The Entregreeneur

Chairman Rudd 737 : the ultimate climate change sell-out

Entregreeneur — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:31:42 +0000

On 2008-12-15, Cameron Reilly wrote this:

http://gdayworld.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/12/15/kevin-rudd-lives-up-to-my-expectations/

“Kevin Rudd Lives Up To (My) Expectations

Well there you have it. Kevin Rudd is as much as scumbag as John Howard.

It didn’t take long for his true colours to show. A year after he was elected on a campaign which had a strong focus on climate change action, he has totally ignored Ross Garnaut’s recommendations of 5 per cent per year and decided we’ll settle on 5 per cent by 2020 or 15% if the rest of the world falls into line. Let me remind you that Kevin Rudd COMMISSIONED the report from Garnaut in the first place. He used it as a tool to help him win the 2007 election - and then completely and utterly ignored it.

What a complete cunt.

I, of course, saw this coming and didn’t vote for him. I’ve been convinced for a long time that both parties are just as corrupted as each other. They are both controlled by the elite - ie, the seriously wealthy and powerful folks who really run things. And these people don’t want change. They live for the next quarterly results. They are mostly in their 60s and 70s and don’t care if the world goes to hell in a handbasket by 2020 - cuz they know they won’t be around. They are in it for themselves.

To those of you who voted for Rudd - how do you feel?

To those of you who are as pissed off and angry as I am - what are we going to do about it?”

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Which prompted me to start writing a comment, which turned into this:

Chairman Rudd 737 : the ultimate climate change sell-out

In week two of the 2007 election campaign:

“Rudd also committed Labor to a target of a 20 per cent reduction in emissions by 2020, a 5 per cent increase on the Liberal target, assisted by the use of renewable energy, but without the use of clean coal, arguing that it would ultimately be a benefit, not a detriment to the economy.”

– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_federal_election,_2007Z

Yes, its such utter hypocrisy, a total betrayal of the platform Rudd and his Labor party colleagues pretended to run on.

They took advantage of the fact that people were so willing to get rid of Howard they would believe all of Labor’s lies about a committed willingness to take on the coal industry and effect the necessary legislative changes required to adequately address climate change.

I remember watching Garrett repeatedly evade giving a straight answer to the 2020 target question throughout the mid to late stages of the election campaign in 2007.

You only had to look at Garrett’s squirming performances on 7:30 Report and Lateline to know that he, and his political masters, were snowing us.

Garrett is the ANTI-GREEN.

How many times people have said to me “Oh, I thought he was a Green?”

He’s not a bloody Green!

No you morons, he’s a bloody machine-party-man sell-out!

I recall thinking “these clowns are going to get elected on a pile of bullshit”; incredibly, people were lapping it up.

I’ve come to terms some time ago that I live in a nation filled with people who are utterly clueless when it comes to political reality.

Both ’sides’ of politics (two sides of the same nasty coin) are only there to do the bidding of their masters.

You only have to look at where their political donations money comes from to see who these politicians really answer to.

Its obvious that the vast majority (around 80%) of Australians collectively are ignorant enough of what is really going on to keep electing two machine parties sprinkled with a good salting of yes-men and yes-women who toe the party line.

These strategically positioned yes-people are carefully selected for their slavish, unthinking dedication to preserving the power and privileges of the elites under either the guise of free enterprise or a fair go for workers.

There are plenty of decent men and women in both the Labor and the Liberal parties. I have the pleasure of the acquaintance of a good number of them.

Unfortunately, they are also ignorant of what is actually going on; they are unaware of the true nature of the game they are playing.

Unfortunately in this country, free enterprise now means the right to be taxed ‘Liberally’ while a fair go for workers means the right to ‘Labor’ your entire life then watch your retirement disappear in a greasy puff of red stock tickers as the central (private, NOT government as many seem to believe) bankers and hedge fund robber barons strategically rip the guts out of the markets just because it pleasures them to do so.

From what I understand, we have reached a point where 91% of corporate profits go offshore and corporate taxes only make up around 11% of the taxation base.

I may be wrong about that, as I haven’t checked the official statistics, but that’s what a Professor of Economics told me recently.

If at least 80% of the Australian people can’t tell that we are all being mercilessly econo-raped by the banking and investment elites, mostly foreign, mostly USA / UK, then what can I say except bend over and keep taking it my fellow Australians.

For so long as the 80%’ers keep voting in ALP or Liberal governments at either the Federal or State level, we’ll keep getting more of this shit until finally the Australian nation is totally devastated ecologically and economically bankrupted beyond all redemption.

Unless the 80%’ers wake up and realise what’s going on very soon now, they are dooming us all to a very bleak future.

Free enterprise to my mind is NOT giant multi-national extra-juristictional mega-corporations collectively siphoning off the bulk of their profits into foreign jurisdictions while paying only a tiny proportion of the taxes in this country. That’s Anglo-American imperialism.

Only intelligent, ecologically sustainable, free enterprise practiced in a spirit of integrity and good will toward all can give us a viable future for our Commonwealth.

My suggestion, if you’re traditionally a Liberal voter; vote for Liberty and Democracy Party candidates.

They have true free enterprise and personal liberty policies and they are not corrupted or controlled by the global banking and corporate elites.

The Liberty and Democracy party are the true inheritors of the libertarian free enterprise mantle.

If you’re traditionally a Labor voter, for crying out loud, get a freaking clue and vote Green already!

The Greens have picked up the ball that Labor dropped long ago, on a whole range of issues, from worker’s entitlements, to social justice, sustainable public transport policy, sensible health-care reforms and of course, the no-brainer, climate change.

Policy C1: Climate Change and Energy Goals - The Australian Greens want:

Australia to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions as soon as is feasible and by no later than 2050 with a minimum of 40% reduction on 1990 levels by 2020.
the reversal of Australia’s growing demand for energy through demand management and increased efficiency of supply and end-use.
future energy needs to be met using sustainable, renewable energy sources.
all countries to develop and meet greenhouse gas emission targets.
actions to adapt Australia to the impacts of climate change.
Australia to be prepared for peak oil without resorting to the heavily greenhouse polluting options of shale oil or coal-to-oil.
the development and ratification of a global oil depletion protocol.

Who are the worker’s real friends these days?

Who’s got the interests of Australian small business, the largest employer sector in the nation at heart?

Who will deliver on climate change legislation?

Who will finally remove asylum seekers from mandatory detention and provide them with a fair assessment of their claim for asylum?

Who will hold the machine-members of the major parties to account?

To all those who are pissed off and angry, join a minority party or sign up as a supporter of your local person-of-highest-integrity independent and do everything in your power to ensure they win a state or federal seat from the Labor and Liberal parties at the next state and federal elections.

And that my friends, is true grassroots democracy, political freedom and an antidote to machine party politics.

At the very least, you might start to glimpse a few glimmers of truth out there in the murky depths of ‘major’ party politics.

Ulimately though, this is all still in the Matrix; the carefully constructed version of reality you are meant to believe in.

You have to look beyond the Matrix to see who’s really controlling the system.

But that’s a story for another day…

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Public Disclosure: I am a member of the NSW Greens and an elected Greens NSW Councillor

The views expressed in this posting are my own personal views and are not the views of the NSW or Australian Greens, except insofar as they may coincide.

Climate change… some crazy kind of summer so far…

Entregreeneur — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 01:07:58 +0000

Anecdotal evidence for climate change in Sydney…

Cold rainy days and nights in December.

Incredibly strong winds.

What used to be September weather in Sydney, has shifted to December.

It seems to me we have a phase shift of seasons by two or three months compared with the weather patterns from my childhood thirty years ago.

At this rate, it won’t surprise me if the hottest part of summer happens in late February rather than early January.

Who else has a similar experience or opinion regarding weather patterns in your area?

Hope for America 2008 - Google Ron Paul

Entregreeneur — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:42:07 +0000

Watching video of Ron Paul visiting Google “If you Google Ron Paul”

“I want to be President to restore liberty. I want a government that protects your privacy and exposes government secrecy.” Google Ron Paul!

He’s the only candidate I could endorse based on my fundamental values.

As Ron Paul puts it so simply, all any citizen of any country needs is constitutional recognition of individual liberty.

“individual human rights”, not gay rights, black rights, minority rights.

In a world where individual liberty was universally respected, none of these other rights campaigns would be necessary at all.

Of course, individual liberty requires all citizens to equally respect the liberties of all others, and only deal on a fair exchange value-for-value basis, not doing any harm either through commission or omission to another sentient being.

Basically Buddhist teachings enacted for all. That is the next level of human evolution.

I don’t expect to see it in this lifetime, but I remain 100% committed to it and will always endeavour to conduct myself accordingly. Wherever my own spiritual weaknesses may cause me to not live in this enlightened, I request the forgiveness of any against whom I have transgressed, or may in future.

Namaste, Bradley

Carbon Coalition Against Global Warming - The Soil Carbon Manifesto

Entregreeneur — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:59:07 +0000

Carbon Coalition Against Global Warming - The Soil Carbon Manifesto

“The best way to combat Global Warming is to encourage farmers to cultivate deep-rooted perennial grass species and crops that can lock vast amounts of carbon up in the soil.”

This is a most encouraging development. To see that a group of Australians, including many farmers, are examining the feasibility of adopting radically different land management and cropping practices that can be sustainably implemented, in many cases without a net drop in economic yield, is a most heartening vision.

It’s always seemed to me that there must be a better way of improving soil quality and land yield without using tonnes of expensive petroleum fueled fertilizer.

The reports written by Jones, Kiely, Sies and others demonstrate the practical reality of what has already been achieved. Sustainable agriculture in Australia is possible, albeit requiring a radical transformation in thinking and practices. Like most revolutions, it’s going to come from the “native” grassroots small scale landholders though, not initially from the mega-agri-business corporations and cartels.

Technorati Tags: soil carbon, sustainable agriculture, carbon coalition

Thanks to Ash Mehta of Mitash.com for the PermaLink fix and the .htaccess edit

Entregreeneur — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:13:19 +0000

blog.entregreeneur.com now has functional PermaLinks in the /posting-subject-title/ format.

And the categories are in /category/ format.

Woo hoo cool! Great for search engines indexing the content of the blog.

Thanks very much indeed to Mr Ashish Mehta of Mitash.com - eCommerce, Website Design, Search Engine Optimisation for this configuration change and the necessary .htaccess edit!

Newsflash! New Entregreenur home page now online…

Entregreeneur — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 07:05:38 +0000

Newsflash! New Entregreenur home page now online…

You can find out more about this Entregreeneur here at http://www.entregreeneur.com/

I’ve broken my blog categories without even knowing how…

Entregreeneur — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:40:41 +0000

Yowzer, I have changed my links to date and time based and suddenly my category links are broken. What the heck happened?

Hmmm. Time to do some RTFM and figure it out.

** 06-Aug-2007: Update

So I have turned of Permalinks and gone back to dynamically generated links. The broken links problem is no doubt related to Unix directory and file permissions and .htaccess file settings. But it is not a priority for me to figure that out.

If you know the answer to getting Permalinks working with date / time URLs and directory-name-based content links, please let me know; I would really appreciate any assistance getting this working. Thanks!

is there a name for the gnawing, nagging guilty feeling?

Entregreeneur — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:00:24 +0000

I’m talking about the specific flavour of guilty feeling you get when you know you haven’t posted to your sparsely and sporadically appended blog in over a month, yet again.

Is there a name for this feeling? If there is, please, let me know. I am feeling it right now.

Somewhere in the blog-o-sphere, someone has written an extensive psycho-analysis of this feeling, I’m sure. If you know where, please post a comment with the link.

Much appreciated,

Bradley

What do you believe about money?

Entregreeneur — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 03:48:57 +0000

Larry Parks, Executive Director, FAME
“With the monetary system we have now, the careful saving of a lifetime can be wiped out in an eyeblink.”

George Bernard Shaw
“You have to choose [as a voter] between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the Government. And, with due respect for these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the Capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.”

Voltaire (1694-1778)
“Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value —- zero.”

Daniel Webster, speech in the Senate, 1833
“We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors and a ruined people.”

Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1816
“I sincerely believe … that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”

Daniel Webster
“Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.”

St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, Review, Nov. 1975, p.22
“The decrease in purchasing power incurred by holders of money due to inflation imparts gains to the issuers of money–.”

Federal Reserve Bank, New York The Story of Banks, p.5.
“Because of ‘fractional’ reserve system, banks, as a whole, can expand our money supply several times, by making loans and investments.”

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Gold, p. 10
“Without the confidence factor, many believe a paper money system is liable to collapse eventually.”

Federal Reserve Bank of New York, I Bet You Thought, p.19
“Commercial banks create checkbook money whenever they grant a loan, simply by adding new deposit dollars in accounts on their books in exchange for a borrower’s IOU.”

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Modern Money Mechanics, p.3
“The actual process of money creation takes place in commercial banks. As noted earlier, demand liabilities of commercial banks are money.”

U.S. Supreme Court, Craig v. Missouri, 4 Peters 410.
“Emitting bills of credit, or the creation of money by private corporations, is what is expressly forbidden by Article 1, Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution.”

James A. Garfield
“Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.”

Frederic Bastiat, The Law
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”

Irving Fisher, 100% Money
“Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money they do not possess.”

John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920, page 240
“If, however, a government refrains from regulations and allows matters to take their course, essential commodities soon attain a level of price out of the reach of all but the rich, the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent, and the fraud upon the public can be concealed no longer.”

John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920, page 235ff
“Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency. . . Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million can diagnose.”

Ralph M. Hawtrey, former Secretary of Treasury, England
“Banks lend by creating credit. They create the means of payment out of nothing.”

Robert H. Hemphill, former credit manager, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
“Money is the most important subject intellectual persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it is widely understood and its defects remedied very soon.”++

Sir Josiah Stamp, former President, Bank of England
“Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with a flick of a pen they will create enough to buy it back.”

Rt. Hon. Reginald McKenna, former Chancellor of Exchequer, England
“Those who create and issue money and credit direct the policies of government and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people.”

John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson
“All the perplexities, confusion and distresses in America arise not from defects in the constitution or confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, as much from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.”

Wm. Jennings Bryan
“Money power denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.”

George Washington, in letter to J. Bowen, Rhode Island, Jan. 9, 1787
“Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.”

George Bancroft, A Plea for the Constitution (1886)
“Madison, agreeing with the journal of the convention, records that the grant of power to emit bills of credit was refused by a majority of more than four to one. The evidence is perfect; no power to emit paper money was granted to the legislature of the United States.”

Article One, Section Ten, United States Constitution
“No state shall emit bills of credit, make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts, coin money—.”

John C. Calhoun, Speech 5/27/1836
“A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interest, combined in one mass; and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in banks.”

Andrew Jackson: To delegation of bankers discussing the Bank Renewal Bill, 1832
“You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out.”

Treasury Secretary Woodin, 3/7/1933
“Where would we be if we had I.O.U.’s scrip and certificates floating all around the country?”

Instead he decided to “issue currency against the sound assets of the banks. [As opposed to issuing currency against gold.] The Federal Reserve Act lets us print all we’ll need. And it won’t frighten the people. It won’t look like stage money. It’ll be money that looks like real money.” [Emphasis added.] (Source: ‘Closed for the Holiday: The Bank Holiday of 1933′, p20 - Federal Reserve Bank of Boston)

John Kenneth Galbraith, Money: Whence it came, where it went - 1975, p15
“The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it.”

John Kenneth Galbraith, Money: Whence it came, where it went - 1975, p29

“The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.”

Senator Carter Glass, Author of the Banking Act of 1933
“Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed to guarantee the debts of other institutions, including merchants, the industries, and the mills of the country?”

Chief Justice Salmon Chase, formerly Secretary of Treasury in President Lincoln’s administration, in dissent of Knox vs. Lee (The Legal Tender Cases, 1871)
“The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty.”

Dr. Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, 11/20/2003
“As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.”

John Adams
“All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.”

Friedrich A. Hayek (1899-1992) Austrian Economist, Author and 1974 Nobel Prize-Winner for Economics
“With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people.”

Dr. Edwin Vieira, FAME Foundation Scholar
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, and that’s good enough.”

12 Week Total Body Transformation

Entregreeneur — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:05:18 +0000

I have committed myself to a structured supervised fitness training programme of twelve weeks duration. This programme “12 Week Total Body Transformation” is provided by Oxygen Studio, Coogee.

I have signed a Statement of Commitment with 13 points of agreement.

The first point of agreement is:

“I am 100% committed to the transformation program and my trainers for the whole 12 weeks. I will accept all the challenges (both mental and physical) of the 12 week transformation because I know this program will help make me stronger and progress me towards my goals.”

I will train three times per week in the studio, in one hour sessions called “Energise”.

I will keep a complete food diary for the twelve weeks and focus on shifting 80% of my meals and calorie intake into the two best food categories defined by Oxygen Studio as Excellent and Good.

I am setting weekly goals.

My first week’s goal is to be in bed, lights out by 11:30pm every night and to get up at 6:30am every morning.

My first one hour training session was 8am today. After 5 minutes on the cycle machine at 90 rpm with light resistance, some short sprints above 110 rpm, the resistance was increased to medium and I slowed down doing standing peddling, with a light resistance sprint finish for the last minute of 10 minutes.

Then I was on the rowing machine, doing 1,000m in 7.5 minutes. Under 5 minutes is the target. After that I was feeling dizzy, faint, tingling. My heart rate had gone up to around 170 bpm.

I had to sit out the next two stations totalling 20 minutes, apart from some light exercise ball crunches, before I recommenced with some light weight lifting for 10 minutes. I finished up with 10 minutes on the cross-trainer. I kept that at around 60rpm on L1, then L2, then L4 for the last minute.

Average heart rate for the session was 128 bpm, even with around 20 minutes of rest in the middle. Peak rate was 176 bpm.

One hour after finishing, I feel pretty good and ready to set my goals for today’s work sessions.