Bond market fears as UK debt soars

It seems the government can no longer take for granted that there will be buyers for its gilts. The UK still retains its AAA rating, but what next?

The UK’s unfunded state spending has attracted approbation from Brussels: on the one hand, good, on the other, what business is it of theirs?

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Peak oil and famine in the mainstream news

World oil supply has stagnated in the last four years while demand has increased. Goldman Sachs predict famine as energy costs rise.

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Brown and Miliband insist it’s not the same, but …

“Parts of the Lisbon Treaty, signed by Gordon Brown last month, are no different from the abandoned EU Constitution, a report by MPs has said.”

And of course, most of the other leaders of EU states have admitted the Lisbon Treaty is the democratically-rejected Constitution, dressed up to sidestep democracy.

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Brown: UK ID Cards will not be compulsory … oh yes they will

… for British citizens.

Well, it’s a start. Now how to deal with all their other faulty proposals, plans, policies, treaties and laws?

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Follow up from No2ID. Oh dear, oh dear: you may not have to have a card, but…

Jeremy Clarkson’s ‘steal my ID’ stunt backfires

TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson has been forced to reverse his position after he lost money after publishing his bank account details in a newspaper column.
The Top Gear presenter rather rashly published his account details in a column in The Sun to back up his claims that the child benefit data loss furore…

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X09 – Campaign for a referendum on the EU Constitution

This site campaigns for a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. The Treaty is the Constitution barely disguised, we were promised a referendum and denying one is an insult to democracy. Are the Europhiles even democrats?

Visit X09.eu

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Giuliani Official: ‘Get rid of Muslims’. This must stop.

Troubling footage of an official of the Giuliani campaign. Worrying in the context of increasingly authoritarian law and recent comments from Muslim leaders in the UK, saying they feel they are being “demonised”.

See also http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/video/2007/dec/27/primaries.rudy.guiliani

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The Lisbon Treaty could be derailed? Boo hoo.

After a “period of reflection”, the best the EU could manage was to make a dreadful constitution harder to read in the hope of deceitfully sidestepping referenda. Who do they think we are? What’s the goal? What about making the EU democratic?

Let’s get this mess reformed. Derailing the Lisbon Treaty is the first step.

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New York Times retracts its smear of Ron Paul

After receiving hundreds of complaints the NYT was forced to retract its hit piece on Ron Paul stating “The original post [the hitpiece] should not have been published with these unverified assertions and without any response from Paul.”

Ron Paul - courtesy of Wikipedia

Very sad, particularly as that piece has not yet been withdrawn.

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