Energy Efficiency

If Australians want to get an insight into how things will pan out here, they only have to look at America. Despite soaring unemployment and the 19 million Americans currently living in “deep poverty”, federal funds for the Temporary Assistance For Needy Families (TANF) program have entirely dried up for the first time since 1996, [...]

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In Australia, there is talk of nuclear power as the solution, but really, the following story of inaction by the government is a warning to us here in Australia. In the USA, tens of thousands of tons of potentially lethal radioactive waste have been piling up across the nation for more than a generation, but [...]

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The latest U.S. Treasury Z1 Flow of Funds report was released on March 11, 2010, bringing the data current through the end of 2009. What follows is the most important chart of your lifetime. It relegates almost all modern economists and economic theory to the dustbin of history. Any economic theory, formula, or relationship that [...]

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By Glenn Greenwald As we enter our ninth year of the War in Afghanistan with an escalated force, and continue to occupy Iraq indefinitely, and feed an endlessly growing Surveillance State, reports are emerging of the Deficit Commission hard at work planning how to cut Social Security, Medicare, and now even to freeze military pay. [...]

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Cuba feeds its citizens with a food stamp system that entitles them to 3 weeks food per month and the fourth week they have to provide for themselves. Ask any citizen and they will tell you the food is not enough as they have to supplement the food available with more to make a meal. [...]

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