The European Parliament is a government body that decides upon the laws that join our people together. Issues like human rights. It is infected by "protest parties" who are only there to act as dead weight opposition but what is what achieving other than making the government of the EU less effective? A strong UK …
Category: Economics
Pollution
Pollution threatens all life. Man made pollution is the result of the industrial revolution and growth. Or it is the result of criminal expansionism? Pollution is the addition of artificial byproducts from unclean industrial activity to a natural environment, too often with unforeseen consequences, or worse, known but hidden consequences. One of the pollutants we …
Corporate Taxation
If Google, Apple, Amazon and other multinational corporations can operate in the UK declaring all corporate profits in low-tax Luxembourg, then all companies that operate in the UK should operate out of a Luxembourg headquarters. They have been set a precedent, which if not legislated against fairly could cause a revolution of sorts, businesses becoming …
Fukushima revisited
Read this in the Guardian just now. Currently about 400 tonnes of groundwater is streaming into the reactor basements from the hills behind the plant each day. The plant has accumulated about 300,000 tonnes of contaminated water, which is being stored in 1,200 tanks occupying a large swath of the Fukushima Daiichi site. Eventually Tepco …
Fracking Earthquakes
A series of earthquakes measuring up to 5.7 on the Richter scale, across Okalahoma, USA were triggered by injection of waste-water from fracking. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) issued a press release yesterday indicating that the magnitude 5.7 earthquake that struck Prague, Oklahoma in 2011 was unintentionally human-induced. The USGS claims that the magnitude …
Will fracking bring it on?
The nature of the ground underneath us is that it is not the singularly solid mass we perceive. Our point of view is relatively spec like tiny and the size even of a country is hard to encompass as a personal experience. There is a lot of ground underneath us and drilling out ancient residues …
The NSA and the Economy
President Obama told key members of Congress on Thursday that he was "open to suggestions" for reforming the National Security Agency surveillance programs that have embroiled his administration in controversy. Guardian article President Obama wants to pull back the NSA's far too extensive phone tap of the world and internet. It is uneconomic activity. American …
Change the Tide
A divergence between the balance sheet of the US Federal Reserve and the price of Gold has appeared and what is interesting about this is that this has not happened previously. Why? Does the massive large upward value of the assets of the Fed tracking gold showing this divergence mean the US has sold gold …
Progress
Progress dictates that we determine our future based not on history but on future needs. We did not need an industrial sector before we had one. The service sector is the largest employer and supplier of needs. Without technology and medicine, today's world would be pretty awful. Those primary elements of productivity are not the …
Primary Industry and the recovery
An argument against the assertion: "In political-economic reality, we're still reliant on fossil fuels" If all economic activity were purely there to convert energy, maybe that would make sense. But economic activity is actually to manage resources necessary for life. We do not have to progress into some kind of mythic space age to be …