It seems like the World has gone crazy when a Human Rights Director has to resign from his position of 10 years due to a report that details human rights abuses in Palestine. Seems someone has got very sensitive about saying the Palestinians have a right to return to the areas that they were forced to leave.
What happened to the Human Right to Live and let Live? I think some of these Human Rights people spend too much time in Committee meetings.
One day a long time ago , I saw an article about Sky Diving, and I seriously thought , why not? Then more seriously I thought, what a way to go and decided against it.
Thanks to Seb Cheer of BBC News Online for the Headline
Salmon is expensive and it doesn’t go on trees, you can buy it from any supermarket and it usually says the Country of Origin, although sometimes it says of EU Origin, or it is packed in the UK and to be truthful North Atlantic Prawns could be from the Bering Sea and the Trawler had widened it’s trawl area to ensure a successful catch. They might be artic prawns because really without googling would you have known where the Bering see is? You do?Well clever ol’ you!
I was once in Waitrose and someone asked where the Bering sea was , I’m sure the chap said , oh yes they’re from North of the North Atlantic. Anyway I bet Artic prawns are juicier.
However if you say it’s Scottish then it better be” “Scottish”, definitely not Norwegian as the men who represented themselves as “Purveyors” of Scottish Salmon got into trouble with the Law and their main customer Aldi stopped using them and they went bankrupt and still have to appear in court. Hence the Headline News.
I don’t buy salmon, well maybe tinned salmon at Christmas ( heaven knows where that comes from), but I love those crunch sock-eye bones that almost melt in your mouth , a full on calcium crunch capable of stopping osteoperosis in it’s tracks. The bone crunching makes me feel like I’m Queen of the Jungle and once you’ve mixed it in a bowl with mayonnaise and plenty of black pepper even if there was the odd bit of sea lice in it you wouldn’t notice. Extra protein.
In truth it’s really Salmon farms that bother me, the pictures of sea lice on the farmed Salmon’s gills and the fact that they can’t swim half way around the World like a proper Salmon just puts me off. So although I buy a lot of fresh fruit and veg from Aldi( great if you use it up quickly ), I have never bought their cuts of fresh salmon , largely because of the pictures of sea lice. So smugly I can look at the other shoppers and think.
“Not me(we’ll forget about the tinned salmon)” and smile at them as I think to myself “Hhhmmn it might be from Norway. Have you seen those internet pictures.”
Still once this Headline spreads I bet the “Scottish Salmon” sales in Aldi dive, and my harmless thoughts about Sea Lice will pale into insignificance as people will have made their own minds up. The damage is done.
Thanks to Brittany Miller of the Independent Bulletin Online.
A brand of frozen fruit juice ” Minute Maid ” which was first introduced in 1946 is being discontinued, consumers will no longer be able to purchase it as Coca- Cola, the owner now of “Minute Maid”, has decided due to declining sales and competition from other drink products that they will stop producing it.
I’m sad to see that name Coca-Cola, as it seems to be a pattern with them to close down businesses that consumers are fond of. In the UK , there was a chain of Coffee Shops called Costa Coffee, and they used to be very good. Now due to lack of investment and poor management since Coca-Cola took them over in 2019 they certainly don’t seem as popular and of good quality as they used to be. I suspect they will go the same way as “Minute Maid”. It’s just another erosion of choice.
Thanks to CNN World News and Jomana Karadsheh and Nadeen Ebrahim for the Headline
I just find it extremely frustrating that Big Government’s like Iran feel the need to imprison people who speak out against them.
Narges Mohammadi represents freedom of speech and the human rights of people all over the World. She is one clear voice and now she feels her only option is to starve herself to death because it is her only option to be heard.
I worry that the conditions that she and other political prisoners are being detained in are appalling, does she feel now she has no option as she is being so badly treated?
Big Government is a bullying Government.
A viscious bully who cannot stand any criticism or anyone having a different thought or opinion from them. By their very nature they cannot rationalise their standpoint so they have to shut down anyone who disagrees .
They are authoritarian but weak minded, in this case hiding behind religious doctrine which over many centuries and it seems today has been used by bullies to subjugate others who wish to live their lives in Peace and Harmony.
I wish Narges Mohammadi well and hope that she is allowed to live and thrive, it is I fear a forlorn hope.
Yes, I remember this prompt from last year and for me the answer will always be Sir Tim Berners- Lee who invented what we now know today as the Internet .He has continued to promote his original thought ,the Internet’s role is to improve communication of ideas.
Unfortunately , it also enabled the worse aspects of the human psyche to have access to an audience. This has had some tragic consequences and the Law has intervened in trying to control the Dantes Inferno of content. The lesson is perhaps that it is uncontrollable and that every individual has a responsibility to look and learn and be tolerant and respect each other. Only we can do that , outside forces cannot.
Thanks to BBC Online News and Maia Davies for the Headline.
Aw it’s gone now, painted over in white by the man who originally did the restoration. It attracted hordes of people into the Chapel of the Basilica of St Lawrence in Lucina, unfortunately for purely secular reasons and not to practice their religious beliefs.
The fresco itself was fairly modern,and it’s retouching lead to it having an almost photographic resemblance to the Italian PM Giorgia Meloni in full angel mode. Bless the Italian PM , she found it very amusing and quipped that she was “no angel”
Of course the chap who did the “retouching” denied it was deliberate and persisted in his story that the resemblance was just a coincidence. The Cardinal in charge and the Church Hierarchy thought differently and more or less said that it was bringing the Church unwanted attention. So it is gone.
As usual for such an expansive prompt, I resort to a definition of Ideal.
“Existing only in the imagination; desirable or perfect but not likely to become a reality .”
How hard is that? Your ideal day is about as likely as winning the lottery, but perhaps that is just as well. We: if lucky enough to have a choice ,have many days to fill and we aren’t always so self aware as to make good use of them or perhaps because of others’ demands we do things for either money or necessity.
That’s life and it’s not ideal, nevertheless it can be interesting or fun, so let’s not get too much in a tizz about it.
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