G20: Hail to the Location Louts

Fred Harrison's latest effort to enlighten us."The G20 leaders meeting in Washington this weekend want us to believe that they are setting a new course for the global economy. They are in fact setting up the next...

AUSTRALIA: Single workers miss a place on the PM's lifeboat

Karl Fitzgerald and Alice Bleby present the sizzling Renegade Economists radio show on Wednesday afternoons, in Melbourne, Australia. The show features important interviews with the best renegade economists from...

Archbishops attack financial 'bank robbers' and profiteers

The Anglican's most senior clerics have angered bankers and other financial institution workers by labelling them 'bank robbers' and 'asset strippers'.Some think that they've gone too far and are talking Marxist...

Cheap Gas Not a US Right

This puts the debate over the assumed US "right to cheap gas" in perspective from a non-emotional point of view.   " McCain, Obama Equally Gassy on Oil Demagoguing and economic ignorance on gas prices ...

SOS Now ‘hardly a recipe for success…’

Eight days ago, I wrote and published a post, Open Letter to Airline Customers Misses Mark, in which I explained how I had cast aside my initial inclination to side with airline executives on the matter of oil speculators in favor of Hugh Hewitt’s more-sensible stance on...

Oil and Natural Gas Prices Falling Again!

Tuesday, July 29: Crude Oil Prices continue to go Down! Bloomburg's reports oil at: $121.74. US Dollar strengthens. Gas at the pump trails slowly. Guess those Robber Barons are reluctant to let their record breaking profits decline too.We need to keep the pressure on them and...

We will all need a drink if we don't do something and fast

LEGISLATION IS BEING PROPOSED FROM GERMANY FRANCE AND EVEN IN THE U.S. TO STOP OIL SPECULATORS CAUSING A HUGE RECESSION To prevent the continued speculation on oil prices leading to a world wide recession country...

Survey: 3 Out of 4 Angry About High Gas Prices

"June 27, 2008 Red states and blue states are united on at least one issue: Americans are increasingly angry and anxious about high gas prices and favor far-reaching action on energy and climate issues, according to a new poll. About three out of four Americans and a...

Crisis looms for airlines

For anyone who has been paying attention, the perils of peak oil have been obvious for some time now.  But if you think you're getting pinched at the pump imagine what it must be like to fuel up a 747? ...

Offshore Drilling Won’t Stop Oil Profit Inflation

http://structuraleconissues.blogspot.com/The oil industry is continuing to suggest through its surrogate ‘body snatched’ republican Presidential candidate that offshore drilling for oil will somehow miraculously lower retail gasoline and diesel prices. This argument...

U.S. lawmakers urged to curb oil speculators

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorYou know "Pigs will Fly" if any Government had the balls to even touch this with a 10 foot oil dipstick." U.S. lawmakers urged to curb oil speculators Price would fall...

Germany: High Oil Prices are Painful for Us too!

In light of all of the complaints in the US about high oil prices and gas, today's article in Germany's newspaper, the Spiegel, outlined that this is a global problem that is also affecting Germany and people all...

Nigeria attacks boost oil price

Oil supply fears have been exacerbated after an anti government group in Nigeria had threatned to stop Royal Dutch Shell pipeline. This threat will increaase the pressure on oil supply and...

TARA: Life inside the protest camp

This report from the Irish Times gives a great insight into what's happening at the Rath Lugh National Monument near the Hill of Tara. This article is available online to subscribers only, so I'll post excerpts below, and post the entire article here:...

Credit crunch batters Japanese housewives

The $US2.5 billion that Japanese individuals lost last month was just a minuscule fraction of the nation's overall household savings, say some analysts."It's comparable to what Japan spends in two weeks on...

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