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GeraldRube
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http://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2012-04-29/wettest-drought-on-record/
----------------------------------------If it's a bit parched where you are we could hire you a Caroline Spelman for a small fee All this lady has do is go on TV and utter the word "Drought" with a straight face and within hours nay minutes the heavens will open until you are inundated with the stuff up to your ankles. Native American's can't hold a candle to this woman with their dancing. The Chinese try silver iodide seeding their clouds without any accuracy or guarantee. What everyone needs is a Caroline Spelman the UK's Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Even more reliable than the Gore Effect Who's up for sending her to Texas this Summer?--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Good Idea In 2009, during the expenses crisis it was reported that Spelman had received £40,000 for cleaning and bills for her constituency home; this was despite her husband claiming it was their main home. In 2008 she reportedly over-claimed hundreds of pounds towards her council tax.[4]"Nannygate" controversy On 6 June 2008, Spelman was the subject of controversy when it was suggested that for around twelve months from May 1997 she paid her child's nanny, Tina Haynes, from her parliamentary staffing allowance, contrary to the rule governing such allowances and fears of the misuse of them. Spelman claims that her nanny also acted as her constituency secretary and was paid from the public taxpayers' purse for this aspect of her further employment. Haynes confirms that occasionally she would answer phone calls and post documents but initially she denied such happenings when interviewed on BBC Two's Newsnight via telephone. The accusations came at a time when Conservative Party leader David Cameron had tasked Spelman with reviewing the use of parliamentary allowances by Conservative MPs and MEPs in the wake of the Derek Conway affair.[5] The allegation against Spelman came shortly after two Conservative MEPs, Giles Chichester (Leader of the Conservatives in the EU Parliament) and Den Dover (Conservative Chief Whip in the EU Parliament), were forced to resign amid claims they misused their parliamentary allowances. However, Spelman was not urged to resign by party leader, David Cameron. She referred the matter pertaining to herself, her nanny and parliamentary funds to John Lyon, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards.[6] Senior Conservative colleagues including former Shadow Home Secretary David Davis stated their support for Spelman.[7] New revelations were exposed on the BBC's Newsnight programme that nine years previously Mrs Spelman's secretary, Sally Hammond, complained to the Conservative Party leadership that she was using Parliamentary allowances to pay her nanny and that the arrangement with the nanny was over a two year period and not one. [8] In March 2009, the Commons Standards and Privileges Committee ruled Mrs Spelman had misused her allowances to pay for nannying work in 1997 and 1998. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Spelman [Edit 2 times, last edit by GeraldRube at Apr 29, 2012 4:22:02 PM] |
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David Autumns
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No need to drag that up Gerald we all know what Politician's are like
----------------------------------------Much of a muchness Here's more of that Drought... UK style http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news/releases/archive/2011/wettest-april-on-record ![]() |
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David Autumns
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The April 2012 result is in and the average temperature from 2565 NOAA Weather Stations around the Globe was 12.45C
----------------------------------------Jan 2011 1.37C Feb 2011 2.85C Mar 2011 6.93C Apr 2011 12.25C May 2011 16.163C Jun 2011 20.45C Jul 2011 22.83C Aug 2011 22.19C Sep 2011 18.72C Oct 2011 13.50C Nov 2011 8.32C Dec 2011 4.78C Jan 2012 3.26C Feb 2012 3.84C Mar 2012 9.71C Apr 2012 12.45C J-D 2011 12.584C F-J 2012 12.745C M-F 2012 12.795C A-M 2012 13.031C M-A 2012 13.048C Here it is as a forum friendly sized graph that updates hourly ![]() Incidentally the graph above is (at this moment in time) the result of 29,812,581 individual temperature measurements taken around the Globe since the beginning of 2011 ![]() ![]() [Edit 1 times, last edit by David Autumns at May 1, 2012 5:08:01 AM] |
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GeraldRube
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Happy May Day--but not for the Ocean--Plastic Pollution In The Ocean Runs Deep When scientists have measured the plastic garbage polluting our oceans, they’ve skimmed the surface because plastic floats. Turns out, according to new findings, these surveys have literally been skimming only the surface of the problem. http://www.easyhealthoptions.com/alternative-...n-in-the-ocean-runs-deep/
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GeraldRube
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Dave i will leave that one for you
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GeraldRube
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Imminent collapse of Reactor 4 could create a mass extinction event of both humans and animals
----------------------------------------According to Christina Consolo, an award-winning biomedical photographer and host of Nuked Radio, Reactor 4 has remained in such bad shape that even a very small earthquake could quickly level the building, sending the fuel from more than 1,500 unused fuel rods into the environment. And with Reactor 4 still filled with the highest levels of radioactive MOX and other fuels, the consequences of this potential collapse could be far worse than anything that has happened thus far as a result of the earthquake and tsunami. Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/035731_Fukushima_r...merica.html#ixzz1tfyW3qdt |
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David Autumns
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![]() this sums everything up nicely The Propaganda versus Reality thanks to http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=381664...33&type=1&theater ![]() [Edit 2 times, last edit by David Autumns at May 2, 2012 4:20:52 AM] |
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David Autumns
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Gerald
----------------------------------------Clean, Safe and Carbon Neutral It's a bigger lie than a Non-Iron Shirt ![]() [Edit 1 times, last edit by David Autumns at May 2, 2012 4:27:34 AM] |
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GeraldRube
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Gerald Clean, Safe and Carbon Neutral It's a bigger lie than a Non-Iron Shirt Dave i have come to the conclusion that no one in govt. or big business are to be trusted--radiation pollution is the worst kind and cannot be cleaned up ![]() |
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