Why do they need you to fail them?

Something quite intriguing and yet so predictable happened to me last week.  A few months ago, I was contacted by a lady who lives in Australia and who inquired about my relationship counseling services.  In the weeks that followed, we had several informal...

UK Bombs In Eurovision Song Contest As Germany Get Top Spot

Lena's Satellite Wins Eurovision For GermanyGermany have won the Eurovision Song Contest held in Oslo, Norway, with the United Kingdom entry coming last for the second time in three years. The German entry,...

UK – Failure on Standards

News 30 11 2009: Self declaration by Trusts on standards. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) says that the figures provided by the Dr Foster organisation are measuring different aspects to the methodology criteria used by the CQC however also pointing out that each trust makes...

New Labour: The real costs to the Public

00 00 2004 National Offender Management Information System (C-NOMIS) began – at some £<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />234m. 00 07 2007 Project was two years behind schedule. costs increase to some £690m - no idea what £161m was used for before October 2007. 12 03...

Dear John (USPS)

Dear John USPS, the last thing i have time for right now is a blog entry, and yet here it is. in two days i'll be moving, and so it was, at one of the worst possible times, that i sold a dvd on amazon. don't get me...

Price of Failure

There had to come a time when when taxpayers money be insufficient in buying-off problems. 

UK - Laws on Failure

News 11 09 2009: Some additional 11.3 million people will need now to register and undergo criminal record checks else face criminal prosecution and a court fine of up to £5,000(?) the Gov says. Those now included will be parents whom take the children of other parents along...

HSBC Bank Shutters Branches as Global Recession Intensifies

Sunday May 17th 2009 UTILA HSBC Bank is closing branches in Honduras only two years after taking over Banco Grupo Ahorro Hondureño in 2007. Once thought to be most powerful bank in the world The Hong Kong...

Visualisations as to a recession.

Given todays economic climate can Governments simply continue in treating symptoms rather than causes?. To be where we are at today it came from somewhere!. A single News item seeded my mind yesterday as to why a driver and his vehicle should both be sat at a cliff edge in...

Murray abused and dying.

If Murray was a person he would be suffering decades of abuse, misuse, neglect and the perpetrators would be behind bars for a lifetime. Murray is however a River system running down the Eastern side of Australia....

The NEW job shortage

The NEW job shortage. Obama sold new jobs during his campaign. New “high tech” jobs, new “better paying” jobs, and jobs in “new high tech alternative fuel industries to power this nation into a new era”....

India maligning Pakistan to conceal its own intelligence failure

Irrespective of the fact that who carried out the recent Mumbai attacks, the facts coming to fore with the passage of time show that the Indian government is maligning and threatening Pakistan just to hoodwink its masses as well as the world community. A latest report...

Former Pakistan PM refuses to meet Zardari for 'photo session'

Annoyed by the government's failure to take right steps in the right direction to overcome the problems facing Pakistan and unfulfillment of promises by the rulers, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has refused to meet President Asif Zardari, saying that he does not want to...

Oldest U.S. man dies at age 112

The oldest man in the U.S died at the age of 112 and 204 days in California.George was officially recognized as the living oldest man in America,and second oldest living man in the world.The son of George Francis...

Laura Bush: Bush's Presidency was not a Failure

Washington - Laura Bush disagrees with critics who call the presidency of George W. Bush a failure.""I know it's not, and so I don't really feel like I need to respond to people that view it that way," she said in...

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