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Macro-economic Slips on Microscopic Oil Spill

June 3rd, 2010 · No Comments

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t for a moment pass off the BP oil spill off the USA as a minor issue by any stretch of the imagination. Be it 1,000 (as BP first stated) then 5,000 barrels a day – then they were ‘capturing’ 5,000 barrels a day yet camera footage sees tonnes of [...]

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Tags: environment · money · oil

One Currency – Greed

May 12th, 2010 · No Comments

If you’ve ever seen a string of fire-crackers go off, you will know that the sequence of explosions depends entirely on the length of the fuse and gunpowder in the fuses as to how they go off. One thing is for sure, eventually all will have gone off; and so too does the world’s countries, as [...]

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Tags: banks · economy · global · money

Corporate Government or Power Corrupts Absolutely

April 19th, 2010 · No Comments

A centuries-old quote roughly translated states ‘a democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government; it can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapsing because of [...]

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Tags: australia · money · politics

Benevolent Dictator USA Buying Acceptance?

March 3rd, 2010 · No Comments

A quick visit to New Orleans will show large swaths of aftermath from Hurricane Katrina; nearly every state of the union that makes up the United States of America is fast approaching bankruptcy or technically already in it; the whole medical system – controlled by the health companies who have lined the pockets American politcians [...]

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Tags: money · usa

Global Debt Time Bomb, Exploding Near You Soon

February 5th, 2010 · No Comments

The USA likes to think they brought nothing but truth, justice and the American way; and while there were many positives, the negatives outweigh the positives big time. Like any relationship, when the negatives out-weigh the positives, its time to call it a day; of course the family law court and other legal jurisdictions see [...]

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Tags: economy · global · money