RightWing.org video 2012 Prediction

Have a look at this video from RightWingWatch.org
An evangelical preacher Pat Robertson waffles on about getting a message from god telling him the winner of the next Presidential Elections in the USA.
He says that he is not allowed to tell us the winner. What a juvenile jerk he is.
He is of course railing against Barack Obama.
Here is a newspaper article about this.
TheAtlantic
Who takes this stuff seriously?

The Pharmacy Guild and Blackmores

The Pharmacy Guild was "in bed" with Blackmores, the Alternative/Complementary drug company last year 2011.
Information for this blog obtained here at The Skeptic Magazine.
Read more at the above link.
They decided to "push" complementary medicines when people arrived at their pharmacy with a script for these four types of medicines.
Antihypertensives, they were going to "push" zinc supplements. 
Statins (cholesterol lowering drugs), they were going to "push" Co-enzyme Q10, for muscle pain.
Proton Pump inhibitors (for the treatment of gastric reflux), they were going to "push" Magnesium supplements, long term PPI use may cause Magnesium depletion.
Antibiotics, Probiotics for diarrhoea that may happen due to antibiotic use.
Luckily opposition to this started as soon as the Pharmacy Guild announced the agreement. It was fortunately shelved due to the lack of evidence for any of the "pushed" Blackmore "drugs" being of any use and not having any benefit.
Pharmacy Guild's attitude to CAMs (Complementary and Alternative Medicine).
Money to me obviously has gotten in the way in many pharmacies at the detriment of good science.

Daily Telegraph found bullshitting about NBN

The Australian Press Council has found that the Daily Telegraph within a short period of time had three articles on the same theme about the NBN contained inaccurate or misleading assertions. It considers that this sequence of errors should not have occurred and that they should have been corrected promptly and adequately when brought to the newspaper’s attention.

This is typical of the bullshit from the Murdoch press about the NBN.
Below is a link to the Press Council findings.
Australian Press Council finding.

Tony Abbott and Asylum Seeker Boats.

Well, Dr. No is still saying NO, when it comes to the arrival of the asylum seeker boats.
What a surprise.
It is obvious he is not interested in talking and maybe some compromise that politics is generally about.
How disingenuous is he when he said he wanted something concrete from the Government before he would talk.
Now that labor have compromised, Dr No says NO.
No wonder the Independents did not go with him last year.

Coalitions Broadband Policy

This is from the Liberal Parties website under Broadband and Telecommunications Policy
http://www.liberal.org.au/~/media/Fi...%20Policy.ashx

Quote:

Australians need fast, reliable and affordable broadband services – delivered over an affordable highspeed broadband network using the best mix of optical fibre, wireless, DSL and satellite technologies.
The Coalition’s plan will deliver a uniform national broadband network, under which 97 percent of premises are able to be served by high speed networks capable of delivering from 100 Mbps down to a minimum of 12 Mbps peak speed, using a combination of technologies including HFC, DSL and fixed wireless.
This will help businesses to be more productive, reduce costs, reach more customers here and overseas and employ more Australians. It will help families with access to education, information and medical
services.

Keeping the HFC and DSL networks will only entrench Telstra's and to a lesser extent Optus monopoly.
I don't know how they are going to negotiate with Telstra so they can use their copper and HFC networks, maybe by magic. Telstra will have the conservatives by the short and curlies forever if they try and negotiate a deal to use their networks.

Continuing from their policy

Quote:

Labor is heading down the wrong track. Its government owned and government run broadband network
will be a taxpayer funded ‘white elephant’ when it is completed in eight years time. It does nothing to
deliver lower prices. It just substitutes one monopoly for another. It gives no priority to those who do not
get an adequate service today. Under Labor’s plan Australians will be waiting up to eight years before
they see a change.

The monopoly they talk of is only in the wholesale side completely different to the current Telstra situation. Under their plan they want to keep the DSL and HFC networks. This is a bigger monopoly with Telstra owning the network and customers on a lot of the DSL network and Telstra and Optus owning all of the customers on the HFC network.
Continuing.

Quote:

Through these actions the Coalition will deliver uniform nationwide availability of high-speed
broadband so that by 2016 Australia achieves a national broadband baseline with 97 percent
of premises able to be served by high-speed networks, using a combination of technologies
including DSL, fixed wireless and other technologies such as Hybrid Fibre-Coaxial (HFC). We
will ensure that all such premises, wherever they are in Australia, are able to receive services at
prices comparable to those for similar services in metropolitan areas.

The old technologies that they are talking of here all suffer from bandwidth problems, the more using these old technologies the more congested and slow it becomes. Fibre Optics does not suffer from this if it is FTTH (Fibre To The Home).
They also talk of a uniform cost between rural and city. They are going to do this by giving taxpayers money forever to these internet providers to lower the cost in the rural areas. Good deal, hey.

No No No No Noalition

I thought this video sums up the conservative coalition perfectly.

Abbott Cheered, Labor Jeered

At the Murray Darling management public meeting in Griffith on the draft plan for the rationing of the flow down the river network.
Minister for the Environment and Water Tony Burke was jeered.
Tony Abbott the opposition leader was cheered by the irrigators when he took their side.
I wonder if Abbott will go to South Australia and say the same thing.
Here is an article in the "Adelaide Now" newspaper. An article by political editor Malcolm Farr.
Take note of the comments.
Has Abbott got the guts to say the same thing in South Australia?

Malcolm's Myths

I came across this website on debunking the FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) on the NBN.
FUD is what, unfortunately, Malcolm Turnbull is all about when talking on the NBN.
He is a lot better than this, but he obviously has to do the bidding of the attack dog, technological Neanderthal boss of his.
Malcolm's Myths