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Pacific Brands trying to rip us off again

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The Rudd Government appears largely powerless to stop the company from getting most of the funding despite the loss of 1850 jobs.

“Yes, we have an application for funding,” a company spokesman said. “It’s for money spent on Australian-based research and development.”   A spokeswoman for Industry Minister Kim Carr, said the grants process was “not a process the Government controls” and was “done at arm’s length”.

Well, if that is the case, why is Prime Minister Rudd claiming he will demand previous funding be returned.  The government had better get used to the idea that we are not in a mood to accept that as an excuse.

Pacific Brands was given support by the Australian government over a long period of time, and most of that occurred during the previous government. “There is nothing we can directly do to stop that, but what we can do is talk to those companies about what additional assistance may be required.

… and they must hold the companies accountable for the use of grant moneys.  I guess the  Australian based research grant worth $7 million will be spent on finding the cheapest manufacturing of their products

The Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union’s Ms O’Neil said the Government should continue to press the company to reverse its decision and, if that failed, broker serious discussions about selling it off to a local interest.  A threatened product boycott has not been activated while officials work through options to try to save the jobs.

If that is what it takes, then let’s get on with it whilst the population of Australia is still angry

Written by Greg Naylor

8 March 2009 at 12:30 am

A concept who’s time has come

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Global consciousness

“Although technological powers will be vast and progress will likely be made, the normal level of social resistance and political stalemate is likely to oppose change. Thus, it may take an occasional environmental collapse, global wars and terrorism, or yet unknown calamities to force the move to global consciousness.”

William E. Halal, Emerging Technologies and the Global Crisis of Maturity
We can only hope the global economic crisis is the unknown calamity we need to get the world’s leaders reading off the same page empowering them to reach equitable agreeement on a sustainable economic system, a sustainable environment, and a sustainable food supply.

No longer can any one country expect to dominate the financial system, the ‘free market’ system of protectionism, or the threat of world domination though military action.

The weight of population and currency lies with China and India and we can expect them to make their expectations known in return for bailing out the collapsed fiat monetary system.

The development of the European Union sharing a common currency and legal system is already expressing its thoughts on the excesses of Wall Street dragging down their economies.

“The market will sort it out” is a redundant concept.  The ‘market’ itself is broken beyond repair.

When the G20 meets in April, we can only hope for some extraordinary outcomes that will set the direction of an equitable New World Order which has been mooted for just on half a century.

Written by Greg Naylor

26 February 2009 at 12:30 am

Social Engineering underway in Britain

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Big Brother rules in Britain

An emerging police state?

As England moves toward it’s version of the New World Order, we have already noted their excessive CCTV surveillance policy in pubs and restaurants as well as their move to have ‘energy police’ call on every household to ensure their citizens are not wasting energy.

Now we find:

waste collection crews are being issued with devices featuring GPS technology that allow councils to store a history of information about individual rubbish collections, including whether householders are failing to recycle properly.

Using new technology to build a better world is one thing, using it to monitor (or police) the population is quite another.

Written by Greg Naylor

25 February 2009 at 12:23 am