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Recently in Naples we saw the classic pea and shell game being played on the street. The shell master wasn’t always winning, either, and sometimes he had to pay out to his sharp-eyed betters.
The markets are now playing a similar game with the banks around bets over where the […] Continue Reading…
Here’s another hockey stick graph. Interesting to compare it to the Michael Mann Hockey Stick that Al Gore used so effectively.
Gore’s Hockey Stick uses just the last five percent of this gr aph and makes you think that the temperature is about to explode. This graph shows some quite […] Continue Reading…
It takes big news for Australia to rate a mention in Europe, but the carbon tax was all over CNN in Italy. A big tick to Julia for having the guts to put together a plan that covers most of the issues, isn’t too hard on business and doesn’t […] Continue Reading…
Gerry Harvey is taking a battering from the Internet. First from online competitors to his bricks and mortar retailing operation, now from online vigilantes who are organising a boycott of his stores because he is selling furniture made from legally (yes, you did read that right) harvested Australian timber.
I’m still […] Continue Reading…
Bob Brown tells us that because of global warming storms are getting more severe. Kevin Rudd told us that because of global warming we were in drought.
Now the CSIRO tells us that we were in drought because storms were weaker.
Dr Jorgen Frederiksen from the the CSIRO says there has […] Continue Reading…
by Nattavud Pimpa
Ms.Yingluck Shinawatra, the sister of ousted PM Thaksin Shinawatra, has brought various interesting dimensions to the contemporary Thai politics. Apart from being the potential first female Prime Minister (PM) of Thailand (and 16th female PM in the World), Yingluck focuses on her political policies, not the segregation […] Continue Reading…
What would Italy be like if the Christian religion had forbidden the creation of paintings, frescoes and statues that tell its stories? And why did they build so many churches when the population must have been so small? By chance, I read Ken Follett’s Pillars of the Earth my […] Continue Reading…
I recently asked Gerry Harvey to “phone me” because I had some free advice for him about his campaign against GST free online purchases.
Now I have some more free advice from him sourced from Minyanville, who provided the handy info-graphic at the end of this post.
The graphic compares Amazon […] Continue Reading…
On Line Opinion is currently running a feature Fight for Equality prefaced on the assumption that women aren’t occupying high office in the numbers they should.
But perhaps we are a little behind the times. Debra Calder’s mum Florence Bambrick turns 100 this Friday (Debra is significant because she does […] Continue Reading…
Dear Alistair,
I thank you for your comments to my letter, G’day Australia.You are obviously also passionate, as am I, on this issue. While I do not wish to end up in a personal slanging match with you, you have also raised some very relevant points that I may or […] Continue Reading…