Archive for November, 2009
Friday, November 27th, 2009
Some interesting Search Engine statistics (well I think they are interesting!).
The exact phrase "New Zealand" gets 18000 searches a day on Google. The exact phrase "Lord of the Rings" gets 27000 searches a day - 50% more. (There are 164,000 searches a day that contain the words "lord of the ...
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Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
Here's another take on the ongoing disaster that the National Party is foisting upon us - you know, the ETS disaster - the new National Party bill that is likely to be pushed through Parliament with no public debate.
The bonehead climate change strategy that is nothing short of enforced economic ...
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Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
It looks like "Water Wars" are heading to your local planet.
There are two types:
LOCALISED WATER WARS
Two examples:
1) The "Bolivian Water Wars". (In Bolivia civil disobedience prevented Bechtel from privatizing the water supply. Yes that's right - Bechtel - the same company that partnered with McConnell Dowell to work with Meridian ...
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Thursday, November 12th, 2009
"Taxpayers will be stuck with 84 per cent of the bill for meeting New Zealand's obligation under the Kyoto Protocol, while farmers and large industrial emitters get hefty subsidies, according to a report out today. " NZ Herald 12th November 2009.
<RANT> I reckon the Kyoto rort is actually worse than ...
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