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Current mood: Gobsmacked!!

The Power And Foresight Of Private Enterprise

As the power went off about 3pm, at the height of the highest temperature of the day, I reflected on the benefits of PRIVATIZATION – the theory that Private Enterprise is superior to Public Enterprise, presumably based in the notion that Consumer Demand is better responded to and provided for by the former.

Yesterday, the peak-time trains were cancelled at unprecedented levels (60 was it?) by the Private Enterprise company which runs/provides Metropolitan Rail Services here in Melbourne. Presumably its investment in maintenance ahead of the profit motive let it down again, while its high dollar commitment to research and development over this, peerless in transport expertise, company’s life is yet to kick in in terms of cooler tracks and more reliable trains!

Anyway, back to the Private Enterprise company/ies providing power to Metropolitan Melbourne. I note that their undoubtedly high investment in response to many years of Climate Change has yielded, or is about to yield, those extra power stations which its/their foresight, born of its/their heavily researched consumer demand trends, has enabled. I guess the ‘lag’ in these extra power stations coming onstream was reduced considerably by this foresight albeit aided by years of warning of Climate Change and third-party investigature of trends in consumer demand and demography (e.g. ageing population). [In fact there are no new Power Stations coming onstream now or in the near future!!]

It is just as well that our Politicians from years ago had the good sense to go PRIVATE and sell all our taxpayer funded assets to Private Enterprise to give them a good start into real, immediate and unfailing service provision. Oh, there is, I believe, no truth to the rumour that the Private Enterprise Company/ies has/have its/their own power generators in its/their offices nor that its/their executives have such devices in their own ‘private’ homes. Where are the Paparazzi when you need them! LOL

3:45pm
Friday
30 January 2009
43?C+

PS: Today?s 45.1?C (113.2?F) degrees at 4.27pm was the second highest temperature ever
recorded in Melbourne, behind only the 45.6 recorded on Black Friday,
13 January 1939.

? Martin Eden

Current mood:? enlightened

Not Quite The News 003

HEADLINE
God agrees to Psychotherapy to deal with his longstanding Misogyny and obsessive Materialism, forgives Eve for taking and eating his apple!

BREAKING NEWS
Moves are afoot to enhance the prospects of a Native American to run for President of the United States of America, a country they (Native Americans) have not governed since the arrival of the Pilgrim Fathers.

? Martin Eden

Current mood:Why Not?

Not Quite The News 002

HEADLINE
Largely empty Churches worldwide open doors to Homeless!!

BREAKING NEWS
A strong rumour is gathering momentum, that former Managers of failed Companies are cashing up their personal assets to fund assistance to Workers made redundant by their mismanagement.

? Martin Eden

Current mood:Wanting answers!!

# ?? ?Religion ?? ?????? Number of Adherents
1 ?? ?Christianity ?? ??? 1.9 billion
2 ?? ?Islam ?? ???????????? 1.1 billion
3 ?? ?Hinduism ?? ?????? 781 million
4 ?? ?Buddhism ?? ????? 324 million
5 ?? ?Sikhism ?? ???????? 19 million
6 ?? ?Judaism ?? ???????? 14 million
7 ?? ?Bah?’? Faith ?? ??? 6.1 million
8???? Confucianism???? 5.3 million
9 ?? ?Jainism ?? ?????????? 4.9 million
10 ? Shinto ?? ??????????? 2.8 million

[Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_religious_groups]

… So how is it possible that Israel can afford to acquire the arsenal of sophisticated weapons, and in particular its ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction’, which it most definitely has, and moreover, where does it get those weapons from?? And how can Israel then go on to repeatedly disregard international condemnation of its oft-repeated and mounting atrocities against the Palestinians, not to mention international laws readily applied to other nations, and be endlessly pandered to?

Saddam Hussein’s Iraq was invaded for less!

? Martin Eden

Current mood:? anxious

Climate Change 001

When I was a boy in Primary School, some 45 years ago, I remember going to school in sweltering heat and being allowed to sleep at my desk due to the heat in an un-airconditioned classroom. I remember desperately hanging out for the long Xmas holidays to begin around mid-December, and enduring those first couple of? onerous weeks of December with the feeling that they would never end.

Today I am witnessing one of the mildest summers Melbourne, Australia, has ever had.? In fact it is high/mid summer (i.e. mid-January, here in the Southern Hemisphere) and I had to put on my jumper and zip it up around my neck to keep warm against the cold wind on a walk yesterday afternoon.? Moreover, for the past couple of nights I had to put the heater on in the evening while watching TV.

Yet our Government, elected on a promise to address Climate Change with urgency, dallies, under pressure from big business/polluters, in formulating policies and sanctions against polluters while bailing out these same ‘laissez-faire advocating’ big businesses/polluters from their latest gross ‘ Masserati driving’ mismanagement!

? Martin Eden