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Profit.

Consumers ‘partly to blame’ for Pac Brands cuts. Pacific Brands recently cut 1850 jobs from their work force.   They make clothes, and they make them here in Melbourne. Those jobs are gone.  The people are unemployed (hopefully they’ll find new jobs).  The company lives on and will greatly benefit from shedding the staff.  For them […]

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Water for the Rich

[SOURCE] Here’s a nice idea.  Charge people scarcity pricing for water.  That means if there’s not much water about, then you get charged more for its use.  The National Water Commission thinks that would be better than just trying to restrict water through water restrictions.  I think it means that those that can least afford […]

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The Real Problem

I don’t know about climate change, there are so many conflicting views on what’s really going on.  I think its hard to get an honest unbiased view from anyone.  The world has always had doom-sayers, some of the scientist are our modern day ‘end-of-the-world’ types.  I’m all for erring on the side of caution.  After […]

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No grain left

News Story Get a load of this! We’re running out of food, in fact, we’re eating more food than we store. You know what that means? The rich people will buy all the remaining food, there’ll be riots and death and mayhem in 3rd world countries while we sit and continue to eat, happy in […]

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Christmas

Do you know that you can buy nappies that have the Wiggles designs? or how about a Christmas vanity case, or perhaps you’d like some cute little table decorations to liven up the Christmas spirit on the day? What about buying a device that can change your voice? Perhaps you’d like to get a Christmas […]

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