Bailiffs and debt collectors : Directgov - Money, tax and benefits A bailiff may visit your home if you don’t pay your debts - eg a Council Tax bill, parking fine, court fine, county court or family court judgment. This will happen if you ignore letters saying that bailiffs will be used. Bailiffs must normally give you at least 7 days’ notice of their first visit. You can stop bailiffs from visiting by paying the money you owe. Talk to the person or business you owe money to as soon as possible to get advice on how to pay your debt. Bailiffs are also known as ‘enforcement agents’. Dealing with bailiffs In most cases, you don’t have to open your front door to a bailiff or let them in. Bailiffs are not usually allowed to force their way into your home - eg by pushing past you, or putting their foot in the door. However, if you don’t let them in or agree to pay them: they could take things from outside your home - eg your car you could end up owing even more money If you do let them in, but don’t pay them, they may take some of your belongings. Bailiffs can’t:
The Death of the Hard Drive - FoxNews.com The Caviar Green hard disk drive from Western Digital.Western Digital Stop worrying about when the hard drive in your computer will die. Google wants to kill it permanently anyway. The new Google Chrome operating system, which was unveiled Tuesday, as well as hints and suggestions from Apple and Microsoft, offers us a preview of the PC of the future. The Chrome OS will at first be available on all-black laptops from Samsung and Acer. The new Google laptops come without hard drives, in other words. Other hardware manufacturers have seen the trend, too: The ebook readers from Amazon and Barnes & Noble don't have hard drives. Is this the end of the hard disk? "For the first 35 years of the PC revolution, the answer to the question 'How much storage do you need?' It's all about "the cloud," the generic term for storing data online and off your computer. Google's Chrome operating system takes that idea and runs with it -- down the street, up the next block, and straight on into the sunset.
Cancer, a Man-Made Disease | Causes and Prevention December 03, 2010 | 336,092 views Share A study of ancient bodies has determined that cancer is a man-made disease, one fueled by the excesses. Tumors turn out to be extremely rare until very recent times, when pollution and poor diet became issues. Researchers analyzed potential references to the disease in classical literature, and also searched for signs in the fossil record and in mummified bodies. But despite examining tissue from hundreds of Egyptian mummies, they confirmed only one case of cancer According to the Daily Mail: "Dismissing the argument that the ancient Egyptians didn't live long enough to develop cancer, the researchers pointed out that other age-related disease such as hardening of the arteries and brittle bones did occur ...
Quality of Greek protests fail to impress British rioters Greece has become the most recent country to enter the running for the Best Violent Protest prize, amid French criticism that the UK unfairly disadvantaged nations without a monarchy by poking the Duchess of Cornwall with a stick. The Greek mob opened its protest against austerity measures yesterday with the expected strategy of petrol bombing and vandalism outside the parliament building in Athens, which police countered with a solid tear-gas defence. However, in later rounds the quick-thinking rioters showed their true class and initiative by chasing and beating a government minister who happened to pop out for a souvlaki. “The Brits have made it tough, definitely.” “But I think we still have a chance. Greece Austerity protests France, which held its own riots over retirement age back in September, was dismissive of the British coup. “It doesn’t count,” said one former hooligan. “It’s just sour grapes,’ said a British student.
The War on Cancer: a Progress Report for Skeptics March 30, 2011 | 416,050 views Disponible en Español Share In 1971 President Nixon and Congress declared war on cancer. "These summary statistics show that the war on cancer has not gone well," says the article's author, Reynold Spector. Students set to find out just how effective violent protest is Students across the country are set to learn an important life lesson today when the government completely ignores all of their protests to vote in a significant rise in tuition fees. There have been a large number of angry protests across the country, as the student body mobilised for an important lesson in futility. Psychologist William Morris told us, “Learning about the futility of our rebellious actions in the face of authority is something many of us never truly understand until we get a job or a career.” ” But these students are being given the opportunity to learn just how the world really works whilst still in full-time education.” “The arrival of the dead look that people get behind the eyes when they realise this is how it’s going to be forever is an important right of passage for young people.” Student fee vote Not all students have accepted defeat, with some of the more gullible ones still hoping for a positive outcome during the parliamentary vote.
Are You Still Drinking Soda? June 08, 2011 | 298,934 views Share Tom Philpott got much more of a reaction to his February 10, 2011, aspartame article than he expected. He reports, "I guess in the back of my mind, I was thinking, people still drink that stuff?" Well, they do—by the bucketful. Overall, U.S. soda consumption is declining slowly, but Americans still drink more soda than anyone else on the planet, by a wide margin. Adam Ozimek of the Modeled Behavior blog quickly mounted a vigorous defense of aspartame, the artificial sweetener of choice for the soda industry, claiming, "the unnecessary stress caused by worrying about the aspartame in your diet soda is far more dangerous for you than the aspartame in your soda." Ozimek also compared warnings about aspartame's danger to 9/11 conspiracy theories, claiming the FDA "adequately followed its food additive approval process in approving aspartame."
WikiLeaks Being Used to Justify "Patriot Act" Legislation For Internet Eric BlairActivist Post Senator Mitch McConnell called Assange a "high-tech terrorist" on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday and said, "if it‘s found that Assange hasn’t violated the law, then the law should be changed." Over the weekend, an insightful article by Zen Gardner exposed how WikiLeaks resembles an establishment creation. The article correctly pointed out that the WikiLeaks storyline was conforming nicely to the elite's problem-reaction-solution method, with the solution of more tyranny for our safety. WikiLeaks is being used to bring in the agenda on so many levels, but most importantly by setting the precedent of shutting down websites for politically "dangerous" content. Gardner writes: After all, if information is now the enemy, we must carefully police any and every aspect of this dangerous medium -- all for the safety and protection of 'we the people.' Oh, we’ll still have the Internet, just like you can still fly. That, we agree with. : "Truth is treason in an empire of lies."
The True Price Of Gas: What It Should Really Cost To Fill Up If you've filled up a car recently, you surely think that the price of gas is too high. Of course, you've seen the data--gas is much more expensive in other parts of the world than in America, but that doesn't change how it effects your wallet at the gas station. But take away arguments about which countries subsidize or tax gas the most and focus on the costs of simply using gasoline that aren't included in the price, and you start to realize you are getting a good deal, even at $4 a gallon. The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) recently put out a video of their efforts to track the costs of all the externalities of a gallon of gas; the unseen costs that we pay because of each gallon we use. First, consider all the costs of drilling, extracting, and transporting oil. From there, you have to examine the effects of all those emissions. Then, of course, there are environmental disasters like oil spills. Hat tip: Climate Progress
VIDEO: 120 Seconds Of Gerald Celente Kicking Wall Street's Ass - "$144B Bonus Is 49th Largest GDP In World!" Video: Celente is on fire... I don't usually post GC, so you know this clip is really good. By far the best part is the utter annihilation of private equity billionaire Stephen Schwarzman. Text from youtube page -- While millions of Americans are unemployed and the national debt is soaring, it seems top financial executives are far from feeling the pinch. This amount is equal to the U.S. stimulus package approved by Congress in 2008. Celente says Americans are failing to react to the payouts, because the financiers' fanbase in the mainstream media is distracting public opinion.
UK plc must do its bit for broken Britain | Business Britain has a rubbish infrastructure. The road network gets clogged up and the rail network is a relic of the 19th century. We know this because business bangs on incessantly about the money it is losing through congestion and delay. Britain has a substandard workforce. In one sense, these criticisms are fair, as anybody who has sat in a traffic jam on the M25 or experienced incompetent or rude service knows all too well. But unless the government is going to abolish corporate taxes altogether, it is right - as Vince Cable noted in these pages last week - that business makes a contribution to the infrastructure on which it relies. To listen to corporate lobbying groups, you would imagine that companies are more than happy to do their bit but are forced into offshore arrangements by the demands of a punitive tax regime. No, the real reason that business avoids paying tax is because it can. And, let's not be naive; this is a normal response. So what to do? Too light a touch
US physics professor: 'Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life' Harold Lewis is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Here is his letter of resignation to Curtis G. Callan Jr, Princeton University, President of the American Physical Society. It's so utterly damning that I'm going to run it in full without further comment. Dear Curt: When I first joined the American Physical Society sixty-seven years ago it was much smaller, much gentler, and as yet uncorrupted by the money flood (a threat against which Dwight Eisenhower warned a half-century ago).
Cognitive dissonance In psychology, cognitive dissonance is the mental stress or discomfort experienced by an individual who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time, or is confronted by new information that conflicts with existing beliefs, ideas, or values.[1][2] Leon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance focuses on how humans strive for internal consistency. When inconsistency (dissonance) is experienced, individuals tend to become psychologically uncomfortable and they are motivated to attempt to reduce this dissonance, as well as actively avoiding situations and information which are likely to increase it.[1] Relationship between cognitions[edit] Individuals can adjust their attitudes or actions in various ways. Consonant relationship – Two cognitions/actions that are consistent with one another (e.g., not wanting to get intoxicated while out, then ordering water instead of alcohol) Magnitude of dissonance[edit] Reducing[edit] Theory and research[edit] Examples[edit] E.