Posted on Saturday, 28 June 2008 by 克莱夫
Here is the ultimate, irrefutable proof of global warming.
Filed under: global issues, humour, technology, trivia, truth | Tagged: bloomers, briefs, global warming, knickers, progress, thongs, washing-line | No Comments »
Posted on Wednesday, 11 June 2008 by 克莱夫
Everything in China happens on a big scale. This should be no surprise when bearing in mind that one fifth of the world’s population live there, but this snippet of information usually slips past without our accepting or realising its implications until we come face to face with it.
Some of the most arresting features [...]
Filed under: China, attitude, culture, food, global issues, politics, poverty, prosperity | Tagged: 21-legged race, CCTV, Changjiang, crisis, food, fuel, Grand Canal, Great Wall of China, Hangzhou Bay Bridge, Jin Mao Dasha, Karst Mountains, mausoleum, Oriental Pearl Tower, Qin Shi Huang, Taipei 101, Taklamakan Desert, Three Gorges Dam, tug-of-war | No Comments »
Posted on Wednesday, 6 February 2008 by 克莱夫
Some people have been talking about it, many others have been ignoring it, the majority still haven’t got their heads around it but it is happening now.
When China began its current economic revival and subsequent march to power for most people, myself included, this was something unimportant. It was happening thousands of miles way on [...]
Filed under: China, Comment-China, UK, USA, attitude, culture, economics, finance, global issues, politics, prosperity, west | Tagged: prudence, buying power, credit, debt, dollar, Made in China, reserves, saving, spending, spendthrift, Sterling, thrift, USD, yuan | No Comments »
Posted on Monday, 28 January 2008 by 克莱夫
Here is another book giving a different angle to mainstream media to help you fill in more spaces of the Middle East jigsaw puzzle.
The author, Said Hyder Akbar, was born in Afghanistan, left while he was a child during the Russian occupation, moved to Pakistan and then to the USA with his family. He comes [...]
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Posted on Monday, 21 January 2008 by 克莱夫
This is not exactly a ‘hot off the blogosphere’ posting as the book I have just completed reading was published several years ago. However, the lessons to be learned are as horrifying and as relevant now as they were in 2006. Just as Mr Murray states in his book many of us believed that being [...]
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Posted on Monday, 7 January 2008 by 克莱夫
Is this Divine Guidance/Inspiration? I was looking at the log of hits for the blog the other day and saw one or two that had arrived via Google searches. Out of curiosity I did equivalent searches using the same criteria as the original visitors, just to see what they had been looking for [...]
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Posted on Sunday, 26 August 2007 by 克莱夫
This one is just so smart I have no answer. The warming of the atmosphere has a very straightforward explanation after all, you just need to open your eyes to what is going on around you and it becomes obvious.
All the interfering with natural processes which we do obviously has its consequences, and fiddling around [...]
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Posted on Monday, 6 August 2007 by 克莱夫
Sorry to be digging this old chestnut up again. Some time after I posted the first item. a documentary programme on this very subject appeared on TV. Entitled “The Great Green Smoke Screen”, shown on Dispatches and broadcast on Channel Four, the programme was able to investigate all the suspicions related to carbon [...]
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Posted on Monday, 7 May 2007 by 克莱夫
Not long ago [I don’t know if your memory stretches back this far] the Roman Catholic Church sold small items of salvation to the people of Europe. The idea was that if someone misbehaved he/she had the option of saving themselves from future punishment by buying a certificate called an Indulgence. After paying for this [...]
Filed under: climate change, global issues, humour, politics | Tagged: carbon offsetting, clean, ecological experts, green, scam, whinging greenies | No Comments »
Posted on Tuesday, 13 February 2007 by 克莱夫