Climate Disinformation in The Wake of the UN Climate Summit

Because the oil industry is on the back foot now, they are using their obscene wealth to double down on their disinformation PR campaigns globally, to con the gullible into ignoring the blatantly obvious warning signs that we are f*cking up our little spaceship Earth! A friend posted a video from the Youtube channel “Friends of Science” (sic). In it a very “lovely” grandmotherly figure (clearly a cold calculating, cynical, “take the money and run” lying bastard) talks in soothing tones about how Greta and the youngsters (whom she so respects “for standing up for something”) have been misled and how climate change is nothing to do with human activity, but do with natural processes and cycles. Her soothing tones cover...

On Europe, Refugees and the Rise of Inhumanity!

I just read a post in Linked In by Ban Ki Moon – putting the case for a more humane way of viewing the current refugee crisis. It makes sad reading despite its upbeat tone. The only response so far was from some right wing sounding character who only picked up on the supposed increase in sex attacks in Belgium, completely ignoring the Belgian’s own nasty habit of isolating refugee communities within their country. (or is that just my misreading of the muddied reports that come out about refugee life?). It is however depressing to see the countries who most recently joined the EU for their perceived economic benefit are the ones building Trump’s Wall in Europe while our own astonishingly wealthy, but parasitised country virtually washes its hands...

Fiesta on the Camino- Walking with a Hole in the Shoe to Estella

What happens when the pilgrims don’t like to party?  It’s all here on Day 5 of Heather’s walk along the old pilgrim route “The Camino de Santiago”. Hola!. Probably a two-part chapter. 640 km to go and loving every minute.  If you’re not au fait with kms, times by 5/8 to get to miles.  (Sorry, not meant to be an insult.  But do it in your head, never trust a calculator). So what was all that worry, planning, reading about prior to the journey?  How was I going to find the albergues (pilgrim hostels)?  … A flippin’ great sign over the door marked Álbergue, Heather! How will I find food? Bread shop?  Supermarket?  Cafes?  It´s just Spain, not the Atacama desert. What on earth was all that worry and planning about?  I...