Home is meant to be the safest place in the world. Yet for too many, it is the most dangerous. Beliefs that men own women, can tell them what to do, and then punish them for infractions are widely held. In South Africa a study found 70 per cent of men believed a woman shouldContinue reading “Femicide stil a big problem in Europe and the rest of the world”
Tag Archives: 2023
2024 Wildfire dangers
Wildfire dangers have already reached extreme levels across the Mediterranean according to the Copernicus Emergency Management Service, as several countries, including Spain, Portugal and Greece brace for another brutal summer. The European Union has ramped up preparations, “strategically prepositioning” a new team of 556 firefighters from 12 counties across high-risk areas this summer, backed byContinue reading “2024 Wildfire dangers”
Kenya, Haiti, Summerfestivals, infections and countries in conflict
Northern Kenya’s Chalbi desert covered in flood water CREDIT: Heathcliff O’Malley Kenya’s rainy season started with a vengeance in early March: the country has been devastated by flooding the likes of which have not been seen in decades. The rainfall has been near constant, bursting river banks, destroying crops and even making a vast lakeContinue reading “Kenya, Haiti, Summerfestivals, infections and countries in conflict”
Question of Irish unification still going on
Review of 2023 (continued) 102 years after six counties in Ulster were partitioned and a quarter of a century since the Good Friday Agreement ended The Troubles there is not yet peace in sight. The Republic of Ireland’s economy is booming while the North grapples with the aftershocks of Brexit and two historic electoral triumphsContinue reading “Question of Irish unification still going on”
Families are eating less healthily
Now that people no longer work from home after the Covid pandemic, it is noticeable that many have to stay at work for landier hours but also spend much longer in traffic jams, getting home later and not much appetite for cooking anymore.
British in 2023 found out that Brexit is not working
Politicians in Britain may not like it, but many British have now seen how their politicians had told many lies and triggered them in the Brexit. A recent poll says now, that most Brits want to return to the EU.
Not to early for starting campaigning
Early in the year of the rabbit, there was the man who likes running in the front and getting all the attention. On Tuesday, January 17, it was announced that the former president would hold a rally in South Carolina on Jan. 28 in his first public appearance since announcing his candidacy for the 2024Continue reading “Not to early for starting campaigning”
From the start of 2023 truly brutal storms
Looking back at 2023, the year of the rabbit, we cannot see the entire globe in addition to the many storms and floods. North America was allowed to kick off with “a truly brutal” storm system that needed to be taken very seriously. At the beginning of January Northern California was having to see oneContinue reading “From the start of 2023 truly brutal storms”
Essential reads concerning our earth, for the first half of October 2023
Essential reads ‘Gobsmackingly bananas’: scientists stunned by planet’s record September heat Global temperatures soared to a new record in September by a huge margin, stunning scientists and leading one to describe it as “absolutely gobsmackingly bananas”. The hottest September on record follows the hottest August and hottest July, with the latter being the hottest monthContinue reading “Essential reads concerning our earth, for the first half of October 2023”
Say Hello to 2023, Wave Goodbye to 2022
So, we’ve finally reached the end of 2022 and we can honestly say that it didn’t come soon enough. The past 12 months has been one of the most newsworthy in quite some time as it often felt that there was never a dull moment and most of it wasn’t for good reasons either.Continue reading “Say Hello to 2023, Wave Goodbye to 2022”
Some View on the World 