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.

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

Skylon spaceplane engine concept achieves key milestone

The UK company developing an engine for a new type of spaceplane says it has successfully demonstrated the power unit's enabling technology.

Reaction Engines Ltd (REL) of Culham, Oxfordshire, ran a series of tests on key elements of its Sabre propulsion system under the independent eye of the European Space Agency (Esa).

Esa's experts have confirmed that all the demonstration objectives were met.

Hays,

I do not like "censorship" other than self "censorship".

The problem with the present Press regulations is that the press able to abuse the weaker members of "society", who may not have the wit or wherewithal to challenge the false “allegations”, which are made against them.

This has led to the numerous abuses by the larger mass circulation papers. Also the concentration of the media and press in a smaller number of hands is dangerous.

Although, I would prefer it different, I think a regulatory body with “statutory” power to make “proper” investigations and if a misdemeanour, serious abuse of power, or more serious criminal action has taken place, to be able to refer to the courts, or be able to bring in appropriate fines etc..

The “regulatory” body has to be “politically” independent, not at the whim of any incumbent government, but to represent current public opinion, but not dependent on it.

How one accomplished the structure and membership of such a body is a problem.

"How one accomplished the structure and membership of such a body is a problem.".. Well I could be available if the price is right.. What they offering?

A hole in the head if you don't agree.


8-)