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With all that’s going on in America at the moment I am relieved that the Law has been able to stand up and say that in the case of Luigi Mangione that the Federal Case does not warrant the “Death Penalty”.
Mainly because I’m totally against the “Death Penalty” as too many mistakes have been made by Governments who use it as the ultimate punishment.
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Thanks to Craig Buchan from BBC News Online for the Headline
Sad to say at Westminster Magistrates’ Court six border officials – from Berkshire, Kent, Surrey and London have been charged with thefts of property from migrants arriving at Dover between August 2021 and November 2022. They have been bailed ahead of a further hearing at Southwark Crown Court on 26th February 2025
The case follows work done by the Home Office Anti-Corruption Investigators.
Shocked? I was. Not something that has a high profile in the News, didn’t even know that the Home Office had a department of Anti- Corruption Investigators. Are they still getting funding?
AI generated image of a case in a magistrates court.
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Thanks to Angela Rafferty and Heather Burman from BBC Online News for the Headline
Beechings cuts of the 1960’s of local railway lines and stations in the British Isles has had a devastating effect both on the environment and the way of life of British towns and villages.
There is a little light being made in a very dark tunnel where a local Labour MP Amanda Hack is looking for funding to restore what is called ” The Ivanhoe Line” which connects Liecester and Burton-upon-Trent through North West Leicerstershire and South Derbyshire.
There is an existing line to carry freight , so a passenger line would make a lot of sense reducing congestion on the roads and buses.
The money was made available by the previous Conservative Government, but due to so called savings that the new Labour Government wanted to make the improvements were cancelled. This is so short sighted it is painful. There is an opportunity to do a small right to the big wrongs of Beeching, this is absolutely a no brainer. The money could be funded by HS2 as they have housing stock which once the work on the high speed train is finished the houses will be sold. Why not for the “Ivanhoe line”?
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This has been a tragedy of unfathomable magnitude for Rhiannon Skye Whyte’s family. They have been dignified and have not resorted to taunts and cries that asylum seekers are all potential criminals. They have said that the man who killed Rhiannon was basically pure evil and from the photograph and the actions of the murderer I think they are right and no one can know why the man developed that way or if he will ever or should be ever be released.
Leave it to the politicians in the form of Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philip to say ” Crimes like this are the consequence of mass illegal immigration”. Absolutely not Mr Philip and I don’t think you will find any experts in criminal behaviour that would agree with you.
This crime is a consequence of not following up on warning signs that were present. The murderer had shown behaviour that was a concern, intimidating the women in the hotel facility he was staying and where the women were working. That, with the combination of Somali being a war torn Country where atrocities of unimaginable cruelty have occurred, then there should have been more care taken to see if the man was a danger to others. Investing time and effort into assessing his backround and state of mind.
That to me is the tragedy, it’s almost like a lack of interest by those who should know better and who should have taken more action. The warning signs were there. The man needed more than a hotel room.
The article featured a very scary photograph of the man, and I wonder if the article was geared to getting a knee jerk reaction to asylum seekers, hotel accommodation being used for asylum seekers and immigration in general.
When in reality it was about the murder of an innocent woman who wasn’t given adequate protection from an evil force that despite the warning signs was allowed to carry out this despicable act.
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I’m most scared to do algorithms, am I right? I don’t know. To be a computer programme generating all this stuff, sending out the same questions once a year , just to fill time. Not really caring what the answers are, but building a database of information to be regurgitated in a nano-second to help users with their website. What would it take me to do it , probably money, it wouldn’t be love that’s for sure. That’s not to say algorithms aren’t lovable. I suppose one day they will be.
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There is a Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage known as the Vienna Convention, which the African Country Burkina Faso’s transitional assembly has voted to sign.
This paves the way for Burkina Faso’s first Nuclear Power Plant which is being supplied by Russia. This will give energy security and boost energy capacity for the Country.
It’s important to know that this is one of 20 nuclear energy partnerships that the Russians have signed across the African Continent to date. Africa, clearly doesn’t that think the fossil fuel route is a good one.
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Bruce Springsteen has written a very effective protest song.
” Streets of Minneapolis“
He will galvanise a lot of the American’s who thought that Trump and his cohorts were their saviours. Bruce has been blunt and named names and said that as the United States is a democracy there is no King of America .
Trump cannot touch Bruce, because Bruce is the American dream life lived with integrity and talent. For him to be so forthright is just what was needed. Bruce couldn’t save lives , but he can change lives and he has done what he knows best ,written a song to make everyone think. I think it will work.
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I like to complain about expert complainers, the ones who outdo everyone when it comes to life giving them a hard time. Move on , honestly , there is nothing you can do to make it better and I’m a tiny bit suspicious that they like to bathe in their misery and why waste time listening when it will always be the same conclusion. “No one can help me”.
You all know they exist and how you deal with them is up to you. Yes understand their situation and empathise with them then tell them you have an appointment you can’t miss ,tell them you’ll ring them later. Whether you do or don’t is irrelevant. The more times people don’t ring back the more likely they will get themselves out of their own self-made fug. There’s no guarantee, but then what in life is guaranteed, even doom and gloom.
This donkey is actually a very happy donkey, he has lots of grass to eat and an nice barn to sleep in. He just looks sad.
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Thanks to Lila Vanorio and Aljazeera for the Headline.
Venezuela’s oil has become a free for all now with the support of their parliament. Overnight with Maduro’s departure, the reforms that Hugo Chavez put in place to Nationalise the Oil Industry under the state-owned oil Company PDVSA in 2006 have been thrown to the wind with the backing of a £500billion energy agreement from the United States. “Stop Oil” protesters eat your heart out.
I often wonder about the practicality of these things , but the main drivers to achieve a more open oil industry is allowing external private companies to purchase interests in Venezuelan Oil projects, permit the opening of bank accounts in any currency and jurisdiction ( profits will go back to investing country ) and while stating that PDVSA still will maintain a majority stake in joint ventures , but allow minority partners to exercise technical and operational management( does the Venezuelan Government feel they lack the technical know how of the likes of Red Adair the famous Texas Oil Driller).
I’ve probably oversimplified the situation, but Delcy and Donald seem to have come to an agreement and everyone has forgotten about the kidnapping of Maduro. Nice to know that one of the main concerns of the major American Oil Companies has been addressed , in that there will be Arbitration and Legal redress for businesses working in Venezuela, this follows the disaster where the American Oil Companies were thrown out in 2006,their fingers were burnt and they do not want that to happen again.
Already the oil revenues have increased for Venezuela which is going to help their economy, the bill still needs to go through a second reading . Does the World want or need Venezuelan Oil? We will have to wait and see, there are Hydrocarbon agreements in place Internationally .Can we really afford to live with this and what impact is this going to have on the environment in Venezuela or indeed the World? A powerful headline indeed with lots of food for thought.
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I like to think I’m a good sport and will occasionally watch something purely for entertainment purposes. Though as I am an observer of human nature, it pains me when I see behaviour which isn’t very sporting. Sport is all now so monetised, the stakes are so high, that it seems anything goes, and we have lost the point of Sport . So I turn to Shakespeare who knew a thing or two and probably watched the odd game of Tennis as it features in his plays.
“If all the year were playing holidays. To sport would be as tedious as to work” Henry IV Part 1(Act 1 Scene 2
As to me playing sport nowadays. I shall again refer to Shakespeare ” But I , that am not shaped for sportive tricks”. Richard III (Act 1 Scene 1)
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