Having avoided looking at most UK news for the last two weeks, a quick peek at the BBC website this morning reveals that sloppy journalism is alive and well whilst shroud waving medics are still banging on about the dangers of exceeding made up drinking limits. The...
Portugal finally goes pop.
Nearly two full weeks since the government collapsed and five months after Ireland handed round the collection plate, Portugal are finally asking for help paying the bills. FTAlphaville has this : In a live TV address on Wednesday Portugal’s interim PM José Sócrates...
Memo to the Saudi King – When politically expedient, Washington will help to push you out of power.
As the US pulls out it's military from Cameroids Libyan campaign, you have to wonder whether they actually have some cunning plan for the Middle East or is it simply that they have no idea what to do next as their grip on desert politics fades away much like the...
Fukushima radiation monitoring equipment goes off scale.
From NHK, pity the poor buggers doing their best to prevent further calamity at the crippled nuclear plants in Japan : Plant radiation monitor says levels immeasurable A radiation monitor at the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says workers there are...
CNN news bimbos getting totally out of their depth with an ex-CIA analyst.
A great little video spotted over at ZeroHedge that ends with much spluttering from the anchor bimbos when one of them is told by ex-CIA analyst Michael Scheuer "You are just carrying the water for Obama". Priceless - also known as pwned in gaming circles. _
Why are cigarettes less dangerous in Estonia?
Being one of the filthy smoker underclass in the UK, I was amused to find out that Estonian cigarettes are far less dangerous than their UK equivalents or at least you would think so from the health warnings on the packets : The translation being "Smoking may kill"....
Amazing self-mincing bird mincer.
Spotted over at Watts Up With That, the following video shows what happens when the brake fails on a large wind turbine during a gale : _ Who said these things were useless? I would class that as quality entertainment with additional marks for the gunshot like sound...
They would rather bring us all down into the depths of Hades than lose their grip on power.
The following snippet from Mike Krieger writing about the ills of the financial world in a ZeroHedge article actually has a lot of truths about the overall state of the system we currently find ourselves in (emphasis mine) : The backdrop is pretty simple but is too...
Health and Safety UK vs Estonia – Compare and contrast
After my last visit to Estonia I wrote about swimming in open waters to demonstrate the difference in attitude to Health and Safety in Estonia when compared to the UK (go have a quick look at the linked article to educate yourself on the finer points of drunken...
Wasp on tour – The Winter that just keeps on giving.
Having left the emerging springtime UK last Friday, arriving in Estonia was much like travelling back in time three months to mid-winter all over again. Being English, the weather tends to come up as a topic of conversation and it is interesting to hear people talking...