Queen's decree: Suppression of Carbon (Dioxide) and Bovine Emissions Act 2011

Prediction 12: A person of high rank shall receive a message from an anonymous source: “You are a good household manager, but not fit to meddle in the affairs of the Kingdom.”

Prediction 13: A man with a French family name shall become Supreme Head of the Kingdom’s first Anti-Carbon Church.  Some will call it the Carbon Bank, but don’t bank on – or with - it.

Prediction 14: When Scorpius is low in the east, the Crown shall invade the lands, properties and dwellings of all the power lords, coal barons, cattlemen and tradesmen in the Kingdom, from Bowen to Latrobe, from Hunter to Hallelujah and from Gunnedah to Galilee. Their wealth shall be forcibly exchanged for carbon credits issued by the Crown, in whole or in part, as decreed by the Royal Court.

Prediction 15: Many working families and their cattle will be put to the sword. Even milk-maids, serving-maids, mid-wives, ladies-in-waiting and highwaymen will feel pain from the Carbon Tithe. Darkness and strife shall descend on the land. There will be a great uprising, greater than on the death of Phar Lap in a foreign land – not from a carbon (dioxide) overdose - but by arsenic poisoning.

Prediction 16: When Southern Cross is high in the south-west, the people will say: “The evidence is overwhelming. They cannot be trusted with so much as road-kill, let alone the welfare of the planet.”

Prediction 17: A great plague of silliness will spread throughout the land. For want of a collective wail, a kingdom will be lost.

© “Madame Futuro”

NOTES

1. Speaking on ABC Insiders on July 3, 2011, the Prime Minister accused the opposition of deceiving us about her carbon tax . “In the contemporary political debate”, there is, she said, “a lack of respect for reason. Let’s get the facts on the table”.

2. Just why is the public not buying Julia Gillard’s carbon dioxide tax? “It’s the equivalent of saying: “Eat your vegetables!” I suppose,” she told Sydney radio. (28 June, 2011)

3. “As Greg Combet’s friend and mentor Bob Hawke put it to The Australian Financial Review: “Greg’s got to make ice-cream out of a bucket of shit”. (Tony Walker, “Labor fortunes in Combet’s hands, AFR, page 1, 4 July 2011).

4. Combet said “more than once he has no time for discussion about “all that crap”. “Crap” is a much-used Combet word.” (Tony Walker, “Labor fortunes in Combet’s hands, AFR, page 52, 4 July 2011).