An evil trend is happening in business, the 60-day payment terms. For any business receiving immediate payment from their customers, like retailers, then this is a quick and painless way to make extra profit but for suppliers it’s a threat to their very survival. Obviously not every business can force their suppliers to accept such terms, only large companies are able to force suppliers to accept these terms with the implicit threat that failure to do so result in the supplier losing a customer.

This is large companies extracting profits from their smaller suppliers its plain and simple bullying.

Of course some suppliers have responded by imposing 60-day payment terms on their own suppliers, but obviously small suppliers by their very nature of size have little choice but to accept another month without payment, upsetting their cash flow and threatening their survival! It’s a small business nightmare!

In fact this isn’t a recent trend it’ just one that the company I work for has suddenly been caught up in!

I suppose at least we should be thankful that the EU has legislated that anything greater than 60 days would be grossly unfair!

It would appear we’ve the supermarkets to thank for this wheeze, with Tesco’s leading the way back in 2008!

“If we want to prevent heart attacks and strokes that come out of the blue in people with no previous evidence of problems – and about half such events happen in the absence of any prior history of disease – then we have to identify and treat people who are currently healthy but are known to be at increased risk of developing heart disease,” said Professor Colin Baigent of Oxford University, co-author of the study. The Guardian

It’s only just dawned on me they’re talking about people like me! As far as the study goes, who knows, but I’m sure the manufacturers are going to be happy with everybody over 50 taking their drugs!

A man and a woman paid £650 for what they believed to be a laptop computer – only to discover they had been sold a bag of potatoes.

The couple were approached on Tuesday by a man in Huntingdon High Street who offered to sell them a laptop.

They viewed the laptop in a rucksack and withdrew £650 in cash from a bank to pay the man.

They later found potatoes and cardboard in the bag. BBC.

Who gives a man in the High Street £650 for anything? I work with laptops a lot and I couldn’t tell by looking at one what its worth, something doesn’t seem right here!

A raft of reforms has been announced after the Red Tape Challenge looked at how to simplify the Equality Act and remove unnecessary legislation.

Home Secretary and Minister for Women and Equalities Theresa May said: ‘Bureaucracy and prescription are not routes to equality. Over-burdening businesses benefits no one, and real change doesn’t come from telling people what to do.

‘Today’s announcement strikes the right balance between protecting people from discrimination and letting businesses get on with the job.’ Home Office.

Call me old-fashioned but telling people what to do has worked for centuries I don’t see why it wouldn’t work now! But that’s not the point!

This is nothing to do with protecting people from discrimination it’s all about making it easy for bosses to hire and fire workers, with the added bonus that many women are going to be forced back home!

Why do women keep voting for the Tories, in fact why anyone but the wealthy vote Tory

I’m no expert on Greece, but it seems to me they’re in for new elections, there’s a third attempt at forming a government by Pasok leader Evangelos Venizelos, but after the first two parties have failed it’s hard to see the third placed party being able to form a government, especially when you consider that Pasok lost three quarters of its seats at the election.

So I’d expect new elections and further turmoil for the Euro and a probable Greek exit!

Julia Orayen and her white dress only appeared for 24 seconds of the debate

A Mexican presidential debate hits the world’s headlines, not for some political analysis but because Julia Orayen, one of the production assistants, decided to wear a tight low cut dress, it surely shows who’s in charge of deciding what to report in the news! It’s surely not women what misogynist claptrap!

I’m not missing anything am I? I’d rather Orayen didn’t feel the need to wear such a dress but it’s hardly the stuff to put Mexico in the spotlight!

Besides that there’s plenty we should be worrying about in the UK! As I talking about news, even a cursory glance at the websites of our biggest selling daily newspapers reveals an appalling sexual objectification women face.

Human Race Being Terminated by ‘Scientific Suicide’ an apoplectic view of science, but get past the feeling you’re reading a draft for the latest sci-fi disaster movie and there’s much to consider:

Much of the so-called “science” is really just fraudulent science that’s twisted, distorted and quacked up by greed-driven corporations.

Real science is the quest for understanding, not the quest for profit. Real science is a good thing, as it is based on the quest for knowledge. But today, there’s not much real science being conducted anymore. Most of what takes place is corporate-driven science for the purpose of gaining power and profits.

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Universities, which once conducted research to benefit humankind, now use taxpayer money to develop patentable chemicals that are then licensed to drug companies (or pesticide companies) in exchange for royalties that enrich the university.

As a result of such trends, “science” has come to mean corruption, dishonesty, greed and death. “Scientists” — the people who practice such science — are death engineers whose innovations may deliver hyped-up short-term benefits, but they often ultimately lead to long-term death and destruction.

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History has taught us that scientists have very little ability to anticipate the long-term effects of their present-day actions. The nature of the universe is more complex than even the most brilliant scientist can imagine, it turns out, and when they start to play God with the natural world, unexpected things can and do occur. Murphy was an optimist, as the saying goes. Not only will things go wrong if they can go wrong; they will go wrong in catastrophic ways that simply cannot be anticipated. Mike Adams, Waking Times.

The trouble is very few people seem to believe there’s a problem with the way we currently approach science!

Senior Conservatives blamed the results on coalition policy, with defence minister Gerald Howarth citing the government’s support for gay marriage. BBC.

Tories, aren’t they thoroughly unpleasant – what sort of people vote for them, thoroughly unpleasant people’s surely the answer!

Liberal Democrats now behind UKIP and the Greens!

Steve Morgan ousted by Labour in the Grange, one less turd we'll have to deal with!

Results for Gloucester City Elections, Tories 4, Labour 4 and Liberal democrats 2 – Labour gain one from the Tories ousting Tory deputy leader Steve Morgan by just 27 votes – the City’s seats are now Tories 18, Labour 9 and Liberal Democrats 9, so the Tories lose control of the city, still far too many people voting for the Con-Dems!

So the Royal Bank of Scotland has paid back £163bn emergency loans from UK and US taxpayers. So the UK government has received £111.6bn. Also Lloyds has also said it will have repaid all its emergency borrowing from UK taxpayers by the end of the year.

Added together that makes almost £270bn, so if we can find the money for the banks why can’t we find the money to do something better than give it to bankers?