Government bullish over Energy Bill despite faltering renewables investment – 29 Nov 2012 – News from BusinessGreen

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Because of the Governments ineptitude, companies have decided to not invest in this country or like PV Solar, a maker of silicon for Solar PV, possibly close down their manufacturing business.  The UK has consistently missed the boat, when it came to supporting renewables, instead investing in heavily in Nuclear and fossil fuels.  Will the UK, ever rid itself of the title, ‘The Dirty Man of Europe’?

Government bullish over Energy Bill despite faltering renewables investment – 29 Nov 2012 – News from BusinessGreen.

The situation is not helped when we have a very biased media, which appears determined to destroy the logical and sensible move to renewables, by giving it as much bad and incorrect press as possible:

Exclusive study confirms true scale of renewable bad press

This video sums up the UK Government’s attitude:

The History of Climate Change Negotiations in 83 seconds   

This article describes the subsidies the fossil-fuel industry has received and still receiving.  Also the different approaches taken by Germany and Denmark:

http://www.forumforthefuture.org/greenfutures/articles/cost-propping-oil

Israel’s Gaza Rampage: It’s Not Just War » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

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An interview with John Pilger, in CounterPunch, about the conflict in Palestine.  How it is an American/Israeli attempt to exterminate the Palestinians.

Israel’s Gaza Rampage: It’s Not Just War » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names.

The Faustian Bargain between States and Banks

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The Faustian Bargain between States and Banks

An article in Spiegel Online, about the symbiotic arrangement between States and the banks, which is akin to selling their souls to the devil.  It will be the poor who will suffer as usual, while the few reap in the money. 

Mad Cycle Lanes of Manchester: Love Cycling Go Dutch – Manchester

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This is a nice blog about a workshop on cycling, promoted by the Dutch that took place in Manchester.  The writer is optimistic that something positive may come from this.  Unfortunately, I believe the writer is naive and does not understand Manchester City Council and especially the Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM).  The TfGM only employs motorists, so does not understand the needs of Public Transport users or cycles, their real priority is the motorist, like themselves.

Mad Cycle Lanes of Manchester: Love Cycling Go Dutch – Manchester.

Revealed: the coal industry’s plan to devastate the climate | Greenpeace International

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Despite continuing warnings that we are getting close to a 2 degree global temperature rise, big business is still pushing the construction of old, dirty technology.  In the UK the Government is still pushing through waste and biomass incinerator plants which are also major contributors to CO2 rises.  But, Government and Big Business claim they are carbon neutral, which of course they are not.  There are better technologies to deal with waste and biomass which do not produce large amounts of CO2.  Such as AD biogesters, which have been for years in Europe and South America.
Also, energy efficiency is a subject talk about but little is actively being done about it.  Just wander around a large town or city to see how much energy is needlessly being wasted, mostly on advertisements.

Revealed: the coal industry’s plan to devastate the climate | Greenpeace International.

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It is not just the Conservatives who want to dismantle the NHS but Labour as well.

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I’ve been mocked by a Blairite ex-Dept of Health policy advisor for my recent post on Kettering General Hospital and the lies Tory health minister Daniel Poulter told to one of his own MPs about plans to downgrade the hospital.

Joseph Farrington-Douglas, who used to be Chief Health Advisor to John Healey (when he was Labour Minister for the NHS)  tweeted this message to his followers on Monday:

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Here’s his comment in plain text, in case you have any problems with the image:

Silly HIMBYist Save Our Hospital shenanigans. An MRSA on all their houses.

An MRSA is Mr F-D’s attempt at a humorous variation on ‘a plague’. It stands for ‘multiply resistant staphylococcus aureus’ – the drug-resistant ‘superbug’ that regularly kills people in hospitals – especially if the private cleaning contractors cut back cleaning to enhance profits. So it’s nice of him to wish it on people who are…

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Latest Gaza Catastrophe
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The media double standards in the West on the new and tragic Israeli escalation of violence directed at Gaza were epitomised by an absurdly partisan New York Times front page headline: “Rockets Target Jerusalem; Israel girds for Gaza Invasion” (NYT, Nov 16, 2012). Decoded somewhat, the message is this: Hamas is the aggressor, and Israel when and if it launches a ground attack on Gaza must expect itself to be further attacked by rockets. This is a stunningly Orwellian re-phrasing of reality.

The true situation is, of course, quite the opposite: Namely, that the defenseless population of Gaza can be assumed now to be acutely fearful of an all out imminent Israeli assault, while it is also true, without minimising the reality of a threat, that some rockets fired from Gaza fell harmlessly (although with admittedly menacing implications) on the outskirts of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv…

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Obama may of been elected President of the USA, but he takes orders from a very small minority, AIPAC.

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This just arrived in my inbox:

Re: An open letter to President Obama from an American Jewish woman.
For many years I have been asking my American friends the same question posed at the end of this comment. But I still do not have an answer.
Ramez Ghazoul
Dear Mr. President,
My younger brother was an early believer in you. He worked for your Senate campaign. At the age of 25, he ran the GOTV campaign in North Carolina, delivering an improbable victory for you in a Southern state that helped give you your first term. This year, slightly less bright-eyed but nonetheless a believer, he was working on your campaign again when he died suddenly, a brilliant, energetic 29 year old, dead in his tracks. You know this. You called my parents. Your campaign, to my greatest appreciation and respect, brought grief counselors for his coworkers, dedicated a corner…

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