Gideon Polya, “Corrupt Apartheid Australia Ignores Science for Private Profit”, MWC News, 9 August 2009.
Corrupt Apartheid Australia Ignores Science for Private Profit
Australia is Downunder to Northern Hemisphere folk but when it comes to its pro-coal, pro-pollution climate change policies, world leading per capita greenhouse gas polluter Australia is truly upside-down and anti-science.
Australians regard their system of governance as clean and incorruptible except for the odd corrupt public official. However in Downunder Australia the reality is an upside-down obverse in which a corrupt Apartheid Australian Government ignores top scientific and economic advice in the interests of the private profit of powerful vested interests.
In reality the major parties in Australia are funded to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars by corporations seeking legislative or administrative favors and elections are based on the magnitude of cash-grant bribes handed out to voters. In the 2007 elections the then Labor Party Opposition (the Labs) eventually won - and very likely did so in part because it offered the voters $35 billion in bribes whereas the ruling Liberal Party-National Party Coalition (the Libs), traditionally known for economic conservatism and economic competence, could only bring itself to offer about $30 billion in bribes.
Extreme right wing, pro-war, pro-occupation, pro-Zionist, pro-coal Australia is notoriously corrupt – but is currently wracked by an almost pointless public debate over an alleged corruption issue in which there was apparently no actual pecuniary benefit for the provider of election support to the now PM of the present Labor government.
Several weeks ago the Coalition Leader of the Opposition, Malcolm Turnbull - remarkably unpopular in Australia, probably because he is well-informed, articulate and intelligent - thought he was on a good thing. At a Senate Committee hearing a top public servant Godwin Grech (!) revealed in almost tearful testimony that the Treasury was under pressure to help a car dealer friend of the PM Kevin Rudd who had been very helpful to Rudd in the 2007 election campaign by providing him with a Utility Truck (called a Ute in Australia and hence the phrase Utegate Scandal used to describe this affair). A key e-mail published by the major conservative media ostensibly provided documentary evidence of this “corruption”. In Parliament, Mr Turnbull demanded the resignation of PM Rudd and Treasurer Wayne Swan on the basis of this and other evidence.
Unfortunately for Opposition Leader Turnbull the famous e-mail turned out to be forgery after rapid investigation by the Australian Federal Police (AFP). Godwin Grech has medical problems, he has now confessed to faking the e-mail and the Government and media are baying for Turnbull’s blood.
However there is virtually no Mainstream public discussion over the Elephant in the Corner of coal-industry funded, pro-coal Labor refusing to act on climate change while simultaneously pretending to do so – blatant corruption involving remorseless support for vested interests against top scientific and economic advice and against both national and global interests.
Australia is the world’s biggest coal exporter and is a leading per capita greenhouse gas polluter. Thus, as of 2008, “annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution” in units of “tonnes CO2-equivalent per person per year” (2005-2008 data) is 0.9 (Bangladesh), 2.2 (India), 5.5 (China), 6.7 (the World), 11 (Europe), 27 (the US) and 30 (Australia; or 54 if Australia’s huge Exported CO2 pollution is included. [1, 2].
Yet the Rudd Labor Government’s approach to the worsening Climate Emergency is to propose a fraudulent Carbon Trading Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) that:
1. is falsely called a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme or CPRS (it will actually increase Australia’s Domestic and Exported GHG pollution by 80% by 2050 and involves returning most of the Pollution Licence receipts back to the worst polluters) [2];
2. commits to “5% off 2000 GHG pollution by 2020” (whereas top analysts argue for “cutting GHG emissions by 80% by 2020”) [3];
3. commits to increasing GHG pollution (whereas top climate scientists are demanding a decrease of atmospheric CO2 from the present over 390 ppm to 300ppm) [4];
4. involves a target of 20% renewable energy by 2020 (whereas many expert analysts including scientists, countries, communities and activists, from Nobel Laureate Al Gore to national and community climate action organizations, are demanding “100% renewable energy by 2020” [5]; and
5. ignores expert advice from top climate scientists and climate economists that Carbon Trading is ineffective at best (as shown by the EU ETS that has been associated with an increase in GHG pollution) and at worst is a fraudulent Ponzi or Madoff scheme that will create a Carbon Credits and Derivatives bubble that will make the recent global market collapse look like a picnic [6].
These concerns are summarized in the letter by me below that was published (except for the last paragraph) on 5 August 2009 by Australia’s leading newspaper, The Age, under the headline “Truth, ”slies” and how MPs deceive us”.
Quote: “In the gretching that passes for public debate, let’s not forget that Malcolm Turnbull’s “crime” was to act forthrightly in the public interest in the Parliament on the basis that the public testimony from a top public servant before a Senate Committee was truthful.
The real bad guys are Labor who were in receipt of car dealer money and put in a multi-billion dollar scheme to assist car dealers – it is called corruption in most countries.
Labor has compounded its crime by essentially asserting that MPs must all assume a priori that all public servants are lying.
Of course while Labor MPs take care to avoid lying themselves, many are guilty of “slies” or spin-based untruths - of which the most appalling is “we are tackling climate change”.
Thus Australia’s world leading per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution continues unabated under coal union-funded, coal industry-backed, pro-coal Labor.
Further, Labor offers a fraudulent ETS, 20% renewable energy by 2020, “5% off 2000 GHG pollution by 2020” and increased GHG pollution - whereas top climate experts demand an honest Carbon Tax approach, “100% renewable energy by 2020”, “cut carbon pollution 80% by 2020” and reduction of atmosphere CO2 to 300 ppm.
Yours sincerely,
Dr Gideon Polya
Macleod, Victoria, Australia”. End quote.
On Skype I joke with young Northern Hemisphere members of our family that I am standing on my head down here Downunder in Australia so that they can see me right-side-up on their computer screen . However in our Orwellian-Goebbelsian world one has to turn to brilliant satire to find fictional scenarios as plausible as the actuality of Australia’s current upside-down morality.
Thus in Samuel Butler's novel “Erewhon" (roughly "Nowhere" backwards) the hero found a world in which conventional morality was turned upside down – sick people were treated very badly and the sicker they were the worse they were treated. In contrast, sociopaths in Erewhon were treated with great solicitude and the more evil and violent they were, the greater the kindness shown them. This of course has now been realized in the American Empire.
Where better to turn to in this upside-down analysis than to Downunder, Australia, the Land of Oz, the Land of Flies, Lies and Slies (spin- based untruths) – a country in which politically correct racism (PC racism) is de rigeur. Thus White Australians will vehemently deny that they are racists but they live in a country that has stripped Indigenous People in the Northern Territory of fundamental human rights and which is variously involved in what scholars refer to as the race-based, ongoing Aboriginal Genocide (Indigenous Genocide), Palestinian Genocide, Iraqi Genocide, Afghan Genocide and – vastly worse – a worsening Climate Genocide that is set to kill 10 billion non-Europeans this century due to unaddressed man-made global warming (with Australia being a major culprit) [7].
While the Australian Government’s pro-pollution and pro-coal policies are evidently linked to massive funding from pro-coal unions and business groups, its pro-war, pro-occupation, pro-genocide and pro-Zionist policies derive from massive pro-war, pro-Zionist, American-owned media that have made pro-US, pro-war and pro-Zionist positions mandatory for major party politicians and Mainstream commentators. Indeed the Australian Labor Party (ALP) has become a climate criminal protection racket for big business, the carbon polluters and for traitorous, dual citizen racist Zionists (RZs) with primary allegiance to a racist, nuclear terrorist, war criminal rogue state, racist Zionist-run Apartheid Israel.
The racism- and genocide-complicit Australian Labor Party (ALP) has become the Apartheid Labor Party, the Apartheid Israel-supporting Labor Party. Australia, which reached an apogee of civilized anti-racism under fomer Labor PMs Gough Whitlam and Bob Hawke, has now officially become Apartheid Australia that supports Apartheid at home, in Apartheid Israel and in the Occupied Palestinian, Iraqi, Afghan, Haitian and Somali Territories. [8].
Indeed, just as the land that was called Palestine (or variants thereof) for 3,000 years has become Apartheid Israel, and the United States of America has become the United States of Israel, so Australia (Oz) has become UStralia, Ozrael and Ozraelia.
The pro-war, pro-coal, pro-Zionist Apartheid Australian Government has policies that will see the destruction of Australia’s Kakadu World Heritage wetlands, the Murray-Darling River System and the Great Barrier Reef (coral will die above the CO2 concentration of 450 ppm that is evidently the minimum target of the pro-coal, climate criminal, business–as-usual Australian Labor Government).
If the World wants to save itself and Australia’s (and the World’s) Great Barrier Reef it should apply Sanctions, Boycotts, Green Tariffs, reparations litigations and International Criminal Court (ICC) criminal prosecutions to Apartheid Australia, UStralia, Ozrael, Ozraelia and its war criminal, climate criminal, US Alliance associates.
[1]. Wikipedia, “List of countries by greenhouse gas emissions per capita”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_greenhouse_gas_emissions_per_capita
[2]. “Australia’s “5% off 2000 GHG pollution by 2020” endangers Australia, Humanity and the Biosphere“: http://sites.google.com/site/yarravalleyclimateactiongroup/australia-s-5-off-2000-ghg-pollution-by-2020-endangers-australia-humanity-and-biosphere .
[3]. “Cut carbon emissions 80% by 2020”: http://sites.google.com/site/cutcarbonemissions80by2020/ .
[4]. “300.org – return atmosphere CO2 to 300 ppm”: http://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/300-org---return-atmosphere-co2-to-300-ppm .
[5]. “100% renewable energy by 2020”: http://sites.google.com/site/100renewableenergyby2020/ .
[6]. “Experts: Carbon Tax needed and NOT cap-and-trade Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS): http://sites.google.com/site/yarravalleyclimateactiongroup/carbon-tax-needed-not-cap-and-trade-emission-trading-scheme-ets .
[7]. See my formal complaint to the International Criminal Court re Australian Government involvement in Aboriginal Genocide, Iraqi Genocide, Afghan Genocide and Climate Genocide: http://climateemergency.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.html .
[8]. Gideon Polya, “Racism and corruption in pro-coal, pro-war, pro-Zionist, climate criminal Apartheid Australia”, Countercurrents: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya070809.htm .