Climate Common Sense: US/Asia get great aspirations , Australia gets a great big tax!

Gillard comes away from the APEC empty-handed on climate change with the leaders agreeing with vague motherhood aspirations for carbon reductions and a minute 5% reduction on "environmental goods" such as bird-mincers and other similarly valuable green-approved products. Basically the US/Asian leaders are cleverly going to do nothing on carbon but are happy to let Gillard skewer the Aussie economy with her great big tax!

Solyndra Stonewall Breeched - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

...“Not because they aren’t talented,” Carol writes, “but because that appointment will be caught up in the wave of GOP attacks that are surely coming over Solyndra and other inside DOE deals that have gone to Obama donors and have underperformed. No reason to fuel that coming storm, and believe me it will come.”

The problem, in other words, was not that Obama is wasting taxpayer dollars on flying pigs — but that Congress might find out.

Canadian PM eyes China after US pipeline delay - FRANCE 24

AFP - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Sunday that he was looking at exporting more oil to China after the United States delayed a decision on a controversial pipeline.