IAN ADAMSON - PLANET EARTH - where the Amazon rainforest is 10,000 acres smaller than it was yesterday.
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"Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort." - John Ruskin
Sunday 31 March 2019
Saturday 30 March 2019
Friday 29 March 2019
CHEWING PLASTIC
Whether it’s used to look cool or simply to keep your breath minty fresh, chewing gum isn’t great for the planet.
In fact, it’s actually made from ingredients that make it super difficult to break down, including synthetic rubber, which is also used to make car tyres and flooring. Another issue is the huge litter problem it causes.
95% of our country’s streets is stained with gum, according to Keep Britain Tidy. The Local Government Association has also recommended a tax to help pay for a big clean up. More HERE
In fact, it’s actually made from ingredients that make it super difficult to break down, including synthetic rubber, which is also used to make car tyres and flooring. Another issue is the huge litter problem it causes.
95% of our country’s streets is stained with gum, according to Keep Britain Tidy. The Local Government Association has also recommended a tax to help pay for a big clean up. More HERE
KILLING HORSES
The biggest UK racing event of the year, the Grand National, is thought to be one of the biggest killers of trained horses.
The last two Grand National deaths came in 2012, when 'According To Pete' was brought down and broke his upper leg, and 'Synchronised' (who had just won at Cheltenham) ran free and broke its right leg.
Both were subsequently destroyed. Why not browse all the horses killed racing on the following link.
1882 Deathsin 4400 Days*
The last two Grand National deaths came in 2012, when 'According To Pete' was brought down and broke his upper leg, and 'Synchronised' (who had just won at Cheltenham) ran free and broke its right leg.
Both were subsequently destroyed. Why not browse all the horses killed racing on the following link.
1882 Deathsin 4400 Days*
BRITAIN IS A LAUGHING STOCK
It's time for every MP of every party to hang their heads in shame - Never was so little owed by so many to so few.
Britain's MPs disgust me.
Britain's MPs disgust me.
Thursday 28 March 2019
ARE ELECTRIC CARS ETHICAL?
Cobalt is a key component in batteries for electric cars, phones and laptops, and the DRC provides more than half of global supply.
Tens of thousands of children as young as six dig for the toxic substance in artisanal mines in the country’s south-east, without protective clothing, rights groups say. As companies move to secure their supply of cobalt, they should also make a push to improve transparency and labour rights, said US-based advocacy group the Enough Project.
Read article - HERE
Tens of thousands of children as young as six dig for the toxic substance in artisanal mines in the country’s south-east, without protective clothing, rights groups say. As companies move to secure their supply of cobalt, they should also make a push to improve transparency and labour rights, said US-based advocacy group the Enough Project.
Read article - HERE
Wednesday 27 March 2019
Monday 25 March 2019
BREXIT FATIGUE
This morning on radio 4's Today programme, the supercillious knob John Humphrys was discussing how fed up the people of Great Britain are with everything 'Brexit' - quoting stats of 75% displeasure.
Humphrys ended the piece by inviting the audience to listen in at 8.00 p.m. to 'The Brexit Prime Minister' - a programme about everything Brexit.
Humphrys ended the piece by inviting the audience to listen in at 8.00 p.m. to 'The Brexit Prime Minister' - a programme about everything Brexit.
Sunday 24 March 2019
Saturday 23 March 2019
IGNORANCE IS BLISS
Revoke Article 50 petition hits 4 MILLION as thousands prepare to march.
A petition calling for Article 50 to be revoked, so that Britain remains in the EU, has topped four million signatures. The landmark comes on the day hundreds of thousands are set to march through London calling for a People's Vote.
That's about 13 million less than voted to leave the EU.
Yawn - why did the EU ever agree to an extension? It only encourages the dummies that don't understand democracy to waste a Saturday afternoon but hey, the walk will do them good.
A second referendum sets a precedent whereby a result of a referendum is open to challenge by another referendum Ad infinitum.
A petition calling for Article 50 to be revoked, so that Britain remains in the EU, has topped four million signatures. The landmark comes on the day hundreds of thousands are set to march through London calling for a People's Vote.
That's about 13 million less than voted to leave the EU.
Yawn - why did the EU ever agree to an extension? It only encourages the dummies that don't understand democracy to waste a Saturday afternoon but hey, the walk will do them good.
A second referendum sets a precedent whereby a result of a referendum is open to challenge by another referendum Ad infinitum.
Friday 22 March 2019
Monday 18 March 2019
NO BACK STOP
Build two or more customs points on the Britain/European border on the island of Ireland through which all taxable goods must pass and be logged/stamped.
Right, that's the back stop sorted - move on.
Right, that's the back stop sorted - move on.
Sunday 17 March 2019
Saturday 16 March 2019
BREXIT TRAITORS
As a democracy, we have to leave the EU on 29th March 2019; the people voted for it and our politicians are duty bound, regardless of their personal beliefs or preferences to honour our vote.
It is unequivocal, the British people voted to leave the EU.
it is unequivocal, any country that triggers article 50 has two years to negotiate a deal with the EU prior to leaving or it leaves with no deal. Talk that we didn't vote to leave with no deal is not even relevant as it wasn't on the ballot paper.
We cannot have a second referendum on whether we should leave the EU simply because by doing so we'd be setting a precedent establishing that all referendums are open to challenge by another referendum.
Once we're out of the EU, we can then have a referendum to vote to join again and if Germany and the twenty six subservient subservient nations agree, then that's another question and a different debate.
I believe that every MP who suggests or supports a second referendum is a traitor to Britain, a traitor to me and a traitor to democracy.
it is unequivocal, any country that triggers article 50 has two years to negotiate a deal with the EU prior to leaving or it leaves with no deal. Talk that we didn't vote to leave with no deal is not even relevant as it wasn't on the ballot paper.
We cannot have a second referendum on whether we should leave the EU simply because by doing so we'd be setting a precedent establishing that all referendums are open to challenge by another referendum.
Once we're out of the EU, we can then have a referendum to vote to join again and if Germany and the twenty six subservient subservient nations agree, then that's another question and a different debate.
I believe that every MP who suggests or supports a second referendum is a traitor to Britain, a traitor to me and a traitor to democracy.
Friday 15 March 2019
Thursday 14 March 2019
SACK OUR MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT
After we've finally got out of the EU as voted for democratically by the British people, we need to sack every MP from every party and start again voting in new people; anyone will do as no-one could be as incredibly bad as the incumbent over paid ineffective snout in trough self centered arseholes pretending to represent us today.
Even better; let's have a referendum and vote nationally on the matter to show each and every MP how little we rate them - politics gets no worse than this.
Even better; let's have a referendum and vote nationally on the matter to show each and every MP how little we rate them - politics gets no worse than this.
Tuesday 12 March 2019
Sunday 10 March 2019
VEOLIA DEBT
Wokingham Borough Council's chosen waste contractor is carrying some serious debt. VIE’s debt levels surged from €13.35b to €14.28b over the last 12 months , which comprises of short- and long-term debt.
For more details, click HERE
For more details, click HERE
Friday 8 March 2019
INDONESIAN PALM OIL
The warm, humid climate of the tropics offers perfect growth conditions for oil palms.
Day after day, huge tracts of rainforest in Southeast Asia, Latin America and Africa are being bulldozed or torched to make room for more plantations, releasing vast amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. As a consequence, Indonesia – the world’s largest producer of palm oil – temporarily surpassed the United States in terms of greenhouse gas emissions in 2015.
With their CO2 and methane emissions, palm oil-based biofuels actually have three times the climate impact of traditional fossil fuels.
Click HERE for further reading.
Day after day, huge tracts of rainforest in Southeast Asia, Latin America and Africa are being bulldozed or torched to make room for more plantations, releasing vast amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. As a consequence, Indonesia – the world’s largest producer of palm oil – temporarily surpassed the United States in terms of greenhouse gas emissions in 2015.
With their CO2 and methane emissions, palm oil-based biofuels actually have three times the climate impact of traditional fossil fuels.
Click HERE for further reading.
Thursday 7 March 2019
Monday 4 March 2019
RIP KEITH FLINT
2019 is turning out to be a big loss to music and we're only two months in - RIP Keith Flint.
Sunday 3 March 2019
BRING ON BREXIT
At a time when we need the strongest and most decisive government and opposition to get us through Brexit in a state of readiness and confidence, we are lumbered with the worst, weak, incompetent politicians.
Even the most ignorant, stupid and uninformed simpleton gets the concept of borders and the only place for a trade border with the EU is where we meet it - a trade border, nothing to do with the Good Friday Agreement, nothing to do with partition, everything to do with controlling goods and tariffs.
I'm slightly embarrassed to be seen as a bumbling, disorganised nation but alas we have nobody to prove to the world otherwise. Roll on Brexit, it can't come soon enough.
Even the most ignorant, stupid and uninformed simpleton gets the concept of borders and the only place for a trade border with the EU is where we meet it - a trade border, nothing to do with the Good Friday Agreement, nothing to do with partition, everything to do with controlling goods and tariffs.
I'm slightly embarrassed to be seen as a bumbling, disorganised nation but alas we have nobody to prove to the world otherwise. Roll on Brexit, it can't come soon enough.
Saturday 2 March 2019
Friday 1 March 2019
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