Hetty Litjens: PoliticsNews and views about politics (or what Bush has left of it).COMMERCIAL SPIRIT- December 29, 2006 BigNewsNetwork: "Dutch arms exports soared to $1.6 billion in 2005, pushing the Netherlands into the top five military exporters for the year, Volkskrant newspaper said Thursday." Read more at Dear Kitty. The new idol in Holland is Money. New Well, we did have a big share in slave trading and we did transport the Jews to the concentration camps. So it's business as usual.http://radio.weblogs.com/0116902/categories/politics/2006/12/29.html#a4967 APRES BLAIR LE DELUGE- December 28, 2006 Scotsman: "Labour will be left with no members by 2013 if its rank and file supporters continue to desert the party at the rate of one every 20 minutes, John Cruddas, a contender for the deputy leadership, has warned. Members are abandoning the party at a record rate of 27,000-a-year since 2000, with party membership dwindling to 198,026 by the end of last year." By that time Phony Bliar will sit in his condo on the Bahamas, have transferred his assets to a trust on the Cayman Islands and have..http://radio.weblogs.com/0116902/categories/politics/2006/12/28.html#a4964 ON THE FIRST DAY OF CHRISTMAS...- December 26, 2006 As announced by police and other authorities Christmas Day was disturbed by numerous terror attacks; government buildings were blown up, trains derailed, planes went down, fortunately an attempt to steal the Crown Jewels was thwarted. On Boxing Day the crowds plundered the shops and hunted for... bargains; some preferred hunting the traditional fox despite the ban. And I hear the sawing and thumping at my neighbour's this morning, who is probably trying to defraud the gas or water company this..http://radio.weblogs.com/0116902/categories/politics/2006/12/26.html#a4960 UNSEASONABLE FLOWERING- December 23, 2006 WageningenUniversity: "Observers in the Netherlands reported that more than 240 wild plant species were flowering in December, along with more than 200 cultivated species. According to biologist Arnold van Vliet of Wageningen University, this unseasonable flowering is being caused by extremely high autumn temperatures. The mean autumn temperature in 2006 was 13.6&176;C, which is 3.4&176;C above the long-term average."http://radio.weblogs.com/0116902/categories/politics/2006/12/23.html#a4956 SHORTER WORK HOURS GOOD FOR ENVIRONMENT- December 22, 2006 CEPR: "'Are Shorter Work Hours Good for the Environment A Comparison of U.S. and European Energy Consumption', by researcher David Rosnick and economist Mark Weisbrot, looks at the potential environmental effects of European and other countries adopting the U.S. norm of longer work hours. The authors find that the implications for global climate change could be significant. 'Old Europe' currently consumes about half as much energy per person as does the United States. If Europe were to adopt...http://radio.weblogs.com/0116902/categories/politics/2006/12/22.html#a4953 CHRISTMAS- December 21, 2006 Christmas in the Holy Land.http://radio.weblogs.com/0116902/categories/politics/2006/12/21.html#a4950 NO SUPPORT FOR GM PRODUCTS- December 19, 2006 EUObserver: "EU member states have for the second time snubbed the European Commission by backing an Austrian ban on two genetically modified maize products, which the commission says violates international trade rules." If international trade rules are violating human health and free trade, then they should be abolished. Those rules only favour the big monopolies, who are now trying to force genetically modified products on us. They are not only destroying natural crops and endangering our...http://radio.weblogs.com/0116902/categories/politics/2006/12/19.html#a4946 THE BIG RIP-OFF- December 16, 2006 Guardian: "Spending on consultants across the public sector has reached a record &163;3bn - an increase of over a third in two years - according to the first authoritative investigation into their costs, released today by the National Audit Office. The huge increase is almost entirely caused by the NHS, where spending on consultants has jumped more than 15-fold from &163;31m to more than &163;500m in two years - mirroring almost the entire deficit in the hospital and GP services. The NAO says...http://radio.weblogs.com/0116902/categories/politics/2006/12/16.html#a4938 |