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by rainbow » Fri May 17, 2013 9:55 am
Tyrannical wrote:Is David Cameron 'deeply' concerned enough to take on OPEC?
The funny thing about OPEC is that all the member nations are food importers.
Drivel, but in any case the UK is a net importer of food, so what point are you trying to make?
Cameron could stop exports of food that the UK don't have?
You didn't think this one through, did you?
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by klr » Fri May 17, 2013 10:36 am
When a politician uses the words "deeply concerned", it means they are indeed deeply concerned ... about a public backlash if they are not seen to do
something, pronto. Or at least consider doing something.
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by Tyrannical » Fri May 17, 2013 11:24 am
rainbow wrote:Tyrannical wrote:Is David Cameron 'deeply' concerned enough to take on OPEC?
The funny thing about OPEC is that all the member nations are food importers.
Drivel, but in any case the UK is a net importer of food, so what point are you trying to make?
Cameron could stop exports of food that the UK don't have?
You didn't think this one through, did you?
Perhaps the Queen of Canada, the Queen of Australia, and the Queen of New Zealand could reach a consensus on the matter
Not so much drivel as it has been considered before.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_power
In international politics, food power is the use of agriculture as a means of political control whereby one nation or group of nations offers or withholds commodities from another nation or group of nations in order to manipulate behavior. Its potential use as a weapon was recognized after OPEC’s earlier use of oil as a political weapon. Food has a major influence on political actions of a nation. In response to acts of food power, a nation usually acts in the interest of its citizens to provide food.
The four main nations that export enough agriculture to be able to exert food power are the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
Even some of the poorest OPEC countries have become dependent on U.S. wheat.[15] Therefore, there is a possibility that the United States could restrict its food exports for political purposes. The United States could use this Food power as a means of exerting pressure on OPEC countries
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by rainbow » Sat May 18, 2013 7:59 am
Tyrannical wrote:
Perhaps the Queen of Canada, the Queen of Australia, and the Queen of New Zealand could reach a consensus on the matter
Not so much drivel as it has been considered before.
The queen has no power to dictate policy, what an ignorant remark.
The fact that it has been considered, and rejected, might tell you something.
How about doing some thinking next time?
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by pErvinalia » Sat May 18, 2013 9:08 am
FBM wrote:Interesting. That could work, maybe. How would you control how many times a person fueled up in a day?
You'd have to microchip their car and their brains.
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by pErvinalia » Sat May 18, 2013 9:09 am
Scrumple wrote:Real competition for a declining commodity will push prices even higher. Obvious that things are coming to a head with price stabilising cartels and the full consequences of peak oil can't be far behind....need to prepare. TSHTF soon now. This isn't the good news it appears.
Fuck off. [/Rum]
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by FBM » Sat May 18, 2013 1:07 pm
rEvolutionist wrote:FBM wrote:Interesting. That could work, maybe. How would you control how many times a person fueled up in a day?
You'd have to microchip their car and their brains.
You silly person. Less than half of Americans have brains.
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by laklak » Sat May 18, 2013 3:59 pm
Don't need no fucking brain. A ganglion cyst was good enough for my daddy and his daddy before him, and it's good enough for me.
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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by FBM » Sat May 18, 2013 4:12 pm
laklak wrote:Don't need no fucking brain. A ganglion cyst was good enough for my daddy and his daddy before him, and it's good enough for me.
Y'all had ganglions? The best we could do was twist a few wires together and stick the ends to a 9-volt battery. And that was on the good days.*
*This does not make sense.
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by laklak » Sat May 18, 2013 4:38 pm
Well, we wuz from old money. Confederate scrip, mostly.
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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by FBM » Sat May 18, 2013 4:45 pm
laklak wrote:Well, we wuz from old money. Confederate scrip, mostly.
No shit, I've got some of that. If I weren't half drunk and if it weren't going on 2 a.m., I'd scan and post it.
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by laklak » Sat May 18, 2013 4:58 pm
Save it, son. The South shall rise agin!
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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by FBM » Sat May 18, 2013 5:02 pm
laklak wrote:Save it, son. The South shall rise agin!
Sheee-yit, yeah!
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by Gawdzilla Sama » Sat May 18, 2013 5:40 pm
FBM wrote:laklak wrote:Don't need no fucking brain. A ganglion cyst was good enough for my daddy and his daddy before him, and it's good enough for me.
Y'all had ganglions? The best we could do was twist a few wires together and stick the ends to a 9-volt battery. And that was on the good days.*
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by pErvinalia » Sun May 19, 2013 1:00 am
I love it when y'all talk redneck or southern!
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