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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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You will be run over by a bus.
(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.