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Entries from March 2010

America Exploding, Imploding Part 2

March 30th, 2010 · No Comments

On todays news, there was a report of the FBI taking actions against a religious militia in the USA, who were plotting to kill a police oficer and then ambush the funeral procession. This article asks ‘Is America ‘Yearning For Fascism ?’ by Chris Hedges The language of violence always presages violence. I watched it [...]

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Tags: big picture · usa

America Exploding and Imploding?

March 30th, 2010 · No Comments

The following is by James Howard Kunstler (March 29, 2010) Nations go crazy. It’s terrifying when it happens, especially to a major nation with the ability to project its craziness outward. We look back on the psychotic break of Germany in 1933 and still wonder how the then-best-educated population in Europe could fall under the [...]

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Tags: big picture · usa

Dubious US$ an Alternative to The Euro?

March 25th, 2010 · No Comments

We’ve all heard the joke of how Rodney Adler ended up with a small successful business … he eventually rode his father’s large successful business into the ground. We know that the banks and big business in Iceland incurred large debts, which they now want to pass onto the populace; and we know the Greeks [...]

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Tags: economy · europe · usa

Food, Scraping The Bottom Of The Barrel

March 23rd, 2010 · No Comments

The brave new world of food security in the 60′s and 70′s is being threatened on many quarters, from the far ranging side effects of chemicals through the whole food chain (even affecting marine life); diminishing fertilizers and oil supplies and changing weather patterns affected – like it or not – by greenhouse gas emissions [...]

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Tags: food · global

Labor Party Lies

March 23rd, 2010 · 1 Comment

The fragment of society in its comprehension of fair play is further torn asunder as the South Australian Labor Party does whatever it can to keep power; no trick, deceit or sleight of hand is too low and yet a mindless proportion of society votes Labor blindly and – in Queensland’s position – cries foul [...]

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Tags: australia · politics