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• EPA Announces CO2 Danger to Humans. Say Goodbye to Your Money.

  
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  With the declaration of carbon dioxide, the same gas we exhale when we breath and the same gas that supports all of life on Earth starting with plants that are required to produce Oxygen, as a danger to man, we now can look forward to the cost of everything we buy and need for life to skyrocket, starting with our ...
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• Honolulu Rail Greenhouse Gas Emissions

  
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  Got this press release from the SBH Foundation: Release of a Honolulu Rail Greenhouse Gas Emissions Analysis Tuesday, December 8, 2009 The Small Business Hawaii Entrepreneurial Education Foundation (SBH Foundation) will hold a press conference on the steps of Honolulu Hale, City Hall, Tuesday, December ...
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• Tethered to the Cost Curve

  
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  Thursday’s editorial contemplates the fact that, in a dishearteningillustration of how Washingtonworks, the “massive overhaul” of health care just isn’t going to have mucheffect on most Americans. Democrats have made much hay thisweek over a report released Monday that says their health-reform ...
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• Landing in Hilo

  
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  This is a video clip of Hawaiian Airlines flight 342, Boeing 717-200, N479HA flying into Hilo and landing at the airport on Novmeber 24, 2009. This was shot on my last trip to the Big Island this month. I paid $49 to fly each way from Honolulu to Hilo and back. This month for my next trip to Hilo airfares have ...
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• Fuel Poverty

  
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  One of this Government’s big promises was to tackle fuel poverty but, sadly, it’s not happening.  The number of people who are struggling to pay their bills or who severely limit their home energy usage due to money worries, is rocketing. Earlier today, I attended the Wirral Fuel Poverty Forum.  Wirral’s Home ...
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• Grocery Shopping Cost Of Living Shopping Prices

  
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  The cost of living has become painful. One trip to the gas station and grocery store will clearly put you in touch with this pain. As painful as the $4.00 per gallon for gas is, it represents less than 3.5 percent of the family budget. Their food purchase is almost 4 times as much in [...]
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• Stimulus Stimulated Much of Nothing in Illinois

  
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  The Chicago Tribune has an interesting story that shows that Obama’s $787 billion stimulus really didn’t do much by way of creating any new jobs in Illinois. Though Obama is counting “jobs saved” as some sort of success story, the fact is few jobs have been created and nothing will be sustainable after the ...
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• World Food Production Up – Hunger Too

  
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  Posted by Irresponsibility As the First World frets about how to fight the Christmas flab the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports: “ In 2008 the number of undernourished people in the world increased by 40 million “. Not, as you might think, because of climate change, crop ...
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• Food banks go high-tech to feed the hungry

  
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  Food banks across the country are undergoing a high-tech revolution, adopting sophisticated databases, bar coding, GPS tracking, automated warehouses and other technologies used in the food industry that increasingly supplies their goods.It’s a long way from handing out macaroni and canned soup from a church ...
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• Reducing the cost of living – the Lean way

  
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  Jeisilan Sivalingam How can we become more efficient and effective while at the same time reduce costs? In these incredibly tough budget times, you would think government agencies would be trying to emulate private enterprises and be working extra hard to find ways of doing things more efficiently. ...
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• Why is customer service getting so bad in New Zealand?

  
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  Just this last year – companies in New Zealand seen to have gone absolutely doolally with their customer service. As in there isn’t any. Its always been one of the things I really appreciated about life here – that customer service was generally top notch – so much so that it was really noticeable when [...]
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• It always ends.

  
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  I know, I know.  Regular updates will be back soon.  For now, an ominous tattoo for everyone to read too much into. Ron’s tattoo is from Neil Gaiman’s Death: The High Cost of Living .  This is Ron’s story: I broke up with my ex girlfriend in 2007; she was my high school crush (I’ve known her for ...
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• The Ups And Downs Of Broadway

  
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  The Ups And Downs Of Broadway As those of you who follow my tweets on Twitter know, I follow Broadway box office totals the way sports fans follow the scores. I like knowing whats up and whats down, the shows that are making the most gains, as well as those teetering on the edge of closing notices. Fortunately, I ...
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• Charts of the Day

  
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  First up, the obligatory Opposition leadership speculation chart. Next up, a few people have asked whether anyone runs a “Country heading in the Right/Wrong Direction?” question in the polls and how it stacks up. Well, Morgan does and it pretty much walks hand in hand with PM satisfaction ratings. ...
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• Beware of nails

  
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  If your tires scream when you round a blind turn you might want to check em. They may not just be low you could easily have picked up a nail as we did. Weve talked to several people lately whove had the bad luck of picking up a clavo, nail...
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• Cost of living for pensioners leaves CPI in its wake

  
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  The inflation rate was 1.3 per cent in the past year - unless you’re an age pensioner, in which case it was 2.4 per cent, official figures show.In the past five years, the consumer price index (CPI) has risen by 16 per cent, but most age pensioners would not be surprised to find official figures [...]
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• Argghhh – why all these “extra” charges???

  
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  My perennial favourite of course being the patently ridiculous “Automatic Payment Loading Fee” the bank charges me to do their job for them and set up a standing order – but just this week I have seen three almost as ridiculous examples of spurious rip offs.First goes to Ticketec. Now they always add silly ...
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• Work At Home Ideas Home Based Business Opportunities

  
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  The cost of living is increasing day by day almost everywhere the world. Hence, both folks ought to go for a job. However it becomes difficult to pay time with the children. Work at home helps those that need to stay at home to look after their children and conjointly wish to stabilize their financial position. ...
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• Comparing A 9 To 5 Job With Working At Home Doing Affiliate Marketing

  
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  Compare what you will exchange for a 9 to 5 job in the office to becoming an affiliate marketer working from home and making money from internet affiliate programs for free. In a 9 to 5 job in an office your promotional aspects are limited unless you are one of the few exceptional wiz kids [...]
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• Cost of Living – Apparel Crisis

  
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  Recently, a friend received a “Remember When” booklet on her birthday.  For those that don’t know, they are fun little pamphlets from the year you were born. They’re filled with news, photos, advertisements and other hilarious events form your particular birth year.  Well, this one contained a rather ...
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