- December 24, 2008
- Putin Says Checkmate
- Posted by Strangely
- Environment, Freedom
- Tagged with: BBC, British, creative, Dialog, Dialogue, energy, Europe, forum, Fossil Fuel, Fuel, future, game, Georgia, Gordon Brown, graph, laugh, Mad, Minister, Moscow, nation, nutter, OPEC, posturing, price, Resource, Telegraph, Vladimir Putin, World
Today’s news at the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) meeting in Moscow, is the final card played in a long game of bluff and revenge started several decades ago by Vladamir Putin. I’ve been banging on about this for over a year now in these pages. But hey! It’s only me! So whatever the current [...]
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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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- October 22, 2008
- We Now Have A Fantastic Opportunity to be Free from Foreign Energy Ties!
- Posted by Strangely
- Environment, Freedom, Technology
- Tagged with: Alternative, Arse, bank, BBC, bonus, business, comment, crash, creation, dodgy, energy, Europe, Fantastic, Farm, finance, financial, Fossil Fuel, friend, fuck, future, gambling, Gazprom, Government, graph, History, Iran, logic, Machine, machinery, market, ocean, OPEC, petition, physics, power, price, record, Resource, Russia, school, speed, state, Telegraph, Times, Travel, truth, Vladimir Putin, walk, water, weapon, Welsh, Wikipedia, winter, World
It’s True! Record profits at Gazprom as it forms Opec-style gas cartel The news that yesterday,… (new bad guy?) Russia (aka Putin Inc), Iran (axis of evil?) and (our friend?) Qatar have decided to collude together like OPEC to drive up gas prices (sorry, control the market in a uniform way beneficial to suppliers and [...]
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