Comments on: Prince Charles

By: Macarnie

Macarnie — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 07:43:34 +0000

Raincoaster:
Judging by some of his utterances , I would hesitate to guess just where they planted Cheney’s pacemaker. It must be uncomfortable, wherever.

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By: raincoaster

raincoaster — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 06:37:19 +0000

There’s a copyright advocate group meeting up for a session of Speakers Corner-ing, Sunday, March 19. Details are here, from BoingBoing.

If you’re interested in issues of copyright, patent, trademark, free information, access — that kinda thing — you’re invited to come to Stanhope on March 19th for an 11AM-1PM brunch and then to come and give a speech at Hyde Park’s legendary Speaker’s Corner, just over the road.
March’s event is co-sponsored by EFF, Open Rights Group, the Foundation for Free Information Infrastructure and the Open Knowledge Forum Network.

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By: raincoaster

raincoaster — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:56:27 +0000

Thanks idlex, interesting stuff. Americans have controlled the oil market since they got control of Saudi Arabia’s mineral (and oil) rights back in the early Twentieth Century. The famed Petrocrisis was nothing more than the Saudis regaining rights to their own nation’s natural resources. Independance of the oil market has to chill the heart of every American…assuming Cheney has one. But he must: they put the pacemaker somewhere, didn’t they?

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By: Jake Guest

Jake Guest — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:18:34 +0000

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Prince Charles?
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Divide by zero error.
Banana overflow

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By: idlex

idlex — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:10:39 +0000

In quality of life measures and now security and economic measures, the US isn’t looking too good. Whatever economic growth they are experiencing is a temporary result of the artificial war situation, and cannot last. It’s a bubble. (raincoaster)

Also relevant is the fact that both Iran and Venezuala plan to sell oil in euros rather than dollars.

The move will allow investors to buy or sell oil for euros to transact on the exchange, thereby circumventing the U.S. dollar and Europeans will no longer have to buy and hold dollars to secure their payment for oil…

On Dec. 30, Venezuela’s central bank said it plans to approve the use of the euro to service demand from foreign companies as well as to further distance the country from its dollar dealings.

This sort of thing could have a severe impact on the dollar. The real Iranian threat may well not be nukes, but instead selling oil in euros. I think Saddam Hussein tried that.

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By: Vicus Scurra

Vicus Scurra — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:25:38 +0000

Thank you, Boris. I appreciate your taking the time to answer.
(Still won’t vote Conservative, though)

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By: Boris

Boris — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:18:38 +0000

Reply to Vicus:

>Vicus Scurra said:
February 2, 2006 05:05 PM | permalink

Boris.
What is your policy on the environment?
If it can be proved that action is needed, and that legislation is needed to curb the excesses of both the corporate world and the private citizen, will you invoke it, or will you, like the Conservative party to date, refuse to interfere with the business world, and try to get us to believe that they are capable of regulating themselves, and if allowed to do so will automatically arrive at an ecologically sound solution?

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Reply:

Of course we need regulation, and every Tory has believed that since Disraeli brought in the Clean Air Acts – I am just wary of superstition.

Best wishes
Boris

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By: raincoaster

raincoaster — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 21:55:14 +0000

There is no point in working as hard as people have to enshrine the rights to free speech and to privacy, if you are going to say, “Oh, but not for those people, they’re [fill in the blank: royals, black, female, etc, etc].”

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By: St

St — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:11:29 +0000

The Prince’s private and public views all seem to be tosh to me but I totally respect his right to keep his private tosh private.

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By: Psimon

Psimon — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:44:13 +0000

The behaviour of the papers as regards any member of the royal family should not be viewed as disgraceful. The majority of our news media is owned by one person, a committed republican (and major contributor to the liebore party). The papers are merely expressing HIS views, not necessarily their own.

It is he that is disgraceful. Wonder if he is from convict stock?

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