Worst Company In Britain 2009

@ bitterwallet.com

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100 top global brands

@ interbrand.com

The most recognisable brands in the world.

Coca cola, IBM, Microsoft, GEC, Nokia, McDonalds, Google, Toyota, intel, Disney, Hewlitt Packard, Mercedes, Gillette, Cisco, BMW, Louis Vitton, Marlboro, Honda, ...

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War on Terror, the board game

waronterrortheboardgame.com

"It's got suicide bombers, political kidnaps and intercontinental war. It's got filthy propaganda, rampant paranoia and secret treaties and the Axis of Evil is a spinner in the middle of the board.
Buy the War on Terror now! War on Terror, the boardgame in all it's finery.

You can fight terrorism, you can fund terrorism, you can even be the terrorists. The only thing that matters is global domination - err, liberation."

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Stop unwanted phone calls & junk mail

How to stop unwanted telephone calls
Under Government regulation it is illegal for companies to call any individual who has indicated they don’t want the calls. It takes about 28 days after registering for all to be stopped.

To Register:
Web: www.tpsonline.org.uk.
Phone: 0845 070 0707 (national rate number).

If you are being plagued by competition calls however, sometimes these are just the product of random number generators. The best thing to do is to write the number down and then submit a complaint to www.icstis.org.uk/ to get it blocked.

How to stop unwanted junk mail
The regulations are similar with junk mail, and just as easy to stop.

To Register:
Web: www.mpsonline.org.uk
Phone: 0845 703 4599

How to stop unwanted faxes
The regulations are similar with junk faxes too and just as easy to stop

To Register:
Web: www.fpsonline.org.uk
Phone: 0845 070 0702

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Charity

The Non Profits
http://www.thenonprofits.com/
This site lists lots of charity sites where "you click, the advertisers pay", one of which is The Hunger Site, but there's plenty more good causes.

Tsunami Eartquake Appeal - donate online
http://www.dec.org.uk/
The Disasters Emergency Committee have set up a website where you can donate online to the DEC Tsunami Eartquake Appeal.

Christmas presents
Here you buy a useful gift for someone in the developing world e.g. a fishing net or care for an orphaned child; they get the prezzie and your friend gets a card telling them what’s been done in their name.

Some of the stuff available is:
Buy a pig at worldvision.org.uk
Buy a goat or brood of chickens at oxfamunwrapped.com
Send a cow at: sendacow.org.uk
Adopt anything from an elephant to a dolphin at wwf.org.uk
Adopt a minefield


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Free money

http://www.firstdirect.com

if you open a bank account with First Direct, they will credit £25 to your account (residents of the United Kingdom only).

Update: - you now have to get your wages paid into your account to qualify. Also, if your interested, I can recommend you, so I score too!

first direct is a division of HSBC Bank plc.

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