Global Climate Change Action

PM's policy punishes women

While women in the Australian Parliament consolidate cross-party legislative powers, the policies of misogynist Prime Minister John Howard continue to marginalise and punish half the nation's citizens.

"The gender pay gap in the private-sector full-time labour market is widening, as is the gap between those on awards and those in the bargaining stream", according to a report by the Women in Social and Economic Research group at Curtin Business School.

Moreover, "The potential exists for gender inequities to grow."

Although I have not been able to view this video, it comes highly recommended...
Anne

Video: Torture - The Guantanamo Guidebook - Most people would rather opine a lie and “fit in” than profess the truth and be excluded. Just as the majority would rather be lied to and made comfortable than be told the truth and made uncomfortable. Liars have held humanity in the throes of illusion for countless centuries. Governmental, religious, and academic officialdom can and do transform basically decent human beings into unconscious automatons bereft of free will. They do this successfully because a majority of humans are terrified to assume personal responsibility:
- Michael Godspeed

an article i think worthy of a comment or two...
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/48820/

By Megan Tady,
The NewStandard

via http://www.alternet.org
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here is my 2 bob's worth:

i have long since ignored any form of disagreement with the facts and figures, the science and with my own eyewitness accounts of the dire future we face if we ignore Climate Change and we continue to consume our planet's resources at todays rates. Being led by a bunch of liars on a fast track into our own extinction as a species.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21206820-421,00.html
News Mail
Tasmania
via Peter Bright and the Climate Change Action Group

HEATWAVES that kill thousands, gigantic bushfires and regular 100-year storms are part of a frightening new climate change forecast for Australia.

A leaked CSIRO report into the impact of global warming predicts a century of climatic horrors for the nation.

'Civilisation' as we know it, is based on greed - I wish to help in the creation of a new civilisation.

Abundance And Scarcity Mentality In Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Social Contexts: Aboriginal Poverty Mindset

http://aboriginalrights.suite101.com/article.cfm/ScarcityMentality
by 'Tyson Yunkaporta'

Western Scarcity Mentality has infected Indigenous culture, threatening to eliminate the Abundance Mentality needed for the survival of the planet.