[kj] not enough Water...it's a Total Invasion - IRAN TWATS

[ade]

There is indeed much interest in emigrating to your gaff from this island. Or in fact ANYWHERE other than the UK basically! Spain is a popular destination - I feel so sorry for those Spaniards - poor bastards!!!!!!!!
 
I'm personally enjoying what freedoms I have left here before it starts to get too dodgy. It's easy to fall into the mindset that it's an awful place to live, but at least I won't get my hand cut off by the state for doing something silly, though the streets are getting more violent these days, so maybe someone will do an impromptu removal.
 
Now that the ban-it-lot & the PC wankers have got control, the place is becoming far more 'sensible' & far less tolerant of low-grade shit like smokers (who pay for the NHS with their OTT tobacco duties) & alcohol 'users'. We've got kids drinking alcopops like as if it were, erm, pop, so they get pissed easily, which then obviously impacts everyone else who just enjoys their drink. Still, at least the duty on alcohol goes into the NHS coffers too. Plenty of fucked livers to deal with in the future. I hear talk of gateway drugs - I'll put my sac on the line here: I think alcopops most appropriately deserve that name. After all, my love of the ganj hasn't grown to needing a wee dram of methadone every morning. I just think if you make alcohol easier to drink, well, that will encourage kids to drink, as I remember wanting to get pissed all the time, but I had to stick with cheap whisky, cheap wine or cheap lager. Hence girls were less into getting pissed (in general) than they are now... I'd say the whole UK lifestyle is so shitty now that people just want to get fuck-faced as much as possible. Society seems unsafe to so many. Imagine all those pensioners terrified to go outside. Resentment is high. Racial shit continues to escalate, with people passing their new found hatreds onto their kids. Minorities still don't want to integrate (on the whole) & the host community is not interested in a minority that doesn't want to make the effort. When in Rome & all that (don't have a go at me, I'm just telling it how I see it & hear it from 'common-folk'). Whole sections of society feeling like they're having the piss took out of them one way or another. Taxed to fuck. It's almost as if Jonny Rottens' No Future message has resurfaced with a vengeance !
 
When I say the place is becoming sensible (Boredom Island), I'm obviously not referring to the endless stream if petty crime/petty violence/ABH/GBH/murder that clogs the streets. But, you know, the PC lot aren't really bothered 'cos they live in nice neighbourhoods.
 
There I go, sounding like Victor Meldrew! I know it's all cyclical, it's just that it's sad to be living in the trough of the wave... give it ten years.
 
 
As an aside - is THIS going to be the reason for taking on Iran, or just PR?
 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7311565.stm
 
 
 
ade
 

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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]On Behalf Of Brendan Quinn
Sent: 24 March 2008 06:51
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Subject: Re: [kj] not enough Water...it's a Total Invasion



I reckon even though we earn five eighth’s of fuck all compared to you rich cunts overseas, over time New Zealand is gonna get more and more attractive as everywhere else runs out of food, water, energy, and pacifists. So HURRY UP, BUY A SHOVEL AND GET DOWN HERE! We’ve got a temple to build slackers.

 


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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On Behalf Of woody2shooz
Sent: Sunday, 23 March 2008 11:59 a.m.
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hehe, last time I was in Whistler the resort was sponsored by Evian...water water everywhee

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Subject: [grunder] Water will be source of war unless world acts now, warns minister
From: grunder at furrg.montclair.edu
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:25:51 -0500
To: grunder at furrg.montclair.edu


Water will be source of war unless world acts now, warns minister


By Ben Russell, Political Correspondent
Saturday, 22 March 2008 

The world faces a future of 'water wars', unless action is taken to prevent international water shortages and sanitation issues escalating into conflicts, according to Gareth Thomas, the International Development minister.

The minister's warning came as a coalition of 27 international charities marked World Water Day, by writing to Gordon Brown demanding action to give fresh water to 1.1 billion people with poor supplies. 'If we do not act, the reality is that water supplies may become the subject of international conflict in the years ahead,' said Mr Thomas. 'We need to invest now to prevent us having to pay that price in the future.'
His department warned that two-thirds of the world's population will live in water-stressed countries by 2025. The stark prediction comes after the Prime Minister said in his national security strategy that pressure on water was one of the factors that could help countries 'tip into instability, state failure or conflict'.
The coalition of charities has appealed for a global effort to bring running water to the developing world and supply sanitation to a further 2.6 billion people. It said international action was needed to prevent competition for water destabilising communities and escalating into conflicts.
In their letter, the campaigners say: 'Tackling the water and sanitation crisis is essential if the 'Millennium Development Goal Call to Action' is to be a success, otherwise progress on health, education and environmental sustainability will be undermined. Each year 443 million school days are lost globally to diarrhoea and 1.8 million children die unnecessarily from these diseases.
'Investing in sanitation and water brings the greatest public health gains of any single development intervention and delivers huge economic returns. The G8 would do well to heed the development history of east Asian countries that put tackling these issues at the forefront of their national development efforts.'
Ministers agree the world needs to take urgent action to avoid missing Millennium Development Goals to halve the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water by 2015. That target should be met, although progress has been limited in sub-Saharan Africa.
Mr Brown's security strategy said 'rising temperatures together with extreme weather will increase pressures on water supplies'. It went on: 'A growing and increasingly urbanised global population will increase demand for food and water, at the same time as climate change and other trends put greater pressure on their supply. 
'Already well over 1 billion people suffer from water shortages and 30 countries get more than a third of their water from outside their borders. With climate change, those figures are likely to grow, increasing the possibility of disputes.'
Charlie Kronick, senior climate adviser at Greenpeace, said the whole of sub-Saharan Africa, most of south Asia and western South America were at risk of water shortages if global warming continues. 
'There is no doubt that climate change is going to be potentially the biggest source of water stress,' he said. 'If average global temperatures go more than two degrees above pre-industrial levels you are looking at 2 to 3 billion people potentially suffering water shortages. It's a pretty serious business.'



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