Very good coverage at this time on NHK World TV, Sky channel 516.

Also live here:

http://www.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/

Not surprisingly the link is not stable.

May our thoughts be with these people.

A very good selection, you’re too hard on yourself! Great to see the MD80, makes you realise that you don’t see them quite so often these days. Nice to see that the Kuwait A300s are still around. More of these anytime please:)

S.H. Post 39, exactly sums it up.

L.&

And so does this!!:mad::mad:

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/233660/Payouts-for-thief-burnt-in-burglary

I totally agree with what you have put. I didn’t mean to imply that the ‘tech’ was the cause, but rather a catalyst for the changes that we’re seeing. I’ve always believed that there are two types of future we could have, namely the Bladerunner version, or the Star Trek one. I know which one I’d rather have;)

Thanks for those kind comments. It has been a giant learning curve I have to say. About a month ago, I got a call from the BBC, to ask if I would take part in a television program called The Politics Show, which I now know, goes out on Sunday mornings. It was the local support group that I go to, for blind and partially sighted people that initially started the whole thing off. The BBC folks came to my home to do the interview to camera on a Tuesday, and the prog went out on the following Sunday. The reason that the group set this up was because of the bad time that I, and many, many other people are having to go thru to get the help we need, whilst at the same time, learning cope with our new found disabilities. God knows something needs to be sorted! How the elderly cope with it all, goodness only knows.

Appreciate that feedback. I think what happens with me is that my digits fly across the keyboard, with my brain some miles behind them;)

I think that my view of certain things is being coloured by my recent and sudden job loss, due to medical reasons (partial loss of sight). The dealings that I’m having with the benefits system, and obtaining the appropriate medical treatments, is a b****y nightmare. How older people manage, I don’t know. But thats probably another thread for another day.:)

Interflug – no I am not an expert, if by that you suggest I would have a degree in economics, perhaps. I can only plead an A-Level and half a lifetime in business, but I certainly do know that blaming the entire mess as simplistically as you do on bankers and financial whizz kids is about as far from the truth as you can get. Kev had it rather well when he referred to the disgusting wastage of central government.

I have followed the rush of exchanges between you, Lincoln and Kev with great interest and can’t really add anything more, at this stage.

SkyHigh, I thank you for your interpretation of my posts, however simplistic you may have found them to be. We can all learn by absorbing criticism I guess. My father and I have often debated this topic. He is now in his 78th year, spending most of that time in business. He is an extremely wealthy man and he made his fortune by working hard, as very many people do, and ended up being on the board of 5 different companies. Now if that man tells me that the bulk of this mess IS down to the poor acumen of bankers, their comrades, and some lousy policies in central government, then I do tend to take his opinion seriously. I’ll think that you’ll find mention of central government, its members, and its wastefulness more than once in my posts. I personally do not blame the entire mess on bankers et all, but they do, IMO have to shoulder a great deal of the blame. Call that simplistic if you wish, that is your right, but I cannot agree with you.

Lincoln.

Sheltered life? Maybe. Pots of money? No, not even enough to be secure and comfortable but that makes no difference to a thread like this.

I don’t, nor ever would, presume to have any answers, let alone THE answer. I do know, however, that ranting about it on internet fora such as this one does NOTHING to improve the situation. I suspect the Government are quite happy when people apportion blame on the so called ‘benefit culture’, immigration et al. It deflects neatly from the massive and disgusting wastage that have been a part of Central Government for decades.

If you want to change things, then go and make a stand. Try for election to Parliament, you could hardly do worse than the Lib Dem candidate last week.

Regards,

kev35

I’ve no argument with any of that. I do however believe, that what one man perceives as ‘ranting’ is another guys sincerely held point of view. And isn’t that why we are all on here?

The government should derive no happiness when people apportion blame for this situation on the ‘benefit culture’. For them to do so, merely reinforces my belief that the bulk of them are cynical wasters and that they bury their heads in the sand, and despite all the rhetoric, address nothing. The bulk of people know this, and it does the image of politicians no good at all.

I did once hold a council seat in my then home town’s council, back in the late 70s. If only the pursuit of objectives for the good of the town and its people, commanded the same effort as did the generation of hot air in the council chamber. What an achievement it would have been.