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[Nickbat]

Here's a little teaser. Answer honestly!

Who thinks this manifesto sounds good? Guess which group has proposed it (no cheating by Googling!).

"Environment: Transfer all funds from public welfare system and extraneous government into environmental cleanup. Restrict the amount of land that can be used. Redevelop inner cities. Reward with tax breaks those with few electrical appliances. End frivolous and pointless industries, and force widespread recycling in detail.

Closing the chapter of environmental disaster in human history is our first objective. A simple mandate for change will not achieve its goal, as business is an ecosystem unto itself, and must be given a chance to transition gracefully to a new way of doing things, much as it absorbs any new cost or technology. Over a seven-year period, we will increase taxes while offering large tax cuts for those businesses that achieve environmental objectives; only those businesses which do not produce tangible goods or services, such as pornography and media producers, will remain at the higher tax rate. These tax cuts will be sizable enough to allow businesses to invest most of their income into adapting to environmental requirements, and at the same time, building up infrastructure and becoming more competitive.

The same program will be applied to individuals. Those households which own fewer objects, use less power and produce less waste, will be given a larger break than those who do. Television use will be a means of measuring a family's excess time and wealth. This will not be used excessively into pressuring individuals into a spartan existence, but to encourage limits on the excessive consumption of families as currently seen in the industrialized west. "

Answer tomorrow...

It will surprise you. 

[Banjax]

I'm intrigued Nickbat, I don't think even the greens are that radical. this isn't a manifesto tho surely? i'm guessing its some greenie think tank to look at environmental ideas?

sounds nuts anyway 

[Welung666]

I remember reading about this online (on one of my many odd news trawling moments on the interweb) and if memory serves it's the newly released manifesto of the Nazi Party!

[Nickbat]

I remember reading about this online (on one of my many odd news trawling moments on the interweb) and if memory serves it's the newly released manifesto of the Nazi Party!

Spot on, Welung! Have a Team Point!

Astonishingly, this is indeed the manifesto from the nazi party. What I find even more astonishing, though, is to read this on the Guardian's "Comment is Free" website:

"It may be a crisis that is too good to waste but we have to move fast to define and win support for a progressive response to the failures of the market. But a new socialism can only be built on the politics of sustainability...

An alliance of red and green politics would transform the landscape of Britain. The moment to do it is now..."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/aug/30/green-socialism-uk-renewable

No one can deny that the above is creepily similar to the nazi manifesto.

I shan't give the link for the nazi party as I don't want to help their cause in any way, shape, or form. It is easily Googled if anyone wants to verify my original post (makes grim, racist, reading - with swastikas included). 

[Banjax]

I remember reading about this online (on one of my many odd news trawling moments on the interweb) and if memory serves it's the newly released manifesto of the Nazi Party!

Spot on, Welung! Have a Team Point!

Astonishingly, this is indeed the manifesto from the nazi party. What I find even more astonishing, though, is to read this on the Guardian's "Comment is Free" website:

"It may be a crisis that is too good to waste but we have to move fast to define and win support for a progressive response to the failures of the market. But a new socialism can only be built on the politics of sustainability...

An alliance of red and green politics would transform the landscape of Britain. The moment to do it is now..."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/aug/30/green-socialism-uk-renewable

No one can deny that the above is creepily similar to the nazi manifesto.

I shan't give the link for the nazi party as I don't want to help their cause in any way, shape, or form. It is easily Googled if anyone wants to verify my original post (makes grim, racist, reading - with swastikas included). 

i can only presume, as the nazis have no chance of power or exposure, that they're trying to be a bit clever, a bit controversial a bit media savvy

judging by the deafening silence, looks like they've failed....again