US companies outsource the work to China, layig off all their US workers.

Has no one ointed out to them that the people they fire can now not afford to buy the products that the commpany makes.

They lay off their potential consumers.

And there is no way on earth a chinese worker could afford tro pay the sort of money a Yank will for a car/stereo/mp3 player etc etc.

Free marketeering at work.

really apinfully stupid.

And it's all the sahere holders fault.

like baby birds they are blind, voracious and amoral.

MORE MORE MORE, what yo usacked all the employees raped their penion funds and moved the plant to a country that uses slave labour?

I don't care as long as I get more more more

Good luck with that capitalism.

"Those laws were made before anyone could conceive of using cooking oil in cars."

Well, actually the Diesel engine was designed by Mr. Diesel to ruin on ground nut oil...about a 100 years ago.

These regulations pertain to diesel from fossil fuels, which is pretty bloody toxic and actually needs that level of insuranvcce and safe guards.

Veggie diesel will never be big, if done properly it'll be small and local solutions for the environmentally concerned.

Bio fuels are not really going to replace current options, they'll augment them

Algae fuels, now that IS a good one.

I have to say that the US has one of the most "single note" palettes I have ever encountered.

From soft drinks to bread, mayo to mustard everything is sickly sweet.

I once went to a Thanksgiving dinner that a couple of expat New Yorker/Jerseyers had.

Of the people at the table, who were variously french, german, georgian, scots and irish, not a one of us managed to make any inroads on our plates.

It was like sitting down for a dinner prepared by Wlly Wonka.

I used to work for atari...wel I worked for Infogrames who rebranded themselves atari.

Which is an amazingly daft thing to do in the industry, as the name reeks of FAIL.

that is delightful

the whole oatyhthing is a HUAC left over.

All the yanks were keen as mustard to salute the flag and goose step into a brighter westinghouse tomorrow that they sold out their much vaunted founding fathers ideals.

If someone was a commie hell bent on bringing down the USA I doubt that an oath not worth the paper it was written on would prove a stumbling block.

Similarly obtaining a written guarentee from the 911 bombers that they cross their hearts and hope to die ,swear to god they'll not go flying planes at buildings, would have averted that horrror.

This is not a loyalty oath, it's designed to see who'll bend the knee, and how fast.

some of the people who post on here would break their knee caps they'd bend them so fast.

I've always admireed the power and idealism that is enshrined in your constitution and bill of rights, and almost as consistently been sickened by the serf caste epsiloms of the US who equate dissent with treason.

Your country is based on treason.

Against the King.

And good on you for kicking that parasite out of your nation.

Nicholas D

Your points have been the most even handed here.

Spot on about the current status of the US in a broader historical setting.

A lot of nit picking from a lot of other posters, who site the singular and try and expand that to define and support their arguments.

Also just because the author of th report has a middle eastern sounding name doesn't automatically make him an Islamic mad man.

No more that being a yank denotes gun toting right wing tornado bait yahoo.

And I use the word yank to denote US Americans.

I don't see it as being in anyway offensive...despite all over the world the Word is usually suffixed with "...go home"

Oh this is so fake.

And not for any of the usual intenet reasons.

Usually people seem to cry "photoshop" like that answers everything, it doesn't.

The thing that screams fake is the camera work.

See when the camera man drops the shot and you see the board walk and then he whisks back onto the subject?

Ahve you ever, and i mean EVER seen a camcorder brought up onto subject that fast, accurately and in focus right away?

also there is no aperture lag, as the camcorder adjusts to the sudden chage in light levels between the dark boardwalk and the bright horizon.

The actual footage is bloody well done aside from this glitch.

Well done to the crazies involved.

The The Official Monster Raving Loony Party who you say were formed in 1983,campaigned for the voting age to be 18.

Well oddly the voting agwe had been 18 since 1970.

Anonymouse

Oh sure, yes and you can tell them by their sloping foreheads and other curious Phrenological bumps.

C'mon!!

Taking the notion that the story is real.

How long would it take to regrow an arm or a leg.

If this is true then this is FANTASTIC.

What in the name of all that is Gravy was the voice over all about?

Good god that was awful.

"We humans can barely go 6 hours without a fast food super size jumbo platter"

Ah to bask in the glow of science at it's best.

Why doeswn't NG just cut to the chase and foley in comedy noises like in America's Un-Funniest Videos?

Boing!!

this is total arse

The power of the human mind is an extraordinary thing.

From sudden respite from cancers to believing that a man on a cloud fixed you.

I genuinely am amazed at cases of remission (not relapse BTW).

But then it's not waht gives you cancer, the question is how come cancer gets the upper hand.

We all have cancer, all the time.

Cells screwing up in the body and turning cancerous happens all the time, but our immune system kicks these cells to death and we don't ever notice.

Icidentally, I though her daughter looked very spiffy in her nice frock with a flower in her hair.

As for her teeth, well she is a little girl and should not be lambasted by thoughtless adults online.

Honestly, you people ought to know better.

She will no doubt get braces (a retainer to the US) and getthem under control, but thie thing is in the UK the ROI and EU we tend to think that our health care money should be spent on oncology not orthodontistry.

You USA types are weirdly osessed with having movie star teeth, but seem to not give a monkey's about letting your neighbours go bankrupt and die from caner.

Gimme Socialised medicine over Scooby Doo teeth" anyday.

Pol x

* Like Fred in Scooby Doo, one big wall of tooth on top and another on the bottom that look like bathroom fixtures.

This all came to light due to the 19 year old being very sick.

Take a moment and think.

She's a 19 year old girl, the child of icest between grand father and daughter.

Do you think she somehow escaped the predations of that evil old man?

2nd generation incest?

What was she sick with?

My guess would be a home done abortion gone wrong.

biofuel from algae.

It makes petrol, diesel,or aviation fuel, fixes CO2, can be made using non potable water, is a sealed system, returns up to 100,000 litres per acre per year.

7% of the non atrable land in texas turned over to algae could run the entire US fleet of cars.

And if you guys were willing to make your cars even REMOTELY fuel efficient, either by engine improvements or weight reduction, preferably both, you could be net exporters of fuel.

There's nothing wrong with the Internal combustion engine, just the fuel.

Also cut the saudis off at the knees and send them back into the desert with nothing, there to rant and rave about their crazy brand of Islam.

All of the Worlds aviation could be handled by a plot of land the size of Belgium.

The problem is not oil reserves, the problem is CO2 build up.

Besides, fossil fuels are to valuable in the production of complex plastics to waste on running cars.