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Entries from January 2010

The Future Fund, Tying up Investments With String

January 29th, 2010 · No Comments

Public servants and anyone else either directly or indirectly connected must have grave fears that the fund managers – after ‘investing in Telstra’ – have bought a string manufacturer instead of sticky tape.   Given that most intelligent fund managers must know of Peak Oil, rising fuel costs and reducing road trips resulting in toll [...]

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Tags: money · transport

Economists, Corporations & Governments = The Weakest Links

January 29th, 2010 · No Comments

This one minute video explains in a language anyone can understand, why continued population and economic growth isn’t possible …. http://www.impossiblehamster.org/

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Tags: economy · global · population

Haiti Quakes Under USA Military Invasion

January 28th, 2010 · No Comments

The sick joke of an American armed to the teeth saying ‘whats my oil doing under their sand’ is revisited with the theft of Haiti being swift as well as crude. On 22 January, the United States secured “formal approval” from the United Nations to take over all air and sea ports in Haiti, and [...]

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Tags: haiti · usa

Too Many Human Spoil The Broth

January 28th, 2010 · No Comments

In another disturbing display of human ignorance, the following story is about how – now that we have upset the balance and natural order of things – we will even further increase the use of energy to counter the over-use of energy …   Nature, 426-427 (28 January 2010) | doi:10.1038/463426a; Published online 27 January [...]

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Tags: big picture · energy · global · population

Corporate Government Greed 2 or The EU Breakup

January 28th, 2010 · No Comments

The problem with money is, you can never have enough of it. As banks around the world showed, Gordon Gecko was their idol and no avenue of extracting $’s from anyone anywhere, from local governments, the retired and pension funds put there for those who – after a life-time’s work – could live a comfortable [...]

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Tags: banks · big picture · economy · europe