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Alexandra Mary Mirabella with Prodos (that’s me on the left)
Just got back from welcoming Greg and Sophie Mirabella‘s brand new, darling baby girl to the Universe.
Mother and child are doing very well. Healthy and happy.
Congratulations Greg and Sophie!
Love and Best Wishes to you from Barboo and me.
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John Pasquarelli with his fiance
Watch John Pasquarelli on Channel Nine’s Sunday program:
Listen to my interview (from 2006) with John Pasquarelli:
My interview with Australian free market politician, Sophie (Panopoulos) Mirabella (Liberal Party of Australia) is now online HERE.
Sophie has been presented with the Celebrate Capitalism™ campaign’s Annual International Capitalism Award, Melbourne 2008.
Past recipients of this Award have been:
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“Without property rights there can be no freedom.”
These are the words of Bob Day, whom I had the pleasure of hearing at a recent Australian Adam Smith Club meeting in Melbourne.
A copy of his talk is available HERE.
Bob Day’s talk centered on private land ownership and housing affordability.
As well as presenting many sound economic principles explaining the causes of rising housing prices in Australia, the United States, and elsewhere, Bob Day also made clear the foundational political/philosophical principles underlying the role of private property, and its indispensable role in the development of liberty and democracy.
He quoted the splendid British Historian, Paul Johnson, explaining that:
The connection between political liberty and the individual ownership of property is one of the great certitudes of human society. It is carved in granite where the words “freedom” and “freehold” come from the same root and have interrelated with each other through many centuries.
And here’s another quote from that talk.
This one by William Pitt, The Elder:
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the Crown. His cottage may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storms may enter, the rain may enter—but the King of England cannot enter. All his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement.
Last week Bob Day spoke on Australia’s ABC Radio National with Alan Saunders.
Here’s the mp3 audio file of that interview: CLICK HERE
Heartland Institute: “CO2 does not drive temperature”
Following Heartland Institute’s 2008 International Conference on Climate Change, Viv Forbes of the Australian Carbon Sense Coalition recommended …
… ceasing to mandate market shares for any particular energy source, and abolishing all discriminatory energy taxes and subsidies and all limits, caps and taxes on harmless emissions of CO2.
Australian free market analyst, Gerard Jackson, a harsh critic of Carbon Tax (which he claims is “a direct tax on capital”) had been invited to attend the conference but couldn’t make it due to health problems.
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A worthy man for a worthy award.
Barboo and Prodos grabbing a dance at the Hearts of Oak
(Freemasons) Christmas Party (Photo by Tim Warner)
No sooner had we arrived at the Hearts of Oak (Freemasons) Christmas Party this evening, than a fellow Freemason walked by, pressed me on the shoulder, and said with a smile and some emphasis, “Take the money!”
Notwithstanding the views of Peter Coleman, Greg Sheridan today presented a devastating criticism of Peter Costello – the former Federal Treasurer and close collaborator of Michael Kroger:
Yesterday, we looked at what “power broker” Michael Kroger was offering the Liberal Party: The gift of more power for himself and his friends.
Well, his is not the only view.
There are other Liberals with other views. At least two of them, anyway.
One isthat ofPeter Coleman. The other, of Peter Dutton.
Let’s have a quick look at the offerings of these two Peters and then conclude with a rhyme.
Following the decisive defeat of the Liberal Party at last Saturday’s Australian federal election, Liberal Party “power broker” (whatever that means),Michael Kroger, was quoted in today’s The Australian offering his “solution” to the problems of the Liberal Party.
Congratulations to the Labor Party on its impressive win in the Australian Federal election.
I saw firsthand what powerful campaigners the Labor Party were when I ran as an independent in the Albert Park by-election a few months ago. Labor womped it in back then with Martin Foley and his team.
And Kevin Rudd had done it for Federal Labor tonight.
Photos by Tim Warner of anti-nuclear “protesters” defacing, splattering paint, vandalising, picketing and … relaxing … yesterday afternoon (Monday 19th of November 2007) outside the headquarters of the Liberal Party, 104 Exhibition Street, Melbourne, Australia.
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Peaceful protesters exercising their right to block access to 104 Exhibition Street – The Liberal Party’s head office – in the last few days before the Federal election.
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Dreaming of a better world. One where people’s property is respected. Where rational thinking reigns supreme. Where nuclear energy is clean, safe, and cheap. But even if it were so … who would believe it? Aye! There’s the rub!
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A born leader. A prophet. The next Al Gore. Known simply as “The Straddler” – it was he who masterminded this whole extraordinary event. A man whose ability to sit astride cylindrical objects will one day become the stuff of legends. But for now he bides his time. Waiting, thinking, plotting.
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A classic love triangle.
She loves him. But he loves that other bitch.
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The other bitch.
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Armed and ready to photograph anyone who breaches her goddamn right to vandalise and intimidate people!!
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The Liberal Party is the enemy!!
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… Yes … the enemy … that’s right … crush the enemy …
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Just an ordinary guy lying on the street, splattered with fluro paint, with his arm inside a drum. Melbourne is full of them. You get used to them after a while. And frankly, the tourists just adore them!
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Click here to listen or download this interview
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PRODOS interviews thecontroversial PastorDanny Nalliah of Catch The Fire Ministries.
Topics covered include:
I didn’t ask Danny Nalliah this question, butI wonder what he’d reply: What would Jesus have done?
If Jesus Christ had been invited to address a group such as the League of Rights, would he have accepted or declined?
If he accepted, on what basis would he do so?
If he refused, on what basis would he do so?
Christianity isn’t new. It’s been around for 2,000 years. Unlike Judaism, one ofthe key features of Christianity – supported by passages from The Bible -has always been an emphasis on proselytism.
Evangelical Christians such as Danny Nalliah are especially active and energetic in this regard.
It’s somewhere between amusing and pathetic that ignorant, dumbassed lefties like Jeff Sparrow of Crikey and Misha Schubert of The Age act sooutraged that Danny Nalliah, a well-known Evangelical Christian would speak at any gathering of the dubious or undesirable.
And it’s bad logic – at the very least – to declare that John Howard and Peter Costello should cut ties with Danny Nalliah because he has basicallybeen doing his job as an EvangelicalChristian Pastor.
Double guilt by association: The League of Rights are baddies. Danny is guilty for “associating” with the League of Rights. Howard and Costello are guilty for “associating” with Nalliah. Of course the Prime Minister and the Treasurer are the key targets here.
Recently, writing for slag-rag, Crikey.com.au, Jeff Sparrow wrote: “Catch the Fire [Ministries, run by Danny Nalliah,] is a bigoted group, and it is shameful that mainstream politicians associate with it.”
And with staggering ignorance, Jeff Sparrow refers to the accusations made by the Islamic Council of Victoria*, later upheld by VCAT, and then later DISCREDITED by the Supreme Court of Victoria, Court of Appeals, that Catch The Fire “had described Muslims as drug-dealing demons training to make Australia an Islamic state.”
He then dares the Australia Israel Jewish Affairs Council (who, by the way, do great work) to join his chorus of viciousness and ignorance.
* By the way, the supposedly “moderate”Islamic Council of Victoria’s website recommends IslamOnline.net – which advocates the murder of apostates. Justthought, Jeff Sparrows and Misha Schubert might be interested.
Click here to listen or download this interview
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Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd (Australian Labor Party)
Paul Kelly’s article in the latest Weekend Australian Magazine (Kevin Rudd Up Close and Personal, Oct 27/28 2007 – not currently available online) presents a sympathetic personal portrayal of Australian Labor Party Opposition Leader, Kevin Rudd.
In its closing paragraphs, however, we come to the issue of Rudd’s approach to policies:
On policy Rudd is careful, elusive and contradictory.
He likes to purchase policy options across the spectrum – so he is both pro-business and pro-unions, he is for government intervention and for free markets, he is for quitting Iraq and staying in Iraq, he is for abolishing WorkChoices but wants workplace flexibility.
A policy wonk and populist, Rudd rejects Howard as yesterday’s man but keeps most of Howard’s policy.
Who is the real Kevin Rudd? [ ... ]
Paul Kelly goes into all sorts of detail about the things that show how nice and likeable and trustworthyKevin Rudd is as an individual.
But what would cause such a supposedly sterling fellow to be so “elusive and contradictory” when it comes to his profession – his profession asa politician -a politicianwho is askingAustralians to make him the next Prime Minister?
What sort of “elusive and contradictory” … ehm … “New Leadership” … is Rudd offering?
I wonder!
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Hat tip to Ron Manners for this YouTube video – a spoof of Kevin Rudd (leader of the Australian Labor Party) and his rise to power through the philosophy of Variable Absolutes.
Note: Includes English subtitles, translated from Chinese.
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Information on the Albert Park by-election (which was held last Saturday, September 15, 2007) along with the official results, and some notes on my policies is available at prodos.com.au
The second of my 2 songs for the Albert Park campaign is now online at:
Thefirst of my two songs for the Albert Park campaign is now online at:
Today I began my campaign to run as an independent for Albert Park.
The official campaign site will be at:
More details soon.
No sooner had I published my previous post regarding the perplexing suspension of Michael Darby from the Liberal Party of Australia than a Party colleague inVictoria forwarded me an explosive 16 page document he said was leaked to him by a member of the New South Wales (NSW) State Executive.
He claimed that this document isa 16 pageletter by Michael Darby dated 25 June 2007sentto and received by”members of the State Executive” Liberal Party NSW.
If this letter is the real McCoy it raises many troubling issues regarding the treatment not only of Michael Darby, but ofthe whole Darby family by some members of the Party.
Here are somelarge portionsfrom this leaked document with some informationallinks and extra pics added by me …