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About bloody time too. Berlusconi hopefully on the way out and nuclear on the way in, I couldn't be happier for Italy.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Tue Aug 4th, 2009 at 12:09:01 AM EST
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Heh. It's more that nuclear is currently on the way in thanks to B...

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Tue Aug 4th, 2009 at 01:55:34 AM EST
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you crack me up starvid, you got it backwards!

get rid of berlu, and nuclear wouldn't stand a chance here.

it boggles my mind that you see it that way, why does the right always endorse top down energy policies, and undermine ecological alternatives?

because they know the people would prefer conserve, not take any more risks on the future, and invest in tech with no downside, and that's why cover-ups and outright lies are the norm for them, but people are a lot less credulous than the old 'atoms for peace' or 'energy too cheap to meter' days.

italians can't run anything, you want them running nuke plants a few hundred miles from you?

come see how they deal with their regular waste, and tell me you want them to be responsible for the nuclear variety.

the mafia will be selling shit to any moron with a death wish and a few million to spend, the cops will find a 'dirty' bomb (not those nice 'clean' ones) factory somewhere, and it's sayonara civil rights and society as we know it, welcome to the new lockdown, same as the old lockdown, but with much better tech.

i'd wager the people will not go willingly down that road, we'll have to wait and see...

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Tue Aug 4th, 2009 at 02:22:22 AM EST
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A recent bill would make it all but impossible to build wind farms in Italy- or better, make it possible only for those who are linked to the political caste.

The nuclear energy farrago is yet another occasion of rampant corruption.

The mafias have enormous wealth that needs recycling. Energy is just another business venture with laws tailor-made to encourage corruption and impunity.

by de Gondi (publiobestia aaaatttthotmaildaughtusual) on Tue Aug 4th, 2009 at 03:39:39 AM EST
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An extra 4 points for the Word of the Day:
farrago |fəˈrägō; -ˈrā-|
noun ( pl. -goes)
a confused mixture : a farrago of fact and myth about Abraham Lincoln. See note at jumble.
DERIVATIVE:
farraginous |fəˈrajənəs| |fəˈrødʒənəs| |fəˈrɑːdʒɪnəs| |-ˈreɪdʒ-| adjective
ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from Latin, literally `mixed fodder,' from far `corn.'

Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.

Frank Delaney ~ Ireland

by siegestate (siegestate or beyondwarispeace.com) on Tue Aug 4th, 2009 at 07:21:20 AM EST
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I owe a Hatlo hat tip to David Habakkuk for introducing the word into my vocabulary.
by de Gondi (publiobestia aaaatttthotmaildaughtusual) on Tue Aug 4th, 2009 at 08:28:38 AM EST
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