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Entries from February 2010

Global Financial Crisis & Depression

February 25th, 2010 · No Comments

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Tags: banks · usa

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 [...]

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Tags: terrorism · usa

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Tags: corruption · new south wales · politics