When Coca-Cola Amatil boss Terry Davis fronts the group's AGM Tuesday morning he will be asked to explain why a bottle of Coca-Cola costs up to two-thirds more in Australia than Asia.

Julia Gillard denounced the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement ahead of anti-Israeli protest action planned at the University of NSW yesterday.

According to Marc Corcoran on the ABC News website:

With just over four months to go before the federal election, Australians have switched off, with more than a third having little or no interest in September's election.

A national survey by Melbourne University also found most Australians believe the quality of leadership and the tone of debate is worse than usual. And 70 per cent lack confidence in the federal government, including almost half of Labor voters.

What is it that makes young men, reasonably well educated, in good health and nice looking, with long lives ahead of them, use powerful explosives to murder complete strangers because of political beliefs?

This post is to expose the many con artists who have manipulated and are still manipulating the general public beliefs that the science of global warming is either bunkum or "not settled"... The comments that will follow will expose each and everyone of these liars (pictured here) plus more of them. 

THE SCIENCE OF GLOBAL WARMING IS ACCURATE. Its predictions for the future are within the range of serious scientific observations and scientifically bracketed trends.

from our friend Vacy Vlazna

For years, economists have posited that prosperity requires growth, with environmental damage as the regrettable but unavoidable consequence. A growing number of critics are now challenging this equation, though, calling for a radical revamping of the economic system.

The income tests for Family Tax Benefits A and B, which cost $20 billion a year according to the budget papers, are far too high, which also results in the Schoolkids Bonus and the Baby Bonus also being poorly targeted as safety net measures.