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		<title>The UK in the red</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2010/07/09/is-this-the-start-of-our-decline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 21:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Globalisation is all very well while the foreign money is pouring in and funding industry and jobs but once these foreign owners have their feet under the table they often find that it is more efficient to centralise production and transfer the industry abroad. This would be fair enough were it possible for British companies to buy up industry in China, Germany or Japan in the same way but other countries are not as open as the UK.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&amp;blog=2000120&amp;post=2657&amp;subd=talkingbollocks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Britain declines while her elite connives</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2010/02/03/britain-declines-while-our-leaders-connive-for-the-top-jobs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:46:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the 1960s North Sea oil was discovered and helped support our inefficient industry for a while. But consider this: While Britain took economic advantage of North Sea oil and it's economy prospered Germany and France did not do so bad either yet they did not have oil. North Sea Oil is due to run out in the next few years and where will that leave the British economy? In 2008 around 46% of British tax came from finance. The finance industry has now collapsed so where does that leave the British economy? I stress again that Germany has maintained a broadly comparable economy without North Sea oil, without a bloated finance sector and without hyper-commercialisation.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&amp;blog=2000120&amp;post=2105&amp;subd=talkingbollocks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leaders Love Power &#8211; Don&#8217;t give it to them</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing on from my musings on narrative, identity and myth I often think that the British version of World War 2 is a beautiful myth. The myth is that brave little Britain fought off the vast might the evil Nazis. To some extent this may be true but on the other hand in 1939 Britain [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&amp;blog=2000120&amp;post=1297&amp;subd=talkingbollocks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lawrence Ren</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Secondly, as a true patriot Mr. Ren must be a “communist” and should therefore know that supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses. Since the Chinese communist party have no mandate they are an illegitimate government and maintain their hold on power in China and Tibet by force. To assit in maintaining their grip on power the Chinese Communist party controls the flow of information to all it’s citizens. The Chinese people therefore have no way of knowing the true state of affairs.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&amp;blog=2000120&amp;post=100&amp;subd=talkingbollocks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Russian Imperialism</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2008/04/01/russian-imperialism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Russian government has decided that The British Council is some kind of spy organisations so they’ve closed down it’s offices in Russia.  Maybe they are right. I don’t know. The excitable Russian on the radio (EROTR) said that the British were treating Russia like a colony and behaving in an imperialist manner. &#8211; Yawn, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&amp;blog=2000120&amp;post=84&amp;subd=talkingbollocks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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