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There is something very wrong with a world that appoints Robert Mugabe as a goodwill ambassador to anything other the International Union of Undertakers.

Even the BBC has noticed there might be something wrong with it. The WHO must now be a terribly corrupt organisation. I used to think of it as one of the better UN agencies. Who will fix it now?

Oct 21, 2017 at 12:37 PM | Unregistered Commentermichael hart

"Robert Mugabe as a World Health Organisation Goodwill Ambassador"

No other world leader has reduced energy use in a countries health service to practically zero.
That's a major success that WHO have recognized.

WHO Got Fooled Again

Oct 21, 2017 at 12:34 PM | Registered Commenterstewgreen

Oct 21, 2017 at 9:02 AM | Mark Hodgson

Robert Mugabe as a World Health Organisation Goodwill Ambassador will be controversial.

It should be remembered that he is being rewarded for his outstanding leadership by Green Blobbers around the world, in destroying the lives, agriculture and economy of an entire country, to cut CO2 emissions.

Kim Jung Un is very disappointed to have come second, but he merely inherited a failed economy, he did not create one.

However, Kim Jung Un is working hard to beat Mugabe in drastic population reduction schemes, and is even trying to get other countries to do it for him and pay for it, whereas Mugabe took far greater control of the brutal and untimely deaths of his adoringly loyal countrymen, women and children.

Oct 21, 2017 at 10:22 AM | Unregistered Commentergolf charlie

Oct 20, 2017 at 7:08 PM | Registered CommenterPcar

Not exactly how the internet works, the url has meaning only to the server it references, the server returns data by interpreting the url, which in turn is interpreted by your browser depending on its content. This may be a straight display of the data (as in html content), browser generated content by interpreting the page data (i.e javascript) or requests for further URl (i.e. adverts). What Google get to see is mainly controlled by what the server allows its bots to view. You should not think of a URL as at all similar to a filename

Oct 21, 2017 at 10:02 AM | Unregistered CommenterEdwin

Crime figures: Things just do not change by that sort of percentages naturally. I suspect a change of counting methods and police motivation. Previously the figures may have been suppressed to show how good a job they are doing but now their manpower is being reduced they have removed the suppression and possibly moved a few crimes between categories. Massaged the numbers, that's the most likely cause of such an annual increase.

Oct 21, 2017 at 9:32 AM | Unregistered Commenterrhoda

More evidence for Hilary Ostrov's warnings about the UN:

Mugabe named as goodwill ambassador by WHO

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-41702662

The BBC even manages this comment:

"The appointment of 93-year-old Robert Mugabe will cause astonishment among many WHO member states and donors.
A goodwill ambassador may be a largely symbolic role, but the symbolism of giving it to a man whose leadership of Zimbabwe has, critics say, coincided with a collapse of its health service, and major human rights abuses, will be very unpopular."

Oct 21, 2017 at 9:02 AM | Unregistered CommenterMark Hodgson

Compulsory Public Charging points for battery cars.

I hope it will be compulsory that these charging points are only powered by unreliable wind and solar etc, so that there are no accusations of hypocrisy and double standards.

Oct 21, 2017 at 12:42 AM | Unregistered Commentergolf charlie

May capitulates to EU again

Influx Feared as UK Concedes EU Migrants Arriving Before March 2019 Can Stay


Prime Minister Theresa May had previously indicated that March 2017, when the UK activated Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty to begin the Brexit process, would be the cut-off date — leading to a reduction in immigration from the EU and an increase in local hiring and starting salaries.

Oct 20, 2017 at 11:58 PM | Registered CommenterPcar

@stewgreen, Oct 20, 2017 at 8:07 PM

@Pcar Your last point was the one I was making
(Your first 2 I don't agree with. Conceivably you could request a page URL ending in anything and I could still send you can on fly page
The actual URL doesn't actually have a file name so it could be sending you index.asp etc )

Read again:
- "Generated pages tend not to be"

Download their website and look at source.

Oct 20, 2017 at 11:53 PM | Registered CommenterPcar

@tomo, Oct 20, 2017 at 8:58 PM

Given the present OTT bansturbator / wankerati stuff about offending people I'm surprised there isn't a porcine exclusion zone around certain religious locations - mebbe the twerps who've been dreaming this stuff up were exhausted with their exertions pushing out the pile of kerrapp that it didn't occur to them.

Sadly, it did occur to Gov't RoP lovers:

APHA may not approve your walking route if....

Oct 20, 2017 at 11:47 PM | Registered CommenterPcar

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