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September 2nd 08, 04:50 PM
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Congestion Charge Consultation
On Sep 2, 5:24*pm, James Farrar wrote:
shovelling money into the Venezuelan state oil company Um, that was a Livingstone policy. No, that was taking money *from* the Venezuelan state oil company. -- John Band john at johnband dot org www.johnband.org |
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September 2nd 08, 06:25 PM
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On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 09:50:55 -0700 (PDT), John B
wrote: On Sep 2, 5:24*pm, James Farrar wrote: shovelling money into the Venezuelan state oil company Um, that was a Livingstone policy. No, that was taking money *from* the Venezuelan state oil company. Didn't it involve buying fuel from them at a reduced price? That's still giving our money to them. |
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September 2nd 08, 10:43 PM
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On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, James Farrar wrote:
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 09:50:55 -0700 (PDT), John B wrote: On Sep 2, 5:24*pm, James Farrar wrote: shovelling money into the Venezuelan state oil company Um, that was a Livingstone policy. No, that was taking money *from* the Venezuelan state oil company. Didn't it involve buying fuel from them at a reduced price? That's still giving our money to them. What it actually involved was them paying us 20% of what we spent on diesel. From any source. No actual oil came from Venezuela - at least, not specifically; i imagine some of the diesel we bought was once Venezuelan dinosaurs or whatever. See: http://www.london.gov.uk/assembly/bu...s/appendix.pdf Which is muddled, but functions as a kind of truth ore, from which useful knowledge can be extracted. tom -- Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood. |
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