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Politics : Rat's Nest - Chronicles of Collapse -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (9487)	9/1/2009 10:10:00 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24225

A Brit commenting on TOD xeroid on September 1, 2009 - 8:58am It looks like the UK MSM are being used by the Government to steadily drip information about our likely upcoming UK predicament. In the last couple of weeks or so several newspapers suddenly have lots of PO, energy, and climate change related stories. Last week the BBC had a good couple of programs on food problems related to inadequate fresh water around the world. By 2020 we will likely have very little UK sourced coal, oil and natural gas and a large chunk of electricty generation will have been shut down, hence today's headline in the Daily Mail : Blackout Britain warning as Government predicts severe power shortages within a year Read more: dailymail.co.uk. The Guardian has an article about the UK saving 10% of carbon emissions by 2010 : guardian.co.uk. Presumably they expect a massive recession to do the trick, so the public won't have to do much thinking about how to do it. ;-(