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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
The John James Newsletter 151 13 December 2016 Anyone who has surplus funds should be holding gold and silver because the dollar should be priced as toilet paper. The Fed’s massive increase in supply of money is not matched by goods and services. We don’t have hyperinflation because most of that money went into financial Continue Reading →
The John James Newsletter 158 28 January 2017 Trump will squeeze every last cent from oil and coal reserves before them become worthless. George Monbiot Ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy justice can have James Baldwin Finding band-aids on a sinking ship are much easier than finding the captain, convincing him the Continue Reading →