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.
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.
Thanks to Nottingham City Council taking a Company called H35 (Housing Plus 35) to Court to ensure that they comply with the essential safety and management standards required for running housing for multi-occupational (HMO) properties of which H35 run about 70 in the local area, HMO properties nationally will now have to comply to the Housing Standards rules.
It was Nottingham and their Safer Housing Team that took the lead on this and it will now apply Nationally , that any company running a multi- occupational housing network must comply to Housing standards that keep people safe and able to live in suitable conditions.
The said Company, H35 claimed that their Company only needs to comply with the Financial Conduct Authority being a mutual benefit cooperative society and thus fulfilling it’s statutory housing requirements by being registered with the FCA.
How the Law let H35 hide behind this ridiculous claim that the FCA would know or care about their standard of housing is beyond belief seeing as the Council fined H35 nearly £30,000 for breaches and the Council had to appeal to establish the argument that H35 needed to comply with statutory Housing Regulations . They won the case and I believe that people will be safer and better housed because of it. Well done Nottingham!
You can choose your friends but you can’t choose your relatives. Poor little Tulip, still as Sir Keir Starmer PM and ex Director of Prosecutions has said that the court cases are not valid as Tulip has not been given any opportunity to review the charges against her or indeed be represented in the Bangladeshi Court and let’s face it Sir Keir must know a thing or two about the Law.
What really interests me about this debacle is that the ex Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina (Tulip’s Aunt) attacked for many years the founder of the Grameen Bank, Professor Muhammad Yunus after he fell out of favour with her for considering forming his own political party in Bangladesh. She accused him of corruption and nuturing poverty not solving it, her main target being the Grameen Bank.
The Grameen Bank enabled the “poor” mainly women to borrow small amounts of money to start businesses and work their way out of poverty in Bangladesh. It is a model that was taken up by many other countries and eventually won Professor Yunus the “Nobel Peace Prize”. My impression is that the Grameen Bank is a success and that Sheikh Hasina’s attacks on it were vindictive, apparently she is another Politician that believes she should have been awarded the ” Nobel Peace Prize”. I really feel sorry for the Norwegians having to put up with these gainsayers.
In reality it was very much tit for tat and after the resignation of Sheikh Hasina, Professor Yunus was appointed the” Chief Adviser of Bangladesh” and since 2024, has been part of the interim Government .
Professor Yunus has put in place many improvements such as improving communications and introducing a digital legal aid system which enables those on a low income to take legal address without having to incur large fees. Yes Professor Yunus knows a thing or two about the Law too and seems not very interested in buying up real estate.
This headline caught my eye as I have recently read an omnibus of HG Well’s fiction and was fascinated to find out he was a biologist by training. His writing was influenced by his knowledge of science, in the Island of Dr Moreau, vivisection is described and for a student in the late 1800’s it is fascinating that he should take on the mantle of someone who thought that this was unnecessary and cruel.
So it is with interest that I read that this trillionaire combo of Chan and Zuckerberg wish to cure or prevent all disease as their main philanthropic goal using AI technology. They’ve made their experts in Education and Social Justice redundant and will be recruiting new experts in Biology.They wish to go all in on AI-powered biology for their future philanthropy of which they intend to spend 99% of their future earning power.
In truth curing all disease and preventing anymore disease seems a pretty dystopian goal to me. We are cellular beings and cells misbehave and by natures path there will always be an adaption or perhaps an error that will produce perhaps something unwanted. That is life . In the same way that Chan and Zuckerberg have a goal, nature has a goal too and it isn’t always what humans want.
I hope you are enjoying my thoughts on the various Headlines I come across in my everyday online life. It’s may way of releasing steam when I see something that I find irritating, frustrating, educational or indeed something to celebrate as being of value. In other words put my ” reactivity ” to good use.
As you may have noticed despite the abundance of stories about the 3million e.mails and redacted photographs that have been released from across the pond I have not chosen to write about them.
This in itself has been therapeutic. I feel if I did I would be swimming in ordure, it is a story way beyond tragic, showing the worst of human behaviour and how false all this billionaire,millionaire love is . Let’s face it they were all pretty unhappy people who increased the world’s unhappiness and did those they wanted to control a lot of harm.
Anyway it’s something I will stay clear of and will continue to look for Headlines that interest me and I hope you find them of interest too.
Thanks to BBC News Online from Jersey for the Headline
The dog population in Jersey has increased by 25 % in the last ten years. So with such a significant increase it was thought that it would be good to help children in a classroom environment understand a little about dog behaviour so both them and the dogs would be safe.
I think this is an excellent idea and one of the exercises they do is to show the children photographs of the faces of dogs at the beginning of the class showing various dog behaviours such as teeth baring, smiling ( yes dogs can smile), resting, yawning and curiousness and ask them to say whether the dog is friendly or not.
At the end of the lesson , they are shown the photographs again and there is a noticeable improvement of their recognition of warning signs and understanding dog behaviour.Such a good approach .
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.
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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