While there has been enthusiasm for a recovering global economy, optimism is being dampened by market movements. There are some fundamental concerns about projected consumption levels and production costs. There are a number of geopolitical risks festering around the world: The strife in Hong Kong is being calmed by force. That will be re-assuring now, …
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The “Actual Situation” in Hong Kong is that democracy is happening…
David Webb, who has supported transparent financial markets and open government in Hong Kong for a decade and a half, spoke to the crowds in Hong Kong yesterday. His vision is good for Hong Kong and good for China. And he indicates a way out of the confrontation. The speech is below and on Webb-site.com …
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Twitter watching government watching us.
Another example of unethical behaviour by government (USA in this case) – they demand to know about our every action, but won’t even tell us that they are looking at our personal files. This news comes from Twitter who is sueing the government for demanding private data (which is bad enough) while refusing to allow …
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Your money and your life. What kind of deal is that?
EDF wants to extend the life of a 40 year old nuclear reactor which has cracks in it. So, what do you think that’s about? Money. EDF can patch the reactor to get another decade out of it and all the revenue that comes with it. That is small marginal investment for large incremental cash …
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In my lifetime, we’ve wiped out half earth’s wildlife
And more than doubled the weight of humans (not including all our stuff). Will they all be gone when my children are my age? The latest edition of the Living Planet Report is not for the faint-hearted. The Living Planet Index (LPI), which measures more than 10,000 representative populations of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and …
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Hong Kong is not the Middle East, but …
These pictures make me sad. Hong Kong people are wonderful and in a decade of living there I never felt threatened, not even in Kowloon’s Walled City (admittedly that was in the early 1990s). I believe people are still peaceful, but they are not careless and they want justice and equity, just like everyone else. …
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Standing up to bullies … works?
A senior legal investigator was fired by the FED for standing up to Goldman Sachs and her bosses at the FED. She got fired for doing her job. What happened? She highlighted the corruption in the FED and Goldman Sachs which was protecting bosses and their cash at the expense of Goldman Sachs clients and …
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Irish anglers being fished by the state
Sorry, did I say fished? I meant something else … A two-day International Conference ‘Celebrating River Restoration in Ireland and Europe’ organised by MulkearLIFE and hosted by the project’s coordinating beneficiary Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) took place in Limerick this week. The project received € 1.7 million in public money. Local anglers tried to protest …
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Is Amazon destruction your fault?
Sadly, the truth is that we are all to blame. We demand the paper or burgers or whatever it is for which the tropical woods are consumed. Ok, so you want to deny it or ignore it. That’s OK. Today. But tomorrow we’re all going to have to face the truth. Sooner or later we’ll …
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We’re 20 years away from catastrophe, says PricewaterhouseCoopers.
“Low Carbon Economy Index,” a report released by the accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers, has numerous stark warnings. Sadly they are unlikely to be heeded by those that matter – big companies, governments and people like you and me – because those are the culprits identified in the report. According to the PricewaterhouseCoopers report, “the gap between …
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