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Unholy wealth is only the beginning

Unholy wealth is only the beginning

Geoff Ebbs /15 February, 2018

The Age special investigation by Royce Millar, Ben Schneiders and Chris Vedelago into Catholic Inc has unleashed a storm of controversy about the stinginess of the Church in response to child sex abuse victims. It is a valuable piece of research that justifiably triggers strong emotions in the largely irreligious Australian population. The image of Continue Reading →

Sanchi on fire

Million barrel oil spill heads for Japan

Geoff Ebbs /14 February, 2018

The oil from sunken tanker Sanchi is heading for Korean and Japanese fisheries according to the British National Oceanography Centre. The tanker sank two weeks after crashing with a cargo ship in the East China Sea on January 6th. Registered in Panama and owned by Iranian interests the Sanchi was carrying 136,000 tonnes (960,000 barrels) Continue Reading →

Politicians for sale in the US

Wealth buys silence

Geoff Ebbs /14 February, 2018

The figures are in. 38 climate denying senators have received three quarters of a million dollars each from fossil fuel interests with the price of a member of Congress denying the science being about one third that. In total fossil, fuel interests have directly spent over 97 million dollars paying the currently sitting US Senators Continue Reading →

Climate disasters damage US economy

Climate chaos costs US a staggering $306 billion

Geoff Ebbs /14 February, 2018

In 2017 alone, sixteen $1 billion-plus weather- and climate-related events killed some 362 people in the US and cost the national economy  $306 billion. This is a record for natual disasters and appears to be the shape of things to come. This represents 1.6% of the total US economy at a time when the economy Continue Reading →

Child Abuse Commission

Are the righteous nastier?

Geoff Ebbs /8 January, 2018

It is tempting to think that faith in a higher being leads naturally to a sense of righteousness as a precursor of cruelty. Watching Salvation Army welfare workers begrudgingly dole out food vouchers to women imported as mail-order brides and then dumped might lead one to make this connection. Observing Catholic family counsellors pressure women Continue Reading →

Russian PMC in Syria

Russia’s corporate army in Syria

Geoff Ebbs /12 December, 2017

Source: Al-Monitor  As the civil war in Syria officially draws to a close, the imperial states withdraw with much media fanfare. Their influence, though, remains in the form of corporate armies paid by national governments to maintain the pressure where their interests demand. Russia maintains a significant corporate army in Syria, though it has stepped Continue Reading →