The Conservatives will propose banning plasma TVs and other energy-guzzling electrical goods in a report to be unveiled next week. The proposals target white goods like fridges and freezers, as well as TVs, personal computers and DVD players that use too much energy or operate on stand-by.
The ideas come from a Conservative group set up by David Cameron to develop policies to protect the environment and although the measures to make household electrical appliances more energy efficient are not binding on Mr Cameron, they are thought likely to be warmly received by the Tory leader.
The group will also suggest scrapping Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as a measure of the nations success in favour of a model that measures peoples happiness drawn up up by Friends of the Earth.
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Everybody should go back to great big CRT screens. Put your leftover pizza on top and turn it towards the wall and you can have hot pizza for breakfast.
I suppose plasma screens are less efficient than LCDs, but they have to be better than CRTs - so if you can get people to switch from CRT to plasma you should be able to 'carbon offset' those who switch from LCD to plasma, right?
#6
In the lifecycle of any social organization, there comes the point where senesence sets in and retirement with a nice drooling cup is the only answer.
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The group will also suggest scrapping Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as a measure of the nations success in favour of a model that measures peoples happiness drawn up up by Friends of the Earth.
Did someone add snark without a background color here ? or is this just a Tory kind of joke ?
I know I'm laughing. I am high on the Friends of the Earth happiness chart.
#8
Are your people unhappy ? Do you lead long boring resource consuming lives ? Well, today is your lucky day because we have the answer.
HEMP ! Yes, grow hemp for profit and stay zonked longer. Bored ? Turn up the music, and fog your brain with burning bud. Cut down on driving to work and other resource using habits. And happy ? You'll laugh and laugh and laugh, *cough* oh, till your face hurts.
Oh, and be sure to get your food shopping done first.
#9
Sounds like the next step might be to have those despied items deposited in the town square for 'redistribution' ala Chavez.......
hope this idea sinks quicker than the Titanic.
#10
These clowns have to give up THEIR "energy-guzzling electrical goods" first.
After they prove they can live happily with NO electical goods - no TV, no fridge or freezer, no computers, etc., then they can propose it to the proles.
But what they really mean is "no TVs, etc., for anybody except us." Are you sure they're conservatives? Sound like Leftists to me.
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Here's your happy planet index: It's the rent on land. Or does a willingness to pay for a square foot of territory not adequately measure how delighted I am?
Dear God. I got halfway through that steaming heap of bullshit, laughing at every sentence, before it finally dawned on me: they're not joking. It's not satire, they're actually serious about that shit.
Each day the assholes take a little bit more of the "great" out of Great Britain, don't they?
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It must require some sort of truly profound inferiority complex to defer one's own existence in favor of the environment's. As Barbara notes, these anti-industrial Luddites always propose that others should deprive themselves. This sort of "you first" mentality is best illustrated by the imams who are always so ready to strap someone else into a bomb vest. It is impossible to overstate just how much these Luddites and Islam share in common.
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The group will also suggest scrapping Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as a measure of the nations success in favour of a model that measures peoples happiness drawn up up by Friends of the Earth.
I am calling B.S. on this one. I know a piece by the Onion when I see it and almost nothing you can say will convince me otherwise.
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When you live on an island, where the north end is hit with really rough winds, one could consider using wave or wind power generation. Israel does it in relatively calm waters. Floor heaters once used 1500 Watts; now 1000 is usually the Max. In the 'fifties, few homes had double glazed windows; now they are standard in new construction. Energy efficient products are being produced.
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Well, every pile of sh*t has some truth in it, and from Seafarious' link to the Happy Planet Index, it seems that the HPI people got Zimbabwe right when they scored it on the bottom. Red Lantern Prize for Zim-bob.
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I am calling B.S. on this one. I know a piece by the Onion when I see it and almost nothing you can say will convince me otherwise.
Sadly, no. Did the article also mention that Cameron has changed the Tory's symbol? It's now a tree.
Convicted criminals working in the community are to be barred from wearing fluorescent jackets because their feelings might be hurt if passers-by hurl abuse, it emerged last night. Government officials are worried about the health and safety of burglars and thugs if they can be identified as they carry out their punishments.
In a spectacular U-turn, probation staff have been told to stop putting up signs saying street work is being carried out by convicts - or forcing them to wear bright yellow jackets branded 'Community Payback'.
Instead, a small plaque will be erected long after the yobs have gone, to make sure their delicate sensibilities are not put at risk. The decision makes a mockery of repeated Labour promises to make 'tough' community sentences - such as tidying parks and fixing benches - more visible so that the public can see justice being done.
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They should wear camo as they pick up trash on the roadside, so we won't know they're there until the 'thud, thump, thump' as we hit and roll over them with our Hummer.
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Mounted police charged in to break up an outdoor press conference and demonstration against the Iraq war in Washington on Thursday, arresting three people, organizers and an AFP reporter said. "The police suppressed the press conference. In the middle of the speeches, they grabbed the podium" erected in a park in front of the White House for the small gathering, Brian Becker, national organizer of the ANSWER anti-war coalition, told AFP. "Then, mounted police charged the media present to disperse them," Becker said. The charge caused a peaceful crowd of some 20 journalists and four or five protestors to scatter in terror, an AFP correspondent at the event in Lafayette Square said. Herewith, the reason for the protest:
Last month, the movement was threatened with a fine of at least 10,000 dollars unless it removed posters in the city announcing the September 15 march. Washington city authorities have said the posters had to come down because they were stuck on with adhesive that did not meet city regulations. "At our demonstration today we were showing the media that the paste we use conforms to the rules," Becker said."One of our activists was making a speech when the police barged in and grabbed the podium. At that point, Tina Richards started to put up a poster, so they arrested her and two others."
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No kidding. These posters started going up two months ago and seem to be at evry intersection in NW DC. The passersby seem to take them down fairly rapidly, but the posterers are working faster than the anti-posterers.
#2
Nothing like charging horses to disperse a crowd. They instill true fear in any sentient being. Bet the cops will really enjoy their brews when they learn it was 80% journos.
Where? Doesn't say.
What? Six lines, at least one of which was gas.
Who? Left wingers. Obrador supporters? Chavez funded?
Hey, this kind of stuff worked great in keeping Iraq messed up so in less-protected Mexico it ought to be a piece of cake to bring down the economy and therefore the 'illicit' government, so the 'good' commies can come to the aid of the people. Then again, Calderon's not so hot either.
MEXICO CITY Six explosions ripped apart pipelines for Mexico's state oil monopoly early Monday, the company said. The blasts were believed to be sabotage and 12,000 people were evacuated afterward.
Must have been the Esquimaux.
A small, left-wing guerrilla group claimed to have attacked a major gas pipeline for the Mexican state oil monopoly Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, in July and at the time at least a dozen major companies were forced to suspend or scale back operations.
Pemex issued a statement saying it believed Monday's explosions were also sabotage. Government officials said 12,000 people were evacuated after the blasts.
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Update from the AP: A small, shadowy leftist group linked to similar attacks in July left a note claiming responsibility, a police official in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
The note was found alongside at least one undetonated explosive device uncovered by soldiers in a swampy area about 550 yards away from a highway toll booth 25 miles north of the port of Veracruz, the official said.
At four sections of the pipelines, fires broke out, while at others leaking gas prompted fears of explosions and forced civil protection authorities to evacuate several communities including Ciudad Cardel and Antigua, said state Civil Protection Deputy Director Ranulfo Marquez. "We still have a gas leak in the area of Ciudad Cardel," Marquez said.
The explosions also prompted authorities to close two main highways.
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