Public Address 17/07/09 - The End of Consumerism

Chocolate elitism | Jul 17, 2009 11:12
Russell Brown's Hard News
Someone else has covered off the death of consumerism today. This leaves me free to talk about chocolate. I really like chocolate. I do not like big-bar commercial chocolate, so Cadbury's recent decision to make its chocolate even worse (and even more ethically dubious) by putting palm oil in it... http://publicaddress.net/6053

The End of Consumerism | Jul 17, 2009 09:00
GUEST: Ken Aldous, scientist and former optimist, reminds us that history isn't bunk. Henry Ford may not have been a great intellectual, and he entertained some profoundly politically incorrect opinions, but he was an accomplished engineer, a brilliant manager, and a creative inventor and businessman. He is, of course, famous for implementing assembly line production of motor vehicles, but his greatest contribution, according... http://publicaddress.net/6051

The Prime Minister Has Spoken | Jul 17, 2009 06:53
David Slack is trading at 64 cents this morning.
My father earned export income for New Zealand and so did his father, and his father before him. So do I. They earned it by putting in strainer posts, and shearing, and drenching, and dagging, and sewing up wool bales. I earn it by selling noughts and ones to Americans... http://publicaddress.net/6052

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