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Western Europe’s biggest petroleum producer is falling out of love with oil.
To the dismay of the nation’s powerful oil industry and its worker unions, the opposition Labor Party over the weekend decided to withdraw its support for oil exploration offshore the sensitive Lofoten islands in Norway’s Arctic, creating a solid majority in parliament to keep the area off limits for drilling.
The dramatic shift by Norway’s biggest party is a significant blow to the support the oil industry has enjoyed, and could signal that the Scandinavian nation is coming closer to the end of an era that made it one of the world’s most affluent.
How will Norway pay for its social safety network without oil revenues?
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BEWARE! People acting under the influence of human nature.
(Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 09 2019, @02:08PM (19 children)
Well, yeah! And?
I guess I should thank you for saving me the trouble...
And, despite their very minority status, look at who rules the entire world. White European males, they own it all. There must be a reason for that.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday April 09 2019, @06:47PM (18 children)
For a long damn time it was China, and at the rate things are going it may very well be China again in a few decades. And East Asians have statistically higher IQs than Caucasians, with the notable exception of--you're gonna LOVE this one, Adolf!--Ashkenazi Jews!
This line of argumentation you're running is going to bite you in the ass so hard your grandparents will feel it in Hell. Don't say I didn't warn you. Who lives by the sword, dies by it, and who lives by deliberate ignorance, will die ignorant.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 09 2019, @09:34PM (17 children)
Goddamn! I love you! You are so cool!
But maybe you never really noticed. China never came close to running the world. The whole global thing didn't even take off until the Europeans went on their *Three Hour Tour*... And you do remember the opium wars? Remember who won?? How funny that is. Little tiny Britain against big bad China, Africa, Middle east, North America, Oceania ... My god! They even beat off France and Spain!! And Germany before we showed up. Come to think of it, White Europeans IS incorrect! It should White Brits, and that empire still rules today, even over your USA! It shows no sign of diminishing, all their Masterpiece Political Theater notwithstanding...
White people ruled wherever they went for a little over 500 years. And yeah, their fat laziness (and low birthrates) will bring them down a few notches. Probably got another 100 - 150 years... by then even the NHS won't be able to keep up with all the heart attacks. Their coronary bypass unit is quite the little factory..
Life is brief. I would advise you to enjoy your stay. Making yourself miserable doesn't help anybody, least of all you.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday April 10 2019, @01:08AM (16 children)
Okay, so now you're saying it's all down to accidents of history. Which is it, troll-breath? I notice you also had no counterpoint to the proven superiority--hey, statistics say it, it has to be true!--of our East Asian and Ashkenazi overlords :)
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 10 2019, @02:51AM (3 children)
There are a hell of a lot more aspects to a person than the IQ you seem focused on.
I test out way above average on IQ (140 to 150 depending on test/caffeine/alertness/etc.), but I am often outmaneuvered by people who test lower, simply because I am not as driven, ambitious, ruthless or duplicitous. I get interested in solving technical problems, and forget to play the politics.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday April 10 2019, @03:13AM (2 children)
Hey, *I'm* not the one fixated on IQ, it's our "scientific" racist friend(s?) up above who seem to have a permanent woodie for it. Mine is, like yours, in the 140-150 range, though unlike you I have the ability to play politics; I kind of have to, women live and die by social networks unfortunately.
IQ tends to be the fetish or totem the "scientific" racist guys, and they are almost always guys, get hooked on. They seem to have forgotten that there are multiple dimensions to intelligence. I most certainly do not have the equivalent of a 140-150 IQ in music due to severe hearing loss, and am just average athletically, for example.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 10 2019, @03:30AM (1 child)
It is not so much an inability as a disinclination. I don't like playing politics. The few times I have gotten pissed off enough to pay attention and get down and dirty with the assholes, I generally get what I want, and also get left alone afterwards for a considerable time. I feel dirty when I do that though.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday April 10 2019, @05:27AM
And yet you don't feel dirty for suggesting that large swathes of the human race are lost causes, essentially brute beasts, with all the genocidal policy that implies? Your priorities are fucked. Take a long, hard look in the mirror before you call someone else a beast...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 10 2019, @06:23AM (11 children)
Which is it, troll-breath?
:-) You're cute!
I notice you also had no counterpoint to the proven superiority--hey, statistics say it, it has to be true!--of our East Asian
Well let's see... Who won World War II?
and Ashkenazi overlords
Israel, and the whole map of the Middle East (and most of Africa) is a British creation. Sustained by American muscle... can't survive on their own. Same goes for the two bit dictators everywhere south of the Rio Grande. The Americans didn't want the Jews over there either. They wanted to give former slaves a homeland also, somewhere far away from them. So it makes sense, no accidents...
Now then, I never said one word about IQ or "accidents" or anything else. I said, *Who rules the world?* But you just keep going off on your little rants trying to impress.. who? I wouldn't know, but you show high ambitions for something. Hope you're not running for office with that mouth!
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday April 10 2019, @07:54AM (10 children)
So we've suddenly moved from "people rule due to genetic superiority" to "people rule" then? Thanks for flushing your entire argument down the shitter. If you go that route, we're speaking of nothing but accidents of history. What will you say when China takes over the world? Will you then acknowledge them as superior simply because they rule you? Fool.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 10 2019, @10:06PM
Bah, this is stupid! You can't read!
Still love ya :-)
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 10 2019, @11:11PM (8 children)
What the hell... I'll spell it out for ya one more time, babe.
Physical and mental superiority has enabled the White(specially British) Man to conquer every place they ever stepped into, that includes China, Africa, Middle East, India, Europe (still occupied by the Americans) and your east Asian friends, Japan (also still occupied), the arctic and antarctic, and the moon! (Who the fuck wants Korea?). This is a White Man's World, La perfide Albion...
What is this "accident" bullshit you're pushing?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday April 11 2019, @05:57AM (7 children)
And who says this will last? It was not always, and will likely not always be. Hope you're brushing up on your Mandarin, bigmouth...we're gonna need it inside of 20 years. I'm thanking my lucky stars I spent childhood surrounded by Chinese-speakers (and writers) and have picked a bunch of it up early.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @06:24AM (6 children)
And who says this will last?
Some guy named Isaac Newton, I believe? You know, inertia? But really, you are so silly. If we really lose it that fast, we can thank your democrats for that. They made Trump president. And though you deny it all day long, people like you are only making it easier for him with your repulsive bullshit and phony "investigations" (goddamn circus show! Looks like he's turning that around on yer ass! Way to go!). You should be looking for somebody to run against him instead of demanding party conformity and subservience. You should consider how you got yourselves into this mess, but you won't. You will always find somebody else to blame. That's just how you roll. That's why Trump won. And he's steamrollin' right over you people, no Mueller report, no taxes, "acting" cabinet members, it just goes on and on. And look at you! The tact you are taking is so very wrong, only benefits your antagonists. Very very sad...
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday April 11 2019, @06:29AM (5 children)
You're rambling, AC. Gibbering, more like. There are laws against public masturbation and you are flouting them.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @03:26PM (4 children)
Oh my! Such projection! Say what you want, babe. At least you admit that the White Man rules the world when you asked how long it will last, which had nothing to do with what I said, by the way. Your attempts at diversion are a miserable failure. But please, keep trying, it's fun to watch. It's better than TeeVee.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday April 11 2019, @03:58PM (3 children)
Why is it so important to you who rules? What good is that going to do you, even if you are a "White Man" (wtf caps?) when you're dead? You may find it actually does you negative amounts of good, depending on how you interacted with others vis-a-vis your supposed rulership...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @07:20PM (2 children)
Why is it so important to you who rules?
Contrary to what you like to believe, it isn't. I'm just laughing at your bullshit for not acknowledging why they rule.
wtf caps?
:-) Heh, I was wondering how long it would you to gripe about that. That was the reason for doing it that way. You are such a nice soft target for distraction. So easy to throw you off the trail..
And when I'm dead, I won't care what happens to any man, no matter what color.
You know, All your preachy shit is very religious. You don't fool anyone. You are as superstitious as anyone around.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday April 12 2019, @06:00AM (1 child)
I'm definitely not an atheist, if that's what you mean, but this is purely about natural laws. Karma itself is one of those laws; take it out of its Dharmic-religious milieu and just think of it as the moral version of Newton's third law.
You also aren't "just laughing." You are as serious as an Ebola outbreak and about as useful to civilized society. I know full well why whites rule for the moment, and most of it is accidents of history. It's also a rather small slice of history, if you get your head out of this weird Eurocentric worldview and study, for example, the Indians and the Chinese. Even most of what you think of as "western civilization" has its roots way the hell back in Mesopotamia, or Persia and Iraq to us moderns. Study Sanscrit and what we've been able to reconstruct of proto-Indo-European, too.
There is so much to learn, so much to study. How can you possibly be content with such a tiny, constricted worldview and its cheap pleasures? Does temporal, temporary power truly mean that much to you, especially power you have zero part of?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 12 2019, @09:35PM
How is it an accident? That's the silliest shit I've ever heard (well, maybe not from you). If it's an accident, the car is still crashing in very slow motion.
You are as serious as an Ebola outbreak and about as useful to civilized society.
As I said, you can't read then. This is one of your major malfunctions... Your silly biases completely rearrange the letters written down to suit. It can't be more obvious. You just spill rote bullshit. I should expect better, but I don't anymore. Since anger is off the table, I can only express disappointment, and some gratitude in my short time left. Oh, and on that, good luck finding any link at all between one life and the next. I can assure you it's a total crap shoot, another day another universe.... But for shits and giggles, why don't you tell us all about your past lives. I would seriously love to hear it! If you're really tuned it, you should be able to tell us about your next one or two. And furthermore, your whole morality shtick is complete based on superstition. You're just trying ride the coattails of the name. But it's the same old shit in another costume. So please, save yourself the trouble. I ain't buyin' no snake oil.