News of the World.
Sep. 29th, 2009 08:20 pm1. Two child-killing wastes of oxygen have been jailed: A homeopath has been sentenced to at least six years in jail and his wife will serve at least four years for the manslaughter of their eczema-stricken daughter. Thomas Sam, 42, and his wife Manju, 37, were convicted in June of the manslaughter of their nine-month-old baby Gloria by failing to seek proper medical treatment. Now if only the sentences were about ten times longer, and involved gruel, rats, and cold stone floors. Such an end would be fitting for two people who colluded to let a child die in agony over months.
2. : Australia's biggest mining magnate has launched a scathing attack on the federal government's foreign investment rules, branding them racist. Racist? I call prudent. China is a military dictatorship, and the checks which are made and must be made would hopefully include determining who ultimately holds control over that investment. The last thing we need is for one of our mining companies to end up with a plurality (or worse, majority) of shareholders being sockpuppets for a sovereign state (any sovereign state) other than us - especially when that sovereign state doesn't have to answer rigorously to an electorate on a regular basis.
This is a national security issue. We must not gamble our sovereignty for a fistful of dollars.
3. "Lucy in the sky with diamonds" has, sadly, gone to her diamond-filled sky: The woman who inspired The Beatles' legendary song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds has died aged 46 from an autoimmune disease. Lucy O'Donnell was at school with John Lennon's son, Julian, when she was three and it was his picture of her in 1966 that inspired the classic song.
4. Emission trading hits a rocky patch in Parliament: It's been revealed over two-thirds of Liberal backbenchers disagree with Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull's plan to negotiate with the government on the ETS. Just 12 of the 59 Liberal Party backbenchers in the House of Representatives and the Senate told The Australian newspaper they supported Mr Turnbull's decision to negotiate over amendments to the ETS. Bureaucracy, money shuffling and stock market speculation will not stop a single molecule of carbon dioxide being emitted, especially while the Government is still happy to sell the coal that becomes CO2 to nations which are intending to build the equivalent of Australia's entire carbon dioxide output every couple of months. Therefore it is a useless and futile scheme with many risks and no benefits, and therefore it must be stopped.
2. : Australia's biggest mining magnate has launched a scathing attack on the federal government's foreign investment rules, branding them racist. Racist? I call prudent. China is a military dictatorship, and the checks which are made and must be made would hopefully include determining who ultimately holds control over that investment. The last thing we need is for one of our mining companies to end up with a plurality (or worse, majority) of shareholders being sockpuppets for a sovereign state (any sovereign state) other than us - especially when that sovereign state doesn't have to answer rigorously to an electorate on a regular basis.
This is a national security issue. We must not gamble our sovereignty for a fistful of dollars.
3. "Lucy in the sky with diamonds" has, sadly, gone to her diamond-filled sky: The woman who inspired The Beatles' legendary song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds has died aged 46 from an autoimmune disease. Lucy O'Donnell was at school with John Lennon's son, Julian, when she was three and it was his picture of her in 1966 that inspired the classic song.
4. Emission trading hits a rocky patch in Parliament: It's been revealed over two-thirds of Liberal backbenchers disagree with Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull's plan to negotiate with the government on the ETS. Just 12 of the 59 Liberal Party backbenchers in the House of Representatives and the Senate told The Australian newspaper they supported Mr Turnbull's decision to negotiate over amendments to the ETS. Bureaucracy, money shuffling and stock market speculation will not stop a single molecule of carbon dioxide being emitted, especially while the Government is still happy to sell the coal that becomes CO2 to nations which are intending to build the equivalent of Australia's entire carbon dioxide output every couple of months. Therefore it is a useless and futile scheme with many risks and no benefits, and therefore it must be stopped.
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