Tag Archives: #HeadlineTherapy

Thanks to AJLabs at Aljazeera Online for the Headline

According to Amnesty International Three-Quarters of the world has abolished the death penalty in law or in practice.

Lebanon has become the first country in the Middle East to abolish the death penalty. On Tuesday , a majority of the 128 member parliament voted in favour of scrapping capital punishment and replacing the death sentence with life imprisonment and aggravated hard labour.

In practice although judges in Lebanon have issued death sentences none have been carried out in Lebanon since 2004.

It is very forward thinking of Lebanon to take this step and it is an example to all of us. Capital Punishment like any form of killing dehumanises us and solves nothing. One mistake is one mistake too many.

The use of the death penalty by countries who still have it was recorded as 2,707 executions in 2025. Iran was responsible for 2,159 of those in 2025. Which is a tragedy as it reflects the civil unrest that happened in Iran, so those who were caught up in the debacle in many cases were summarily executed without a fair trial because they disagreed with the Government.

This is why the Death Penalty should be abolished everywhere it is open to misuse.

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And here’s my You Tube Short on the above Headline. Please click on the link as I haven’t figured out how to embed the video yet.😁 Also I think they did is as a short and I said at the end that ” I am proud of Lebanon”🙏

https://youtu.be/MOVZMxGb6Us?is=xBRCioU8rjBfYDdU

Thanks to Jameson Fink and Food and Wine Online for the Headline

I love my Aeropress and I just can’t believe that the “trendies” and apparently trendy chefs have hijacked the simple design and suggested that you get a better cup of coffee if you basically do the process upside down( at great risk of scalding yourself with hot coffee).

Like the journalist who wrote the article I basically make a strong double espresso and then add hot water to it to make it into a “long black”. I love the suction sound, which the Aeropress makes when you push the plunger down. It’s like you are pressing every ounce of flavour and goodness out of the ground coffee beans.

The tinkerers are wasting their time. Aeropress is perfection personified.

https://youtu.be/M0VZMxGb6Us?is=1_L-FF0ucCt7dmZ8

Thanks to Usaid Siddiqui and Aljazeera for the Headline

The new Syrian Government which has been in place now for about eighteen months have been in talks with Russia and have announced a memorandum of understanding regarding Moscow’s Hmiemim airbase and Tartus naval base.

Syria has taken some Civilian and Commercial Control over both military bases and the consensus is that neither Syria or Russia wish to break relations. Although , as Russia was a major backer of the previous regime and the local Syrian population suffered tremendously during the Civil War, there was significant resentment from the people about the Russian role.

However, the political premise “of there are no permanent enemies , only permanent interests is ensuring that the lines of communication are kept open with the Russians. Russia on their part have invested heavily in Syria , so they wish to keep good relations too.

Russia has helped the current Syrian Government by vetoing at the UN Security Council’s designation of the new Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa as a “terrorist”. Russia also supplies subsidised oil and grain to Syria and has important debt and reconstruction projects with the Syrians.

Putin has welcomed al Sharaa and signalled support for Syria’s territorial Integrity.

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Thanks to Sam Stockard of the Tennessee Lookout Online for the Headline

A death sentence is so final I am convinced that no human has the right to decide the end of another human’s life for criminal offences no matter how heinous. My reasoning is , one mistake is one mistake too many.

To sit in an office , any office and sign a piece of paper which continues with the process of taking the life of another person does not seem right. It seems detached from the reality of the situation.

The lawyers in this case will keep arguing until the end, their reasoning is that the method of execution is barbaric and cruel as the state has not employed a doctor qualified to implement the procedure competently.( I won’t go into details , but a previous attempt with another death row inmate went terribly wrong).

No you can’t detach yourself and sit in an office and sign off on something like this as if signing off building regulations, it’s barbaric to do so.

The death sentence sullies everyone.

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Thanks to Tony Fisher and BBC Online News for the Headline

Thames Valley Police have thanked farmers and residents for the help they provided to prevent a field fire spreading to its stables. Thankfully the actions of those who came to help meant that they didn’t need to evacuate the yard and the horses were kept safe.

The local people arrived with their own machinery to spray the fire and soak the paddocks ,creating a vital fire break. The Fire Brigade followed through and ensured the fires were extinguished. Meanwhile local people had turned up with horse boxes just in case the horses had to be evacuated.

This is really an inspirational story and it’s lovely to hear about everyone helping in what must have been a very terrifying situation for the horses and the people who look after them.

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Thanks to Sertac Aktan and Euronews Online for the Headline

This article covers what is happening in Spain, France and finally Greece with the extreme heat and the lack of rain that has hit Europe over the last couple of months.

Thankfully , the fire in a waste management plant in Spain did not cause any fatalities, but there was an issue with airborne pollution. The Nuclear plants in France are owned and run by EDF. They have fifty seven plants which are all located near rivers to be close to a water supply for cooling the reactor. Three plants have been shut down due to low water levels and to reduce the impact on the local environment.

Finally in Greece, unfortunately wildfires have caused the death of five people over the last two weeks. A senior wildfire meteorologist said that it was “one of the worst fire crises I have seen in the last eight to ten years”. He added that no direct comparison can be made until the end of the “fire season” to establish quantitatively the burnt areas and number of ignitions.

More than twelve thousand hectares of forest and agricultural land have burned over the past week , according to analyses by the European Union’s Copernicnus Earth Observation Programme.

And here’s the rub, the Senior Meteorologist who says that until the results are analysed at the end of the “fire season”, says that though Climate Change may be playing a role, that there is also a significant contribution from”failures in land management”.

Funny all our Media talk about is Climate Change and Windpower, no one ever talks about “failures in land management”.

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Thanks to Holly Rattley and George Sharpe and BBC News Online for the headline.

The Crammers in Devizes in Wiltshire is a famous landmark with a history of smuggling with 16th century ne’er do wells hiding their contraband in the pond which was called the Crammer and claiming that when they were retrieving their ill gained goods by raking the river that they were in fact looking for a cheese that had fallen from the “Moon”. Hence the name the Moonrakers which a pub nearby is called.

I have often passed by that pond driving through Devizes and I didn’t know that story. However the locals are concerned as the Crammer has entirely dried up in the current series of Heatwaves. It has no underground spring, or any tributaries to bring it water and until there is significant rainfall it will not fill again.

Sadly as the Council says, that to ensure that the Crammers does not dry out would take investment and it’s up to the whole town to decide if that is what they want to spend their vital resources on.

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Thanks to Gergana Krasteva and The Independent Bulletin Online for the Headline.

We are in the middle of a heatwave in the UK, and seeing pictures of cars in Argentina buried in immense snow drifts seems surreal.

It took 24 hours to rescue the tourists who had parked at a view point at the Balcon del Pissis viewpoint which is 4,500 metres high. The people and cars were enveloped in a rapid snowstorm and some were forced to sleep in their cars, although there must have been a risk of suffocation because many of the cars were totally buried.

Thankfully, with the help of drone footage, heavy machinery and human rescuers over 200 people were rescued and everyone was brought to safety.

Still it just shows how quickly the weather can change, particularly in remote areas.

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Thanks to Kate Justice and BBC News Online for the Headline.

I love this story as the article has a rather fitting end. The children who collected the rubbish and detritus mainly left by teenagers having a good time by the River where their father has a farm and whose animals are at risk from choking from the rubbish and the wrappers that are strewn across his fields.

Like good children , they helped their dad out and also were puzzled by what people left behind, their shoes for example, how did they walk back home?

However, the farmer had another solution to these people , he sprays the field near the river most affected by the litter mongers regularly with cattle slurry, so that it is less appealing for them to congregate near the river.

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Thanks to Steffen Messenger and BBC News Online for the headline

Hare coursing was banned under the hunting act of 2004 and is therefore illegal.

The Welsh Countryside is being targeted by unscrupulous people , hell bent on gambling on the pursuit of such beautiful creatures as wild “hares” who are part of the environment and the farmers who look after the land do not want to see the hares destroyed, nor do they want their fields,crops , gates and animals damaged in the process of these criminals pursuing their illegal prey.

Thankfully the farmers are using Social Media and have the support of the Police to prevent these people. Personally as it is all about money, when they are caught then it should be about removing their assets, such as cars, animals, houses ,weapons and cash to prevent them hopping into their four by fours and driving down the M4 to a remote Welsh Farm looking for the opportunity to hunt these beautiful animals. They should then be forced to volunteer to clean out kennels for life at a rescue centre for animals.

Perhaps prison wouldn’t help, but a detail of work to repair the damage that these people do to the Countryside would be fitting an in truth the Police should have enough resource to stop them too.

Namaste and Thank You for Reading.🙏