Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Disrespect and the Carbon Pollution Price

In the year 2011 there will be a record of how disrespectful Australians, the media and the Opposition Party have been to the serving Prime MInister, Julia Gillard. While it can be argued she is unliked, it can be equally supported she is well liked by many Australians, only the respect they show does not sell papers, nor does it propel the desires of the media owners. To be clear on something - 70% of Australia's media is owned by one man, an American who has made two things very clear. He does not believe in man made climate change, and he does not like Australia's Prime MInister, may it also be added he is a key contributor to the Opposition Party. It comes as no real surprise then to see anything done to curb the affects of climate change is either not reported upon, or reported on in a very negative fashion - the media of Australia has been supporting Skeptic views for ther last 4 years and promoting it as the truth and in the process has dismissed every scientific paper, every scientist and every commentator who holds to the view of man made climate change. The stance here is not one of opinion, there is no such thing as opinion in science, science is based on fact, not opinion. It is straight forward, you either believe the scientists 95% of scientists and their half century of research, or you believe the questionable scientists paid by oil and mining companies to give conflicting results. Before there is argument against man made climate change this point needs to be made. One of the leading anti - climate change scientists, who is paid by Philip Morris (Big Tabacco) also claims smoking does not cause Cancer.


But this is about disrespect, so there is at this time so much disrespect for the experts in the field of science that in Australia climate scientists get death threats and have their families threatened if they stand up for any position in support of man made climate change. The skeptics, actually lacking what is expected of verifiable research and uncontaminated research, have resorted to ridiculing those who have dedicated decades to understanding just how bad or declining climate is and looking at ways to understand what is required to over come and survive the extremes heading our way. The skeptic on the whole follows the leading edge of the Big Polluters spin.


The abusers claim things like pollution is good for the world, oil pollution is a hoax and the mining companies do no wrong. The level of disrespect is also fueled by a media whose very owner, not a citizen of Australia, ensures his opinion is what we get to see in our country and that all otrher opinions and all news not within his opinion is to be under reported and discredited if at all possible.


So disrespectful of even the Australian people are the media networks that they have been on a 14 month dedicated character assination of the First Female Prime Minister in Australia's history, a woman the American media owner does not like. So, in Australia we have an American citizen and resident dictating how our Prime MInister should be treated. If I were to treat any person, let a lone a woman, in the same fashion as the media has treated our Prime Minister I would be in gaol for everything from stalking to threatening a life. The level of disrespect peddled by the media and enhanced by what can only be described as physically and verbally threatening Opposition Party has spread widely though the Australian public. It is true politicians often cop a fair share of jibes, but the filth Australians are saying is fair commentary is lower than low and not only disrespectful to the nations elected leader, but also quite disgraceful to the notion of humanity in the first place. From what has been said and promoted Australia does not even deserve the right to call itself a nation.


Much of the disrespect has been promoted by Mr Tony Abbott, the leader of the Opposition, who has a history (documented) of abuses against women, even to the point of having to face court preceeding for the sexual assault of a young woman in his university days. He won his case, but note this. She had a court appointed lawyer, Tony had two lawyers and a QC tear the young woman apart. This is the man who claims and promotes that being disrespectful is fair and reasonable, a man who says all Australias economists are wrong about Australia being a goiod nation, all scientists are wrong and all experts who do not follow his posotion that Australia is in ruins is wrong and should be disrespected. This is a man whose party recieves funds from the American Media owner. The Australian government has one of the best economies in the world, we have growth, low unemployment, low interest rates and even strong jobs growth across a variety of sectors, on paper Australia is a pretty good place to be in. But, and this is the shocking part of our nation ;-
The Opposition Party claim the country is in ruin and that the so called Carbon Tax (or the price of CO2 pollution by big polluters) will make an already failing country fail even more. Though this is clearly a misrepresentation of the well documented prosperity of the nation, the media also run day after day articles and views that paint Australia as heading into economic doom and that people will be starving in the streets. None of this is true, but remember that American media owner who doesn't like our PM and who does not believe in man made climate change, well it appears he will be affected by any price on pollution, so the papers and news are all out to bring down the government.


I pride all I say as being based on fair and reasonable positions taken across a wide range of issues, and I must say I pride myself on holding onto dignity and presenting respect to others at all times, even when I may be feeling otherwise disposed. I now find it a troubling position in Australia where the media are now dictating what the people of the nation should or should not know. The media are withholding the truth of the prosperity of our nation in order to force hatred into the people, to create disquite to the point of wanting to incite violence and all for the whims of one man. To make matters ever more dispicable, the owner of 70% of Australia's media networks also runs the disinformation news service Fox, which is spreading its own grubby fingers into all area of life. In the many signs of disrespect shown to our PM, one thing is always screamed loud, and that she is a communist, and yet on observation of the opposition party and its twin leaders, Rupert Murdoch and Tony Abbott, I feel there is more to be concerned about.


The only way Australians can be heard and even get a modicrum of the truth is via blogs and emails, because the media own everything else, and this one media owner is already seeing if he can take ownership of the bloggosphere as well, so maybe even that part of our voice will also be lost in time. The idea of a price on carbon being paid by big polluters is one of the best sollutions available to Australia and it would indeed set us up for a pretty bright future, the policy is there to look at and it shows clearly how it will work and benefit our future. So why all the disrespect when the majority of the top Australian scientists, the top economists and the top commentators and industry professionals say this plan and policy is very good, the best in the world some would say? Why? Because what it does is threaten the extreme wealth of the extremely wealthy - the people who use all our services and yet do not pay any tax at all; that's right, those people making the biggest squealing noises have never actually paid any tax and now their interests and profit raking will have to pay. Why is it good for the low paid worker to pay high tax yet taxation for the wealthy is not permitted. These same wealthy, and I am talking about the exctremely wealthy, are all backers of the Australia Liberal Party, even the Tabacco Industry is a backer of the Liberal Party and all policies ever presented by this party have supported the desires of these entities. The Liberal Party under Tony Abbott oppose anything to deal with environment adressment, yet they also present a plan of their own. Instead of making polluters pay for their pollution, he wants to give them money from the taxpayer instead. $1300 a year extra tax on every Autralian. While the disrespect goes to even never experienced lows, the media are not even looking at this rather ludicrous proposal by the Opposition, through its aquiesence it shows support for what is a direct tax on all Australians and a monetary windfall to the polluters.


Where does this leave you in the scheme of things, well it depends on whether you are one of the disrespectful or not, if disrespectful I will be given the usual serve expected from this so called 'civilized' society, or if you agree then perhaps you will share the blog and encourage others to share. In a way this is quite a silent protest that will only appeal to one person at a time. Will it make a difference to the Australia of today? There are days when I hope it will, but then there are times when I know it wont.


Robert N Stephenson

please fogive minor spelling errors and typos, I suffer from slight dyslexia and I just miss the mistakes.

1 comment:

  1. well you old fool..learn to use spell check..that way there is no mistakes... but you still talk shit.....

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