- December 30, 2008
- Cerberus, Beliefs and Golden Sacks Cars.
- Posted by Strangely
- Buddhism, Environment, Freedom, Technology
- Tagged with: America, BBC, bonus, business, Chrysler, collapse, Corruption, courage, credit crunch, crisis, Daimler, Democracy, Development, Economic, Egg, English, experience, failure, faith, finance, Freedom, gambling, general motors, George, George Bush, God, good, Google, greed, Health, intelligence, International, magazine, market, military, money, Mortgage, nation, nepotism, Office, Operating, Paulson, problem, public, realise, rights, royal, school, service, Shit, snow, system, taxpayer, Vision, Website, Weird, Wikipedia, World
Clearly, there is something wrong with the motor and finance industries of the world (a.k.a America for this article, because when America sneezes, the world catches a cold). We are all acutely aware how their problems affect us. We believe that we live in healthy democracies where we vote for the people and systems that [...]
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- December 9, 2008
- The Man Who Ate the World – by Frederik Pohl
- Posted by Strangely
- Art, Environment, Freedom
- Tagged with: air powered car, Airport, Amazon, attack, battery, BBC, bonus, book, business, capitalism, Christmas, climate, country, credit crunch, Daimler, Earth, Electric, England, Environment, Fantastic, Freedom, future, good, Government, guy negre, happiness, Head, headline, Hero, HOPE, house, HSBC, ID Card, India, infrastructure, legal, Mad, man, market, money, Moon, Mortgage, nation, OPEC, Oxford, panic, Police, power, price, project, Protest, radio, Resource, rights, Sex, snow, Sport, technology, threat, Transport, trial, Vocal, warning, Website, Wikipedia, World, YouTube
Many moons ago I read the short story with the above title. Although not one of Pohl’s best works, it has nevertheless left an obviously lasting impression on me. Written in the mid-fifties, it’s a future tale of consumerism gone mad. In the tale, it’s illegal not to consume as much as possible. The hero [...]
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- September 25, 2008
- EU Law Leaps Forward while UK flatfoots in Energy Wilderness
- Posted by Strangely
- Environment, Freedom
- Tagged with: air powered car, America, Apollo, Atlantic Ocean, August, bank, battery, battle, BBC, bonus, Britain, business, Chrysler, climate, CO2, comment, corporate, country, Court, Daimler, driving, duty, Earth, Economic, economy, Electric, energy, Environment, Europe, fair play, Fantastic, Farm, fault, fear, financial, Fossil Fuel, Fuel, future, Germany, good, Government, Great, greed, guy negre, History, HOPE, Labour, labour party, market, mind, money, nation, Nuclear, nutter, ocean, parliament, party, Politics, power, price, program, project, Protect, public, race, RBS, Resource, safety, Sale, Security, September, sheep, Sport, state, SUV, Thatcher, Transport, trial, Twat, vehicle, World
Some wonderful news this week for people worried about the real future of our world. The EU are hammering down on car emissions! EU rejects efforts to delay CO2 limits on cars RPT-UPDATE 2-EU lawmakers snub big carmakers over carbon curbs Blow to carmakers Climate package: Carbon-free cars? (pre-vote EU Parliament post) Reducing CO2 emissions [...]
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