Watch the news on TV every night or read the papers about how the share market keeps growing and the economy is growing and you’d think everything is OK Funny thing is though, with all this continued investment, growth and politicians talking up the ‘recovery’ around the world … world trade actually fell by 12% last year, the [...]
Entries from February 2010
Global Financial Crisis & Depression
February 25th, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: big picture · economy · global
AmericArgentina?
February 24th, 2010 · No Comments
It worked in Argentina, so why not in the good ol USA? The image of banks locking their doors to keep customers from making withdrawals during a bank run is what immediately came to mind when we heard that Citigroup was telling customers it has the right to prevent any withdrawals from checking accounts for [...]
American or Afghanistan the Terrorist?
February 19th, 2010 · No Comments
America has long held the notion that it knows how best to solve the world’s problems; to implement a ‘democracy’ that sees even its own population having some of the least healthy and poorest; this is an interview by a person largely unknown to us. Is it because our media is more focused on directives [...]
Peter Garrett – The Man that Never Was
February 18th, 2010 · No Comments
When the Midnight Oils were doing their thing, I found Garrett a little disturbing with his antics; however, like most Aussies and overseas fans were concerned, he spoke of things avoided and high-lighted injustices of the ‘system’; that was until he became part of it. Now Garrett is supposed to be smart, a solicitor no [...]
Tags: alternative energy · australia · politics
Corporate Government Openly Corrupt, No Fear of Retribution
February 18th, 2010 · No Comments
Two latest examples of how corporate government – in NSW – operates above the law and unblinkingly stares accusers in the eye with a ‘so what’ attitude; how long will the people tolerate the growth of spin-doctoring? Linton Besser & Andrew West of the Sydnet Morning Herald wrote today (February 17, 2010) how bureancrats and political fixers inside the [...]
Tags: corruption · new south wales · politics
