I jut have to point out that this happened in Australia. 16 men were picked up for exactly this same reason and then let go without charge. As it turns out the very day before wikileaks data revealed that NSW police were using spyware, an illegal technique as it is the same as domestic spying.

In the media frenzy that followed the politicians whipped the masses into a frenzy on one hand saying "we're all gonna die", then "everybody stay calm" and at the right moment introduced legislation that made the illegal techniques, legal.

I have to wonder if the same thing is happening here to the Belgian people. I am no fan of Islam and it's plethora of human rights violations however, any salient person can observe the governments using Islam to tighten their grip on ordinary people's freedoms.

Unfortunately since objective media doesn't exist anymore those who care can see the persistent slide to a police state world emerging with horror replete with the knowledge that dead men cannot be bought before a court of inquiry.

Reboot now or crash you browser?

The irony is that some percentage of their goal will be achieved no matter what they intended. It's a fools errand that leads them to believe that they have control over these materials for the geological timeframes that they will exist while they decay.

One of the most intriguing things I find about oil is that it is such a useful compound and the best we can do with it is burn it!

Oil prices can only go up in the long term and the pretending that goes on with our politicians in relation to these industries really reveal the cracks and flaws in our democratic processes that stop structural issues like renewable energy deployment being addressed.

Hopefully, as it becomes obvious that the science on these matters is actually correct, the problem solvers will have more influence over the politics. I keep hearing that it will take a long time, however I think it was about 2006 when people started talking about it and here is solar and wind making great impacts on the energy markets already. Perhaps the day will come much sooner and oil prices will become less relevant.

Surely human beings can adapt to this.

But that should not disqualify him from being gay.

some of us write directly to the politicians and vote, that really gets their attention.

That's not true. Capitalism relies on stable political environments to be able to operate properly and is just as vulnerable to corruption as marxism. Modern capitalism encountered that in the form of entities that were "Too big to Fail" an anathema to the competition required for capitalism to function properly.

In reality the former ideologically opposed super powers have arrived at the same destination via different paths. Both are now dominated by oligarchs and corporatism and maintain a veneer of the values that was once intrinsic to them for the media to portray and the masses to believe. Those who cling to the quaint notion of left and right politics have their minds wrapped in an illusion designed to comfort them into feeling free whilst tewwor is used as tool to steal the rights earned for us all through bloody conflict.

All ideologies kneel in the church of the corporation before the almighty dollar. Corporatism IS the new world order and terrorism is it's biggest advocate.

They risked a gamble, so what. Companies build products that fails - it's not even a headline. Amazon built something that people think is a failure, then everyone went to bed, woke up the next day and everyone moved on.

Better than coal?

It's not better than solar or wind and because it consumes energy after the plant has been decommissioned, then there is the nasty waste, the potent greenhouse CFCs. When you do the evaluation it's actually WORSE.