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Home Secretary Amber Rudd has resigned from Government
Last year a report revealed her department had lost track of at least 56,000 illegal migrants who were supposed to be scheduled for deportation, including 700 convicted criminals — although this did not cause much of a stir in the mainstream press at the time.
Good riddance. She should now cross the floor and be in Labour where she would be more at home.
Pcar
BBC4 Now : The Easter Island statues have a special shape
so then if you stand them up and rope the heads with a guide rope team on the left and a guide rope team on the right
they can rock the statue with not much effort
and cause it to walk, without it falling over.
The islands bigger than I thought ..he just said when the Ranui arrived there were 16 million trees
(loss was from 1250AD to 1650 AD when there weren't any trees left.
They don't know how felling got out of control
stewgreen
re: Korowai + docudrama crews
There was a high latitude example of misrepresentation in Svalbard some years ago. The guy in question was portrayed as a hermit whose house was buried all winter with only the chimney poking out of the snow, chewing through last summer's seal catch with only his trusty dogs for company until the sun came back.
Let's just say that it seems the BBC film folk met him in a Longyearbyen bar.... in winter
Radio 4 Gardener's Question Time had a 10 minute or so section on climate change this afternoon - it was predictably packed with misrepresentation and activist hyperbole - there was some really grim AGW jargon thrown in just to make it even more leaden.
tomo
Apr 29, 2018 at 7:53 AM | Harry Passfield
Another thumbs up from here.
The ASA are a farce - so they are fair game to be tormented.
tomo
The Korowai do not live in treehouses
Apr 29, 2018 at 8:17 PM | Pcar
The BBC has never quite got Reality TV. Could they send some of their Senior Directors off to do a job swap with the Korowai, in the interests of cost efficiency and honesty?
golf charlie
Apr 29, 2018 at 7:34 PM | Pcar
Good to know that corruption can be recycled so far from mainland Europe, with nothing more than demands for other people's money.
golf charlie
@stewgreen
I withdraw my earlier "thanks"
The Korowai Tribe put on performance for benefit of rich tourists, says TV’s Will Millard
In the past decade, the modern Korowai have moved into settled villages, leaving the old treehouses to be reclaimed by the jungle
The Korowai people of Western Papua have been the go-to primitive tribe for documentary-makers
‘I was told we should be here with our clothes off,’ added one of the two wives.
Her husband, meanwhile, helpfully laid out the business plan of which this was a crucial part. ‘I lie around until there are guests,’ he told Millard. ‘And then I get naked and they photograph me.’ He also provided a handy price list, ranging from £5 for a basic photo to £50 for the full insect-grub hunt.
And with that, Markus also broke the fourth wall, admitting that he lived in Mabul but had come to the jungle when he heard that Millard was the latest westerner keen to see the authentic Korowai way of life. ‘If you’ve enjoyed being here,’ he unambiguously went on, ‘you pay me well.’
The Korowai do not live in treehouses
Pcar
Surely the Japanese will be adopting similar widows in their Tokyo hotels as Boeing's Dreamliner only perhaps a little larger.
https://gizmodo.com/5829395/how-boeings-magical-787-dreamliner-windows-work
Martyn
@golf charlie, Apr 29, 2018 at 10:23 AM
AFAIK it was all sent to Portugal prior to the incinerator opening - lots of empty shipping containers as not much exported.
Lovely Green virtue...
...but it makes a huge loss we in UK pay for via EU
The initiative is designed to compensate companies for additional costs incurred in the support of the operation and provision of services of general economic interest and infrastructure and amenities. This option of the Government to allocate this amount to one company reduces the amount available for other regional firms.
Valor Ambiente is a waste treatment firm and will receive 50% of eligible costs, totalling 10.4 million Euros. The approval of this application raises questions. Companies are entitled to 15% of eligible expenses, to a limit of 50,000 Euros for micro-enterprises and 100,000 Euros for small businesses, not more than 10% of turnover.
The Diário could not obtain the 2008 accounts so had to use those from 2007. This firm operates the Meia Serra waste treatment station and this company’s liabilities were 176.7 million Euros with a bank debt of 30.1 million Euros and 34.8 million debt to third parties. They received 114.9 million Euros from the government and the councils. It is suspected that today the company is insolvent and in recent years, the Budget injected more than 70 million with 19 million Euros transferred in 2009.
To avoid bankruptcy in the entire regional system of waste disposal, the Government has chosen to inject more EU money into the company and this year, is expected to inject 16.7 million Euros.
And if I am not mistaken there are government officials with a stake in the Meia Serra plant!!! Der.
Pcar
Getting the jump on Elon Musk?
I noticed today 4 x 49.99MW batteries applied for in Wiltshire
bugger it's a dynamic search so you have to enter 49.99 into the keyword search
Nearly 200 across the land if all councils have the same level of applications…. looks a bit crook from here - what's so special in detail about the 49.99 number ? - it's got to be a subsidy wangle.
Anybody spot any in their locality? - started a "Battery Farming" thread