I think nuclear is the only way to go

GO GO GO

Go johnny
In ireland last week saw a show on the hole theyve put themselves in
Have 15 wind farms here and have to build another 15 by 2010 or some similar date Cant remember exactly but ruining the history and
countryside like you wouldnt believe.
Part of the Kyoto protocol What a mess

Also in Portugal they have wind farm but no wind. Just eyesores
Like your comment livinginlondon. But really.

yea, go Johnny... right out the door, but on your way, don't forget to pick up your summons to appear before the high court on charges laid by the people (that you are supposed to honourable represent) for your crimes against humanity.

I wonder how you sleep at night? I am not the one to judge you, but you will know when your time comes.

We could argue that Aborigines lived in harmony with their life-support systems at the time of European contact. But they were effectively pushed aside very easily and the continent was taken over.

Well, if we develop a sustainable lifestyle with a decent quality of life and live in harmony with our environment, we are going to look very inviting to increasingly desperate and aggressive nations.

We have one huge advantage over the pre 1770 Aborigines – we know the threats that exist overseas.

So we had better damn well keep up our defences. And in an expanding nuclear weapons regime where the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty and other means of suppressing weapons capability and proliferation are looking pretty sick, we had damn well better get us a few nukes!!

It’s as simple as that.

Why don't we all have a nuke each, one in EVERYONES backyard.

We could have local competitions on who's is the prettiest at Christmas... how jolly!

Then if our neighbours dog gets into our bitch, we can nuke the mothers right offa the planet.

yup, sounds pretty simple to me.

I hold the button safely in MY trusted hand.

Hopefully the fall out won't blow over the fence and harm my organic tomatoes
;-)

mmmMMMMMMmmm okaaaay!

Sorta sounds a bit like you might not want us to have any nukes Restore!

Hey, I know it’s a horrible thought. It has played havoc with my brain for quite a while now!

But is it that unrealistic? Don’t you think it would be a damn good idea to be able to defend ourselves… which means having a defence capability or a threat capability that would serve as a powerful deterrent to our potential aggressors?

Alas Ludwig

Trying to convince original,, or born again peaceniks, is like p#ssing in the wind.

I recall in the early 80s unilateral nuclear disarmament of the West (especially UK) was seen as the ONLY way to resolve the Cold War nuclear impasse. If "the West disarmed the Eastern bloc would disarm" was the logic. Instead the West "stuck to its guns" and the Eastern bloc backed down in 1989-90.

Nowerdays the mantra is if stable Western democratic countries (like Australia) decide not to have nuclear weapons then theocracies or neo Stalinist dictatorships (read Iran and North Korea) will feel sooo guilty and see the moral error of their ways that they will disarm forthwidth.

The fact that having nuclear weapons is also popular in Iran is ignored. The fact thaat Iran has so many strategic nuclear threats (Israel, Russia, the US etc) is also ignored. Similar goes for North Korea. These guys will not curb further nuclear development plans or disarm.

Iran and North Korea both have their positive nuclear weapons arguments but by word and actions they are enemies of the West (including us).

We should not be reliant on the American nuclear umbrella (particularly in a US-China conflict). As you say Australia should develop its own nuclear capability.

Pete
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