Energy Efficiency

climate change, energy resources and the big picture: an Australian perspective on global issues

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Entries from September 2009

Boom and Bust, Australia Next?

September 27th, 2009 · No Comments

Previously I’ve commented on the crash of the US$; where America started as a world saviour (or was it just our first taste of spin-doctoring) when they entered the second world war. Americans (and for that matter the rest of the world) were warned by USA President Eisenhower that corporations and the military were positioning [...]

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Tags: asia · australia · big picture · china · europe · money · north america · south america · usa

Media’s Credibility Low

September 15th, 2009 · No Comments

The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press conducted a poll that suggests that nearly two-thirds of Americans think the news stories they read, hear and watch are frequently inaccurate, according to a poll released Sunday. That marks the highest level of scepticism recorded since 1985, when this study of public perceptions of [...]

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Tags: australia · media

Australia No. 1 Polluter in the World

September 15th, 2009 · No Comments

Captain kRudd excitedly took the accolades for agreeing to sign the Kyoto Protocol and while the lyrics of his song ‘its better die on your feet than live on your knees’ played in the background, the environmental stalwart Peter Garrett grinned like the fool he takes the Australian public for. We were No 1 in [...]

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Tags: australia · climate change · pollution

Minister for Spin – light-heavyweight Stephen Robertson

September 8th, 2009 · No Comments

It’s amazing how Anna Bligh and all the other big names in Labor (Federal, State or Local) have a crack at the art of spin. Now you will have noticed I said have a crack as opposed to mastered. The reason they haven’t mastered it is because increasingly, more and more people are seeing through [...]

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Tags: economy · energy · industry · politics · queensland

Financial Crisis – What Financial Crisis?

September 3rd, 2009 · No Comments

The USA is pulling itself out of the hole and don’t be alarmed, they don’t have to rely on the Chinese to bail them out (to sell them more stuff they ‘need’), the Chinese are only the third biggest buyer of American Bonds, the number two buyer is Japan (yeh, I know they’ve been in [...]

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Tags: big picture · money