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Glasgow relied on the tobacco trade, and cotton and sugar, and was probably involved in the slave trade to some extent. Dundee has its own shame; it used to have whaling ships.

A lot of the cattle ranches in the 19th century west were owned by businessmen from London, Bristol, Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow and Dundee.

When the carbon trading syystem comes in perhaps local coal mines will again be in vogue

True but the reality is fossil fuels will never be replaced by renewables in the short term

Countries like China are putting online 2 coal powered statrions every week
I find the figure hard to beileve but then when you consider they have 30,000 cole mines its not hard to understand

I quite agree

That was the stinking point with Uncle Sam & OZ signing Kyoto
the abscenece of the 2 most populace nations on earth india & china

I read back a while that China was making their own cars using outdated(10 years)emissions technology

You wonder where it will all end for them

Another Acid Rain incident on its way

Deano! wrote:

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> My only disappointment this election is the lack of
> stripper/porn star candidates. I think Jodie Moore was running
> a few years back in Queensland and came across in interviews as
> a really nice, intelligent girl - which must have annoyed the
> femonazis no end to find she wasn't a tortured drug addict!
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I think this little epsiode would have got my vote
Kate Fischer explains the Australian constitution
She's no bimbo...1st woman PM if she'd only run