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The British privatized most of their infrastructure, and now the UK economy is a burst bubble; a hollowed-out shell with no productive capability, confined to using MI6 to manipulate the political process in other countries, so as to orchestrate bailouts of their broken financial system (which is also much of the world’s system).

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/business/27fund.html

WHY ARE WE HANDING OVER OUR COUNTRY TO FASCIST FINANCIAL PARASITES PIECE BY PIECE?! Are the sheep just going to sit back and watch American Idol until these traitorous thieves have taken the clothes off their backs?! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY?!?!
Red,

You are 100% DEAD WRONG. Obama is proposing INVESTING IN INFRASTRUCTURE. It’s the neo-liberals (Thatcherites, American conservatives, fascists, etc.) who are driving this.
Comrade Otto raises another good point – almost without exception, privatization is done without even CONSIDERING if the private sector can provide the service more efficiently.

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…Inevitable?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/dollars-status-under-attack-from-china-1652683.html

and the UK economy is going down the loo as well:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/blanchflower-warns-of-horrible-things-to-come-1652681.html

cheers everyone!

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Firm gets Kingsnorth carbon capture design funding
Energy firm E.On has been awarded a share of a £90m pot to develop designs for a carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility at Kingsnorth in Kent.
Scottish Power also won funding and the two firms will now compete to build the UK’s first (CCS) coal-fired power plant in Kent or Clackmannanshire, Scotland.
Four coal-fired power stations which demonstrate commercial-scale CCS will be built, according to the government.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/8565225.stm

I am in two minds about this; coal with proper cc&s will be more expensive than offshore wind, but we do have our nearly-dry oil wells in the North sea to put the CO2 in, and done properly it should be a low carbon energy solution. But £90 million just for the pilot? That would build a lot of turbines. Its a shame wave and tidal power are not getting this kind of funding too.

Plans to build a new coal-fired plant at Kingsnorth were put on hold in 2009, due mainly to the large public demonstrations, by many ‘ordinary’ people, not just the usual hairy types like me. At the time, the gov. capitulated and promised no new coal without carbon capture, and here it is, barely a year later. They really, really want coal! I wonder why.

Is this a victory for the protesters and for common sense, or a dangerous distraction from a new green economy?
Dana, politicians do indeed need to keep funds flowing to energy utilities, but Thatcher shut all our coal mines. We have one new open cast mine in Wales, with a lot of opposition to it on environmental grounds. I agree with Jeff; even if the power station flue gasses are fuly cleaned, the dust from the coal piles gets everywhere the slag and haz. waste from the abatement (full of mercury etc.) has to be disposed of, and open cast mining especially is a nasty dirty use of land that ruins all around for anything else for years.
Apart from that we are dependant on eastern European coal anyway. So much for energy security.
Vampire, yes, me too, I smell a rat – or a big fat cat?
Paul, I had’nt thought of that
Yes, it will all get used anyway, so the most efficient use and least emissions from it the better, and we might as well get on with it.

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I have credit card debt and this time it is hard for me to manage it. Do I have some kind of options to deal with credit card companies to have some break or if they can write off part of it without affecting my good credit? If requested, can they defer the monthly payments? But whatever is negotiated, I don’t want to mess up my credit. Any viable solution please.

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I remember reading about a woman who had her limit on a card lowered only because she spent a lot (under her limit) in a certain amount of time. If I am planning on maxing out my cards ( with the understanding I will kill any potential credit), how can I avoid getting the credit I already have lowered during my spending spree?

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I could pay a down payment, but would they finance the rest under a corporation? Like I said I could finance 50% of the house and need financing for the rest. My half of the equity, they could use for collateral.
It would be an LLC.

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I already have a BS degree and I am thinking of either getting a certificate or another BS degree. I am not interested in a graduate degree. Would I qualify for a STAFFORD loan or something similar? I have taken out student loans 10 years ago when I first received my degree.

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I get a check for the excess under my name but my father applies for the loans. How would I find out if i owe any money in student loans under my name? Is there a website?

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Can I change the name of the title to me even though the car is finance under my friend? Or do I have to take a loan for the car in order to transfer the title? How bout go Beyond and add another person to the title?

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