Carbon Tax Shock Downunder!

Australians were shocked yesterday to see how the real impact of Prime Minister, Julia Gillard's leaked Carbon Tax proposal will hit their home budgets. This is the same ass-kissing-Greens Laborite who lied when she said she wasn't going to bring in a Carbon Tax during her election campaign and then tried to talk the United State's President Obama, at last month's visit, into joining her in implementing this no-win, tax. Thankfully the US Congress isn't buying it

Australian households face price rises of $863 a year - $16.60 a week - for essentials including electricity, gas, petrol and food under the Federal Government's tax. This doesn't factor in small business people's expenses. Secret Treasury documents revealed that these figures are based on a tax of $30 a tonne and were prepared on February 1. If the tax on petrol is excluded the price for households is ONLY $608 a year - $11.70 a week. For the tax to cut our emissions by the Government's target, petrol and farm emissions will later have to be included and the $30 a tonne must certainly rise, in all likelihood to $80 a tonne!!!

A week ago, before this revelation hit-the-fan, our newly appointed climate commissioner, Warmist-Fanatic-at-Large, Tim Flannery was in a Washington, D.C. newspaper. He tried to sway politicians to see the "logic" in a Carbon Tax. Mr Flannery is only a zoologist and author of a book on climate change and compares skeptics of global warming to "'flat Earth believers." But he made an amazing point that most global warming alarmists gloss over when he threw down this lightening bolt in an interview: "Even if every country in the world cuts emissions today, global temperatures are not likely to drop for about a thousand years because the 'system' is overburdened with CO2 and its absorption only happens slowly." Of course he still ignores that fact that CO2 only comprises .0038% of our atmosphere and that temperatures were 3 degrees WARMER in 900 AD when the Vikings were running around in short pants and enjoying their new found Greenland.

The stunned interviewer said: "That doesn't seem like a good deal...surely someone must have done the sums that for all these billions of dollars we're spending on renewable programs and pushing carbon caps that it's got to have a consequence in terms of cutting the world's temperature by a fair amount...right?'' Flannery responded: "It's going to be slight."

The Way I See It....a thousand years is a long time to wait for results for the economy-killing trillions going to be spent in the next few years. I find it hard to believe that Julia and her idiot Climate Minister Greg Combet continue to give credence to the smug Bob Brown's Greens agenda (see photo) and other warmist non-experts as Flannery and their stuffed-shirt economist (promoted to chief adviser) Ross Garnaut. Australia has three major climate scientists in residence that the Labor government can ask for factual advice but foolishly ignores them, all to the future determent of the Australian people and their economy unless the majority of Parliamentarians come to their senses and stop its passage in its tracks. One wag has suggested there should be an appropriately named "ass-hole tax" for Parliamentarians so they can personally feel the effects of a tax burden. I'm sure Bob Brown and his boyfriend will "end-up" in the higher bracket as excess users.

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For the Whitest Sands and the Bluest Ocean Waters Head For Esperance in Western Australia

Visitors to Australia that are seeking the whitest sand, the bluest waters and the friendliest locals take heed: Esperance, Western Australia is where you need to be headed! Located on the southern coast of Western Australia, along the Great Southern Ocean and approximately a nine-hour-drive from the territorial capital of Perth, Esperance is the dream destination that visitors to this area of Australia simply can't afford to miss out on.

The main attraction of Esperance is its sheer, spell-binding natural beauty. In a town with less than 10,000 inhabitants it is rather difficult to expect much in the way of cosmopolitan pampering, so don't come down to Esperance in search of such vanities. The perfect example of the surrounding natural beauty is to be found at Cape Le Grand National Park, which lies just to the east of town and offers pristine beaches and untouched natural landscapes. Another nearby natural wonder to be enjoyed while in Esperance would be Pink Lake, one of many salt lakes in the area that is unique due to the red algae that inhabit its waters.

Esperance's climate is largely Mediterranean in nature, with warm and relatively dry summer months followed by chilly and damp winter months. During the summer months, a particularly intimidating natural phenomenon creates the Cyclops wave each year which attracts diehard surfers from around the planet, making Esperance buzz with action and new faces. The particularly thick and heavy wave is considered to provide one of the most thrilling (and dangerous, to be clear) surf rides on the planet.

An interesting little titbit about Esperance is the fact that in 1979 it was showered with debris from the recently-disintegrated Skylab, NASA's first space station. No major injuries or damages were incurred, though the Shire of Esperance did fine the US $400 for littering-a sum which was paid up in full only in 2009 by a US radio station, supposedly on NASA's behalf.

As far as Esperance accommodation options are concerned, visitors will find that no matter what their needs are-anything from executive suites to caravan parks and economy hostels-they will find a suitable place to stay. A few well-known possibilities include the Esperance Island View Apartments, the Hospitality Inn Esperance, and the Jetty Resort and Apartments.

For the Whitest Sands and the Bluest Ocean Waters Head For Esperance in Western Australia

Visitors to Australia that are seeking the whitest sand, the bluest waters and the friendliest locals take heed: Esperance, Western Australia is where you need to be headed! Located on the southern coast of Western Australia, along the Great Southern Ocean and approximately a nine-hour-drive from the territorial capital of Perth, Esperance is the dream destination that visitors to this area of Australia simply can't afford to miss out on.

The main attraction of Esperance is its sheer, spell-binding natural beauty. In a town with less than 10,000 inhabitants it is rather difficult to expect much in the way of cosmopolitan pampering, so don't come down to Esperance in search of such vanities. The perfect example of the surrounding natural beauty is to be found at Cape Le Grand National Park, which lies just to the east of town and offers pristine beaches and untouched natural landscapes. Another nearby natural wonder to be enjoyed while in Esperance would be Pink Lake, one of many salt lakes in the area that is unique due to the red algae that inhabit its waters.

Esperance's climate is largely Mediterranean in nature, with warm and relatively dry summer months followed by chilly and damp winter months. During the summer months, a particularly intimidating natural phenomenon creates the Cyclops wave each year which attracts diehard surfers from around the planet, making Esperance buzz with action and new faces. The particularly thick and heavy wave is considered to provide one of the most thrilling (and dangerous, to be clear) surf rides on the planet.

An interesting little titbit about Esperance is the fact that in 1979 it was showered with debris from the recently-disintegrated Skylab, NASA's first space station. No major injuries or damages were incurred, though the Shire of Esperance did fine the US $400 for littering-a sum which was paid up in full only in 2009 by a US radio station, supposedly on NASA's behalf.

As far as Esperance accommodation options are concerned, visitors will find that no matter what their needs are-anything from executive suites to caravan parks and economy hostels-they will find a suitable place to stay. A few well-known possibilities include the Esperance Island View Apartments, the Hospitality Inn Esperance, and the Jetty Resort and Apartments.

The Jesuit Block in the City of Córdoba

The Jesuit Block in the City of Córdoba includes the Church of the Compañía de Jesús, the Domestic Chapel, the Jesuits Residence and the Principal’s Office of the National University of Córdoba –former Compañía de Jesús High School— with its own administrative buildings, the Cloisters, the Conferring Room, the Library and the Monserrat National High School.


In 1599 the Jesuits settled in Córdoba, in the plot of land provided by the local City Hall, where there had been a small chapel since 1589 that soon became too small to accommodate priests, students and faithful locals. This is why the building work began in 1606, which later on would become the present Jesuit Block. Successively, more buildings were built for the High School (1610), the University (1622), the Royal School of Our Lady of Montserrat (which was founded in 1687 but set up in its present site in 1782, after the expulsion of the Compañía), and also the Novitiate (towards 1710). The Church and the Domestic Chapel were built from 1644 to 1671. The old chapel, one of the oldest ecclesiastical buildings preserved in Argentina, constitutes the Domestic Chapel Sacristy.


The Jesuit estancias (large cattle ranches) in Córdoba are a singular sample of the productive organization of the religious members of Compañía de Jesús in the country, and this is still shown in a carefully preserved architecture. Though history demonstrated that the farms were acquired for economic purposes in order to support schools and universities, the estancias were of course used “for missionary purposes, thus turning into religious centers.” 

The Jesuit Block in the City of Córdoba

The Jesuit Block in the City of Córdoba includes the Church of the Compañía de Jesús, the Domestic Chapel, the Jesuits Residence and the Principal’s Office of the National University of Córdoba –former Compañía de Jesús High School— with its own administrative buildings, the Cloisters, the Conferring Room, the Library and the Monserrat National High School.


In 1599 the Jesuits settled in Córdoba, in the plot of land provided by the local City Hall, where there had been a small chapel since 1589 that soon became too small to accommodate priests, students and faithful locals. This is why the building work began in 1606, which later on would become the present Jesuit Block. Successively, more buildings were built for the High School (1610), the University (1622), the Royal School of Our Lady of Montserrat (which was founded in 1687 but set up in its present site in 1782, after the expulsion of the Compañía), and also the Novitiate (towards 1710). The Church and the Domestic Chapel were built from 1644 to 1671. The old chapel, one of the oldest ecclesiastical buildings preserved in Argentina, constitutes the Domestic Chapel Sacristy.


The Jesuit estancias (large cattle ranches) in Córdoba are a singular sample of the productive organization of the religious members of Compañía de Jesús in the country, and this is still shown in a carefully preserved architecture. Though history demonstrated that the farms were acquired for economic purposes in order to support schools and universities, the estancias were of course used “for missionary purposes, thus turning into religious centers.”