"If you were asked, would you contribute an idea to iPM?"

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• 1. At 6:06pm on 09 May 2009, Lady Sue wrote:

  That was an incredibly moving interview with the very brave man who has been diagnosed with cancer. Would you please pass on thanks to whoever it was for sharing such a personal and traumatic experience so openly.
  
  A good progamme - one of the best iPMs I've listened to. Well done everyone.

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• 2. At 10:37am on 11 May 2009, queenofthelimpopo wrote:

  re Smart electricity meters (on radio 4 this morning - hopefully you will cover this as well)
  As a child, we used to have a highly visible electicity meter in our kitchen with a revolving disk clocking up kilowatt hours (or hundredths) with every revolution. My sister and (unbeknown to our parents) would switch on every conceivable appliance to see how fast we could make the disk revolve. When we were locking up the house to go away on holiday, my father would always check the meter to see if there was anything still on as he knew the baseline speed for the fridge and a few lights.
  I wish I had one of these meters now.

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• 3. At 9:33pm on 11 May 2009, KristinaBrooker wrote:

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• 4. At 8:53pm on 12 May 2009, U13879388 wrote:

  
  Reading Kristina Brooker's other notes, I can't believe that 3. wasn't giving iPM an idea.
  
  Could someone kindly post an anodyne version.
  
  I have a question for her, related to another posting of hers, which may lead to an idea for iPM
  
  Elsewhere you say Marx said we are all self employed producers. Isn't the problem with capitalism the self produced employers who exploit the rest of us?
  
  Another; elsewhere she says there is a problem with American popular culture - she detects a drive to worker conformity in the music.
  
  With rap is it 'conformity' or the wrong sort of dissent?
  
  What about drugs? Is their ethos ultimately conformist?
  
  I love the interest rate idea. There's a Leonard Cohen triplet
  You know who I am
  You've stared at the sun
  I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
  
  A young student friend at Birmingham used to say that Descartes was wrong. He said. 'I think. Therefore I am.'
  
  She said 'No. He thinks, therefore he thinks that he is. And then that he thinks that he thinks that he is......'
  
  Kristina Booker seems full of ideas that iPM might usefully look at.

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• 5. At 11:29pm on 12 May 2009, skintnick wrote:

  Recently you aired some views from listeners who were disaffected by the week-long headline "news" that our MPs are morally-corrupt, greedy trough-snorters. Yawn.
  The cynic in me wonders what is the real story that is being kept from the news bulletins as a result... That is doubtless stretching the truth, but I'm sure there is some mileage in the idea that continual harping on about the "Recession" fulfils the same purpose. In my view this slowdown of the capitalist machinery is rooted in the forthcoming energy crisis simply precipitated by the credit crunch. Debt and greed have come home to roost, and an unsustainable model has run its course. And the kicker for you guys is contained in the following piece on the Energy Bulletin website dated May 11th:
  
  Hans Noeldner, Entropic Journal
  "One starts off fighting for some relatively small thing to establish a pedestrian-oriented town square, to protect a watershed, to head off yet another sprawling subdivision and strip mall. Gradually one realizes that one is fighting battle after battle against politically-connected elites who have the money and time to press their agendas until they get what they want; fighting against an omnipotent, rabidly-defended belief in the Growth Economy; indeed, fighting a war against the main trajectory of one's society.
  
  It may be useful to ask what animates the opposition. I would say that at root is the primary if seldom acknowledged end-product of the Growth Economy: fear of being useless, without purpose, bound and fettered to a Leviathan that remorselessly destroys our needs for one-another no less effectively than it dismantles self-reliance.
  
  Let us remember that Development is not the final aim of the planners and architects and contractors they want something meaningful and creative to do with their lives. Nor is Development the end goal of the carpenters and drywallers and plumbers they want be needed by others so they can earn a living. Development is not even the ultimate objective of those who develop to amass great wealth they are merely hell-bent on gaining respect in a society that has made virtues of the Seven Deadly Sins.
  
  I am coming to the conclusion that we will inevitably loose on the small things if we do not win the war. Given the stranglehold of Growth-fed media on the public consciousness, however, chances are slim that advocates for a sustainable way of life will be widely heard above the stupefying clamor of Commerce. If humankind is lucky, the limits of energy, natural resources, and/or debt will in relatively short order collapse the Growth Economy without widespread suffering and loss of life. But will Man learn from the experience that we are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to our disposition to put moral chains upon our own appetites?"
  
  You ("the media") are culpable. The real issues of the day - global warming, resource depletion & the coming end of the age of oil - receive scant coverage even in the outlets which I would expect to take a lead, for example Radio 4 News and The Observer newspaper.
  
  To quote Daniel Quinn via Richard Heinberg's book The Party's Over: "If we continue...to consume the world until there's no more to consume, then there's going to come a day, sure as hell, when our children or their children or their children's children are going to look back on us - you and me - and say to themselves, 'My God, what kind of monsters were these people?'"

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• 6. At 2:48pm on 13 May 2009, invisibleatheist wrote:

  5 skintnick: Agree totally with all you say. It's interesting that a few short months ago we were being told that carbon emissions needed to be reduced to 1990 levels if we were to stand any chance of combating climate change, now we read that oil sales are down to 1980s levels, but thhere's no rejoicing, no relief, just a desperate desire to get back to the death culture running full pelt into oblivion; how to get people to start shopping again, how to stimulate car sales - the monsters which are putting that carbon into the atmosphere - and sustainability is never mentioned. I don't expect anything better from politicians, few of them could think their way out of a paper bag, but the media should be paying attention and keeping the subject in view, rather than running with the pack of unlimited and unregulated growth merchants. As usual, human's ability to put personal greed first above all other considerations is uppermost. There's even the claim that people can't afford to buy organic produce in a recession, yet chemical agrobusiness is clearly destroying the ecosystem on which all of us, and wealth itself, depend.
  
  Insecticides have been shown to be implicated in the wholescale deaths of bee colonies, on which two thirds of our food crops depend, yet are the media interested? No, they'll get excited when famine strikes and there are bodies to be counted as usual. The future has to be organic [as it was throughout most of our thousands of years of history] not petrochemicals. And there's not much time left.
  
  Why isn't PM dealing with this major issue, is it too 'scientific' for mere journos to understand? It will surely affect our future, not just our children's children's.
  
  And the police treat climate protesters like terrorists! Do they live on the same planet?

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• 7. At 2:34pm on 16 May 2009, agedstudent wrote:

  As I filled in my fourth application form so that I could once more be checked out by the Criminal Records Bureau,(CRB), I wondered why one certificate confirming I had no criminal record was not enough. After all, however many confirmations I receive, it can only be valid for the day it was actually checked.Or maybe the CRB will notify those organisations for whom I hold a certificate as soon as I get a conviction- but will they?
  

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• 8. At 08:36am on 23 May 2009, sirtifficate wrote:

  If I was caught with my hand in the cookie jar , would I just be allowed to put them back ? when are we going to see the first arrest of a MP for fraud ; or are they beyond the law !?

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• 9. At 10:40pm on 23 May 2009, Fredora wrote:

  Having broken my ankle I visited A&E in a Croydon hospital. A Triage Nurse took my medical history whilst listenimg to pop music on a radio!He wasn't Young.

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• 10. At 01:22am on 31 May 2009, redheylin wrote:

  That IS Margaret Thatcher on the far right of the photo, isnt it??

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