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Who mentioned bush? bush and previous u.s. presidents have refused to take serious action against israel in case they lose the serious amount of votes from the jewish population of america. Obama him self is the one who has stated he will strive to resolve the palastine/israel issue. Perhaps i should have titled the post ” Do you think this is a last gasp by israel before they know they will no longer get away with it “.
On the flip side of the coin, back when the i.r.a. were bombing and shooting away back in the 70/80s we should have sent in vulcan bombers and flatend armagh and any village/town across the irish border suspected of hideing provos. Would we have got away with it? no, because of the large irish voting population in the u.s.,one can only imagine what pressure politacly,economacly would have been applied on the gov by the u.s.“BTW – if Hamas and their ideological supporters (Iran etc etc) really want to have peace in Gaza (which they don’t) all they need to do is to stop shooting thousands of rockets and mortar bombs into Israel.”
I agree,but then there are the same fanatics in israel who would like to see gaza totaly surpresed. It also becomes very hard to beleive israel when they occupy land for security reasons when the land they take is fertile farm land, land with resources i.e water it does come across as expansionism under the veil of state security.
I would say things are as bad as they say, however, i am of the opinion that the media helpd to talk us into resecion. Constant things are bad and we are going to fall into resecion etc etc . The power of the media and all that. If it was on the news that there COULD be a shortage of bread due to a blight found in flour, you can bet your last pound if you went to asda an hour later there would be no bread on the shelfs due to panic buying. The companys now folding, i beleive as PB already suggested, wernt realy viable anyway. As for the banks, they have now had millions of tax payers money and still refuse to lend to each other let alone the general public, so now is the time to nationalise them. The car industry has been over priced for decades,and should not see 1 penny of tax payers money, its been collapseing time after time in this country since the 70s. As for the people who have made money and lots of it out of this…what do you expect in a free market where there are no real penaltys or jail terms. The anti globalisation crowd have been proved right on 1 point, linking economys together is bad for the world, the world linked its self to america and we are all in it now. My own personel thoughts are that what has been done will not be enough and we are still only a few months away from a world wide depresion greater than the last one. And i fear, that yet again, it will take a global war to drag the world economicaly back from the brink. One thing you can be sure of, is those with money will make money out of all this.
What do you expect when national socialism takes over. One political view,if you dont like it go to the extermination camp,if you dont like that, go complain to martin, dont complain to the guides, dont complain to the moderators, e mail him or send him a personel message, dont be surprised if you find your self on a one way train east.
:shock: i find this odd,i would expect both goofers and pb to be aware of dongle broadband by now. Yes u have the same pass word, fire wall set up, user loggin etc etc that you would have on a home pc. That you may also change as and when you wish. But with the added bonus of a monthly statement that tells you when you have been online. Easy to find fraudulent use that way. And in case your scared of people ” scanning ” your lappy to piggy back your connection theres plenty FREE software out there to prevent this.
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I thnik the usa and britain is at least 20 years away from a black leader.
I think a lot of white people think it will be payback time if a black person gets voted in.Oh i dont know about that, i wouldent be surprised to see a prime minister of pakistani ethnic background before long.
If obama does get voted into office,he will be assasinated before he can take the oath of office.
Just out of pure wolfish curiosity,is there any piccys knocking about of ugo.
Peak oil and the end of the world as we know it
By Guy R. McPhersonPeak oil spells the end of civilization. And, if it’s not already too late, perhaps it will prevent the extinction of our species.
M. King Hubbert, a petroleum geologist employed by Shell Oil Co. described peak oil in 1956. Production of crude oil, like the production of many non-renewable resources, follows a bell-shaped curve. The top of the curve is termed “peak oil,” or “Hubbert’s peak,” and it represents the halfway point for production.
The bell-shaped curve applies at all levels, from field to country to planet. After discovery, production ramps up relatively quickly. But when the light, sweet crude on top of the field runs out, increased energy and expense are required to extract the underlying heavy, sour crude. At some point, the energy required to extract a barrel of oil exceeds the energy contained in barrel of oil, so the pumps shut down.
Most of the world’s oil pumps are about to shut down.
We have sufficient supply to keep the world running for 30 years or so, at the current level of demand. But that’s irrelevant because the days of inexpensive oil are behind us. And the American Empire absolutely demands cheap oil. Never mind the 3,000-mile Caesar salad to which we’ve become accustomed. Cheap oil forms the basis for the 12,000-mile supply chain underlying the “just-in-time” delivery of plastic toys from China.
There goes next year’s iPod.
In 1956, Hubbert predicted the continental United States would peak in 1970. He was correct, and the 1970s gave us a small, temporary taste of the sociopolitical and economic consequences of expensive oil.
We passed the world oil peak in 2005, and we’ve been easing down the other side by acquiring oil at the point of a gun – actually, guns are the smallest of the many weapons we’re using – paying more for oil and destroying one culture after another as the high price of crude oil forces supply disruptions and power outages in Third World countries.
The world peaked at 74.3 million barrels per day in May 2005. The two-year decline to 73.2 million barrels per day produced a doubling of the price of crude. Later this year, we fall off the oil-supply cliff, with global supply plummeting below 70 million barrels/day. Oil at merely $100 per barrel will seem like the good old days.
Within a decade, we’ll be staring down the barrel of a crisis: Oil at $400 per barrel brings down the American Empire, the project of globalization and water coming through the taps. Never mind happy motoring through the never-ending suburbs in the Valley of the Sun. In a decade, unemployment will be approaching 100 percent, inflation will be running at 1,000 percent and central heating will be a pipe dream.
In short, this country will be well on its way to the post-industrial Stone Age.
After all, no alternative energy sources scale up to the level of a few million people, much less the 6.5 billion who currently occupy Earth. Oil is necessary to extract and deliver coal and natural gas. Oil is needed to produce solar panels and wind turbines, and to maintain the electrical grid.
Ninety percent of the oil consumed in this country is burned by airplanes, ships, trains and automobiles. You can kiss goodbye groceries at the local big-box grocery store: Our entire system of food production and delivery depends on cheap oil.
If you’re alive in a decade, it will be because you’ve figured out how to forage locally.
The death and suffering will be unimaginable. We have come to depend on cheap oil for the delivery of food, water, shelter and medicine. Most of us are incapable of supplying these four key elements of personal survival, so trouble lies ahead when we are forced to develop means of acquiring them that don’t involve a quick trip to Wal-Mart.
On the other hand, the forthcoming cessation of economic growth is truly good news for the world’s species and cultures. In addition, the abrupt halt of fossil-fuel consumption may slow the warming of our planetary home, thereby preventing our extinction at our own hand.
Our individual survival, and our common future, depends on our ability to quickly make other arrangements. We can view this as a personal challenge, or we can take the Hemingway out. The choice is ours.
For individuals interested in making other arrangements, it’s time to start acquiring myriad requisite skills. It is far too late to save civilization for 300 million Americans, much less the rest of the planet’s citizens, but we can take joy in a purpose-filled, intimate life.
It’s time to push away from the shore, to let the winds of change catch the sails of our leaky boat.
It’s time to trust in ourselves, our neighbours and the Earth that sustains us all.
Painful though it might be, it’s time to abandon the cruise ship of empire in exchange for a lifeboat.
Guy R. McPherson is a professor of conservation biology at the University of Arizona. He has a blog called
I bet they seen how much money the Mcgans made from the madeline fiasco and thought…..easy bucks.
erm just a question,how many of you have stood in a dole que to sighn *on* and watched the person in front of you walk out,after sighning on, get in there taxi and are nxt seen in the town centre for hire and reward.
