Smaller Brain From Smoking Too Much?

Australian scientists claim to have found a correlation between heavy cannabis smoking and decreased brain size in a recent study. The study was carried out at the University of Melbourne with help from members of the University of Wollongong. The context of the study cited that “Cannabis is the most widely used illicit drug in the developed world… there is a paucity of research examining its long-term effect on the human brain.” With this in mind, researchers set out to discover... Read more »

The Country’s Gone Crazy For Health And Safety

We can all site incidents where various problems have cropped up in society in the name of health and safety. It used to be that there were accidents, an unavoidable blip to life itself, would occur at public events and then the councils brought in health and safety training to combat this problem. And now it has all gone pear shaped and we are left with virtually no public events in the ridiculous name of health and safety regulations. One woman is very unhappy about the implications of breaching... Read more »

The Fate Of The Estate Agent

The estate agent is often castigated as being the low life skimming money from the top of people’s property sales. But in the current property market, it is our sympathy rather than our hatred that should be levelled towards the estate agent. Times are certainly becoming hard; it is estimated that 150 branches are closing a week and that by next year, 4,000 agencies will have gone down the pan. Similarities between the estate agent and the pub landlord have been drawn as both seem to be facing... Read more »

Factors Involved With Immigration To New Zealand

Fundamentally migrants to New Zealand will fall into four distinct categories. Immigration levels to New Zealand seem to be increasing at an unbelievable rate, the immigration service is predominantly categorising these migrants into four sectors, if you happen to fall into one of the categories you may well be living in New Zealand before you thought is was possible. These categories are broadly labelled as ’skilled migrant’, ‘wok to residence’, ‘family member’... Read more »

America Motoring Towards Economic Disaster

America has been motoring towards disaster ever since its economy was structured around the automobile and cheap energy supplies. Now that energy is no longer at all cheap disaster is imminent. Like the airlines, with oil above $125 a barrel, and probably headed much higher as peak oil soon kicks in with a vengeance, the American business and lifestyle model is broken Gasoline prices at $4.00 a gallon have started to force Americans to cut back on their driving. Even middle class families are having... Read more »

Are We Being Priced Off The Road

It’s not so long ago that protests over the rising cost of fuel saw the streets bare after refineries were blockaded in an attempt to make the government listen to the public and reduce the tax burden on us. They say the rising costs are in aid of the environment but very few people believe this to be true any longer. And it looks as though the blockades will be happening again in the near future. Today saw convoys of lorry’s making their way to deliver a petition to number ten Downing... Read more »

Flexibility of Background Check

Privacy means a lot to everybody since there are a lot of things they would to keep on for themselves. However, as one of the universal laws that the nature of things have provided us, there are no secrets which are not opened up to the world. One way or another, you would have to let others know what is going in your life and what your past is. Well, sure you could say that a secret is something you could not tell anyone, especially when it is yours, but there are cases that someone would delve... Read more »

Thousands Dead In Myanmar And China Is A Sign Of The End Times

Mega disasters are a sign of the End Times. Our world has an allotted time and it is almost over. This is the reason why our world is experiencing mega disasters like the cyclone in Myanmar and the quake in China that has lead to hundreds of thousands of people dying. This is also the reason why global warming is a sign of terrible times to come. When our climate warms then the seasons will change and cause devastating weather patterns that will produce earthquakes and tidal waves of all kinds... Read more »

The Credit Crisis Is Fuelled By Fuel Prices

The threat of recession and economic disaster facing many areas of business, its effect on employment and income levels, personal debt and security of homes is solvable. If the root cause is not addressed then the financial crisis can only deepen causing financial misery throughout both the developed world and emerging nations. Earlier this century the world largest economy, the US experienced problems and potentially faced moving into a period of economic recession. The Federal government reacted... Read more »

Investing in a Down Market

All investments depend on making returns, which in turn are affected by macro cycles such as the Great Depression or the dot-com boom. When a market is receding, it makes more sense for long-term, stability-seeking investors to look elsewhere upon first glance. However, in the case of the housing market of many parts of the US, the likelihood of long-term housing depression are still relatively slim. Furthermore, other factors will continue to influence the stability of housing pricing in the short... Read more »