Tim Flannery, history writer and former Australian of the Year, has hatched a scheme which may enable Aussies to select tracts of rainforest (presumably in the highlands of Papua New Guinea and other areas) via Google Earth and buy them via eBay.
On face value a good idea: prevent deforestation. help the environment.
Beyond the paper thin logic, it would increase the price of land in Papua New Guinea, which would drive native Papuans out of villages and off the land, as they would be unable to purchase land themselves. After all, some poor indigenous Papuans trying to buy an acre to plant some sustenance crops won’t be able to outbid some cashed up Toorak Doctor’s wife.
As per usual, these socialist, centralist mechanisms sound good in theory but the reality leaves the poorest people all the poorer. Like many environmental solutions, the burden is borne by the very poorest.
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Anyone who isn’t a hyperactive media wanker or some old tosspot sentimentalist (ie: the vast majority of Australia’s population) couldn’t give two shits about the demise of The Bulletin.
The mag may have been around for a long time, but it was on a slippery slope, an irrelevant mag selling less and less copies each week, below 50,000 last week.
Who
gives a toss? That’s right, the hyperactive media wankers and old tosspot sentimentalists, who are falling all over themselves to talk about how it’s the rise of the cold hearted money men killing off the pillars of Australian society.
Sheesh.
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The streets of Venezuela are covered with signs, saying: “Notice: The VEB will be replaced by the VEF on January 1, 2008 at the fixed rate of 1 VEF = 1000 VEB.”
This is an hilarious example of how Hugo Chavez, dud ruler of Venezuela, is a moron. He has decided that the best way to fight inflation is to drop ZEROs from the currency!!! Because his mismanagement has led to hyperinflation that is absolutely destroying the Venezuelan economy and undermining the wealth and wellbeing of every Venezuelan, he’s dropping zeros! So a instead of a loaf of bread costing 10,000 mangy Venezuelan Bolivares, it will only cost 10 Venezuelan Bolivares Fuerte! But it’s not all upside – everything will be lower. Wages, savings, even debt.
How long til the leftist newspapers from around the world proclaim:
It’s a miracle! Chavez has made food cheaper for every man, woman and child!
Furthermore, it is in perfect keeping with the entire leftist, revisionist, type thing. Fast forward a year: a year ago, milk cost 2,000 per litre, now only 1,000!
Ha ha, lefties are hopeless when it comes to leading complex economies.
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