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And union membership is still fairly strong much to my surprise.

Oh yeah I am going to shed a tear because the Chinese do not give a f*ck about environmental issues.:p

A wee bit far from the truth what about the Mau mau and the Veit cong. Thomas "Slab" Murphy hard working farmer and former Chief of Staff of the IRA seemed to have found time for terrorism.

Out side the auto industry the role of the unions in company profitability has been somewhat overplayed, there are heaps of low wage high union membership companies still left in the US and I still feel its the rather generous tax regime for companies that have outsourced and the willingness of...

I believe Donald has a soft underbelly and can be incredibly petulant when under heavy critique as witnessed during the rows over his leisure development on Scotland's East Coast . All it took was a stroppy pensioner who refused to sell up his home and land and Donald took all so personal.

I cannot think of any practical or economically efficient crops that could be grown in tea producing areas that would provide the same revenue or employment and I would imagine most coffee plantations could not be readily turned over to any other crop other than some fruits.

Oxford University conducted research on farmer suicide and the British Journal of Psychiatry carried an article on the subject. All the usual causatives mentioned such as stress, depression and ongoing psychical health problems. The UK media reported a spate of farm suicides in the 1990's but...

Well you could justify your comments on drip irrigation which on this topic on Indian agricultural suicides is not that relevant but hey don't let relevancy or facts get in your way.

Water is not the main issue in India and many of the suicides have occurred amongst cotton growers who adopted Bt Cotton. Israeli agriculture has also had its bad years but it has plush welfare provision and many other sources of income.

Bah the Israelis and the Holywood Jews debase every religion but their own whats new here. Ole Mel Gibson glorys Christ and out comes the the anti-semite ban hammer.

We were not aware of the Gaddafi nuke program until he scrapped it! So much for the Bush influence, the common view is that Gaddafi wanted to come back into the fold and had made all the right moves. I bet he never thought his easing of oppression would have led to rebellion. There is a lesson...

Never really worked in Ye Olde Days. Hang one robber another took his place it was the diminishing returns from highway robbery that stopped such acts. Criminals never really think beyond the act itself never mind the consequences and all crooks believe themselves to be superior to the law.

Despite their hatred and / or mistrust of each other by and large Middle Eastern states manage to maintain a not unreasonable volume of cross border trade.

The Economist is still worth the coin and its nod towards the worlds social ills (always balanced) hardly make it leftist. The Economist and the FT Weekend are still good fiscal compasses for the coming week.

Man its f*cking Nigeria they riot at the drop of a hat and Christians V Muslims has claimed nearly 10000 lives in the last 15 years. When its not the Jesus Freaks against the Jihadis its tribe against tribe or oil security against locals.

My brother had a place in Newham for a while which is about 32% white and it was OK and other than a few Nigerians with attitude I can't say I felt any racial tension.

I have never looked for videos of violent attacks but since I actually live here I can testify that whites do attack minorities and have done for many a long year. I have seen black on black, catholic on protestant and all the various Asian groups fight it out but as a white male that gets about...

Nothing new but it happens fairly infrequently and whites are also out cruising for blacks and asians to beat up. http://story.theuknews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/5ba58fd38447f467/id/44799181/ The above crime happened near me and are becoming more frequent.

WND is pretty silly most of the time and again its being silly, Iran and Saudi cannot afford to go to war with each other no matter how ideologically f*cked up they both are. Not happening anytime soon folks.

And a defunct and useless discourse it is and about as pointless and uneducational as pushing creationism in the classroom. I am cool with critical thinking being taught and even handed sociopolitical discussion being encouraged but pushing Marxism is a fail.