doc report: Publication of the 10th Irish maritime transport publication where the director states quite openly that they have seen probably the biggest boom and bust in the history of shipping markets.
http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2d9 ... d9731e6/40
He points to the symmetry of the Irish maritime transport sector and the real Irish domestic economy (not GDP increases which includes high value low weight exports which are generally somewhat outside the domestic economy as it is beyond the tax system) However dry bulk volumes increased by 7%
As a result of farmers importing extra feed in the wet summer of 2012 (agri is 22% of total dry bulk volumes) and steady demand for steam coal in Moneypoint power station. We have a crazy Aluminium factory in Shannon which dominates dry bulk imports – Bauxite – its there for purely tax arbitrage reasons as it uses it own Gas turbine in this very high energy operation !!! There was huge controversy about this in the early 80s with a nearby farmer on the national television politics / debate show claiming his cattle were dropping like flys because of the toxic dust from this site. Despite its continued operation in such a crazy area (Hydro Iceland is better) it is generally not talked about in polite Irish circles.
Liquid bulk is down maybe 3% in 2012 when you subtract Bantry in the SW (this is a long term oil storage area)
Best guess for now june12 peak - infinity cannot be quantified, good point...
If you want to peel the ethical onion we have to start here that moral nihilism is distinct from moral
relativism, which does allow a moral statements to be true or false in a non-objective sense, but does not assign any static truth to values of a moral statements, and of course moral universalism, which holds moral statements to be objectively true or false. Insofar as only true statements can be known, moral nihilism implies moral skepticism.
"The masses... do not conceive any ideas, sound or unsound. They only choose between the ideologies developed by the intellectual leaders of mankind. But their choice is final and determines the course of events. If they prefer bad doctrines, nothing can prevent disaster." If these "uncommon men" become "court intellectuals," the door will be opened for effectively spreading of false theories, supporting government-friendly ideas." lvm
Fight for the letter the consequences we note are to dire.
I still consider my original view,
that another noted that one of the hardest things for a tyrant to find," he said, "is people who
actually make decisions. I still think to an extent, given water and weather we can scrape by but this hinges on decisions now and
is past the rhetorical phase. If they are not smart enough to walk back, or able to, in a word "overrun" will be past obvious. I see this today and we noted here hold the middle ground. Thats the fight.