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  • #16
    You're on a roll today, Ogie.
    urgh.NSFW

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    • #17
      "Just puttin on the foil" - Jeff Hanson

      “In a democracy, I realize you don’t need to talk to the top leader to know how the country feels. When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people.” - Jimmy Carter

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      • #18
        Originally posted by Proteus_MST
        Sounds good,
        I agree that Europe should introduce it for Goods from USA and other Countries with lax environmental laws
        Come to California we have some enviromental laws you Germans would find to be pretty damn strict. We're still the only place which regulates CO2 output for a car per mile driven.
        Last edited by Dinner; April 12, 2005, 19:48.
        Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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        • #19
          Originally posted by Az
          You're on a roll today, Ogie.
          That's troll.
          Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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          • #20
            Here fishie fishie fishie.
            "Just puttin on the foil" - Jeff Hanson

            “In a democracy, I realize you don’t need to talk to the top leader to know how the country feels. When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people.” - Jimmy Carter

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            • #21
              Originally posted by el freako

              The only way to have a lasting solution to this problem (as coersion or bribery only works when it is being applied) is through international cooperation and a pooling of sovereignty in regards to the problem.

              Unfortunately the US is too mired in 19th century ideas about the sovereignty of nation-states to take up such a 21st century solution.
              layers of sovereignty

              You don't happen to be familiar with Jonathan Schell?
              "Remember, there's good stuff in American culture, too. It's just that by "good stuff" we mean "attacking the French," and Germany's been doing that for ages now, so, well, where does that leave us?" - Elok

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              • #22
                Re: Should an 'Environmental Damage' tax be put on foreign goods?

                Originally posted by Lancer
                Agree?
                Tell me how much pesticides and fertilisers the US agri-business use again?
                (\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
                (='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
                (")_(") "Starting the fire from within."

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                • #23
                  To the OP:

                  No.
                  “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                  - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by Admiral
                    You don't happen to be familiar with Jonathan Schell?
                    No i'm not actually

                    My beliefs have been shaped by books by the following:

                    Mancur Olson
                    G. John Ikenberry
                    Mark Leonard
                    Jeremy Rifkin
                    Paul Kennedy
                    Martin Wolf
                    Paul Seabright
                    19th Century Liberal, 21st Century European

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                    • #25
                      I've actually read Paul Kennedy's The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers. It was a very informative book.
                      Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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                      • #26
                        Originally posted by Oerdin

                        Come to California we have some enviromental laws you Germans would find to be pretty damn strict. We're still the only place which regulates CO2 output for a car per mile driven.
                        Sounds like America and the world will profit if the next american president is a californian
                        I assume Arnie will do a much better job than Bush jr.
                        and will improve the relations the USA have with the rest of the world to pre Bush levels
                        Tamsin (Lost Girl): "I am the Harbinger of Death. I arrive on winds of blessed air. Air that you no longer deserve."
                        Tamsin (Lost Girl): "He has fallen in battle and I must take him to the Einherjar in Valhalla"

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