BE ALARMED - 'Friendly National Socialism'...?

March 2024 resulted in 10 months in a row, of record heat

The above sentence has headed my ‘list of notes’ for over a month. I am not wanting to scaremonger, I do want to share news items which I find, feel important, but fear are not heard, or are ignored by people.

copernicus

Britain has selfishly chosen to leave the EU, but international, global, and scientific facts will ALWAYS EXIST, affecting everyone! Copernicus describes itself… 

'EUROPE'S EYES ON EARTH

Looking at our planet and its environment

for the benefit of Europe’s citizens'

https://www.copernicus.eu/en

.… To maintain the increase, following March, the latest

April 2024 was the warmest ‘April’ on record

https://www.copernicus.eu/en/media/image-day-gallery/april-2024-was-warmest-april-record

Regular viewers may recognise a changed layout to this blog. I quickly adapted this, fairly spontaneously, I hope that it is OK. I guess that the ‘page-view count’ will tell me how successful it is!

The sunshine of recent days may be cited as an influence, but honestly it was hearing a Miles Davis track on 6music, further investigation, and contacting my uncle (big Jazz enthusiast),  Miles Davis was added to my collection.

Miles Davis 

https://www.jazzwise.com/features/article/kind-of-blue-how-miles-davis-made-the-greatest-jazz-album-in-history

I have a psychological issue with purchasing music (I always have done so). I refuse to use Spotify, and I really don’t like purchasing off iTunes.

My next addition to my ‘Jazz’ playlist was made this morning on bandcamp.com

John Coltrane

The duet that I heard on 6Music, struck me...

Kind of blue - Davis & Coltrane

Stats

The most recent couple of months have resulted in over a thousand page views. It pleases me a great deal, that it is viewed all around the globe. 

The news I found today, alarmed me!

Be alarmed

Be VERY ALARMED!!

So, we may have thought that at least a couple of generations has passed since the age of German National Socialism, but now they try and get away with it by calling it

‘Friendly National Socialism’? 

This is another step along the world’s very perilous path, which was initiated by such a dangerous, selfish Brexit. We disabled the security of Europe. Now we see the defiant rise of power-hungry, right wing leaders throughout the entire world.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68931170

 

'Alternative'

 I always did consider myself as ‘alternative’ (or slightly different)

Why could I recognise other important issues,  compared with everyone else?

Were they important, or was I fooling myself? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiIDeMWnsGM

Art-rock experimentalists!!

Drahler - Second Rhythm

I purchased this very recently so am not qualified to pass opinion on it too much!

I urge you to withstand the jazz cacophony that the album opens with!

They are a band that are new to me, but have been around, releasing their first album 5 years ago. 

Alternative!

https://drahla.bandcamp.com/album/angeltape

I hate to shatter dreams, but SPORT IS BROKEN. Truthfully, only ‘professional sport’, but then every amateur uses the professional level as a target to aim for. Worshippers copy. 

Problem.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/mar/02/mbappe-absurd-influence-of-footballs-mega-investors

Corruption is possible, everywhere. I admit to being a fan  of professional cycling, therefore I have had my eyes opened since the 1990s. We must be aware, in Britain, as more money is poured into sport, and, primarily football. Athletes are asked to perform more and more at often inhumane levels, all for TV and sponsorship money. Professional sport is a business, less and less a sport.  I warn you, open your eyes, do not be so hurt when truths are exposed. They always exist , even when hidden! 

I am sat in a coffee shop having lunch, next to a group of young students discussing their stress, their problems, their future plans. I remember being similar. I’m so grateful that I have lived that life. I thank my lucky stars that I did not know how my life would end up! I turn forty years old this year! I am just still young enough to claim that it was under half of my life ago, my accident! Under twenty years of disability!

As I sat outside The French Tarte, finishing ‘Hello World by Hannah Fry’, I had the space and time to think deeply. I loved this book, but I was creating a few conclusions, of my own!…

Artificial Intelligence is extremely alarming, 

but

Relax, safe in the knowledge that everything, everyone is unique, and always will be. As long as we exist in space and time, two constantly changing dimensions, ‘copies’ may become very close, but 100% identical clones, are impossible. Nothing could ever copy our reaction when we review ourselves.  As long as humans have free will, identical cloning is an impossibility.

My current fix

 So I open with a strange note that I hope is not past its best, as it still concerns a fresh topic. 

Milk consumption has existed for many, many years, many centuries. The evolution of human consumption styles, must not stop. Recently we were feeling proud at ‘recycling’, by letting milkmen collect our glass milk-bottles for re-use. 

Dairy milk is now vastly purchased at supermarkets, sold in LDPE plastic bottles.  Yes, they are largely recyclable, however the use of the material should still be limited. Whilst the clear, transparent body, can be made of a very lightweight, thin plastic, my main issue is at the top!

Milk bottle lids

Surely these are problematic, dense materials which are difficult to recycle, as many rely on colour to define a milk-type…

Coloured - recycle problems

It is so much more difficult to recycle coloured plastics, than transparent ones.

https://sustainablebrands.com/read/waste-not/the-many-challenges-of-plastic-recycling

The heaviest, most dense part of the bottle, by far, is the lid. 

Why can we not re-use these and save the plastic waste?

___ As many large yogurt pots seem to sell themselves using just a foil lid (encouraging us to re-use lids previously supplied), surely supermarkets can apply the same tactic to milk bottles?

They are all the same size, same thread. However they are usually a translucent colour which renders them useless for recycling. We customers, must be aware of this and ask our supermarkets to act more responsibly!

Hygiene issues?

I thought deeper, and the biggest problem must be to do with ‘Hygiene Issues’, but if  the foil lid is maintained, there should be no difference to the current service provided?

I raised this issue directly in-store with the two large supermarkets in Surbiton. The only response I got was a rejection because of ‘health and safety’!…  

Ah well, I tried (it sounds like an easy ‘get-out’, to me so I post my idea here, online)!

A few weeks ago, the 6Music festival was headlined by The Smile plus live orchestra!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001x8w9

The Smile

More more MORE

Faster faster FASTER

Again again AGAIN...

...We all need to WAKE-UP!

It was whilst I was in a Hydrotherapy session, I was reminded of the case I had promoted during a recent Physiotherapy session,  the need for small-steps. It may sound obvious, but small-steps are such an important, easier task that EVERYONE MUST ADOPT! 

The world is full of people that follow this route. They progress by constantly desiring more, faster, continuously!

This attitude is wrong, and clearly impossible to sustain. It is very difficult to comprehend a way of ‘growth forever’.

Bicycles supplied to all citizens, to end motor vehicles!...

A progressive idea, promoted in South-Western France...

The Mayor of 'Arachon' aims to offer a bike to every citizen. Around 16,000 have been given out since 2013!

https://actu.fr/nouvelle-aquitaine/arcachon_33009/le-maire-d-arcachon-offre-un-velo-par-habitant-je-ne-sais-pas-pourquoi-les-autres-ne-le-font-pas_60800157.html

My current FIX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37EN6J1Yh3Q

Play loud, with Bass UP!! 

(Only when needed)