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This story arrived in my inbox yesterday and like all good headlines it did grab my attention but the more I read the story and similar related ones doing the rounds the more curious I have become about the source and its methodology. The source of the story seems to be a British based magazine called [...] A song by the wonderfully talented Tiffany Eckhardt tells me to shine today, something I’m sure Auntie Gertrude would agree with, my lack of illumination not withstanding, yet I am sorely troubled by two things that have surfaced on my screen in recent times. The first one I want to share is a job ad. I [...] Auntie Gertrude alerted me to this luvly little video… YouTube – Story of Stuff, Full Version; How Things Work, About Stuff. Guy’s article caught my attention because he revealed the rather depressing news that eBooks outsold their physical predecessors on Amazon over the Christmas Consumer Festival. His argument though is nothing particularly new, the idea that our society and culture are underpinned by various needs and the material way in which these needs are satisfied which [...] In case there is any doubt left in the world, the last two days of rain have finally washed away the last vestiges of support for the rather silly idea that mankind’s addiction to carbon based energy is somehow heating up the planet. What’s that you say? Two days of rain doesn’t make for a cooling [...] So I finally got around to watching this lengthy documentary which has been lying around my place for a few years gathering cobwebs. Which is a shame really because it deserves to be watched. However Youtube is everyone’s friend and it looks like the whole thing is available in bits so knock yourselves out. Highlights for [...] By the time the crisis is fully over, the West's governments typically will owe investors roughly 100 per cent of GDP. And it will be years before the crisis is fully over. The GFC as a worldwide gamechanger is starting to emerge from its shadowy cloak. What started as a collapse in the US investment banking [...] This is the Oz at its very best…A property developer writing on economic policy! Gems escaping from his razor sharp intellect include and his final two [...] An economy (free market capitalist variety) exacerbating social problems? Who would have thought? Making some people richer while everyone else got poorer, no! Surely this cannot be, capitalism is meantt to be the way, the one way and the only way… And a so-called left wing Labour government has missed the opportunity to do something about [...] While the mainstream press continues to salivate over the buoyant labour figures in OZ post the GFC, I often wonder just what happens to the people who used to work in the factories that made stuff. In some cases the factories move to another country where wages are cheaper or taxes are lower, sometimes they [...] |
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