Emissions scheme won't be 'pain-free'

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has shrugged off the growing corporate backlash to his emissions trading scheme, saying he never expected the introduction of the scheme to be easy.

Stick to your guns Kevin. I just hope you do not get overwhelmed by the combined weigh of corporate clowns like Dixon at Qantas, who obviously feels its more important to emit as much jet exhaust and sell as many cigarettes as possible in the name of corporate profit than to help create a habitable planet.

"We can't absorb a $100 million cost, which is the price analysts are saying would be for Qantas. We would have to put that cost back onto our domestic operations," he (Dixon) told a Sydney news conference.

So do it you dickhead. Wake up. You are meant to be a leader. Start leading.

Mr Dixon says the Federal Government's proposed emissions scheme has unfairly singled out the aviation industry.

No they haven't. They might however have fairly singled out one of the industries that is the most wasteful and harmful to ongoing human life. Welcome to the 21st century Geoff.

Its these sorts of statements that could lead one to despair that we will even make it alive to the end of this century. If these corporate leaders are the finest that the western economic system can produce, then we had better change to another system real quick, or we are doomed.

Fortunately, there are still a few real leaders in this world of non-leaders incumbents.

Gore urges Americans to make total shift to renewables
Al Gore has urged Americans to make a total shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy within 10 years.

And BBC adds ...

Mr Gore compared the scale of the challenge to that of putting a man on the moon in the 1960s.

See that; that's leadership!

How the obscenely rich stay that way.

I read that Dale Carnegie declared that he thought it was crime for the rich to die that way, so he created the Carnegie charities to give his wealth away. The trouble was, he found that he then somehow got even richer no matter how he tried. The poor guy. Even if I had been around to help him get rid of it, after I got a decent yacht and a couple of houses and maybe lived on a cruise-ship, I would run out of ways for me to spend it and would have to start getting a few hundred thousand others in to help. That's the trouble with us poor people, we just can't think creatively enough about how to squander money. Its damn near criminal of us. Anyway, on with the story.

By Eric Jul. 7th, 2008 at 3:25 pm at http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/richard-stallman-expert-in-the-art-of-fud/

(Reprinted in full)

There are a LOT of correct observations in the comments here including the tax shelter mentioned above.

That's exactly what the B&M foundation was formed for. What most Americans don't know is that many pro athletes (and other wealthy individuals) form these same foundations (IRS 501c3) to shelter their income and all they have to do is utilize a small percentage of the revenue towards the stated goals of the organization as described to the IRS.

I'm also the president of a board for a 501c3 charter school so I know how they are structured and how they work. What most people don't know is that 501c3 status does NOT preclude you from making a profit. There are two types, a non-profit (B&M foundation) and a not for profit. The prior can make money and shelter it within the 501c3 (in a nut-shell).

The other half NO ONE has caught wind of yet (not even RMS) is that the B&M foundation has a large software development team who are actively developing the B&M eCharity platform to manage individual and corporate donations. The B&M foundation is actively pushing this solution at United Way and other large charitable organizations as a middle-man product to collect and manage donations, albeit for a nominal fee. You may say, ehhh.. it's still compulsory usage right? Not exactly... The B&M foundation is pushing hard and getting support.. When you have that kind of cash in the bank (B&M), organizations usually roll over and fall in line.

The CEO of a TX based United Way chapter let me know that this is a MAJOR concern for them because it would centralize charitable donations that Americans normally do through payroll deductions and that cash would then flow through this B&M foundation system. This now creates a vacuum for local charities since the donations would no longer go directly to them (i.e. the local charity chapter). The local charitable organization would have to go this "company" for their money minus the handling (extortion) fees.

Now you have the B&M foundation sitting in the middle of a $300 billion dollar transactional stream taking their cut which goes to the B&M foundation originally formed by Billy G and Warren Buffet to shelter their billions.

You seeing the bigger picture here?? The B&M foundation is not what it's billed as. It is a for profit center (run by a ruthless ex CEO) and they want YOUR money to go to them before going to the charity of YOUR choosing first.