Friday, September 2, 2005
KATRINA REVEALS...
I've had many an arguement in this blog and on this nertwork over the past year or so over environmental and energy matters (among others). Now, Katrina has brought things into sharp focus. It's a tragedy, and I feel for all those caught up in it. But, that said, America clearly needs a couple of...
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Thursday, July 28, 2005
Now YOU Can Do Something!!
Two posts ago I wrote about Tesco. Now I see there's a big push to get the Department of Trade and Industry to stop their unfair practices with respect to their suppliers. Here's the text of the letter to Alan Johnson, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry... I am outraged that Tesco's unfair...
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Thursday, July 21, 2005
Which Label is YOUR Label?
I found myself skimming through "The Illuminatus! Trilogy" by Robert Anton Wilson this morning, looking for a particular passage that TwoDogs had put me in mind of, a comparison of the acts of Nazi Germany in Europe, and the acts of the white invaders towards the Native Americans in what is now the...
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Monday, July 18, 2005
The Store That Ate Britain!
The reason we have a Monopolies & Mergers Commission in the UK is to ensure, at least in theory, that a healthy level of competition is maintained in any given market, to give consumers choice and reasonable prices. (For this discussion, let's leave to one side a rahter pointed question a friend...
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Tuesday, June 21, 2005
The Climate Change Debate is Now Over
One of the reasons for starting this blog many moons ago was to examine the links between the major issues of globalisation, trade, poverty, environmental degradation and climate change. I've had some of my most exciting arguments here over climate change - just stroll back over previous posts on...
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Thursday, June 9, 2005
Bio-Metrics, Bolivia, Global Warming, Live 8 & Aid
It's been a while since I wrote a post in this blog, and I think it's high time I did a multi-topic catch-up. I hear this evening that another knee-jerk piece of US legislation, pushed through Congress in the wake of 9/11, is being quietly shelved. In one of the many fits of Homeland Security...
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Saturday, May 21, 2005
The End of the Rainforests?
Alarming new figures show that the destruction of the Amazon rainforest—the world’s biggest tropical forest—has accelerated. Booming agriculture, especially soya growing, is one of the main culprits IF IT were simply a matter of passing strong laws to protect it, the Amazon rainforest—the world’s...
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Monday, May 16, 2005
ECUADOR GETS CHAVEZ'D
George Bush has someone new to hate. Only twenty-four hours after Ecuador's new president took his oath of office, he was hit by a diplomatic cruise missile fired all the way from Lithuania by Condoleezza Rice, then wandering about Eastern Europe spreading "democracy." Condi called for?a...
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Wednesday, May 4, 2005
You Can Still Stop Them Drilling in the Arctic Refuge!
Both the House and Senate passed a budget resolution Thursday night that paves the way for oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. But keep your chin up! This fight is not over yet, and this is no time to relax our efforts. To complete its raid on the Arctic, Congress must still pass a...
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Saturday, April 9, 2005
Hail to the Robber Baron?
Thirty years ago, President Bush was my student at Harvard Business School. In my class, he called former president Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904, a “socialist” and spoke against Social Security, unemployment insurance, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and other New Deal innovations....
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