SpookyFrank
Don't swallow the cap
Barking_Mad said:
Los Angeles is living on borrowed time water-wise. Anyone would think a desert was god's way of saying "live somewhere else"
Make 1 political (serious) forcast for 2008
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Los Angeles is living on borrowed time water-wise. Anyone would think a desert was god's way of saying "live somewhere else"
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SpookyFrank said:Los Angeles is living on borrowed time water-wise. Anyone would think a desert was god's way of saying "live somewhere else"
Anyone would think anywhere at the latitude of the UK was God'd way of saying "live somewhere else" - people are funny like that.
The only certainties will continue to be death and taxes.
Donna Ferentes
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I don't pay any taxes.
david dissadent
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7168664.stmyield said:
Fastest correct prediction goes to...............
SpookyFrank
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Times like this I'm glad I have no car. Just like, when the economy goes down the bog, I'll be glad I haven't got a penny and so have lost nothing 
SaskiaJayne
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Barack Obama will become the first black president of the USA.Johnny Canuck2 said:
SpookyFrank
Don't swallow the cap
SaskiaJayne said:Barack Obama will become the first black president of the USA.
Oprah winfrey will become the first black female president of the USA
breasticles
the smell of life
i suspect that the maerican election will go one of two ways- barack obama will win (by far the best of a bad bunch) or that twat fuckabee. i have a bad feeling about him.
SpookyFrank
Don't swallow the cap
breasticles said:
I feel it's really quite important that Dubya continues to fuck everything up in his remaining months in office, so that he buries the republicans completely for the next election and hopefully beyond.
Not sure about which democrat I like the look of, they're all pretty off key in one way or another but I reckon Obama might be the least evil option available.
stupid kid
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I think Obama will get in and basically be their Blair. I've seen him in interviews and he exudes confidence. Of course everyone will focus on the fact that he's black, because "Oh golly, gosh, lookie we gon and dun elected a black man as pres eeh durnt, Muma" and completely ignore whether he's actually any good at his job or not.
Which will probably get him through to a second term.
Other than that, the first two days of the New Year will pass off without major incident.
Also, what's all this about rising food prices? Is it just because the price of oil is going up?
Which will probably get him through to a second term.
Other than that, the first two days of the New Year will pass off without major incident.
Also, what's all this about rising food prices? Is it just because the price of oil is going up?
david dissadent
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There are a number of reasons. There has been major droughts in America and Australia affecting those countries wheat production, although not all that much on at the end of the day. China and India have rapidly increasing wealth, which is funding a change in diets for them, towards more meat and wheat intense diets. Meat diets use up one hell of alot of crops to sustain. And president Bush in his ulitmate wisdom has descided that corn based biofuels are the solution to the US's middle east energy dependency so is lavishing vast funds on subsidies for corn to ethanol. This has led to a scarcity of corn on the market, supply and demand means that price goes up. Alot. In Chinas specific case there has also been a pig disease this year that has hit pork numbers so they are experiancing a bit of cost increases on that as well. A confluence of factors that has seen the cost of staples double in a year. Not a big problem if your wealthy and food counts for about 5% of your expeniture. But if your a peasant somewhere it can see it doubling from 33% to 66% of your income. That is placing the risk of starvation.stupid kid said:
The world food stocks are also falling very rapidly,
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/17/europe/food.php
Agriculture accounts for about 20% of the energy consumption of industrialised countries. So it is very energy intense and costs are skyrocketing so that also plays a factor. There is a very very unplesant theory related to Liebegs law. Basicaly the sustainable size of a population is governed by its the least available essential resource. As we are so dependent on hydrocarbons for food production post the green revolution that the steady decline of cheap and available hydrocarbons will be what causes our population to constrict. Global mass starvation. But I guess that is another thread really.
Donna Ferentes said:
I think you'll find that you do.
Johnny Canuck3
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Khartoum:SpookyFrank said:Los Angeles is living on borrowed time water-wise. Anyone would think a desert was god's way of saying "live somewhere else"
Tashkent
Silly buggers.
KeyboardJockey
Clowns to the Left of me
Yossarian said:
Huckabee is probably good for the bible belt nutters but extremely worrying for anyone else with more than half a brain.
KeyboardJockey
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Yossarian said:
Yup scary.
SpookyFrank
Don't swallow the cap
Yossarian said:
Well, nearly.
poster342002
PROPER leftwing socialist
I've been wondering about this too. I've never known a time like this where it seems everything's having 50p added to this, £1.00 added to that etc etc on a near month-by-month basis. The last 6 months of last year were utterly ridiculous and my monthly salary (frozen for years) now barely covers my rent, travel and food - and there's no hope of a significant wage increase on the horizon to counteract the effect.soulman said:
However, nothing will happen because once the newspapers make noises about "ripoff Britain", it'll be the signal for the cod-left to shoot itself in the foot as usual and decide not to campaign on the issue - probably calling anyone who does a "daily mail whinger".
Then the liberal cod-environmentalists will say that food-price rises are "a good thing" to help reduce "wasteful consumption" in the west. Cue the far-right scooping up yet further support on the back of this fuckwittery ... 
KeyboardJockey
Clowns to the Left of me
poster342002 said:I've been wondering about this too. I've never known a time like this where it seems everything's having 50p added to this, £1.00 added to that etc etc on a mear month-by-month basis. The last 6 months of last year were utterly ridiculous and my monthly salary (frozen for years) now barely covers my rent, travel and food - and there's no hope of a significant wage increase on the horizon to counteract the effect.
However, nothing will happen because once the newspapers make noises about "ripoff Britain", it'll be the signal for the cod-left to shoot itself in the foot as usual and decide not to campaign on the issue - probably calling anyone who does a "daily mail whinger".
Sadly you may well be right.
david dissadent
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The flashpoint in the UK will more likely be fuel prices, interest rates and unemployment than food.poster342002 said:
There seems to be a lot of cod left then, I guess the fisharies commision is wrong. Seriously though I see alot of good analysis in the broadsheets without resorting to 'rip off Britain'. There are alot of people out there who understand what is going on, what is more likely to be the mantra for all economic ills this year is either "blame China" or "blame America"poster342002 said:However, nothing will happen because once the newspapers make noises about "ripoff Britain", it'll be the signal for the cod-left to shoot itself in the foot as usual and decide not to campaign on the issue - probably calling anyone who does a "daily mail whinger".
Donna Ferentes
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I have no income and spend no money...Lock&Light said:
Donna Ferentes said:
Even food and clothing are taxed. If they are bought for you then someone else pays your tax for you.
corporate whore
oh, thought you were dead
The Italian government will fall, to be replaced by another perilous coalition.
always a safe bet
always a safe bet
KeyboardJockey
Clowns to the Left of me
There will be a crisis in the Middle East. Sadly a prediction that is so likely to come true I probably couldn't get odds for it at the bookies.
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