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nice Jerome.. glad to see somebody calling the bluff on how we are all being brainwashed day in, day out by pathetic leaders and an obliging (but self-serving) media.
hard to pick a favourite quote from your piece, but i think this is hard to beat:
Germany would to have to be the world leader in energy policy (with Japan a possible rival for that title). Denmark has outdone itself and Spain is now sprinting through the field as well.
If countries like the UK, USA and Australia had just a fraction of the courage that these European countries have displayed in commiting to new and renewable energy solutions, our energy and climate crisis could be solved in just a short couple of decades. As it is, we keep making things worse.. much worse.
Phil.
Jerome, you said "Mr Brown: in order to stand up to your values, you must be true to them."
I think he is being true to his values, which IMHO are to grab as much power as possible for as long as possible with little regard for the consequences because he knows best how to run everything. Maybe he is just following the example of Tony B liar and setting himself up for a profitable series of US lectures when his time is up?
Brown said "That is why we in the UK are putting in law our commitment to cut CO2 emissions by 60 per cent by 2050"
By 2050 he will be long dead. Of course yesterday they announced yet another piece of gesture politics when they axed stamp duty (a 1% sales tax) on homes worth up to £175,000 from 125k. Instead they could have allowed the cost of improving the insulation to be offset. This would promote employment, reduce CO2 emissions, gas and electric consumption for many years to come and requires no breakthroughs nor huge capital investments, just like reducing speed limits to 55mph/90kmh, banning sales of new gas guzzlers now....
To my mind the Ossetian incident will not be the only one, Russia has drawn a line in the sand and said they will not accept a further reduction in their influence in their own back yard and they (the world) cannot be ruled by US diktat. The US does not have the ability to battle Islam and Russia at the same time.
It would be interesting if the EU, Russia and China jointly went to a gold standard.