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    The effect of carbon tax.

    a bakery should actually expect to see a rise in sales given an across the board rise in food input prices (feeding into across the board food and luxury food price increases) so common bakers may indeed profit from the carbon tax
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    Proposed US Carrier Strike Group stationed at HMAS Stirling, Perth

    no, i just don't live in lentopia lalaland where the interests of superpowers are magically aligned always and 5eva and democracies are bffz
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    Proposed US Carrier Strike Group stationed at HMAS Stirling, Perth

    i wasn't even talking about anyone invading australia though. and given the right circumstances, dogs will eat other dogs
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    Proposed US Carrier Strike Group stationed at HMAS Stirling, Perth

    you can shift the goalposts all you want, but the democratic peace you allude to is baloney. china is a threat. india is a threat. welcome to the thunderdome.
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    Which Australian Prime Minister is better: Gough Whitlam or Julia Gillard?

    am i the only one who thinks an abbott-greens coalition would be glorious
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    Proposed US Carrier Strike Group stationed at HMAS Stirling, Perth

    Yeah, I mean it's not like democratic Pakistan and India ever had a war, or have intermittent scuffles at the border, or were ever on the verge of nuclear apocalypse, right? But I digress from the point. The US developing its capacity in the Indonesian Ocean isn't about countering potential...
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    Proposed US Carrier Strike Group stationed at HMAS Stirling, Perth

    so is Iran ... and the fightin' unitin' States of murrrrica
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    Proposed US Carrier Strike Group stationed at HMAS Stirling, Perth

    money -> equipment people -> soldiers the more money you have, the better equipment the more people fit for military service you have, the more soldiers you have military power is therefore a direct function of money and people people with military power use it to do shit, ergo threat is a...
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    Proposed US Carrier Strike Group stationed at HMAS Stirling, Perth

    india has far better growth prospects than china, least of all because it's not in the early stages of a demographic crisis they'll have the manpower and the money
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    Proposed US Carrier Strike Group stationed at HMAS Stirling, Perth

    With the rise of China and India, control of the Indian Ocean will have a newfound significance over the next century. However, the Indian Ocean is also where the US' presence, and ability to project force, is weakest. US naval forces that operate in the Indian Ocean (the Seventh Fleet) are...
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    Proposed US Carrier Strike Group stationed at HMAS Stirling, Perth

    At least 3 vessels (likely more) would be nuclear powered - the carrier and two submarines. The implication is that the facilities that service them would need to have the added capacity to service nuclear reactors, most notably nuclear waste disposal. However, as SnowFox mentions, there have...
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    Proposed US Carrier Strike Group stationed at HMAS Stirling, Perth

    Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/us-bid-for-multibilliondollar-nuclear-aircraft-carrier-strike-group-in-perth-20120801-23emq.html#ixzz22HxGrInB Share your thoughts, friends.
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    Which Australian Prime Minister is better: Gough Whitlam or Julia Gillard?

    lolwut? the international community, australia in particular, was in the process of negotiating with suharto throughout the early 90s, and the consensus is that indonesia was going to cave in to a proposal on east timorese autonomy. it was quiet diplomacy. then bill clinton went to the APEC...
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    Which Australian Prime Minister is better: Gough Whitlam or Julia Gillard?

    nah its legit bro, go to east timor, it is paradise also it's kind of the opposite. we were freeing the downtrodden catholic timorese from the muslim imperialists.
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