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I wondered how common it is for people to use fire extinguishers to hold doors (usually fire doors) open. I think some of us are rather complacent about the regulations in this area. Albertina McNeill, Greenford.
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The following story has been wdely posted on the Panoramio website (http://www.panoramio.com/user/1779611) - it sounds worrying if it is true. Can it be validated/ investigated?
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I have a horrible feeling i forgot to paste this on my earlier posting. this is the story.
'Republic of Korea on May 25th at 5:00 A.M. The police forced citizens to break up and stop the demo. Korea gave up their supremacy of medical inspection and present it to the U.S.A. and forced the citizens to eat the U.S.A cows. The government is lying to the citizens. They are saying that there is no madcow disease.
They think the citizens are idiot and know nothing, but we are not. The citizens raised the candles and went out to the street to defend their childrens,friends, and parents. The citizens wanted peace but the Korean government used the military power to break them up and suppressed them by force. The Korean government is blocking and infringing on freedom of speech. No Major News have reported what happend on this day and lying that the citizens were crucial and were instigated by the opposition paty.
There's no freedom on this country. This was a problem of mad cows from U.S.A. but now, this is problem of our future and this country.
We want the freedom. This is not 1980s. But .. The government is going back to 1980s, which when there was no freedom of speech and when there was only a dictatorship.
We don't want to go back.'
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How about an update on how the governments New Towns Competition is going?
I have an idea:
I think that along with the new towns, the competition should include existing major cities who could vye to build vertically. An enormous wopping great skyscraper that could house 10000 people.
Why?
Because: cities have already got all the infrastructure. Many have major airports nearby too. All have train links, and road/motorways.
there would be a smaller eco footprint - for many many reasons.
the 'new jobs' could be included in several floors of this skyscrapper.
the cost of building a percentage of 'affortable' homes within the skyscrapper would be easily absorbed.
the integration of shops, schooling and facilities within easy access
and more
nick
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Could we please have some discussion of media bias in the reporting of economic trends?
For example: it is easy to show that people in this country are poorer when house prices go up. Why? We all need a house to live in and must at some point pay for this.
Recently an opinion poll showed that more people wanted house prices to go down than wanted them to go up.
But the debate on this topic continues to regard rising house prices as somehow good for the economy, and falling prices as bad. I note from the tones of news readers that falling house prices are implicitly regraded as bad.
I can only think that rising house prices are seen as good, because they allow more borrowing - and we all know where that leads, don't we?
More generally, there is often a lack of joined up long-term thinking in the way that economic trends are reported. Higher oil prices are obviously necessary, as the only way to enusre that we use less carbon and encourage alternate energy sources (solar power is predicted to become much more competitive if used in volume, and has virtually no limits on capacity, but needs either high energy price or heavy subsidy to create the initial volume).
Higher food prices are equally necessary to provide farmers with a living and reduce global food shortages.
Why do we see higher oil and food prices as a bad thing? Because we are encouraged to put short-term comfort before long-term good of the economy.
I sometimes feel this an area where democracies fall short - there is almost no way that politicians can advocate the changes that are needed to ensure a prosperous and sustainable future because they equate to current pain.
Another example - why do we have less fish in the sea (and therefore less productive fisheries) now than 20 years ago? The pressures for short-term gain pout weight those for long-term advantage and the result is that everyone, including the fishermen, loses out.
The real question is why to governments throughout the world encourage global trade in a way which produces these boom and bust cycles of pricing? It would be much more efficient to have less variable prices, allowing long-term investment in production before shortages become extreme.
And it is no good having the occasional throiughtful program making these points, when every day the news reports the same issues with a popular but unhelpful and erroneous bias. Radio 4 is supposed to be a beacon of intelligent debate - could it please shine a little more brightly in the direction of rational reporting of economic trends?
Tom Clarke
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Terrorist Law Abuse!
I would like to see a discussion about the outrageous abuse of terrorist surveillance laws used by the Poole Borough Council “and many others Councils nation wide without our knowledge” on what can without doubt be described as ‘non terrorist’ activities?
If many of us are able to make a clear distinction between a potential terrorist than that of a fisherman or school run mom while the Council are unable to see a difference, then they should resign immediately!
With Councils now airborne taking pictures of back gardens. Officials noting off road parking, and the use of cameras hidden under the lip of wheelie bins, is now no longer an invisible and often thought of conspiratorial threat against privacy and civil liberties. It has become a clear agenda for population behavioural control.
This begs the question of the 40 day extension period the government want to hold terror suspects. How long will it be before this extension is used on non related terrorist crimes!
Thank you
P A Lane
(CaissonsDisease)
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I have just heard a speaker on The World Tonight (Monday, 26th May) suggest that the Government's proposed increases in car tax will affect large families, with more kids, who need to drive bigger cars. I have one child. I drive a small family saloon car. It is seven years old, and will fall into the top (£400/year) tax band (double the current charge) if current proposals are implemented. My car is most certainly not a gas-guzzler (it'll do 43mpg) - it just happens to be "old!" I wonder how many other, similar, cars and their drivers, will be affected? Paul Forrest, Aylesbury.
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Slingshot376 Parking Penalty Trap (re E-mail 17May)
Eddie Mair, your PM programme of 17 May 08 showed the need for a High Court ruling on duties incumbent on delegated authority. Failure to refund wrongful penalties unless individually challenged amounts to multi-million pound extortion. Ministerial " It's up to councils" confirms the Select Committee assertion of failure of supervision. Each Ashford councillor has now been given by me a 13 page brief for action or condonation of illegality.
At present, the case for the High Court contains powerful detailed signed evidence, not only of LA abuse, but failure of Ombudsmen and Ministers to protect the public from oppressive official actions. Further reinforcing courses of action will now ensue, especially with the Media, hopefully elicitng help with litigation which could multiply my already sustantial costs and workload undertaken as a civic duty.
Your support would be most welcome.
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