Energy Efficiency

Of course global warming doesn’t exist – just ask the Brumby government. An ambitious solar power subsidy system — rejected as too expensive and “unfair” by the Brumby Government — would have cost Victorian households no more than 70 cents a week, according to confidential advice obtained by The Age. The system has been credited [...]

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In Australia we have the UCCC (Uniform Consumer Credit Code), which was set in place (around 1998) to protect people – who suffered financial difficulties – from losing their home. The UCCC simply meant that lenders have to extend the term of the loan, reduce repayments, suspended repayments for a set period or a combination [...]

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While Russia sees the future, the ‘old guard’ (America and England) – with little to offer and tied to corporate government – cling to the past … first Mr. Putin’s speech and then some less than convincing words from Mr. Brown. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s speech at the opening ceremony of the World Economic Forum [...]

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Long before the fossil fuel era, tribes and countries around the world sought to control tracts of land in the precursors of ‘corporate government taxation’; wars have been fought over slaves, spices, gold and even salt; today the main source of conflict is fossil fuels while a secondary one for water is – for now [...]

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Usury … the lending of money at unreasonable interest rates .. is the root of our up and coming demise; bank managers – long touting themselves as symbol of respectability – have for so long encouraged consumerism. How so, you might ask and the answer is working on the simplest human characteristic, greed. Not, necessarily [...]

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