Former owner of sex.com, founder of Match.com and current owner of http://www.cleanpowerfinance.com/ is nothing more than a common thief.
He took $500 from me years ago for advertising on some of his websites. He never posted the advertising and never refunded the money stating that since he had sold the company he didn’t need to. But he refused to provide any details of the people he’d sold the company to.
Do not deal with any of his businesses, especially clean power finance. He is a fly by night operator and not to be trusted.
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The only explanation for Eric Pickles MP allowing a massive industrial gas complex to be built against local and national planning rules on beautiful gloucestershire farm land, a plant that has been proved to be unnecessary could be that money has changed hands unofficially. Ether that or complete stupidity is at play here.
National Grid first applied to the Forest of Dean Borough council to build this plant. The plant would sit at the end of the controversial Gas Pipe connecting Milford Haven with Tirley, Gloucestershire. The pipe will run at 97bar pressure, something that in several other countries is illegal due to instability and the safety history of similar pipes.
The Forest of Dean Borough council refused the application and it went to appeal. After locals raised over £30,000 (no small feat) to hire legal representation for the enquiry, the Labour secretary of state concluded that the plant was unececery and completely inappropriate, breaking both national and local planning rules.
National Grid then, in an underhand move applied to build the same plant just 400 yards away simply beacause this field fell under a different borough council, Tewkesbury.
EVERY member of Tewkesbury Borough Council’s planning comittee objected. The plans were refused unanimously. 12 Parish councils objected, over 1000 residents objected (remember this is a sparcly populated agricultural area) and 3 MP’s objected. This is not just NIMBYism as has been suggested; although the thought of this plant destroying businesses (noise levels) and rendering it impossable for residents to sell their houses is not a pleasant one for anybody.
There is already a gas plant at nearby Wormington, there is space for the plant there - in fact off the record, Murphy engineers working in Tirley (and drinking in the local pubs) have said that it’s insanity that the plant is not being located Wormington as it makes long term sense.
This is the main reason: extending the pipe line just a few more miles to the existing gas works at Wormington would bypass a bottleneck in the network. Because the pressure of the gas would not need to be lowered to the same extent (the bottleneck would be out of the equation) the plant would only need to be a fraction of the size the Tirley plant will be and therefore would be more efficient and enviromentally friendly.
Sadly, in the short term at least, this option would be more expensive for National Grid, a private company who on one hand report profits of billions during a ressesion and on the other insist they must raise energy prices for the rest of us.
National Gird Appealed once again. This time it was different, there was a new government in power, one that quite publicly values cash flow above human cost. Again, locals were asked to raise over £30,000 for the second time.
Mr Eric Pickles MP, while publicly wanting to “…(introduce) radical new reforms that will mark an end to the hoarding of power within central government and hand control back to individuals, communities and councils” with his localism bill, chose to grant permission to build the gas plant.
The reports in Mr Pickle’s possession detailed all of the above. The reports contained proof that there was a solution to this problem available to National Grid that would have less environmental cost and far less (if any) objection. Why then did he choose to go ahead, especially while shouting about his ‘localism’ bill. Power to local communities and councils when it suits Westminster’s own needs and only then!
I’m trying very hard to think of a scenario in which this course of events would have played out without bribes being involved. Remember - Mr Pickles’ Labour predecessor threw this plan out on the grounds that it was inappropriate, insensitive and unnecessary being that there was a far better solution available that would, in the long term make the supply of gas from this pipe cheaper resulting in lower energy bills (or bigger profit margins). The Conservatives obviously have an interest in protecting National Grid’s short term profits, but why?
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Who can possibly argue that public money should be used for higher education, then in order to convey this sentiment destroy public property causing damage that will cost the equivalent of 3 peoples university education to repair. Anyone who thinks this makes any sense does not belong in higher education at all.
The fact that the provision of higher education as it stands is unsustainable ;this must be addressed weather we like it or not. The fact that everyone, regardless of intellect or talent feels its a right to study for a degree means the severe devaluation of a degree in the hands of those who are actually extraordinary. This is a big problem.
Simply raising fees is not the magic wand solution; the problems and social divides this course of action will cause are far greater than any supposed benefits. We should instead look to return higher education to the academically extraordinary and to those whose gifts in their chosen subject areas make them truly stand out. These people will surely graduate and contribute to the national economy many times any investment that was made in them.
I don’t believe any public money at all should be spent facilitating the ‘education’ of the violent chanting brain dead mob shown on the news over the past days.
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August 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Its nuts! A 30 minute road safety film I scored is everywhere! CNN, Today show.. all teh Europian news shows, papers etc. All beacause a clip of the car crash scene got 1.5 million hits on Youtube. Then Youtube flagged it as offensive!!!!!! so its over 18s only. Idiots!
Anyway…. www.goodsounds.co.uk to see 3 clips from the film and hear the music.
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Why is this woman listened to. She was on Question time along side Michael Heseltine, while Heseltine presented well reasoned, highly eloquent arguments drawing on his considerable level of intelligence and a thorough understanding of a wide range of issues, JSP’s response was “who cares about what he’s got to say, he’s Rich and he’s posh! “.
Have we gone mad? it is the likes of MH we should be looking up to and listening to. It is this calibre of person that is able to lead and direct a nation. Ask people on the street who they would rather have as PM out of the two of them though and it would certainly be JSP - She talks utter ill informed rubbish, and she is listened to. Its just not right! I hate her!
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August 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment
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Transcript:
[RING RING… RING RING]
Me: Hello, Stuart Fox….
Caller: [silence] ….. Good afternoon can I speak to Mr or Mrs Fox please.
Me: Yes…
Caller: Hello, I am calling from the Legal Bureau and we are phoning round the local area to let people know about our free service for anyone who has had an accident.
Me: Good, I’ve had an accident I think!
Caller: Oh [sounding slightly surprised]… What happened?
Me: I’ve found a great big crack running down the middle of my bottom!
Caller: …. How did this happen?
Me: I just noticed it this morning. A Huge crack running right down the centre of my ass!
Caller: Thank you, have a nice day. Goodbye.
Me: Thank you.
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All gods and religion are just tools of oppression and control. Every bible story follows astronomic patterns and it is on the behaviour of the sun and stars that all religion is based.
Just look at the death, torture and suffering imposed upon humans by their fellows in the name of a so called all loving all forgiving deity.
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Double standards, especially when created and upheld by governments are a great danger to the delicate equilibrium of any civilised society.
They are the main cause of racial tension, the Race Relations Act 1976 inadvertently created the preferential treatment of immigrants regarding housing by councils who were scared of falling foul of this law; this sparked off huge and unnecessary tensions and protests, and still legislation that promotes double standards and abuse of law and regulation is still upheld.
Near to me, agricultural land was bought by gypsies who have set up a permanent residence on this land which includes residential vehicular access in a dangerous place right on an accident black spot.
The council serve an order, but this is disputed and may be over turned because residents on so called gypsy sites have rights that we do not.
If I did the same, set up a permanent caravan with a brick wall, a driveway, electricity, phone, drainage etc without planning permission I would be ordered to tear it down right away, and for good reason.
The council is however powerless in this case and has been overruled on these matters before. Access could create a road safety issue, buildings could create a visual impact on an area of natural beauty, but an appeal is likely to allow them to stay simply because they call themselves gypsies.
It is preferential treatment, and considering the harsh nature of councils planning officers regarding legitimate restorations and extensions it is naturally angering to local residents, some of which have had to fight for years at large cost to have modest extensions built onto their houses.
We are not even allowed to mention the sudden spate of petty crime that was non existent before this site was there.
Bottom line - no one should have the right to be immune from any rules and regulations that the rest of us have to abide by… The End!
Any legislation that promotes double standards is bound to build social divides and anger.
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Typing 58008, and even 55378008 on a calculator IS FUNNY!
So Say I!
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