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Cash is useful in almost any scenario for buying stuff and services from people who still believe they can exchange it for something else - especially those who believe that "normality" will return at some point. As indeed it will in most scenarios, even if the value of paper notes in term...

Just to highlight a few more issues behind the Trident vote try this: http://www.thecanary.co/2016/07/18/truth-trident-shocking-fact-turn-us-paying-nukes/ I particulary like the delicious irony in the fact that as a taxpayer I own part of RBS who not only finance the firms who build and maintain Tri...

Here's a sound prediction - assuming the revolution hasn't started then by the end of 2015 everything will be much the same only a bit worse overall for most people. Of course there is an outside chance that the revolution might have started. With Green membership now at a similar level to the kippe...

Isn't this (the OP) just a restatement of what Chomsky was talking about in Manufacrturing Consent 20 odd years ago? And has been well understood by all those who have one foot even partially outside the dominant systeme-de-jour since the dawn of time. Syria//Ukraine, Cambodia//East Timor and so on....

and for comparisson human population since 1970 has very nearly doubled (3.7B to 7.2B)
Of course human population will also rapidly shrink if this goes on much longer

Getting an error page when I try to PM admin Adam2 re location of the "long running" electricty thread in the News forum.

I don't think it is a paywall, you just have to answer a silly survey question and the text is revealed.

From the FT website today http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2d3c0786-329b-11e4-93c6-00144feabdc0.html Emergency supplies of electricity are being sought by the National Grid for this winter because of the threat of shortages of output from the UK’s coal, gas and nuclear power stations. National Grid said on...

The distinction between people who own the means of production and people who work for the owners of the means of production (whether as "managers" or "workers") seems a different type of distinction than that between the managers and the workers (the manager/worker distinction i...

Not sure if this http://www.tullettprebon.com/Documents/strategyinsights/TPSI_009_Perfect_Storm_009.pdf has been discussed on here before but it didn't come up when I searched. It was published earlier this year. I stumbled upon it and found it (and some of the other things on their website) quite i...

Naughty mates probably don't use any form of electronic or telephonic communication except in very specific circumstances leveraging the capabilities of the system to undermine it - and then under very strict conditions of anonymity as alluded to above. Non-naughty mates of naughty people use the fu...

vtsnowedin wrote:Sure you can. In America they call themselves Democrats.

Only an american could imagine that the US Democratic Party were socialists!

No real surprise there - just confirmation that the only way to avoid dangerous climate change in the real world is to stop using fossil fuels. Period. And ALL that that implies. End of story.

Hi Hagrid Ironically we moved out three weeks ago and are currently renting in Taunton pending shifting of lifestyle - looking to come back to E Cornwall, N Cornwall, mid-Devon with land for a personal resilience project. I just hope that the music doesn't stop while all our money is in the bank ins...

James Sandler Beckett Sanity check completed.
Result negative.
All systems go.

all normal then, no sanity here, move along please...