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I think the irony of this ABC article was lost on the ABC reporter:

Senior Chinese government figures have described the view that climate change is not man-made as an “extreme” stance which is out of step with mainstream thought.

The comments were made during China’s annual sitting of the National People’s Congress.

So a bunch of communist styled authoritative political figures say that denying climate change is a form of extremism. You better toe the line then or off to the gulag for you – extremist!!!

This article is probably an hysterical reaction and ironically, evidence to support an address given by ABC chairman, who this week claimed that the ABC is beset with group think on reporting climate change issues. Thanks ABC.

Who exactly runs the ABC? Taxpayers via the Communications Minister, or Mr. Scott the CEO of ABC?

Mr Scott urged the Rudd government not to put the ABC’s international broadcast operations out to tender at the end of its current five-year contract.

Sky News Australia is lobbying the government to create an open tender process for the $20m contract to run the Australia Network, the diplomatic broadcasting service controlled by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The ABC’s contract to run Australia Network expires next year.

In a speech at Macquarie University three months ago titled “A global ABC: Soft diplomacy and the world of international broadcasting”, Mr Scott said that “using the media underpins soft diplomacy” and that China and India were firmly in Australia Network’s sights.

This just shows how in the pocket the ABC is with the ALP. The ABC basically wants to be the broadcaster of government policy – preferably it seems of a centre-left agenda – while using state power to drive out competitors that may threaten their left-wing ’soft diplomacy’ agenda.

ABC reporter Chris Uhlmann, who is meant to be one the more balanced ABC journalists, has summed up what he regards as the key issue in the up coming Federal election:

Climate change isn’t the positive it once was for Labor and one in its ranks recently noted that the Prime Minister shouldn’t keep claiming Copenhagen was a success saying, “you should never tell the punters what they know isn’t true”.

All that said, if most of the electorate didn’t want some sort of action on climate change then the Coalition wouldn’t have a policy at all. To eke out a draw in this battle its position has to be defensible and that means people have to see its alternative as credible. So that’s where Labor has launched its attack. In the end, to paraphrase John Howard, it will probably boil down to who you trust to keep carbon emissions low.

Chris Uhlmann, like his ABC colleagues, clearly has not spotted the change in voter sentiment over the past six months on climate change. Or maybe it is just wishful thinking? Less and less people care about the issue. Early in October 2009 the shift in opinion was first indicated by the Lowy poll. It showed that the majority of respondents didn’t rate climate change as a pressing problem – 52 per cent. A move of 20 per cent over the previous poll in 2006. 20 points!!!

Then we have had IPCC scandal after IPCC scandal, the collapse of the Copenhagen Conference, Prof. Plimer’s best selling book Heaven and Earth, the rise of Tony Abbott and now Lord Monckton’s last minute sell out speaking tour of the country. The fact that the ABC has done its best to either ignore or cover-up this change in sentiment provides more evidence of the group think mentality within the organisation and a sneak into how the ABC is going to lobby for the Greens first and ALP second at the next election.

More industrial unrest because of Gillard’s employment relations package, this time in the one industry that makes this economy:

The warning came as Fair Work Australia deputy president Brendan McCarthy was last night locked in a meeting with Woodside Energy in a last-ditch bid to stop workers building its $12 billion Pluto gas plant in the Pilbara from walking off the job again as early as today.

In an internal memo obtained by The Australian, Rio Tinto Iron Ore chief executive Sam Walsh warned staff that the ramp-up in industrial activity under the Rudd government’s new workplace laws could serve as an omen for Rio Tinto and other companies in the Pilbara.

Mr Walsh described last week’s illegal strike by 1600 Pluto workers over accommodation demands as “disappointing” and “unnecessary”, and said the action had been “encouraged” by the militant Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union.

It behooves conservative media types like Alan Jones to stop cuddling up toward  Gilland and start exposing her as the militant socialist she clearly is. With the left, one has to ignore what they say and only consider what they do and what they don’t do. Gillard talks using mainstream language, but her policy actions on employment relations are not mainstream. At least some one is calling Gillard out:

WA Premier Colin Barnett has urged federal Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard to “roll up her sleeves” and help settle the growing number of crippling disputes in the Pilbara, which last week saw members of the Maritime Union of Australia secure pay rises of up to $50,000 in exchange for no productivity gains. Ms Gillard did not return calls from The Australian last night.

Gillard is on the run, and like virtually every other policy announced by the Rudd government, employment relations is falling apart and going back to the bad old days of the 1970s – 1990s.

South Australian Premier Mike Rann recently made a desperate attempt to shut down non-state controlled media during the upcoming South Australian election. The Liberal Party dutifully supported the legislation which would have required bloggers and citizens that post on news websites and other online outlets to identify their true identify, including their postcode.  Given that the same argument used to support the legislation could also be used to support the abolition of the secret ballot, seems to have been lost on the politicians but on concerned citizens.

Anyway, the SA government has dumped the idea after a massive out cry on online websites. Adelaide Now recorded nearly a thousand comments about the move on their story on the issue. Suspicion abounds that it was an attempt by Mike Rann to gag discussion on his alleged relationship with one Michelle Chantelois.

Ms Chantelois says she took the lie detector test over her claim the pair had a sexual relationship, and gave the results and a personal letter to Mr Rann’s Adelaide office.

But she is not revealing whether she passed the test, or who paid for it….

Mr Rann is suing Channel 7 and New Idea magazine for publishing the claims.

So someone is  not happy, especially after Michelle Chantelois estranged husband punched Mike Rann in the head. Charming. If anything it shows the power of non-traditional media forms and the inability of left-ward politicians to control the medium like they control the ABC. Tony Abbott should take note.

Just been watching the ABC online broadcast of Lord Monckton’s address to the National Press Club, and half way through it, the ABC appears to have pulled the plug. I received the rainbow screen of death and then nothing.  I imagine that the ABC received a few complaints – most likely from ABC staff – so pulled the address. The catalyst may have been when Lord Monckton started criticising the group think mentality of the media.

So said Alan Jones this morning – you better believe it. Jones seems to be only attacking Kevin Rudd. He gives the benefit of the doubt to everyone else in the government – but Rudd no quarter is given. Maybe because Rudd refuses to go on Jones’ radio programme?

I just got through listening to Alan Jones interviewing Julia Gillard, and disappointingly Jones failed to question Gillard over her claims, blatantly false,  that Tony Abbott wants to tell women how to use their own bodies, or words to that effect, in the context of Abbott’s fatherly advice to his own daughters. I don’t know what deals Jones has to do to get an interview with Gillard, but his omission is telling especially since the day before he was harping on about how wrong Gillard is.

Jones should realise that Gillard’s comments are a deliberate and tricky attempt to portray Abbott as women unfriendly and to behooves Jones to take her to task over the issue, since no one else in the media is likely to do so.

Get ready with the bucket and mouth wash (I couldn’t actually bring myself to watch the entire video):

…the wrong side won.