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Brussels demands thousands more wind turbines across the UK
The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | January 22, 2008 | DAVID DERBYSHIRE

Posted on 01/21/2008 8:38:59 PM PST by Stoat

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1 posted on 01/21/2008 8:39:02 PM PST by Stoat
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To: Stoat

“All hail the EU! Your wish is our command!”

(Remember that old Rule Brittania song?)


2 posted on 01/21/2008 8:41:36 PM PST by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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well it will keep the russians and mussies from a little more blood money - and every little bit helps


3 posted on 01/21/2008 8:43:48 PM PST by spanalot (*)
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To: Stoat

Where will all the muslims homes be built? Turbin’s under Turbines?


4 posted on 01/21/2008 8:43:51 PM PST by MaxMax
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To: Stoat

What happens when you give your sovereignty over to someone or something else......


5 posted on 01/21/2008 8:47:25 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Stoat

Maybe they will catch up to Texas now.


6 posted on 01/21/2008 8:47:47 PM PST by BurbankKarl
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They’ll sprout up, in Brussels.


7 posted on 01/21/2008 9:04:33 PM PST by BerryDingle (With friends like the media, who needs enemas ?)
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To: Intolerant in NJ

Hmm. . .I think the old Anti-Federalists felt that way about the Constitution.

Remember the original meaning of the word ‘state’, as in “. . .these colonies are and of right ought to be free and independent states. . .”


8 posted on 01/21/2008 9:07:03 PM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: Stoat
Oh please. Just abort and birth control yourselves out of existence and then you won’t be what the wacko greenies believe that you are:

Parasites on the earth.

9 posted on 01/21/2008 9:12:05 PM PST by bill1952 (The right to buy weapons is the right to be free)
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To: Stoat

No! Oil prices are plunging due to the “recession!” Britain should reject the silly windmill idea and buy more oil. ;-)


10 posted on 01/21/2008 9:18:38 PM PST by familyop
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To: Stoat

The Waterloo battlefield is just south of Brussels..... some British patriots should go there and hold a symbolic burial of British sovereignty, for the nation which led the victory at Waterloo* might as well now be interred there. The nation of Marlborough, Nelson, Wellington, and Churchill has now willingly subjected itself to rule from the continent of Europe..... British sovereignty is no more.

* Little known factoid: only around 25% of the troops commanded by Wellington at Waterloo were actually from the British Isles..... another 25% were from what is now the Netherlands and Belgium and close to 50% were from various Germanic allies. Then of course there were the Prussians in their own army which matched the size of Wellington’s, so the British actually only comprised about 12-13% of the victorious troops that day.


11 posted on 01/21/2008 9:20:38 PM PST by Enchante (Democrat terror-fighting motto: "BLEAT - CHEAT - RETREAT - DEFEAT - REPEAT")
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To: Stoat

This is crazy. The Brits need to tell the EU to shove it and take back their sovereignty.


12 posted on 01/21/2008 9:20:57 PM PST by FreePoster
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Not sure what the Anti-Federalists felt, but those who signed the Declaration of Independence weren't very happy about King George's meddling in matters they thought were none of his business, as in
"He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation"......
13 posted on 01/21/2008 9:22:16 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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Yep. When the Muslims take over the UK, they aren’t going to take orders from Brussels (unless it’s Muslim too).


14 posted on 01/21/2008 9:25:10 PM PST by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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15 posted on 01/21/2008 9:40:21 PM PST by americanophile
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And the Prussians ONLY got there in nick of time. However, you've spoken well to mention the mix of Britain's order of battle at Waterloo. And, you're quite right, those are little known facts for those who aren't students of that battle.

FReegards!

16 posted on 01/21/2008 9:46:49 PM PST by SAJ
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Belgium may be out of the picture at that point. If you've been following the headlines about Belgium, it looks to be about to divide into two separate states. The Flemmies and the Walloons don't seem to want to play nice any longer.

Who knows? Not I. And, in the larger picture of things, this would probably be to the good, insofar as it would very definitely inconvenience a large number of the Eurocrats in Brussles.

Great chocolate, great beer; otherwise, Brussels should have been fire-bombed in WW II.

17 posted on 01/21/2008 9:51:57 PM PST by SAJ
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Thanks. The reason Waterloo and the Order of Battle come to mind for me in this context is that the Brits have never been numerically dominant in any European context, never mind for the rest of the world. Yet, with the kind of leadership represented by Wellington and Churchill they were able to lead great alliances (and for a good while a great empire) and change the world, in so many ways for the better. Now they are submitting to rule of the bureaucrats in Brussels and it is a sad, sad thing to watch from this side of the Atlantic.


18 posted on 01/21/2008 9:56:29 PM PST by Enchante (Democrat terror-fighting motto: "BLEAT - CHEAT - RETREAT - DEFEAT - REPEAT")
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Agreed. If you haven’t already read it, you might be interested in post #17.


19 posted on 01/21/2008 10:01:04 PM PST by SAJ
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The really interesting question is how Belgium could actually be split, I mean who gets Brussels and all those breweries??? When separatists for either the Flemish or the Walloons agitate toward separation they seem to assume THEY would get Brussels, but they can’t both have it..... (could be civil war, although it’s hard to imagine any Belgians fighting over anything these days) unless it’s made into some kind of super-EU-protectorate.

Brussels as a new city-state ruled by the EU as its own fiefdom for pampered socialist bureaucrats..... but that’s certainly not what either the Flemish or the Walloons have in mind when they think of separation.


20 posted on 01/21/2008 10:08:46 PM PST by Enchante (Democrat terror-fighting motto: "BLEAT - CHEAT - RETREAT - DEFEAT - REPEAT")
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