photo credit: avlxyz Renegade Economists Podcast 92 As broadcast on the almighty 3CR on Wed June 3rd, 2009. Subscribe to the podcast by searching in the Itunes Store for ‘Renegade Economists’ Rebuilding Post Bushfires: Daryl Taylor & Steb Fisher from the Kinglake community discuss issues effecting the bushfire ravaged community in this grass roots recovery operation. Radiothon next week – … 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
Crisis in Democracy Looming
photo credit: unusualimage Sometime soon someone will write an article on how lobbyocracy has subverted the public’s interest at the expense of the community’s in a staggering number of projects. One just has to have read John Perkin’s Economic Hitman to understand that the major projects announced in Victoria (Channel deepening, North- South pipeline, De-Sal plant plus roads and new … Read More