The Kid From Bondi : 22 Jul 2011 11:35:55am Ladies and Gentlemen, forget about "discussing the the colour of the lint in our collective navels", please it's just so much tosh. Despite the cherished and archaic concept of the Right and the Left we find ourselves confronted by the Have versus the Have Not dilemma of mankind. Is there a solution for how you elevate the broad under base to the middle of the "triangle" of society .... that is a narrow top of the triangle supported by the efforts of a very broad base upon which it rests .... absolutely ... just read The Kissinger Report of 1974 and be afraid ... be very afraid ... almost forty years later all of Kissinger's proposals are being implemented, whilst we the "lint obsessed" argue amongst ourselves like the fools we are. There is no mystery .... only history BLZBob : Kevin Cobley : 22 Jul 2011 11:31:23am Carbon Offsets are a criminal rort popularized by greenwashers like Richard Branson, they have no place in any carbon emissions reduction policy. If all countries tried to buy offsets several new planets of forests would be needed. R.Ambrose Raven : 22 Jul 2011 11:28:11am But those overseas are not the only sufferers. Our society is equally willing to apply such attitudes to locals. Following the Queensland floods, authorities there were and are completely unwilling to put urgent public need before private profit and private property rights; they could've required investor-owners of long-term vacant