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Arowx
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Post by Arowx »

Couldn't we just declare the UK as bankrupt?

Or maybe if we just let the debt build up the bank that loaned us will go under and we can clear the debt that way?

What about a C02 tax, for everything, we could go green, avoid peak oil and solve our debt problems :wink:
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Post by kenneal - lagger »

MrG wrote:Also the jewish people didn't have a nation state until one was created for them after WW11. That caused a few problems too.
The Jews had a nation state from the time of King David until it started to break up in Roman times. The break up was continued by the rise of Islam in the Middle East.

I don't think one was created for them. They created it themselves, killing quite a few British soldiers in the process. The Israelis were the first Middle Eastern terrorists and the first Israeli prime minister was a terrorist leader. Can't see why they won't negotiate with Hamas then.
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Post by Blue Peter »

kenneal wrote:I don't think one was created for them. They created it themselves, killing quite a few British soldiers in the process. The Israelis were the first Middle Eastern terrorists and the first Israeli prime minister was a terrorist leader. Can't see why they won't negotiate with Hamas then.
I think that numerically, the biggest terrorist attack on British subjects was the bombing of the King David Hotel in, then, Palestine,


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Post by MrG »

Fair enough you guys got a much better knowledge of history than me.

Point is they existed as a group with its own cultural identity for a plenty long time without any borders. As I'm sure have plenty of tribal especially nomadic people throughout the ages.
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Post by emordnilap »

Arowx wrote:What about a C02 tax, for everything, we could go green, avoid peak oil and solve our debt problems :wink:
There is a system waiting in the wings. Don't know about it solving 'our' debt problems and and it's too late to avoid peak oil (not really possible anyway) but TEQs is the best system yet devised to deal with going green.
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