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On 2/04/2012 9:03 AM, Oy Rool Out a Carbon Tax wrote:
> On 2/04/2012 9:37 AM, jg wrote:
>> On 1/04/2012 10:01 PM, Oy Rool Out a Carbon Tax wrote:
>>> On 1/04/2012 5:27 PM, Spartan613 wrote:
>>>> "Oy Rool Out a Carbon Tax" <gillard_lies@promises.are.invalid> wrote in
>>>> message news:jl8d3a$gja$2@dont-email.me...
>>>>> On 1/04/2012 8:14 AM, Gillard Lies. Labor Dies. wrote:
>>>>>> On Sun, 1 Apr 2012 00:28 someone claiming to be Oy Rool Out a Carbon
>>>>>> Tax
>>>>>> posting as gillard_lies@promises.are.invalid posted:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I think earth hour is silly, not sure what it's supposed to
>>>>>>>> prove to
>>>>>>>> whom, but if it doesn't make people appreciate where their energy
>>>>>>>> comes
>>>>>>>> from now I can't see much point at all.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It's like lots of fuzzy green things. It enables people to feel good
>>>>>>> about themselves, and more pious than those who didn't. Then it's
>>>>>>> back
>>>>>>> into the SUV next day. Whoops! Forgot about it again.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I felt good about it last night.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I raced around the house, turned on the ac, and made sure all lights
>>>>>> were on
>>>>>> as well.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Gee, and I even slept well.
>>>>>
>>>>> I hope Flannery didn't find out about it. He would tell his Earth
>>>>> monster Gaia when he talks to it (it has developed consciousness now,
>>>>> you know) and you will get demerits placed against your name, come
>>>>> Gaia's Judgement Day.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> "If we cut emissions today, global temperatures are not likely to drop
>>>>> for about a thousand years. "
>>>>> -- Tim (it ain't a gonna rain no more) Flannery
>>>>> - Australian Climate Commissar
>>>>
>>>> Seen that fuckwit Brown's latest offerings?
>>>>
>>>> Aliens aren't contacting us because they "extincted" themselves through
>>>> not being Green enough, and,
>>>>
>>>> His Watermelon one world government where the Chinese and Indians will
>>>> be able to vote us into slavery through their massive population
>>>> (not so
>>>> Green, but Bob doesn't seem to notice) voting advantage.
>>>>
>>>> All this delivered while wearing his trademark Cheshire cat grin and
>>>> disturbing and disturbed loopy eyes.
>>>>
>>>> The thing is a freak. Does us all a favour, Tasmania, it was a good
>>>> joke, but the joke's over. Get rid of him.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Brilliantly thought through, wasn't it... "one person one vote one
>>> value" Chinks RuLe oK!
>>>
>>
>> So it wouldn't be like the UN general assembly, with one vote per member
>> country?
>>
>
> So it's not really utopian democratic global government after all? Just
> a purely elitist UN dictatorship? What about the poor non-member
> countries? What about those who haven't signed up to, say, the UN
> Refugee Convention? Do they get to have a vote or don't they "qualify"?
> And what happened to the one *person* one vote? How do we know the
> member country representative will be voting on behalf of all persons of
> their member country? It would seem impossible if the votes in that
> country varied in any way from unanimity. Sounds even more poorly
> thought through than it first appears. Oh dear. :-(
>

Would you prefer the UN was one vote one person? 193 countries seem ok 
with it the way it is.