Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

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Brand new leather jacket.

Tyketto,

I think its already been mentioned a few pages back, but it is very funny and well worth a look
Pity its also true!

George,

Why was "foreign aid" introduced.

What was the expected pay back for the "benefactors"?

What are the long term gains?

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Perhaps, many small minded little UKIP and BNP members would prefer isolationistic policies, which would for some avoid ongoing responsibilities of previous actions in some of those countries.

(Have a look at actions in Kenya etc..)

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Good to see Osborne's and Cameron's much lauded "back to work" policies are working and Nadine has come home for some more whipping.


What a bunch.

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Fred---The reasons behind the introduction of foreign aid were perfectly legitimate, (emphasis on were). Today far too much of the money ends up in the pockets of the people at/near the top of the political pecking order.
Even in this country directors of charities are creaming off obscene amounts of money, approximately 12 or 13 years ago a director of 'Guide Dogs for the Blind' was on a salary of £69k, that's an awful lot of collection tins even now.
2517

This may apply to a few on here :-)

Ice Age warmth wiped out lemmings, study finds

Lemmings became "regionally extinct" five times due to rapid climate change during the last Ice Age, scientists have found.

Each extinction was followed by a re-colonisation of genetically different lemmings, according to the study.

It investigated how Europe's small mammals fared during the era when large numbers of megafauna became extinct.

Previously, experts believed that small mammals were largely unaffected during the Late Pleistocene.

George.

Whatever institutions you have you will always have varying degrees of abuse, that does not mean the "system" or "policy" is wrong.

It means more likely that "corrupt" behaviour should be recognised and appropriately dealt with.

As far as salaries are concerned, I think Cameron and Osborne and some others are being paid well above their skill levels. Quite happy to see them paid on results.

I can't remember the case you were referring to at the £69K pay packet, but if he was "producing or raising" £6.9 million and working his Cons. off. Perhaps he was considered worth it by the dogs, or the blind.

Remuneration, is always a thorny subject, but if open to public knowledge,and challenge, and then the Tax man then it may have to be based on valuation by the "bodies" who pay.

Paying AID into the private pockets of political leaders of corrupt governments, perhaps could be negated by paying directly to the agency at ground level and properly audited.

One of the advantages of AID payments is that it sometimes acts as protection money for our gallant entrepreneurs to do "business" in some countries.

UMMMMMMMH.

Well if people are interested in foreign aid and corruption have a look at last nights Dispatches programme, post 55 in his link http://www.moneyam.com/InvestorsRoom/posts.php?tid=15824#lastread

I compare the modern woman to a bullfighter in a ring and us males are just simply the bulls.

listening to the news today .
we need to build more homes arte these people thick or what
they can not sell the ones on the market in most parts of the country
and only a few people can get a mortgage 6 milion people live week to week
on low part time work so who is going to buy them .
new homes are over priced bu at least 30% so as you buy one your are in neg.
and can not move or sell .
and the chances of people moveing in to full time jobs is very low
where are these jobs going to come from the INTERNET as killed the market
and we are going in to a reccession they are no jobs

TANKER
much of what you say is wrapped up in your own colourful language, but so much of what you write is true.

.....your post 19197 I will go with 100%

The Inuit sitting on billions of barrels of oil

After a decade of legal wrangling and spending $4.5bn (£2.8bn), this year Shell Oil was given permission to begin exploratory drilling off the coast of Alaska. But many in the local Inuit community are concerned it could have a devastating impact on one of their main sources of food - the bowhead whale.

Marie Casados shows me the contents on her freezer. Inside there's whale meat, muktuk - frozen whale skin and blubber - a selection of fish and a polar bear foot, which looks like a human hand. She describes it as a real delicacy. But it's more than that - this is her food supply for the winter.

op .
i just put what i think that is me i am like eric bristow
tell it as you see it not like THIS GOV OF LIARS

johnny ball on sky on about wind power it is a load of bollocks
as i have said many times
CAMERONS FAMILY
HESLTINE FAMILY CLEGGS FAMILY
JUST A FEW
ARE GETTING MILLIONS IN LAND SUBSIDES
WIND POWER IS A TOTAL WASTE OF MONEY
BUT VERY GOOD FOR LAND OWNERS
THE POWER THEY PRODUCE IS WORTHLESS
ONE WIND TURBINE TO MAKE IT WILL NEVER REPAY THE CARBON IT TOOK TO MAKE IT FACT NOT FICTION

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big land owners in the uk get billions in land subsides that is why the bill is being pushed though not because it produces little power .
it is a big con to make the rich richer

I would have thought that tidal power like they have in the Bristol channel and in Scotland would have been a great answer to our power shortages....never hear much about that at all....

Maybe not quite dead - Abandoned Severn tidal power project to be reconsidered

PM asks to re-examine £30bn scheme to build barrage across the estuary that promises to generate 5% of UK's electricity

An interesting insight - Tony Fadell: From iPod father to thermostat start-up

What a waste of time nd money the Leveson report has been. Does anyone care if people's phone messages have been played back. I certainly don't and I doubt that hardly anyone else does either. Just work for lawyers as usual.

hay for once i agree 100% total watse of money
but it was all brought about to stop the press reporting the MPs
stealing tax payers money and nothing else it was to protect the
thiefs in government .the uk is run by a cesspit of corruption