Chief executive confirms company is selling homes it bought on proposed route amid coalition commitment to block new runways
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FT on 1st Feb 2012 (via ft.com)
What is this country coming to, Telegraph columnist Jeff Randall asks this morning, when we cannot even kick out al Qa’eda masterminds, Nigerian rapists, Romanian Big Issue sellers and those nice smiley Polish girls behind the counter at Pret, and set our indigenous chavs to work selling over-priced sarnies instead? Throw in repeated over-the-top use
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LiberalConspiracy on 30th Jan 2012 (via liberalconspiracy.org)
It's not well known, but the country we buy the biggest share of our imported oil from isn't in the Middle East,but our neighbor Canada. In order to process it cheaper and easier, Canada and US oil companies wanted to construct a pipeline between the drilling sites in Alberta, Canada and American refineries known as the Keystone Pipeline. Aside from providing thousands of construction jo...
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JOSHUAPUNDIT on 16th Jan 2012 (via joshuapundit.blogspot.com)
The US has slapped sanctions on three firms including a major Chinese oil trader for selling refined oil products to Iran
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FT on 13th Jan 2012 (via ft.com)
Whilst I am working a private contractor cyber-defence job for a large financial conference, it seems apropos to summarise some recent intel from Janes. The DOD is selling two THAAD missile interceptor batteries to the United Arab Emirates, This is the first international sale. I wonder who they are defending against.. US chooses Super Tucano for Afghan Air Force Sierra Nevada and Embraer have bee...
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Samizdata on 12th Jan 2012 (via samizdata.net)
If you are depressed about the economic state of the world, one way to cheer yourself up is to google things like "fracking" or "natural gas". Another is to try "3D printing". That was how I found my way to this piece, about a company which has started selling 3D printers to ⦠people. From what I can make out, each printer now costs something like two thousand dollars, more or less...
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Samizdata on 12th Jan 2012 (via samizdata.net)
The consensus that top bosses get paid too much is really a way of selling the idea that all society is too greedy.
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Spiked on 10th Jan 2012 (via spiked-online.com)
Oh dear… A number of posts on [Liberal Democrat council by-election candidate Dave Stones'] Facebook page were seemingly calculated to deliberately offend Muslims — including spreading outright smears. Stones claimed that the Royal British Legion were “not selling poppies in certain areas of the UK”, implying that objections from Muslims were behind the decision T...
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 8th Jan 2012 (via libdemvoice.org)