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“Dire Circumstances”: Aussie Wildfires Intensify After Killing Half A Billion Animals; Record Numbers Evacuate
“Dire Circumstances”: Aussie Wildfires Intensify After Killing Half A Billion Animals; Record Numbers Evacuate The brushfires raging across Australia which have killed an estimated 480 million animals have intensified over the last 12 hours, according to NASA, causing a record number of residents evacuate as forecasters predict worsening conditions. Authorities on Friday urged evacuations for Australians living in […]
State Of Emergency Declared In NSW Australia As Deadly Bushfires Rage; Military Deployed
State Of Emergency Declared In NSW Australia As Deadly Bushfires Rage; Military Deployed A seven-day state of emergency has been called in the Australian state of New South Wales amid raging wildfires that have killed eight people in the region since Monday, including volunteer firefighters, according to officials. Military helicopters and naval vessels have been […]
Peak oil in Asia: where will the oil come from for the Asian Century?
Peak oil in Asia: where will the oil come from for the Asian Century? Asian oil production peaked above 8 mb/d for the period between 2008 and 2016 (with spikes in 2010 and 2015). The 2015 peak was mainly caused by peak oil in China. Since then Asia’s decline was almost 800 kb/d or 9%. […]
Use of “Hidden Debt Loophole” Spreads Among Australian Corporations
Use of “Hidden Debt Loophole” Spreads Among Australian Corporations Situation already so bad that hiding debt becomes a priority? Australian engineering group UGL, which is working on large infrastructure projects such as Brisbane’s Cross River Rail and Melbourne’s Metro Trains, recently sent a letter to suppliers and sub-contractors informing them that as of October 15, they will […]
Australia Deploys World’s First Law To Fight Online Extremism
Australia Deploys World’s First Law To Fight Online Extremism In the first application of a controversial new law passed in the wake of the March terror attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand, Australian authorities have ordered five websites to remove extremist content or face prosecution, according to the Financial Times. The material includes video taken by the […]
Australia Lowers Rate to Historic Low of 1%
Australia Lowers Rate to Historic Low of 1% The Reserve Bank of Australia has cut the official cash rate for the second month in a row to 1%. As we head into the turning point of the Economic Confidence Model come January 2020, the unemployment rate increased to 5.2% in April. GDP growth remains very […]
Lawlessness
Lawlessness With the news that Julian Assange is “wasting away” in Belmarsh prison hospital, and with UN rapporteur Professor Nils Melzer’s report detailing how this happens, I’m once again drawn towards the lawlessness that all “authorities” involved in his case have been displaying, and with impunity. They all apparently think they are literally above the […]
More Police Raids As War On Journalism Escalates Worldwide
More Police Raids As War On Journalism Escalates Worldwide The Australian Federal Police have conducted two raids on journalists and seized documents in purportedly unrelated incidents in the span of just two days. Yesterday the AFP raided the home of News Corp Australia journalist Annika Smethurst, seeking information related to her investigative report last year which exposed the […]
Australian Police Raid National Broadcaster Over Leaked Afghan War Crime Stories
Australian Police Raid National Broadcaster Over Leaked Afghan War Crime Stories Australian federal police officers raided the Sydney headquarters of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) over a series of 2017 reports known as The Afghan Files, which exposed crimes committed by special forces in Afghanistan based on hundreds of pages of leaked defense documents marked AUSTEO (Australian Eyes […]
Floods And Drought Devastate Crops All Over The Planet – Could A Global Food Crisis Be Coming?
Floods And Drought Devastate Crops All Over The Planet – Could A Global Food Crisis Be Coming? It looks like global food production could be well below expectations in 2019, and that could spell big trouble in the months ahead. In recent weeks, I have written extensively about the problems that we have been experiencing […]
Australian Fuel Security Review ignores peak oil in China 2015 (part 3)
Australian Fuel Security Review ignores peak oil in China 2015 (part 3) Australia increased its internal oil dependency & vulnerability Let’s summarize what we covered in part 1 and 2 Australian oil production peaked in the year 2000 while oil consumption is going up relentlessly 3 Australian refineries closed, resulting in fuel imports dramatically increasing, […]
Australian Fuel Security Review ignores peak oil in China 2015 (part 2)
Australian Fuel Security Review ignores peak oil in China 2015 (part 2) Coming back to the 2019 Liquid Security Reviewhttps://www.environment.gov.au/energy/liquid-fuel-security-review-consultation Figures 9-11 in part 1 show how dependent Australia has become on fuel imports from South Korea and Japan, even China. The Review is aware of this, as shown on this map: Note that any […]
Why We Should Not Be Surprised That Murdoch Tabloid’s Favorite Sydney School Pupil Didn’t Join Climate Strike
Why We Should Not Be Surprised That Murdoch Tabloid’s Favorite Sydney School Pupil Didn’t Join Climate Strike Somewhere in the order of 150,000 students went absent from classes in Australia on Friday afternoon for the global “School Strike 4 Climate” marches. In what might be seen as an afternoon practical lesson in democracy, free speech, and civic engagement, students […]
David Holmgren: A Baby Boomers’ Apology
David Holmgren: A Baby Boomers’ Apology There are days, though all too scarce, when very nice surprises come my way. Case in point: yesterday I received a mail from David Holmgren after a long period of radio silence. Australia’s David is one of the fathers of permaculture, along with Bill Mollison, for those few who […]
