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If you see maintaining BAU as a conspiracy then fine, otherwise, Andy's outline should simply be called a five year plan ! Was that an intentional allusion to Stalinist dictatorship? http://bp3.blogger.com/_NzHG4HjtdwI/RqTL35y26mI/AAAAAAAAABM/4G2aSKeXGS4/s400/26.jpg Let's accomplish the plan of gre...

Mardy bums. IEA Statement on Unauthorised Press Coverage of World Energy Outlook 2008 The Financial Times carried a cover page article this morning and a second article on page 4 allegedly reporting on the findings of the forthcoming WEO 2008. This article was drafted without any consultation with ...

I have great difficulty in believing Greenspan is anything other than the world's best paid charlatan. For starters there is no great mystery surrounding the origin of the "credit tsunami." It was an entirely predictable consequence of a) deregulation and lack of oversight of financial mar...

Simple rule of thumb I have is , the bigger the conspiracy the less likely it is to be kept secret so the longer it goes on the odds are it isnt true and is just a mental timewasting exercise. What basis do you have for this "rule of thumb"? And how do you judge the "size" of a ...

I didnt understand your point, maybe some examples? one obvious one that comes to mind is "did NASA land on the moon?" very contorted stuff and I guess a good undersatnding of astro physics would put one straight, however having little interest in the field I'll fall back on the logic tha...

Simple rule of thumb I have is , the bigger the conspiracy the less likely it is to be kept secret so the longer it goes on the odds are it isnt true and is just a mental timewasting exercise. That rather assumes the grounds most people have for believing or disbelieving in anything have anything m...

So political conspiracies dont exist then ?!? I'm positive they do exist. Coups and subversion were very real in the Cold War as they are today, however I think in retrospect the threats posed to the USA by the USSR to the internal politics of the other was vastly exaggerated. Efforts were directed...

I have already admitted that conspiracies DO exist. It's just that I get tired of the incessant stream of XXX is a conspiracy drivel that we see on the web. Not everything bad or unusual that happen is a conspiracy - yet the web would have you believe that. I think Sturgeon's Law most definitely ap...

As for "do conspiracies exist ?" Why not ask a US president (its that JFK again) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WSGwnz7XpY&NR=1 I'm afraid in this case, context is everything. The terrible international conspiracy theory JFK was promulgating in this speech was the threat of communism...

So what if none of us have personal experience of a major conspiracy? There's a perfectly sensible reason why this should be so. We are, for the most part, humble plebs not only without the means or connections necessary to perpetrate a major conspiracy, but also having reason to fear the law and cr...

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by “Major Conspiracy”. I assume this presumes schemes so outlandish as to cause knee-jerk disbelief. From my own meagre knowledge of history and current affairs I can think of numerous examples of evidence for significant conspiracies, including those that are...

RGR take a second or two to look at the projections made by your own government: http://www.netl.doe.gov/KeyIssues/secure_energy.html Note this chart particularly: http://www.netl.doe.gov/KeyIssues/images/chart-16b.jpg Now, are you seriously trying to argue that a near term conventional oil (and gas...

I'm sure everything will work out just fine!

Yes, it's scary stuff. What's more, it's now being utilised in torture techniques.
Check out this poor sap being subjected to the awful effects of dihydrogen monoxide:

No government has been able to abstain from "deficit spending" when tax incomes dry up and costs increase. They act just like addicts and make utterances like "just this time, its an emergency - we will take care of the structural problems later when things have settled down".. ...