Agenda 2019

  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/30/un-climate-change-report_n_5060317.html?utm_hp_ref=climate-change UN Scientific Panel Releases Report Sounding Alarm On Climate Change Dangers Industrial pollution Until such times as you people are prepared to take on the major polluters of the world, the United States (who signed up for but never ratified the Kyoto agreement), China, Eastern European countries spewing chemicals into the atmosphere with complete impunity from any form of criticism or sanction, and all the other polluters and destroyers of the environment, please do not lecture me about climate change and how it is all my fault. In passing, I would also suggest that you turn off the Downing Street room lights, particularly during the hours of daylight, and also turn off the office, factory, hotel and business complex's when the lights are not in use. (Have a look at London or any other city on this planet, from the air at night). Do not blame m...

  http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/14/typhoon-haiyan-relief-effort-stalls-philippines?commentpage=2   Frustration spreads in Philippines at slow pace of typhoon relief effort  Typhoon victims queue for free rice at a businessman's warehouse in Tacloban city   As is frequently the case in these disasters, (remember Haiti?), the "international community" promise mountains and deliver molehills. There is an understandable skepticism amongst many ordinary people donating to the various funds as to whether all of their donation will actually find its way into the relief effort, or whether some percentage will be siphoned off into the pockets of politicians, profiteers and gangsters in the affected country. The NGO relief organisations do their best with what they have, which is why ordinary people continue to donate. Governments have much to learn from charities.