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In Mahachai city you can see thick black clouds of smoke poor out of some local factories and the industrial area has a rather poor odour all the time. either from seafood or chemicals. There are ove ...

Great to see this.

Anything that encourages less car use is something I applaud.

However this surely means that already exorbitant train fares are just going to rise higher.

Yep, no doubt far ...

There could come a point at which the savings from cheap labor can no longer offset the rising cost of shipping cheap goods from the other side of the world. China's power as an exporter will then wa ...

Yorkshire, UK

In my area we have a large indoor and outdoor market. You would have thought in hard times these would be thriving because people need to buy cheap. But no, several of the traders hav ...

I am encouraged by the reported 20% drop in petrol use compared to last year as people in the UK switch to even more fuel efficient cars and reduce the number of miles driven. I am now investigating a ...

Dont know the solution, were too far down the road. I TRY to buy British / EU, but near impossible, especially the non-food basics.
Gasmon
I like a nice fresh apple. I don't like the idea of them co ...

Did anyone look at the source of this editorial?

The Daily Telegraph.

AKA, the Torygraph.

AKA, The Fox New of the United Kingdom.

The Telegraph is the conservative publication of record i ...

It is hard not to buy goods that are NOT made in China but it is possible to buy less and buy local...takes effort but you can do it.
catbox

It's a vicious circle. Because of rising energy price ...

In Walmart today I was looking for some wild caught fish. I picked up a package of frozen Alaska salmon fillets, but when I read the label it said - "harvested in the USA and processed in China."

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Let's finish ratifying this treaty ASAP and move on. There are some huge problems ahead that the EU needs to tackle urgently.

I'm probably reiterating, but the EU has to avoid being pressured, albeit indirectly and through subterfuge, into allowing itself to be used as a grappling hook to prevent the Anglo American axis po ...

A united corporatised Europe with Germany at the heart! Insanity if you ask me! Why, we might as well hand Europe to Fascism.

Are you arguing that Germany + corporatism = fascism? If so I'd like t ...

The land was viable & the fishing was good. The people left, not because they wanted to because they were forced to.
"The consternation and confusion were extreme. Little or no time was given ...

Yes, it's a shame. The separate European countries don't have a chance apart; dreaming of their old empires, arguing jealously amongst themselves, and guarding the last of their individual resources a ...

They don't call us a country of gardeners for nothing. Its fertile land and you can always import topsoil. Lots of people seem to be successful in growing trees there. I'm looking into Orkney as a rea ...