Privateering the Commons

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photo credit: Peter Blanchard Renegade Economists Podcast 88 Subscribe to the podcast As broadcast on the almighty www.3cr.org.au on Wed May 6th. This week we discuss the frontiers of privatisation – from DNA to deserts to even the use of words! We also interview Mark Wakeham (EV) & Peter Campbell (Green Living Pedia) about Victoria’s pathetic solar feed in tariff. … Read More

Greenwash to wedge politics

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photo credit: corvidmagic The world of pass-the-buck hit home with Rudd’s cop out yesterday. It’s too hard for us, let’s ‘leave it to Obama to sort it out in Copenhagen’. Perhaps Obama has given the ALP a get out of jail card with the Democrat’s Waxman-Markey Bill beginning it’s long path through Congress. The US seems to be moving towards … Read More

FHOG = FOG

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photo credit: Hitchster Renegade Economists Podcast 87 Subscribe to the podcast As broadcast on the almighty www.3cr.org.au on Wed April 29th. FHOG = FOG: John Poulter discusses Macquarie Bank, Postcode Swapping and the basic principles to a productive economy. Stop subsidising the wealthy with economic trickery! Show Notes: Anything in italics is an additional comment by us End speculation on … Read More

Populationist Pressures Unravelled

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photo credit: notsogoodphotography Can land tenure reforms eliminate the neo-Malthusian poverty-environment trap? High birth rates predominantly occur where health and education is low. This in turn results from a negligent revenue raising system. Check the United Nations World Population Prospects report list of population growth rates by country and you will see a dominance in the higher echelons of poorer … Read More

Earth Day upside down

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photo credit: anarchosyn Renegade Economists Podcast 86 Subscribe to the podcast As broadcast on the almighty www.3cr.org.au on Wed April 22nd. Down under, upside down view of the world and the economics that sculpts it as we interview Environmental Lawyer Kim Lovegrove on the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme and lay out the future litigative pathway some babyboomers will face. Like … Read More