Canavan charges up over coal as ex-minister demands AGL stick to original 2050 target
AGL boss Andy Vesey tweets against the government. Twitter, Tuesday:
We committed to the closure of the Liddell power station in 2022.
Which didn’t please ex-minerals minister Matt Canavan ... The Nationals senator on Twitter, yesterday:
@AndyVesey_AGL what a joke! You say your getting out of coal in 2050!!
The Australian, April 18, 2015:
... new AGL Energy chief executive Andy Vesey announced an about-face in which the company will close all existing coal-fired power stations by 2050.
No wonder the senator is angry. Canavan on the ABC radio’s AM program, yesterday:
AGL should be operating with a modicum of the national interest in mind, not just trying to maximise their profits.
But nothing is changing Vesey’s mind ... yet ... Twitter, Tuesday:
Keeping old coal plants open won’t deliver the reliable, affordable energy our customers need
And a few months ago, Arnold Roth asked Malcolm Turnbull to bring the Palestinian terrorist who murdered his daughter to justice. The terrorist is now a TV star in Jordan ... Roth in The Australian, May 17:
Ahlam Tamimi, a Jordanian student, was Hamas’s first female terrorist ... From Jordan, Tamimi began presenting an incitement-filled TV show of her own in February 2012 ... Its toxic hate is beamed weekly by satellite and hundreds of videostreaming websites to Arabic-speaking audiences globally, including Australia.
Now we have more proof of awful anti-Semitic views regularly heard on Jordanian TV. Cleric Asad al-Azzouni on Alordan Alyoom TV, July 22:
The regimes (like Islamic State) you are talking about and most of the decision-makers ... are the sons of Mordechai. They are the sons of the Donme Jews. They are the Jews of Esfahan.
Islamic State jihadists are really Jews? We’ve heard that crazy conspiracy theory somewhere before ... The Australian, June 3:
The ABC has had to dump anti-Semitic comments and ban trolls from its Facebook page after it left up anti-Israel conspiracy theories and Hitler memes for weeks ... A photoshopped picture of an Islamic State supporter donning a mask of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ... was removed.
Lo and behold, our mate al-Azzouni also has secret knowledge about Islamic State’s leader. Alordan Alyoom TV, July 22:
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is not really the Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi we know from Iraq.
Guess what the Islamic State boss is. Go on. Al-Azzouni on Alordan Alyoom TV, continued:
He is an Israeli rabbi called Simon Elliot.
We can find out if he’s really a Jewish rabbi after we’ve figured out if he’s dead or not. Associated Press, September 1:
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi appears to be still alive, a top US military commander said on Thursday, contradicting Russia’s claims that it probably killed him months ago.
And this rubbish is coming from the so-called “secular” Muslim state ... Roth in The Australian, May 17:
Jordan, which had been asked repeatedly to arrest and extradite Tamimi to stand trial in the US, refused ... for Jordan this is less about laws than about politics.