If they can’t make a global trade agreement…

PROSPECTS for global co-operation to tackle climate change weakened yesterday as the collapse of trade liberalisation talks cast doubt on the international community’s capacity to act in concert for a common good.
A downbeat Kevin Rudd – who had personally stayed up to 2am calling world leaders – was yesterday “deeply, deeply disappointed” that World Trade [...]

Feet Forward, better than the bus

Despite my reputation as someone who dislikes Hybrid cars I do think that for those who can’t avoid the comute  to work that you could do a lot worse than this sort of Feet Forward electric bike.
Sadly the dialogue  is in Japanese, but the images are self-explanatory
Cheers Comrades

Jeremy Clarkson on British accents

As I write, a team of researchers at Leeds University is working its way through £460,000 of our money, preparing a language and dialect atlas of Britain in the 21st century. Good. This is an excellent and important use of public money.
I can understand why the world started on the rocky path to civilisation with [...]

A woman who cried rape has been jailed for four months

As I have said before we can not easily ignore instances when a woman makes a false allegation that a man has raped her. Nor should those of the Feminist faith try to pretend that such things do not happen. Clearly they do.
A woman whose false rape allegation led to the collapse of her victim’s [...]

Eco guilt, coming to a street near you

An interesting and amusing episode about Green Guilt….

Warning frequent use of strong language
Oh and while we are at it may I suggest that if you have to buy carbon credits to assuage your guilt then you should buy from my scheme HERE
Cheers Comrades

Get ready for more deaths at sea, sigh

Now it is very easy to focus on the misery of the few individuals who, through bad luck or an attempt to work the system have ended up behind the razor wire for a long time, and elicit sympathy for their plight,  advocacy groups milk this without shame but the bigger picture is that the hard-line [...]

Ethics and you

I love to do the sort of personality tests that gave me the result above and I am rather curious to see how some of my readers do; click on the picture above to take the test. and then tell us all if you think the results match your own self perception.
Cheers Comrades

inspiring stuff

hat tip to Club Troppo

Only great minds can read this

This is weird, but interesting to!
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Dangerious idiots

When I was a younger man we used to make jokes about the ineptitude of the IRA along the lines of Question: How do you know an IRA man has been trying to blow up a bus?
Answer: Because he has burnt lips from the exhaust pipe
This little escapade certainly seems to be of the same [...]

It is done… at last

QUEENSLAND Liberal and National parties have voted to merge, creating a new conservative force to be called the Liberal National Party (LNP).
Both parties today held separate conventions in Brisbane’s Sofitel Hotel, and both voted overwhelmingly in favour of the merger.
The Liberal’s convention almost didn’t take place, after the party’s state council voted to postpone the [...]

Amusing You tube

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There but for the grace of God….

It is very easy to quote statistics about the safety of air travel but the inescapable fact is that in the event of a mechanical problem with the machine that your chances of surviving the resulting crash are very slim indeed. Those passengers on this particular plane should count themselves as being very lucky indeed [...]

Can you afford a 28% rise in your electricity bill PKD?

My most recent arguments about this scheme have been side stepping the issue of the validity of the AGW hypothesis because I am certain that the validity of the hypothesis is irrelevant to Brother Number One’s ETS . what is much more important is the simple question ; will this scheme actually do anything to [...]

They are among us….

Aliens have contacted humans several times but governments have hidden the truth for 60 years, the sixth man to walk on the moon has claimed.
Apollo 14 astronaut Dr Edgar Mitchell, said he was aware of many UFO visits to Earth during his career with NASA but each one was covered up.
Dr Mitchell, 77, said during [...]