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Australian Politics – Senator Brown Jumped Before He Fell

April 16, 2012 by PA Pundits - International

By Andrew Bolt ~ When he quit, Australian Greens Party leader Senator Bob Brown got the send-off any tyrant would have ordered from his favourite newspaper. Just read the praises heaped on the old authoritarian in a hagiography in Saturday’s Age by Michael Gordon, the paper’s national editor. Here are just some: remarkable , idealist, […]

Australian Politics – I Don’t Think That Quoting Bob Brown Will Save Him

April 15, 2012 by PA Pundits - International

By Andrew Bolt ~ James Norman, Senator Bob Brown’s admiring biographer, defends him against cruel misrepresentation: His recent ‘’Green Oration’’ speech with the now-famous opening ‘’Fellow Earthians’’ saw him pilloried by a bevy of News Ltd heavy hitters – but most of them simply rewrote the speech without using any direct quotations in order to […]

Australian Politics And Earth Hour – From Today’s Bolt Report

April 1, 2012 by PA Pundits - International

By Andrew Bolt ~ These three short clips are from this morning’s Bolt Report on Australian TV. Andrew discusses Earth Hour, Prime Minister Julia Gillard, and the Leader of the Australian Greens Party, Senator Bob Brown…..TonyfromOz. Our tribute to Earth Hour. And the IPA’s Tim Wilson on our 237 useless global warming schemes. Our panel […]

Why Hasn’t An Alien Rung Bob?

March 26, 2012 by PA Pundits - International

By Andrew Bolt ~ The man who is saying the following is Senator Bob Brown, the Leader of the Australian Greens Party, the fourth major Party in Australian politics. As Andrew says, this is positively bizarre…..TonyfromOz. Which leader of a major political party in Australia’s 21st century democracy would start a speech to the faithful […]

If We’d Followed Australian Senator Bob Brown’s Solar Dream, We’d Be Broke

February 20, 2012 by PA Pundits - International

By Andrew Bolt ~ If it were up to Australian Greens Party leader, Senator Bob Brown, we’d have repeated Germany’s disastrous lead in ramping up solar power even more: SENATOR BOB BROWN: Well, it is the way to go. The Greens have recently rescued the proposals for base load solar power stations, which will go […]

Australian Politics – Is Bob Brown Sexist By Defending Gillard Like This?

February 6, 2012 by PA Pundits - International

By Andrew Bolt ~ Greens leader Bob Brown makes one of the silliest interventions yet in Labor’s leadership battle in a desperate bid to preserve his meal ticket: GREENS leader Bob Brown says criticism of Julia Gillard is sexist and unfair … “Quite a bit of the criticism is sexist and unfair and unrelenting and […]

Brisbane Flood – January 2011 – There’s Senator Bob Brown – Or The Evidence

January 23, 2012 by PA Pundits - International

By Andrew Bolt ~ At the time of this flood in mid January of 2011, I made a Post that was necessarily long due to the nature of the information. For background on what happened with respect to the Wivenhoe Dam, read that Post and it says basically what the Inquiry found. The image here […]

Wind Power Australia – The Musselroe Wind Farm Travesty In Tasmania

January 18, 2012 by TonyfromOz

The image at right shows Vestas V90-3 Wind Towers. If you click on the image, it will open in a new and larger window. Note the vehicle under the tower at left for a size comparison. This is the Snyder Wind Energy Project in Scurry County Texas. (Image credit – Earth Systems) Why is it […]

Greens Kill Birds To “Save” The Planet

January 17, 2012 by PA Pundits - International

By Andrew Bolt ~ Terry McCrann is amazed that killing birds is now a Greens plan: BORROWING a chant from the 1960s: hey, hey Bob Brown, how many birds have you killed today? … According to Spain’s Ornithological Society, its main bird conservation charity, Spain’s 18,000 wind turbines might be killing six million to 18 […]

It’s Industry Itself That The Australian Greens Hate

August 18, 2011 by PA Pundits - International

By Andrew Bolt The Australian Greens Party want: – nuclear power banned – coal-fired power scrapped. – no more dams for hydro-electricity. – petrol taxed more. And now even coal-seam gas is under attack: Australian Greens Party Leader Bob Brown has challenged a key assumption of the carbon pricing package he negotiated with Julia Gillard, […]

The More Brown Defends The Government, The Better Abbott Likes It

May 14, 2011 by PA Pundits - International

By Andrew Bolt The two men mentioned in the title refer to Senator Bob Brown, the leader of the Australian Greens Party, and Tony Abbott, the leader of the Opposition in the Australian Parliament…..TonyfromOz. Opposition Leader Tony Abbott actually gets the very response he wanted: JULIA Gillard and Bob Brown have defied Tony Abbott’s challenge […]

Brown vs Reds To Control Greens

May 9, 2011 by PA Pundits - International

By Andrew Bolt The Brown mentioned in the title is Senator Bob Brown, the Leader of the Greens Party in the Australian Parliament. The Party is currently having some internal problems regarding how outspoken some of their Representatives at the State level are. Brown is looking to having everyone under the same umbrella, and checking […]

Slowly, But Slowly, Gillard Is Edged Into A War With The Greens

April 1, 2011 by PA Pundits - International

By Andrew Bolt Political necessity drives her to say it, but Prime Minister Julia Gillard is at least now closer to the mark: ”The Greens wrongly reject the moral imperative to a strong economy,” she said. “The Greens have some worthy ideas and many of their supporters sincerely want better politics in our country. They […]

Australian Greens Party Senator Bob Brown And His Big Polluters

March 28, 2011 by TonyfromOz

Senator Bob Brown is the Leader of The Australian Greens Party. Senator Brown and his fellow Greens Senators have the balance of power in the Senate, neither of the main Parties having sole control. Virtually every piece of Legislation has to have their approval before it passes. To that end, they have incredible power, that […]

Combet Admits To The Great Carbon Tax Con

March 5, 2011 by PA Pundits - International

By Andrew Bolt The Combet mentioned in the title of this Post is the Australian Government’s Minister for Climate Change Greg Combet. After the coup change of leadership when Julia Gillard took over as Prime Minister, Combet took over this position when the former Climate Change Minsiter Penny Wong moved sideways into another portfolio…..TonyfromOz. Christine […]

Shh! – Misconceptions About Placing a Price on Carbon Dioxide You Won’t Hear About

February 12, 2011 by TonyfromOz

Here in Australia, the Labor Government under Prime Minister Julia Gillard is seeking to impose a ‘Price on Carbon’. Some of you may think that this is exclusively an Australian problem, but the same applies everywhere something of this nature is going through the processes of implementation. There are many misconceptions about placing a price […]

Brisbane Flood Update – But Never Too Soon for Brown to Blame a Coal Miner for the Floods

January 17, 2011 by PA Pundits - International

By Andrew Bolt This media release from Senator Brown is drawing comment from nearly every media outlet, and none of that comment is praise. In this Post here from Andrew, he links directly to my Post from yesterday on the same subject…..TonyfromOz. Australian Greens Party leader Bob Brown thought it was too soon to (correctly) […]

Australian Greens Senator Bob Brown Blames Current Australian Flood Crisis on Coal Mining Companies

January 16, 2011 by TonyfromOz

Australian Greens Party Leader, Senator Bob Brown, in his customary rush to judgment following any natural disaster has blamed this current flood crisis in Australia on the coal mining companies. First elected to The Senate here in Australia in 1996, Senator Brown jumped on the global warming bandwagon early and has ridden it for all […]

Greens are wrong-right: China indeed shows us the way

December 5, 2010 by PA Pundits - International

By Andrew Bolt Nuclear power is banned in Australia, even though the heads of the parties defending that ban cannot offer a rational reason for it: The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, says the economic case for nuclear ‘’doesn’t stack up’’, and the Greens leader, Bob Brown, said this week that the nuclear industry relied on […]

Green balloon pricked

November 28, 2010 by PA Pundits - International

By Andrew Bolt This election result might be from a State election here in Australia, but it acts as an indicator of the feeling of the people. Victoria is the second largest State, and has long been a Labor stronghold. With the healthy majority they had, it seemed unlikely they would lose, but in fact, […]

Greens Don’t Need Costings When The Vibe Is So Good

November 8, 2010 by PA Pundits - International

By Andrew Bolt This may be a minor State election in Australia, but it is symptomatic of the way these minor parties and Independents operate at the party political level. They have no chance whatsoever of ever being in Government where they are the ones who make the decisions. Because of that, they can say […]

It’s The Greens Way – To Live Off What They So Lightly Condemn

October 31, 2010 by PA Pundits - International

By Andrew Bolt Next they’ll tell me he uses airplanes and lights his house with power from coal-fired power stations, too: THE Greens candidate for Melbourne in the state election is working for a company that mines “dirty” brown coal. Barrister Brian Walters is running for the key inner-city seat in the November 27 election […]

What Does A Price Of $26 Per Ton On Carbon (Dioxide) Emissions Mean

October 25, 2010 by TonyfromOz

Debate rages everywhere about placing a cost on Carbon Emissions, and before I go any further, it shows the ignorance of those people who propose this that they cannot even get the title right. It’s Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Emissions. That debate rages even here in Australia, so let’s look at the situation here in Australia […]

The Major Physical Impossibility Of Solar Thermal Power

October 14, 2010 by TonyfromOz

This first part here may seem boring, but it is absolutely critical when discussing this matter. If you pass a single wire through a magnetic field, a flow of electrons is induced in that wire, hence, pretty basically, you have generated electrical power, the flow of electrons. So, it stands to reason that if that […]