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Peak Oil

Two quite interesting stories in the press. First up is the Guardian’s reporting of Lloyds of London’s acknowledgment of Peak Oil.

One of the City’s most respected institutions has warned of “catastrophic consequences” for businesses that fail to prepare for a world of increasing oil scarcity and a lower carbon economy.

The Lloyd’s insurance market and the highly regarded Royal Institute of International Affairs, known as Chatham House, says Britain needs to be ready for “peak oil” and disrupted energy supplies at a time of soaring fuel demand in China and India, constraints on production caused by the BP oil spill and political moves to cut CO2 to halt global warming.

“Companies which are able to take advantage of this new energy reality will increase both their resilience and competitiveness. Failure to do so could lead to expensive and potentially catastrophic consequences,” says the Lloyd’s and Chatham House report “Sustainable energy security: strategic risks and opportunities for business”.

Japan, low tech country?

Quite an interesting article which is a bit of an overview of the paradox of Japan being consider to be high-tech… yet being completely backward sometimes when it comes to technology.

Japan to Build Naval Base in Djibouti.

More to this than meets the eye?

Yeah, it’s Eurovision Song Contest time… a time when Yuko and I sit in front of the TV with a bit of plonk and basically laugh at how shit the whole contest is.

First up, congratulations to “Kate Nash” for winning, for Germany
I mean, what the hell was going on there!? Yes, we see other European countries singing in English all the time… but singing in a mockney-cockney accent?!?

Other honourable mentions go to Denmark for their Sting-alike effort, and for the “pitch-invasion” during the Spanish song.

As for Britain, tonight was the first time we heard the song. We thought it f@£king sucked!!! We deserved to come last to be honest.

My favourite for the night was Bosnia (gotta love a guitar based song), Yuko kinda like Greece.

However, at the end of day, when Europe is bloody skint and Germany seems to be the ‘least skint’ country of the lot everyone was bound to suck up to them and vote for them

This just scares the hell out of me!

“We as a nation were intended by God to be a light set on a hill to serve as a beacon of hope and Christian charity to a lost and dying world.”

OK, step back from the scary lady who said that.