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Story of stuff

[SOURCE] The story of stuff is quite important. The amount of shit we have is contributing to the financial, environmental and food problems that we are experiencing in the world. I’ve said it plenty of times, to help us survive we need to be nice to each other, we need to make sure everyone has […]

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Thank U god

Twitter is a wonderful thing.  You can find out all sorts of information. There are always trending topics – a subject that a number of people are tweeting about.  I like today’s it was called #thankugod. There were about 100 messages a minute coming in thick and fast. I followed it for much of the […]

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Debt Free Asylum Seekers

[SOURCE] Some years ago the Australian Government, lead by John Howard, passed a law that saw we, the Australian people, bill asylum seekers. When applying for and being successful in obtaining a temporary visa, or even a permanent residency, asylum seekers would find themselves suddenly lumbered with a huge bill.  We were billing them for […]

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Ravaged by recession

Britain’s super-rich ravaged by recession – Management – Executive Style. Sometimes the numbers just wash over you. Indian-born steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal topped the list for the fifth year running – but he and his family’s wealth has plunged 61% to STG10.8 billion ($22.23 billion) in 2008, sharply down from STG27.7 billion ($57.01 billion) in […]

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Pell the Cardinal from Hell

Pell backs Pope on condom stance | theage.com.au. “The idea that you can solve a great spiritual and health crisis like AIDS with a few mechanical contraptions like condoms is ridiculous” Hmm?  How can you say that AIDS is anything spiritual at all you great dress wearing tosser. In what is the one of the […]

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Its all about the money

[SOURCE] Together the world’s tax havens allow rich individuals to hide trillions of dollars from national tax authorities. The OECD estimates that $US7 trillion ($10 trillion) has been stashed away, while anti-haven campaigners say the true figure is at least $US11.5 trillion. Say what?  $1,000,000,000,000 that’s one trillion dollars.  Wish I had a bank balance […]

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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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Golden Compass

News Story The Vatican has been saying some very nasty things about the Golden Compass. The previews on the telly look really good – we’ll be doing a family trip to see it. Its about time that the Pope pull his mitre down a little harder, enough to cover his eyes. The world does not […]

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How much?

News Story The sale of piece of 710 year old parchment has fetched over $21 million. That’s a lot of money isn’t it. The magna carta is without a doubt one of the most important documents ever written. Even more important than the holy babble. For the first time (well, for the first clearly documented […]

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The World Changes

News Story Europe throws open its borders! Yahoo I say. 400 million citizens of European countries can now travel unhindered through Europe. Its about time we came to realise that we are just people of the same stock. The artificial barriers that we place around ourselves are to keep out people of different language or […]

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