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		<title>Ich bin ein Osbaldwicker (NIMBIs are good)</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2012/03/27/nimbis-are-good/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonesxxx</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[England is too crowded and there is pressure for more housing and I guess it must be built but if we continue like this we will all be living in shoe boxes. Already I can see that my parents lived in a smaller home than my grand parents and I live in a smaller home than my parents.

Just a few more houses, just a few more. Just one more terminal at Heathrow Airport. Then, once it is built, just on more runway at Heathrow Airport. The argument for the Heathrow Airport is that England must maintain it's position as a global hub but for who's benefit? If our environment is gradually eroded by development then in who's benefit is this development?  Just when are we going to stop hankering after more and more stuff and start valuing the stuff we have?

Thus far an no further! Ich bin ein Osbaldwicker and all that.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=4825&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Herman Cain, potential United States president</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/11/15/herman-cain-a-potential-united-states-president/</link>
		<comments>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/11/15/herman-cain-a-potential-united-states-president/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonesxxx</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This the (former) United States Republican presidential front-runner discussing Libya. Let's hope the Libyans don't see it or they may change their minds about democracy.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=4429&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is this any way to manage your pension money</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/09/22/is-this-any-way-to-manage-your-pension-money/</link>
		<comments>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/09/22/is-this-any-way-to-manage-your-pension-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonesxxx</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walking around The City one has to be impressed by the fantastic granite and glass buildings with vast marble entrance halls. One has to be impressed by the frenetic pace of trading activity. By the vigour and determination of the traders but one also has to ask: Is this any way to invest the funds you are saving for retirement?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=4183&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Alternative Vote system is a good idea</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/04/15/vote-av/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 20:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonesxxx</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[However, now suppose that one candidate received 8 votes, one candidate received 25 votes and one candidate received 27 votes. FPTP would dictate that the candidate with 27 votes would be the leader even though the majority of people would not want him as their leader. In fact the majority of people might think the guy was completely unsuitable but they would be overruled by the minority.

I believe that in this situation everyone would start yelling and people would decide, that, OK, it was obvious that the guy with only 8 votes was not a contender and he should not be a candidate. A second round of voting would be held with only the two main candidates.

Now the people who had voted for the least popular candidate would cast their votes for one or other of the two mains candidates. The outcome of this would be a majority.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=3928&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A little less conversation and a little more action</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/03/05/a-little-less-conversation-and-a-little-more-action/</link>
		<comments>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/03/05/a-little-less-conversation-and-a-little-more-action/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 23:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonesxxx</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What the West needs is a less grand standing on human rights and more disciplined rules on engagement with undemocratic regimes. Democracy should be understood as a great prize. Experience in democratic countries has shown that it is a prize which is difficult to achieve and requires constant vigilance to maintain. It is not something that we can order a nation to introduce overnight. It needs time to grow and mature.

So we should not go around the world condemning every regime which does not measure up to Western standards of democracy.  We should, however, encourage democracy and prefer democratic regimes over authoritarian regimes.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=3770&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Police spy on you at petrol stations</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/02/28/police-spy-on-you-at-petrol-stations/</link>
		<comments>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/02/28/police-spy-on-you-at-petrol-stations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Democracy my arse! Gradually, using fear of crime and terrorism, the state increases the control that it has over the individual. "You have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide" whine the naive and trusting. This is bollocks. History shows that if authorities are given powers they will abuse them.

It's also a bit rich to advertise it as "neighbourhood policing". You'd have to have truly Orwellian mind to consider a nationwide network of CCTV cameras to be  neighbourly.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=3735&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy in the Arab world &#8211; Everyone&#8217;s a winner</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/02/02/time-to-end-support-for-dictators/</link>
		<comments>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/02/02/time-to-end-support-for-dictators/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonesxxx</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine a middle east of modern democratic countries right on the border of the largest trading block in the world. I am talking of the European Union. While the world obsesses over whether China will supplant America as the largest economy in the world they overlook the fact that the EU has an economy larger than both.

With the Arab world modernising the trade would take off and this would be great news for Arabs and Europeans. There was speculation in The Economist in 2009 of solar powered electricity generation in the Sahara with the electricity transported to Europe across the Mediterranean.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=3606&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">She wont vote for militant Islam</media:title>
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		<title>Wikileaks have opened a Pandora’s box of hypocrisy</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/01/11/wikileaks-have-opened-a-pandora%e2%80%99s-box-of-hypocrisy/</link>
		<comments>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/01/11/wikileaks-have-opened-a-pandora%e2%80%99s-box-of-hypocrisy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonesxxx</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All bureaucracies, such as governments, have a tendency toward secrecy. Rather than selecting information to be kept secret they prefer blanket regulations which keeps everything secret. Following pressure to release information the British Government responded with the Freedom Of Information Act 2000 which allows that some information can be released dependant on a public interest test. This is the wrong way around.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=3522&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Feisal Abdul Rauf &#8211; champion of the American way?</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2010/09/30/feisal-abdul-rauf-champion-of-the-american-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If a madman dressed up as Ronald McDonald, took a machine gun and murdered a lot of people in a parking lot would McDonalds have the right to build a restaurant on the site? Absolutely! Should they? Hell NO!

The guy behind the plan for the mosque is apparently Feisal Abdul Rauf. If he goes ahead with this mosque then I hope this defender of liberty, champion of free speech and the American Way will be out there defending the rights of all Americans to act without sensitivity. I hope we never hear this man whingeing and taking offence in the name of Islam.

However, I am not holding my breath as I suspect that Feisal Abdul Rauf is an insensitive boor and an offensive hypocrite.

The building of this mosque will do nothing to help repair the rift that is opening up between Islam and Western countries and should be condemned.

I heard that, in India today, a high court has announced that the site of the Ayodhya mosque which is claimed as sacred by both Hindus and Muslims is to be divided between the two religions. What may have been more sensible would have been to build a joint religious building to be shared by n=both faiths. Similarly in new York, if Muslims had wanted a mosque in the area, it would have been more in keeping with their penchant for respect if they had offered to build some kind of religious centre to be shared by all religions.

..oh...and atheists too as I don't want to leave myself out.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=3012&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Million year old baby</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2010/08/05/million-year-old-baby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Firstly let's get this straight. It is ridiculous to say that life begins at conception. A sperm is alive and an egg is alive. Life is a continuum. One unappreciated fact about the human race is that we are all one continuous stream of life going back thousands, if not, millions of years so I guess a new born baby is millions of years old. Listen to Unbroken Chain by the Grateful Dead for more on this.

Secondly yes, a woman's body is her own to do with as she wishes but at some point one has to realise that she is carrying a child. What are you going to do, allow abortion up to 1 minute before delivery? At this point the accusation is usually this is unfair as I am a man and therefore will be put in this position. The answer to this is: Sorry, life is unfair!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=2830&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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