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For 50 Years, Nuclear Power Stations Have Produced Three Products Which Only A Lunatic Could Want: Bomb-explosive Plutonium, Lethal Radioactive Waste And Electricity So Dear It Has To Be Heavily Subsidised. They Leave To Future Generations The Task, And Most Of The Cost, Of Making Safe Sites That Have Been Polluted Half-way To Eternity.

In Rising Financial Markets, The World Is Forever New. The Bull Or Optimist Has No Eyes For Past Or Present, But Only For The Future, Where Streams Of Revenue Play In His Imagination.

Viewed From A Distance, Or Through The Eye Of The All-knowing Ceo Of The Universe, The Crash Of 2008 Followed The Usual Pattern. A Long-lived Boom Driven By Cheap Credit, Going Back As Far As 1982 (though Subject To Interruptions In The Mid-1980s And 1990s, And In 2001), Came To Grief Because Of A Rise In The Cost Of Borrowing Money.

By Pouring Money And Goods Into Devastated Regions, Foreign Aid Workers Sometimes Compound The Disruption And Debauch The Survivors.

It Is Time To End The Western Policy Of Malign Neglect. It Is In The Interest Of The Whole World To Help Tackle The Actual Grievances In Palestine, Kashmir, And In Central And Southern Iraq, And To Help The Region Out Of Its Economic Backwardness.