arushton.com » economy http://www.arushton.com Web site of Alex A. Rushton Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:32:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Sh*tzkrieg – Anarchy in the U.K. http://www.arushton.com/2011/08/09/shtzkrieg-anarchy-in-the-u-k/ http://www.arushton.com/2011/08/09/shtzkrieg-anarchy-in-the-u-k/#comments Wed, 10 Aug 2011 03:35:20 +0000 Alex Rushton http://www.arushton.com/?p=897 In some still credit-worthy AAA countries, the third A now apparently stands for “arson.”

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