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Geoff Ebbs /14 February, 2017
Iran announced earlier this month that it will stop reporting its financial affairs in US dollar from the end of its Fiscal year in March. The nation also tested a ballistic missile causing Israel to demand firm action from the US. Iran immediately suspended all future visas for American citizens in direct response to President Continue Reading →
Geoff Ebbs /12 February, 2017
Fires caused by the extreme heat wave over the weekend have consumed the NSW town of Uarbry leaving around 100 residents homeless. Over 80 fires continue to burn, 23 of them out of control, across Western and Northern NSW. Those areas report the hottest February temperatures on record, while much of Queensland recorded the hottest Continue Reading →
Geoff Ebbs /6 February, 2017
A Chinese factory in Dongguan, Southern China has replaced 90% of its 690 workers with robots resulting in a 150% increase in production and a fall in defects from one in four to one in twenty products. The initiative is part of the Made in China 2025 program that aims to rapidly increase production in Continue Reading →
Geoff Ebbs /6 February, 2017
Prominent medical cannabis advocate, Lucy Haslam says current marijuana laws are so convoluted they will prevent patients buying cannabis. She spoke to the ABC last month. The challenge is that States have carriage of the laws regulating medical cannabis. In October 2016, the federal government legalised the cultivation and manufacture of medicinal cannabis in Australia. Continue Reading →
Geoff Ebbs /6 February, 2017
Bloomberg Energy reported last week that the renewable energy sector in the US now employs more people than coal and is firmly entrenched in rural America where renewable energy income is keeping farmers on the land. Wind and Solar Energy are now cheaper than new coal, costing less than 100 US dollars to produce one Continue Reading →
Geoff Ebbs /6 February, 2017
Seventy six protesters were arrested at the Cannon Ball protest camp at Standing Rock in Dakota last week and the camp was razed to the ground. The police and National Guard acted with the US Army Corp of Engineers under direct orders from President Trump to waive a review of environmental impacts and expedite the Continue Reading →