kangaroo" bonds.
It may well be, that with the Australian economy being one of the few western economies, that wasn't corrupted by the deliberately triggered economic crisis, that, the UNITED NATIONS, and their cronies, at the never-to-be-trusted-IMF, as well as, The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, or the World Bank for short might be trying to de-value our Australian Dollar, in order to increase value in their own privately-owned Special Drawing Rights (S.D.R) currency.
Even though the Australian Dollar is manufactured by secretive private interests - speculated to be a mixture of wealthy Australian pastoralists, industrialists and politicians, English, American, U.N interests, as well as famed money changers, the Rothchilds, via their five arrows - their may well be greater checks and balances on the inflation of our debt based currency than their is on the debt based currencies of our friends overseas in America, England and other European Nations that made it easier for most Australian's to help the economy by spending our way out of trouble.
The reason that any economy can "spend" their way out of economic difficulty is that every dollar in circulation is actually a debt based receipt to an artificial transatction of a value, artificially created at a stroke of a pen, that requires us to pass the proverbial 'hot potato'/dollar around the community, because it will lose value, the moment it becomes dormant.
This is because our dollar is not backed by Gold to keep its value stable.
Of course, it is possible that the Australian economy was never in the strife that Kevin Rudd had been portraying, and he was simply playing the old political card of linking in someone else's misery to our situation, in order to capitalise, by consequently, not having to follow through with election promises.
Either way, the World Bank seemingly wants a bigger say in the Australian economy.
Was this greater clout in the Australian economy, the price that Kevin Rudd was asked to pay last week at the deplorable G-20 meeting at Pittsburgh, in order to allow Australia into the club?
One thing we know for certain, is that, it is not in the interests of the G-8, to disband and become a G-20, unless there was a tangible reward for the nations of the G-8, unless, the owners of their respective economies - i.e the owners of their central banks - gave them an order too, because of the tangible reward they demanded.
The Australian economy could be in real trouble.
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THE NEW WORLD ORDER CENTRAL BANK might be planning to undermine the local Australian economy with the planned release of the jingoistically titled, "kangaroo" bonds.
It may well be, that with the Australian economy being one of the few western economies, that wasn't corrupted by the deliberately triggered economic crisis, that, the UNITED NATIONS, and their cronies, at the never-to-be-trusted-IMF, as well as, The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, or the World Bank for short might be trying to de-value our Australian Dollar, in order to increase value in their own privately-owned Special Drawing Rights (S.D.R) currency.
Even though the Australian Dollar is manufactured by secretive private interests - speculated to be a mixture of wealthy Australian pastoralists, industrialists and politicians, English, American, U.N interests, as well as famed money changers, the Rothchilds, via their five arrows - their may well be greater checks and balances on the inflation of our debt based currency than their is on the debt based currencies of our friends overseas in America, England and other European Nations that made it easier for most Australian's to help the economy by spending our way out of trouble.
The reason that any economy can "spend" their way out of economic difficulty is that every dollar in circulation is actually a debt based receipt to an artificial transatction of a value, artificially created at a stroke of a pen, that requires us to pass the proverbial 'hot potato'/dollar around the community, because it will lose value, the moment it becomes dormant.
This is because our dollar is not backed by Gold to keep its value stable.
Of course, it is possible that the Australian economy was never in the strife that Kevin Rudd had been portraying, and he was simply playing the old political card of linking in someone else's misery to our situation, in order to capitalise, by consequently, not having to follow through with election promises.
Either way, the World Bank seemingly wants a bigger say in the Australian economy.
Was this greater clout in the Australian economy, the price that Kevin Rudd was asked to pay last week at the deplorable G-20 meeting at Pittsburgh, in order to allow Australia into the club?
One thing we know for certain, is that, it is not in the interests of the G-8, to disband and become a G-20, unless there was a tangible reward for the nations of the G-8, unless, the owners of their respective economies - i.e the owners of their central banks - gave them an order too, because of the tangible reward they demanded.
The Australian economy could be in real trouble.
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World Bank plans two new Kangaroo bonds
October 6, 2009 - 11:15AM
The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, or World Bank, plans to issue two new lines of Australian dollar denominated debt.
It is planning Kangaroo bonds maturing in 2014 and 2019 under a dual tranche benchmark offering.
"The transaction will be priced in the near future subject to market conditions," the joint lead managers said in a statement on Tuesday.
The joint lead managers are Commonwealth Bank of Australia, RBC Capital Markets, TD Securities and Westpac.
This story was found at: http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-business/world-bank-plans-two-new-kangaroo-bonds-20091006-gkbi.html
EVIL McDONALD'S UNREASONABLY PUSHES MULTINATIONAL CORPORATISM INTO FRENCH CULTURAL ICON
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IS McDONALD'S TRYING TO ATTAIN CULTURE BY ASSOCIATION?
SPECIAL REPORT by Tetractys Merkaba, Editor-in-Chief
GIGANTIC MULTI-NATIONAL CORPORATION, McDonalds, is going to open another unhealthy outlet at the historic Lourve Art Mueseum, in Paris, France.
People who do not wish to participate in the plasticised, cheap, unhealthy values of multi-national-read, AMERICAN-corporate empires, will have had their ability to live outside this desolate, cold, loveless, profit driven, so-called corporate "culture", diminished.
These type of business', spearheaded by corporations such as Nike, McDonald's, Starbucks, Walmart & Disney are only interested in making money, and do not care about community sentiment one little bit, if it inhibits its ability to make more money.
How much is enough?
Of course, we, as a community, have to accept our share of the blame because we have not stood up to these empires. We have to spend our dollars with other companies, companies with better attitudes towards their employees, both in the so-called first, as well as in the so-called third worlds, companies that employ higher community standards, companies that respect the fact that some people wish to live their lives independent of these companies.
The Lourve need to accept their fair share of responsibility too. Is money so important to them that they will sell-out their cultural responsibilities to both the mueseum, and the community for the proverbial fistfull of dollars?
Whilst there was debate, and in some quarters, outrage, over the pyramidical extension, at least, there was both a logical, as well as, an aesthetic methodology behind their decision that could be argued with merit.
This, on the other hand, is pure greed.
As a community, we expect McDonald's to participate in nefarious, self-interested activities that show little, or no regard for the community.
However, we do not expect those charged with managing our cultural institutions like The Lourve, will make such hamfisted decisions for the sake of a few francs.
Fries with your Mona Lisa? Big Macs move on Louvre
Henry Samuel Paris
October 6, 2009 - 12:00AM
FRANCE'S art lovers and gastronomes are united in Gallic outrage.
The American burger chain McDonald's is to open a restaurant and McCafe in the Louvre museum next month.
The fast food giant is celebrating its 30th anniversary in the home of haute cuisine. This coup - the opening of its 1142nd outlet - cements France's reputation as the biggest fan of McDonald's outside America.
Staff at the Louvre, many of whom are already unhappy that the museum is lending its name and works to a multimillion-dollar project in the Arabian emirate of Abu Dhabi, are criticising the proposal.
''This is the last straw,'' said one art historian at the Louvre. ''This is the pinnacle of exhausting consumerism, deficient gastronomy and very unpleasant odours in the context of a museum.''
Didier Rykner, the head of The Art Tribune website, said the plan was ''shocking''.
''I'm not against eating in a museum,'' he said. ''But McDonald's is hardly the height of gastronomy.
''Today McDonald's, tomorrow low-cost clothes shops,'' he said. A museum spokesman said it had agreed to a ''quality'' McCafe and a McDonald's ''in line with the museum's image'' to open by the end of the year.
The two outlets would represent the American segment of a new food court, and would be situated ''among [other] world cuisines and coffee shops''.
The website Louvre Pour Tous, which aims to ''defend'' museum visitors, said: ''Henri Loyrette, president of the Louvre museum, just had to say one word to stop the whiff of French fries from wafting past the Mona Lisa's nose.
''He chose otherwise.''
A similar protest was unleashed last year when the American coffee chain Starbucks opened a cafe close to the museum's entrance.
Employees and art lovers sent a protest petition to the managers. The cafe opened regardless but was asked to provide a cultural corner of brochures and catalogues.
''Starbucks was bad enough but McDonald's is worse,'' said the unnamed historian.
However, even if there were a last-minute reversal at the Louvre, statistics suggest the battle of Les Big Macs has already been lost.
The French seem to love McDonald's. While business in brasseries and bistros is in free fall, the fast food group opened 30 outlets last year in France and welcomed 450 million customers.
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This story was found at: http://www.theage.com.au/travel/fries-with-your-mona-lisa-big-macs-move-on-louvre-20091005-gjdo.html
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