Jeanne Bastos

Marrackville street festival on Sunday
Perhaps the broadest mix of cultures anywhere.
New to me was the lovely Jeanne Bastos
Salsa in Portugese, adding to the Greek, Vietnamese Saooan etc polyglot crowd.

Turns out that JB co-hosts "Brazil SOS Brazil"
89.7 Eastside radio Tues 2100 - 2400
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Also saw new Aus file "Little Fish" which is great but will sink like a stone. The middle class in the movie are Vietnamese and the protagonists are white junkies, half of whom cark it. Sort of a successor to the fabulous extreme "Pure Shit" of 1976. But not a crowd pleaser, except for cineasts and ex-junkies.
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Last Chance Texaco... Peak Oil:
I recently heard about "BottleBrush" drilling - water pumped into oil well through many branches. The interesting thing is that when the water table rises the well stops suddenly.
. In Australia, another kind of positive feedback is operating. China's boom is sucking commodities from the mines here, and the stockmarket is booming.. So its all great until its not.
. Talk to any car driver and they will say they will keep driving at any petrol price. Which completely misses the point. At some level, the oil price, which effects everything in the economy, will trigger a collapse. Its not a simple question of "what price will get car drivers to walk" - most can't wlk to work, and post-crash their jobs wont be there to walk to.
So we are in a race here: will the worlds economies crash before or after the CO2 has caused dozens of category 5 typhoons across Queensland, China, Mississippi? The crash will be worse than the hurricanes. Meantime, blithely burn on. The best estimate so far is Hubberts peak will occur in November this year.