Pirate's Cove

Considering that the Queensland Labor Party was wiped out to the point that they aren’t even recognized as an actual political party in the last election due their globull warming legislation, one would think that someone would say “this is a bad idea.” However, as we’ve seen again and again, “climate change” is not about science, it is about authoritarian style government being given more control over companies and citizens, along with more of their money. And Australia looks to be the model for fascism (via Tom Nelson and Junk Science)

(Investigate Daily) In a shocking story If It Can Happen Down Under by Hal G.P.Colebatch (American Spectator, April 4, 2012) citizens are gearing up for a “head-on assault on Australia’s entire political culture of liberty and democracy.” In effect, the Australian Labor Party and extreme leftist Greens are preparing to make law the 470-page Finkelstein Report to ban from it’s borders those scientists and free-thinkers that are increasingly congregating to the maverick independent global science community, Principia Scientific International (PSI). PSI was founded precisely to fulfill a growing need because mainstream journals are increasingly shown to be refusing to publish any counter-establishment science.

One such victim of Australia’s attack on science is Professor Alberto Boretti, Assoc. Professor at the University of Ballarat, School of Science & Engineering. Dr. Boretti, a computational expert, has struggled for two years trying to get mainstream journals to publish his damning study proving government scientists have been falsifying sea level rises around the coasts of Australia. He found, “The measured rate of rise of sea levels is not increasing and climate models should be revised to match the experimental evidence.”

Dr. Boretti’s work was painstakingly reviewed by dozens of independent scientists connected with PSI but still the mainstream journals refused to touch it, he claims, for political reasons.

According to Professor Boretti and his PSI colleagues, the Report’s recommendations will make matters far worse. The recommendations are from retired Federal Court Judge Roy Finkelstein and are dubbed as the government’s vendetta against the Murdoch press in an attempt to make the media more “accountable.” Under the anti-Murdoch smokescreen the government is taking for itself the power to impose “professional standards.” Finkelstein wants a News Media Council (NMC) set up to license the press and to censor news reporting and political commentary (including websites).

Colebatch explains that in paragraph 4.10 of the Finkelstein report “it is stated that the council should control speech in Australia because the people are too stupid to be allowed free access to news.”

Worryingly, the NMC attack on free speech is not being faced down by the Australian Opposition so is more likely to become law. Liberal Party’s media spokesman, Malcolm Turnbull has been ambiguous and equivocal about the Report claiming “It has been said that the legal arrangements at present” (that is, ordinary freedom of speech) “do not adequately advance the public interest.”

You know many left leaning politicians and political organizations are watching with extreme interest as to what happens, and if they can call for and implement laws that reduce and/or eliminate free speech “in the public interest.” The basis here seems to be putting the government in control of media outlets and what they are allowed to publish and broadcast. This would apply to websites, as well. Sites like Andrew Bolt, the Climate Sceptics Blog, and Australian Climate Madness would be affected, which would thrill Warmists. Supposedly, according to ACM, this law would be unconstitutional and illegal, but, when has that ever stopped the Left?