If only the Greens had developed more policies around this candidates arguement.

..."Don’t try to tell me that the Liberals are interested in getting it right for all Tasmanians when they wanted to abolish land tax that would have benefited only those who own more than one property. A move that could never have guaranteed lower rental prices. I’ve never heard of a landlord that lowered the rent in my life." Toby Rowallan, Green candidate for Denison Tassie forum article link

Land Tax to sell thirty-four properties for back taxes.

Wednesday, 22 March 2006 The Barbados Land Tax Department has served notice that it will put some major properties on the auction block to collect millions of dollars in back taxes. Today the Barbados Land Tax Commissioner published a list of 34 commercial and residential properties which he intends to sell to recover land taxes owed to the department.  The Commissioner of Land Tax has also announced that he intends to sell more than 20 residential properties located across Barbados.  Caribbean Broadcasting

Boldly Militarizing where no one has gone before.

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70303-0.html   "Lobbyists from the fledgling commercial space industry are   besieging Capitol Hill, hoping to persuade the government to hand   out contracts to help put the U.S. military into orbit," reports   John Lasker. The main "talking point" for the 50 to 75 lobbyists is   "how the private sector can help the U.S. military build space-based   weapons a lot faster and with a lot less of taxpayers' money." The   Defense Department's report Joint Vision 2020 advocates for "Full   Spectrum Dominance," or overwhelming power on land, sea, air and   space. "We need to operate in the realm of space," a U.S. Space   Command public affairs officer told Wired. Bruce Gagnon, the   director of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in   Space and an Air Force veteran, criticizes these plans. For that,   he's been secretly monitored by NASA and the U.S. Air Force,   according to court documents uncovered by the American Civil   Liberties Union. Wired News, March 1, 2006

What should replace flawed council tax?

"Replace both the council tax and the uniform business rate (dummy, if it's against a business then it's a tax) !!! with a land value tax (LVT) or what really is a location rent, (take note of author's qualifier) since it is not so much a conventional tax as a charge for the space that we occupy" (Jerry Jones, "Morning Star", 27th. April 2005). "The value of land is created not by landowners but by what nature provides and by its position in relation to public utilities, communications and population. In other words, it is created by society, and therefore it should be society as a whole that receives the benefit." (ii)    The latest version of that repeat failure, the development land tax, is the roof tax, "to be paid by developers at a rate of about £20,000 for each home they build" (Lech Mintowt-Czyz, "Evening Standard", 12th. April). "The plans are being piloted in Milton Keynes... The tax does not require legislation and can also be applied to commercial developments." Exactly why taxing the building of new houses is thought to be a good idea, is not explained. (iii)    "The Deputy Prime Minister has met huge criticism for his plan to flatten houses in the North and Midlands and build a smaller number of modern homes" (Joe Murphy,  He has only himself to blame. He should know by now that neither he nor anyone else in government need intervene. LVT will do the job, unaided. Faced by the annual demand for the land value duty, the landholder will set about appropriate re-development to secure tenants and thus an income from which to meet the tax bill; or he will sell out to someone else who will. "Evening Standard", 20th. May 2005).

Women, The Most Efficient Partners in the Struggle to End Hunger: International Womens Day 2006

blah blah....women are the main providers of food around the world; hence the solution to hunger ought to be found in consultation and participation with women. (but doesn't)... gender (read monopoly) analysis that recognizes power relations and the use and distribution of resources....blah blah....to better understand hunger in terms of causes...For more blah blah. http://www.actionagainsthunger.org/news/press/release_mar8_06.html

Alexander Fraser Tytler in 1776

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. 

Pentagon ok's propaganda for Iraq (and possibly elsewhere).

Declaring it "within our authorities and responsibilities," the top U.S. general in Iraq, George Casey, announced that the Lincoln Group program that covertly places stories written by U.S. troops in Iraqi newspapers will continue. Van Buskirk's report "could pave the way for the Pentagon to replicate the practice ... in other parts of the world." http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-infowar4mar04,0,1357115.story?coll=la-home-world