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I’m sorry, but this is the most ludicrous thing I’ve read for a little while.

“We (Saudi Arabia) are willing to participate with others to help in reducing world emissions because like the rest of the world we are concerned about the environment,” he said.

[sarcasm]Uhhh uhhh, and you are going to do that in what way?? Ohhh, you are not going to increase oil production, in fact,
you are going to start decreasing it. It’s for the common good ehh?
Nothing AT ALL to do with the fact that you won’t be able to maintain oil production at all.
[/sarcasm]

or, how about V for Vendetta.

Well, that’s what it’s starting to feel like at times.
All in the name of protecting us from terrorism.
Links here, here and here.

In the Times link, something caught my attention…

Security is to be increased at railway stations, airport terminals, sea ports, and at more than one hundred “sensitive” installations, such as nuclear power stations and key electricity, gas, and petrol plants.

Hmmm (Gavin strokes his chin a bit here). You’d almost think that the government was expecting disturbances to occur in those areas, at a time of potential shortage.

As much as I sometimes enjoy Chavez’s taunting of the Bush administration, he’s still a bit of an arse!

So, the King of Spain gets a hardy dose of my respect for just coming out and telling Chavez to just “shut up”. Of course, Chavez hasn’t taken this lightly.

Doesn’t look the same as the photos

Not really surprised at this to be honest.

In other Japan news… Hatoyama is still being an arse.
Fuel costs are starting to have an affect in Japan… though quite a surprising one.

And finally, there was quite an interesting (if scary) story today, about an incident at Chubu airport in Japan. In the comments, there was a link to a youtube video, which was audio from another incident involving a Chinese airline in the US.
It was quite worrying because imagine the potential scene at Chubu where you have potentially a poor-English speaking Air Traffic Controller, speaking to a potentially poor-English speaking pilot.
Mind you, in the Kennedy airport incident, the US controller didn’t help by speaking quickly. Then again, if it’s a busy airport, he has to issue commands rather quickly.

And finally

At last, we’ve moved into our new bungaloo. Wooohooo. I was greeted this morning with a fantastic view out towards the Severn Estuary as it approached sunrise. A fair bit of unpacking etc to do… but the old place has been emptied now at last, thanks to the old folks and their van.
I’ll start digging up the garden soon, ready for my next batch of home grown veggies.

Yep… this years shipments of Beaujolais Nouveau have arrived.

As usual, a lot of Japanese will buy the stuff, ‘just because everyone else does, and it’s the in thing to do for the New Year’… despite the fact that in my humble opinion, it tastes like shit!

Ahhh, I guess those French vineyards have once again managed to shift all the crappy wine onto the Japanese, whilst they keep all the good stuff to themselves, and sent the 2nd rate stuff (but still not bad in many cases) to us in the UK and other countries.