photo credit: Stephen Barnett The infamous Goyder Line raises important issues for those concerned about climate change. The climate’s influence in drastically increasing the amount of marginal land and the flow through effects this will have on wages, communities and common sense are important issues we should all understand. Our unique commentary follows… Charles Gent from Inside Story THE MODEST … Read More
Funding our Future
photo credit: publik15 Renegade Economist Podcast 91 As broadcast on the almighty 3CR on Wed May 27th, 2009. Subscribe to the podcast Funding our Future: Age journalist and Co-Editor Dissent magazine Kenneth Davidson discusses deficit misnomers, the French reclaimation of public water rights and the debt trap cost-hello engineered. Show Notes: JOAR – Uranium Corporation of India Ltd stolen land … Read More
Bollier on The Great Seabed Enclosure
David Bollier, author of the recently released Viral Spiral, on yet another aspect of the privateers’ frontiers: A few years ago, Russia sent a submersible craft 4 kilometers beneath the North Pole to plant a titanium flag on the floor of the ocean. Its purpose: to stake a claim on the continental shelf where there may exist oil, gas and … Read More
FHOG Goes International ;(
photo credit: Hamed Parham The First Home Owners Grant nightmare continues, with elements of it borrowed and extended by the American HUD. Young US home dreamers will suffer like we have: Two new applications of the federal tax incentive for first time homebuyers – allowing them to use the $8,000 credit for down payments and on land contracts -will allow … Read More
The Economics of War – Cutting Natural Resources Out of the Equation
photo credit: gruntzooki David Smiley – Research Associate in the Department of Economics at Macquarie Uni In a previous article we tracked the failures of massive international efforts to reduce four global problems: poverty, human rights abuses, the degradation of the planet, and war. We asserted that these four problems cannot be solved separately and that none can be solved … Read More