PunchyP's election coverage...the history

says it all really. money money money whereever he can get it and take it back out of actual needs i.e. education and public health (which he took $1 billion out of while he was 'health' minister for little johnny. If people can ignore these facts http://abbottfacts.com.au/video/tony-abbott-hooked-donations-tobacco-companies  then they really do deserve this person as their leader...and if they do, I will remember fondly the small 2.5 years I had with a labor leader while I live in Spain post August 21 2010. All I ask, is that some real thought is taken by the voters. Look at the facts and form your decision on real facts and not mere campaign lies that anyone can tell. After all Abbutt did state that

<blockquote>Second, as we are being blunt, the fact is that Tony and the people who put him in his job do not want to do anything about climate change. They do not believe in human caused global warming. As Tony observed on one occasion <span style="font-weight: bold;">"climate change is crap" </span>or if you consider his mentor, Senator Minchin, the world is not warming, its cooling and the climate change issue is part of a vast left wing conspiracy to deindustrialise the world.  http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/abbotts-climate-change-policy-is-bullshit-20091207-kdmb.html</blockquote>

<span style="font-weight: bold;">and for all those incessant users of the words "backflips" and "flip flops" in response to Labor's attempts with the ETS - the real history is this:</span>

<blockquote>Third, there is a major issue of integrity at stake here and Liberals should reflect very deeply on it. We have an Opposition whose current leadership dismisses the Howard Government's ETS policy as being just a political ploy. We have an Opposition Leader who has in the space of a few months held every possible position on the issue, each one contradicting the position he expressed earlier. And finally we have an Opposition which negotiated amendments to the Rudd Government's ETS, then reached agreement on those amendments and then, a week later, reneged on the agreement. http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/abbotts-climate-change-policy-is-bu...</blockquote>

and if you think this is mere ALP spin...these comments were actually made by a fellow campaigning Liberal, mr banker Malcolm Turncash.
But if you insist on hearing it from the horse's mouth (literally), Abbott admits himself that he is introducing Climate Change into the election because "it's a vote changer" not due to any overwhelming concern for the environmental problems that he thinks "is crap"...but remember you cannot take anything Abbutt says as 'gospel' as he again states himself "don't believe all I say."   I don't think it's the 'all' that we need to worry about, its the can we believe any of what he says that is the real concern right now.

More to come on PunchyP's election coverage - and yes I will be sharing my views on spillard's policies and behaviour also, which you can see has not pleased me since her bullying act to Kev, powered by the right-winged factions in the ALP so stay tuned for who I will be voting for and why...

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Vote for your say @ Copenhagen and tell Abott to get stuffed!

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Well Abott is an absolute moron but that doesn't mean we have to sit back and let another right winged, abhorrent Liberal destroy more of humanity and the earth. Click on the link above and show your vote to push the 'actual' leaders of the world (i.e. voted in by the majority of their country's citizens abott not by some desperate, squirming and confused wanna-be's in the festering liberal party) to make substantial and influential decisions in Copenhagen.

The ETS is vitally important to the future of this planet (the whole planet abott, not just your own backyard which I hope for your sake is built several kilometres from any coastal areas). Rudd should go to a double dissolution election as soon as he can manage; as we all know, the Liberal Party, whether the 'leader of the moment' is arrogant abott or hemorroid hockey, don't stand a chance in an early election, or any election for that matter, including their own repetitive and dull internal ballots they insist of spending their limited brain power on organising. This way, abott can add his idiotic and power-hungry objection to the ETS to his long list of failings on his soon-to-be-needed CV. Let's continue to make our own positive changes in relation to leading sustainable, humane and happy lives and let's force the leaders to agree on a 'corporate world' action plan to repair and prevent the Climate Change effects caused by the mass of emissions and ill environmental policies world-wide.
Later lefties. x

Speaking of the G.F.C. who will win the Grand Final?

Oh perhaps I have confused two separate but equally important issues in society right now.  The feisty Victorian AFL club has now been eradicated by the need for yet another fear campaign.  Who will win? It would appear from history, the need for paranoia rather than a happy story will triumph in the end.  Hence the football club headed to its 3^rd consecutive Grand Final tomorrow has lost its title to the doom of the Global Financial Crisis.

Speaking of the G.F.C. – did we really need another acronym? It seems to me that there is a certain level of convenience that leads to the fear campaigns spread through western societies by politicians and the multi-nationals that apparently own us now. If all major global issues are automatically given a corresponding acronym to appease their repetitive mentioning on the nightly news, was is Climate Change not called C.C.?

With the bombardment of fear spread through our systems from swine flu, ‘Global’ recessions, terrorist threats, population growth and salmonella from kebab stores, one has to wonder is any of this actually as imminent as politicians and nightly ‘current’ affairs shows threaten us with. Was it not only two long years ago that our P.M. (Prime Monster) was simply making up fearful threats so he could justify a war and scare ‘us’ (not me) into voting for him in 3 consecutive elections?

Paul Keating infamously stated that “it was a recession we had to have” and despite the backlash to this comment, the fact remains the same. Why is economic downturns and the cyclical nature of the financial sector suddenly coming as a shock. Not to mention why the effects of corruption, greed and inadequate public policy are seemingly coming as a surprise. I think the de-regulation of the markets and the notion of ‘free trade’ was not intended to result in 2 multi-nationals owning the world.  Wasn’t there more to it than that?

One may even find that the convenient results of such extreme paranoia and repetitive notions is that large corporations who continually make millions if not billions in profits each year can suddenly increase their prices and say ‘it’s the G.F.C’ or sack thousands of employees in one hit and give the CEO a million dollar pay rise for steering the company into recovery the next day.  And if you have a good, hard and honest look at the American economy, is it not the trillions tyrannical Bush spent of wars to blame for the economic aftermath we are now ‘all’ experiencing.

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