Energy Efficiency

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 (from Bush to Hilary Clinton) with hundreds of millions of $’s – is in a state of collapse; pensions and unemployment payments are drying up and America keeps selling bonds and borrowing money and what for?

Like a well accomplished conman, America is borrowing money to maintain a lifestyle it can’t afford and treading the world stage like it rules the world; those it can’t crush, it buys off and those suffering from earthquakes they offer money and asssistance while their own are doing it tough.

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Many years ago after A Silent Spring, DDT was banned but the USA still makes this toxic chemical to sell overseas to poorer nation; but lax standards, a fast buck and a total dis-interest in fellow being’s good health has seen a weedkiller that causes sex change in frogs also impact on American males.

Movies made in America purport a rough, tough fighting machine, yet more and more males in Amercia are well … showing distinct female traits, so this over-compensation of making war on other people, killing, raping and torture are suppose to imply ‘masulinity?

Atrazine is one of the most commonly used weedkillers and its been proven to turn male frogs into females researchers in the US have found; experiments show the complete effects of atrazine, which disrupt hormones and is one of the chief suspects in the decline of amphibians around the world.

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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 biggest drop since the Second World War according to the World Trade Organisation (WTO).

America has been fudging the figures for so long, even they don’t know where fact ends and fiction starts, but in Australia we know the federal government has been talking up the economy and the Reserve Bank has been pretending that that don’t have the same agenda (that they are poles apart) but raising interest rates ‘because of economic growth, when all along they – and we - know that it has been money the federal government has been borrowing and pumping into the system to make it appear  their is growth; that is barely 0.2% growth is ‘growth.

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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 seven days.

“Effective April 1, 2010, we reserve the right to require (7) days advance notice before permitting a withdrawal from all checking accounts. While we do not currently exercise this right and have not exercised it in the past, we are required by law to notify you of this change,” Citigroup said on statements received by customers all over the country.

What’s going on?

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