This stuff seems straight out of a Chris Carter show.. it's just lacking the aliens... or is it?
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A recent poll reveals the Portuguese population is all for clean energy... as long as they don't have to pay a cent for it! 67% of the surveyed population is not willing to see the electric bill go up to sustain green energy projects, and only 21% admits paying an additional 5%. A meager 3% would accept increase in costs of 6%-10%. (poll conducted by Eurobarometro)
5% increase in costs is about 1 Eur to 2 Eur on the final bill, less than the price of a packet of cigarettes. But apparentely that's too much just to help diminish the greenhouse effect of conventional energy production facilities... So the next time you hear that the Oil industry is protected by "Big Interests" or "Hidden Agendas", you'll know what they mean: EVERYONE'S interests and agendas. Hypocrisy is the law of the land.
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Now where have I heard this before?
UN 'sanctions' will probably involve being quite annoyed at Iran and not inviting them over for tea anymore. Except this time I don't think anyone'll step up to invade them or something silly like that. Nope. Just no tea. For one year!
(I'll be in my nuclear fallout shelter catching up on my Koran - always good for a laugh - if anyone needs me. Assuming anyone survives! Muhahahahaa!!)
Anyway I wonder if this Mahmoud Ahmhmsmnhfhhgidejad fella really said that stuff, or if it's just a translation error - I mean, he has such a friendly smile! And doesn't he look just a bit gay to you? Always talking about enriching youranus and stuff...
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- War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
- Georges Clemenceau
French politician (1841 - 1929)
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- What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
- Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War"
Indian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 - 1948)
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- War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
- John Stuart Mill
English economist & philosopher (1806 - 1873)
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