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Topic: Oil droping below 100$ ? |
jlw61
Replies: 27
Views: 1276
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 9:42 am Subject: Re: Oil droping below 100$ ? |
| I've got my van ready for when silver drops below $10 an ounce. |
Topic: Russia talks of 'declaration of war' with USA |
jlw61
Replies: 27
Views: 2030
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 8:09 am Subject: Re: Russia talks of Black Sea confrontaion with USA |
| Forget direct confrontation. Russia could just send loads of shoulder fired missiles and RPG's to Afghanistan and Iraq as a geopolitical strategy to defeat the US,should they fail to understand the ne ... |
Topic: Disturbing video |
jlw61
Replies: 93
Views: 3324
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 12:30 pm Subject: Re: Disturbing video |
How is it that people believe that governments incapable of working together on the simplest of things, are planning some giant and extremely complex conspiracy?
How is it that people believe GWB i ... |
Topic: How doomerish are you? |
jlw61
Replies: 35
Views: 1469
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Forum: Psychology Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 6:42 am Subject: Re: How doomerish are you? |
I plan for getting my family through the bottleneck (the few will survive option), I expect the industrial world to crumble but I hope for things to muddle along as they always have.
It's all in ti ... |
Topic: First post, may be my last... |
jlw61
Replies: 82
Views: 3001
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Forum: Welcome Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:03 am Subject: Re: First post, may be my last... |
Oh, look... oil is up almost $6 right now.
How about that! |
Topic: What to Tell My Students? |
jlw61
Replies: 51
Views: 2086
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 3:40 pm Subject: Re: What to Tell My Students? |
| IMHO, continue teaching them gardening and other important skills and keep the PO stuff more or less out of it. Not much more than how we think oil was created and that it's a finite resource. Keep ... |
Topic: FYI to joelcolorado on the US Criminal Justice System |
jlw61
Replies: 14
Views: 639
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Forum: Americas Discussion Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 1:32 pm Subject: Re: FYI to joelcolorado on the US Criminal Justice System |
But the "liberals" in Washington think that allowing government money to be spent on religious schools is a violation of the 1st Amendment.
It has nothing to do with religion and everything to do ... |
Topic: FYI to joelcolorado on the US Criminal Justice System |
jlw61
Replies: 14
Views: 639
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Forum: Americas Discussion Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 10:02 am Subject: Re: FYI to joelcolorado on the US Criminal Justice System |
Some dilemma however remains; The fact that some drugs can be so much more powerful (addiction, psychological changes or delusion/psychosis/paranoia etc) than alcohol.
Education has for instance not ... |
Topic: FYI to joelcolorado on the US Criminal Justice System |
jlw61
Replies: 14
Views: 639
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Forum: Americas Discussion Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 6:19 am Subject: Re: FYI to joelcolorado on the US Criminal Justice System |
| What if we simply quit putting people in jail for using drugs and instead used a portion of the savings realized from the criminal justice system on education and rehabilitation for drug use? Sort of ... |
Topic: Things not to miss thread |
jlw61
Replies: 12
Views: 723
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 6:40 am Subject: Re: Things not to miss thread |
Sticking your feet into the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, the great lakes, and the Gulf of Mexico.
A summer weekend camping in Northern Wisconsin, a week in the Blue Ridge Mountains during the fall, ... |
Topic: The great oil bubble has burst |
jlw61
Replies: 18
Views: 1378
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 6:53 am Subject: Re: The great oil bubble has burst |
| Use this bursting bubble, and the stupidity it will bring, to your advantage. It was a good fire drill, and I've identified some definite weaknesses in my situation. Use this gift of time to identif ... |
Topic: 2 US aircraft carriers headed for Gulf |
jlw61
Replies: 40
Views: 2565
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 1:55 pm Subject: Re: 2 US aircraft carriers headed for Gulf |
I don't know how up-to-date or reliable these links are but:
[url=http://www.gonavy.jp/CVLocation.html]CV Locations
[url=http://www.navy.mil/navydata/navy_legacy_hr.asp?id=146]US Navy Fact Sheet |
Topic: Anybody Notice the Quiet Militarisation of Italy? |
jlw61
Replies: 26
Views: 1491
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Forum: Europe Discussion Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 11:24 am Subject: Re: Anybody Notice the Quiet Militarisation of Italy? |
| It seems to me the Italians are being used as a testing ground for more civilian repression in the name of 'security', and 'law and order'. And it looks like they're so totally fed-up with the anarchy ... |
Topic: Anybody Notice the Quiet Militarisation of Italy? |
jlw61
Replies: 26
Views: 1491
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Forum: Europe Discussion Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 7:53 am Subject: Re: Anybody Notice the Quiet Militarisation of Italy? |
Soldiers parked out front of important buildings is nothing new - I think it's the Marine corps that's usually used in Washington DC?
Having some soldiers in dress uniforms being an honor guard at ... |
Topic: Anybody Notice the Quiet Militarisation of Italy? |
jlw61
Replies: 26
Views: 1491
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Forum: Europe Discussion Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 5:30 am Subject: Re: Anybody Notice the Quiet Militarisation of Italy? |
They feel safer by having groups of pimple-faced kids roaming the city armed with heavy weapons?
And they call the American fixation with the right to bear arms crazy? |
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