Blow the Truth

National Academies of Science should speak out against climate alarmism, not support it. This is the major message in a recent  letter  from Professor Guus Berkhout, president of CLINTEL, to the new head of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. The integrity of science is at stake. This letter is a model for how all alarmist National Academies should be addressed. For example, the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is painfully alarmist. Even worse, NAS has been joined in  promoting alarmism  by its two siblings, the National Academies of Engineering and Medicine. The fact that these Academies have become a servant of supranational political organizations such as IPCC shows how serious the crisis in climate science really is. The Netherlands Academy is called  KNAW , from its Dutch name. KNAW was established in 1808 as an advisory body to the government, a task it still performs today. NAS was established by Congress in 1868. Both NAS and KNAW d...

Australia’s commitment to support the health and wellbeing of our Pacific Island neighbours remains steadfast, with four new research projects totalling more than $8.3 million to tackle the threat of drug resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the Pacific region. DR-TB and AMR are major emerging health threats to Pacific Island countries .

The Federal and State Liberal and Nationals Governments will support nearly 5,500 jobs across New South Wales through a joint $1 billion investment in shovel-ready infrastructure projects and road safety upgrades. The funding will be allocated to three key priorities: $240 million to fix 11 congestion hotspots around Sydney, supporting 1,000 direct and indirect jobs; $382 million to help local councils upgrade roads across regional NSW, supporting 3,500 direct and indirect jobs; and $398 million for road safety projects in regional areas, supporting 950 direct and indirect jobs. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said further investment in infrastructure would play a critical role in the Commonwealth’s JobMaker plan and help the New South Wales economy as it recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic. “Partnering with state and territory governments to invest in more major infrastructure projects across Australia is a key part of our JobMaker plan to rebuild our economy and create more jobs,” the ...

Andrews: Victoria will implement mandatory testing for all returned travellers in hotel quarantine. Victoria is the only state that has been testing returned travellers twice – on day 3 and day 11 – but from today, the day 11 test will be a mandatory requirement to be eligible for release after 14 days. Those who refuse to comply with testing will be required to remain in quarantine for a further 10 days – 24 in total – to ensure they pose no risk of introducing coronavirus to the Victorian community. The Victorian Government signed legal directions last night, which ensures the small number of travellers who are currently in hotel quarantine who have declined to take the test, have now been tested and the processing of results has been prioritised. Victoria has managed over 19,000 returned travellers through hotel quarantine with less than 1 per cent returning a positive result during their quarantine period. The Victorian Government’s Suburban Testing Blitz has seen thousands of Vict...

The United States is quickly expanding a state-of-the-art border wall system along the U.S. southern border. The new system is deterring illegal crossings and increasing security, President Trump said. On June 23, Trump announced the completion of 340 kilometers of new wall and said the U.S. is on pace to complete 724 kilometers by the end of 2020. The wall includes cameras and sensors that allow U.S. Customs and Border Protection to monitor and prevent illegal crossings. Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXtxbKlOzEI Trump Build that Wall “This is the most powerful and comprehensive border wall structure anywhere in the world,” Trump told a gathering in Yuma, Arizona, near the border. “Our border has never been more secure.” Construction crews are completing an average of 1.5 kilometers of wall per day, said Lieutenant General Todd Semonite, commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Trump said the expanded border wall is helping slow illegal immigration into the United State...

Exploiting Black/White relations to make America red These are turbulent times in America. For over 35 years CFACT has been committed to the rights, freedom and advancement of ALL people, everywhere. Socialists exploiting black tragedy to foist their destructive ideology on an unsuspecting nation is a nightmare none of us deserve. Black lives are too precious to let this go unchallenged. On Tuesday, CFACT sponsored an online “Truth Talk.”  Over 400 people registered. This was the latest in CFACT’s series of live stream events in 2020 and featured Stacy Washington from National Center for Public Policy Research’s Project 21 and former CFACT alumnus and small business owner AK Kamara. CFACT’s Christina Norman hosted the event. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=168&v=6Z6sXOZPSXo&feature=emb_logo The subject was the recent race riots and the radical Left’s efforts to exploit them.  You only need to pick up a paper to learn that the Green movement has also gotten ...

CEO Allan Joyce. Today we’re making some very significant – and in some cases, very difficult – announcements about the future of the Qantas Group. And they are focused on exactly that – making sure the national carrier has a strong future. Aviation is used to sudden shocks. Qantas has dealt with several just in the past decade, and come through them stronger. But we’ve never experienced anything like this before. No one has. Right now, all airlines are in the middle of the biggest crisis our industry has ever faced. Efforts to contain COVID – which we all agree are so important – have devastated travel demand almost overnight. Airline revenues have collapsed. Entire fleets are grounded. And the world’s biggest carriers are taking extreme actions just to survive. The Qantas Group entered this crisis in better shape than most. We’ve used record profits to strengthen our balance sheet. We’ve built the leading full service and low fares airlines in our home market. We’ve carved out a sepa...

M r George Christensen (Dawson): It's my pleasure to speak to the National Skills Commissioner Bill 2020. This legislation, these laws, we are about to pass here couldn't be more timely as we all seek to address the critical challenge that will come about, economically, in this country from the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. The National Skills Commissioner office to be established will help prepare our labour market, our workers, in this country for recovery. They will be establishing a robust, new, fact-based system that will strengthen our education and training networks. The varied roles of this commission demonstrate a huge potential for it to quickly become a vital hub in supporting and enhancing the operation and analysis of the workforce we need, which is important for those people entering the workforce—to know where the gaps are, where to get training. Australia's economic recovery will be very reliant on its workers, working Australians, being skilled, resilient and...

President Trump Delivers an Outstanding Speech to Young Americans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnyCIK7ZnYw President Trump Delivers an Address to Young Americans Below Trump build that Wall and Security Trump's wall reaches 212 Miles Trump in Roundtable on Border Security | Yuma, AZ THE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you very much. Great to be here. Beautiful runway. A little warmer than I’m used to, but that’s okay, Doug, right? We have a — I was just given a beautiful picture of the wall. That’s before and after. And that’s quite a difference: one area you walk over, you drive over, you do whatever you want, and other one you say, “Well, I guess we don’t get in.” Here’s another one — just given. That’s great. That’s a different section. Pretty amazing. They’ve done a great job; we’re up to 212 — more than that now, about 220 — but over 212 miles, and we’ll be very close to 500 miles by the end of the year. And that’s the area that we wanted. So it’s great and thank you all for being h...

Never let a crisis go to waste. As America confronts real issues of race, justice and civil order, global warming campaigners can’t resist shamelessly glomming on. CFACT’s Marc Morano has  detailed coverage at Climate Depot . Here’s Al Gore: These issues are inextricably braided together…The one stupid trick that white supremacists have used for 150 years is to accentuate racial division in order to build support among lower-income, majority-white voters for a corporate agenda that actually hurts them. It does this by increasing the amount of pollution in their communities… The training is about a good deal more than simply learning the facts and figures and narratives that make up the slideshow. It will have a deep and sustained emphasis on the nexus between racism and diversity and the climate challenge… I’m optimistic that joining together the climate movement and the racial equality movement will give us strength in numbers that will ultimately lead to success. Divide and conqu...

Senator Richard Di Natale (Victoria) ( Medically Supervised Injecting Rooms ): I wish to inform the chamber that Senator Keneally will also sponsor the motion. I, and also on behalf of Senator Keneally, move: That the Senate— (a) welcomes the announcement from the Victorian government that a life-saving medically supervised injecting facility will be opened in the Melbourne CBD; only the second in Victoria and third in Australia; (b) further welcomes the continuation of the trial of the Medically Supervised Injecting Room (MSIR) in North Richmond for another three years; (c) notes that the MSIR trial review, released last week, found that: (i) since its commencement in June 2018, the North Richmond MSIR has been one of the busiest supervised injecting facilities in the world, with 119,223 visits in the first 18 months, (ii) despite 271 serious overdose incidents, no overdose deaths have occurred in the MSIR, and at least 21 lives have been saved, (iii) there has been a reduction in lo...

Senator Sarah Hanson-Young : ( Environmental Laws Speech ): I move that the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment (Senator Birmingham) to a question without notice asked by Senator Hanson-Young today relating to environmental protection. Of course this government has always had it in for the environment. This government has always wanted to find a way to weaken environmental protections—and we really have to question how much weaker they can get. We have the situation where one million hectares of koala habitat in this country have been destroyed. We have koalas in this country, in some parts, that are endangered. We have mines that are given approval, only then to contaminate water catchment areas. And, of course, we have the devastating and shocking destruction of 46,000- year-old ancient Aboriginal heritage. And this has happened under this government's watch. This has happened under the laws that are currently in place. What we...