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Poster after poster on PO.com (of all nationalities) has decided that the population density of the UK vs land available (amongst a million other factors) means that PO is going to kill everyone in the UK! The lack of interest in facts and a tendancy to fall back on dogma is not the exclusive domai...

Man, they are going to get a whole lot of free advertising over the next few years

The thing is, exactly WHY have things reached "a very critical moment" ? For no other reasons than we wanted it to. We are spoiling for a fight and we'll do whatever it takes to get that. If only the same were true of a peacful solution. Does anyone really know why the EU are backing the U...

EU fails to reach Iran nuclear agreement Agencies Friday March 3, 2006 http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,1722985,00.html Javier Solana, the EU foreign policy chief, said the nuclear impasse had reached "a very critical moment" and added: "We have expressed that very clearly to o...

Totally_Baffled wrote: Ok ok we are a different generation , but in the end , the idiots,chavs, rioters, and anyone else who doesnt play the austerity ball game will have to be shot !

Totally_Baffled for PRESIDENT

clv101 wrote:Deloitte have produced a fantastic report on the state of electricity production in the UK to 2020. It's fair to say they recognise the looming energy gap!

Stunning Clarity From Deloitte

Deloitte Report

Nice find, nice blogspot, good one.

The Fantasy of State Protection by Stefan Molyneu February 27, 2006 http://www.antiwar.com/orig/molyneux.php?articleid=8604 It is entirely to be expected, of course. Governments protect their own interests, not those of their citizens. However, it does illuminate an interesting point, which is that ...

A chilling threat in freedom's land 2/22/2006 By LEONARD PITTS http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20060222/1017769.asp?PFVer=Story The following happened in the United States of America on Feb. 9 of this year. The scene is the Little Falls branch of the Montgomery County Public Library in Bethesda...

Two bombs rock Iranian oil cities Mon Feb 27, 2006 10:16 AM GMT170 http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyid=2006-02-27T101627Z_01_OLI724373_RTRUKOC_0_UK-IRAN-BOMBS.xml TEHRAN (Reuters) - Two bombs exploded in the southern Iranian cities of Dezful and Abadan on Mond...

For the sake of the world's poor, we must keep the wealthy at home George Monbiot Tuesday February 28, 2006 The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,1719728,00.html This is now broadly understood by almost everyone I meet. But it has had no impact whatever on their behaviour. When...

When it won't need a tyranny to deprive us of our freedom George Monbiot Tuesday February 21, 2006 The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,1714256,00.html There will be no dramatic developments. We will not step out of our homes one morning to discover that the state, or our boss...

Debt agencies hire more staff as crisis deepens By Paul Farrow (Filed: 01/03/2006) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2006/03/01/cmndebt01.xml&menuId=244&sSheet=/money/2006/02/27/ixperson.html Mark Oynett of TDX said the number of call centre staff dealing with people who...

I don't really buy into the idea that oil can be successfully (and energetically at a profit) be extracted from another country by force. I don't doubt resource wars will happen (are already happening?) but I do doubt that they will be effective/successful. I agree with you 100%. Likely the only po...

Air strikes. No nukes, just strike symbolic and infrastruture targets. How does that encourage Venezuela to sell oil to the US. It seems to me that is the US did strike Venezuela not a single Venezuelan would want to sell oil to the US. FIrstly, let me point out I wasn't saying it was a good idea. ...

I'm not so sure. What can the US do? Its troops are all tied up elsewhere and I cant see them getting away with nuking a country simply because it wont give them oil! Air strikes. No nukes, just strike symbolic and infrastruture targets. They likely would only have to do it once, to one country, an...