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Government Mandates Euthanasia by Ethanol

January 20th, 2010 · No Comments

Elsewhere on this site you will find the proof that ethanol is a negative energy and that over 6% volume per litre of fuel will actually create more harmful greenhouse gas emissions than 100% unleaded petrol, yet you have corporate government mandating a 10% volume of ethanol in fuel other than premium unleaded. Like the [...]

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Economic Crisis About To Step Up a Notch

January 12th, 2010 · No Comments

Years ago there was a game show on TV where people had to guess the price of several items and then these were added together and a ‘mountaineer and his dog’ took steps up a steep slope; not high enough and you didn’t win anything, just right and you won a prize or if you [...]

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Tags: big picture · ethanol · global

Depressed Rudd Concedes Recession

April 21st, 2009 · No Comments

When Kevin Rudd was approachable and desperate to run Australia (we had exchanged emails), he was sitting on the sidelines wanting to pull on the jersey and run the field to show how smart he – believed – he was; if he had been truly smart – and for that matter any politician – he [...]

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Holden MD Mark Reuss Challenges Dr Seuss for World’s Greatest Storyteller

December 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments

One can only wonder how people with no real understanding of logic could logically run a company, yet Holden’s chairman and managing director Mark Reuss is a glaring example. What a sureal world his children must grow up in, what fairytale stories of fanciful magic …. In the Age, Reuss claims that ‘Australia’s favourite car [...]

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Collapse of the Western Empires Inc – Revisited

October 16th, 2008 · No Comments

The collapse of the Western Empires Incorporated started taking place when commodities were diminishing in proportion to populations increasing. Now this may sound like a simplistic statement, however, with an accidental background in the finance industry, my ability to look at this dispassionately is far easier than someone schooled in finance and economics. To address [...]

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