My Life on this planet.

After a long silence, a new vegetarian recipe - this time using an Indian recipe, mixed with my own ideas. Ingredients A can of Punjabi Chatpate Choley Onion Brussels Sprout Almond nuts Herbs Potatoes Rice Preparations This section is short as it is not too difficult to prepare this food, unless you also prepare the Indian part. First, I start cooking the rice (heat a little oil before adding the rice and some dried herbs, mix and finally add water so it can boil until the rice is ready and the water gone). Then, I boil Brussels Sprouts and potatoes. I also fry in a pan small pieces of onions together with almond nuts while using some herbs and salt and pepper according to taste. The cooked Brussels sprout are also added for a short time to the onions to improve their flavour. I empty the can of Punjabi Chatpate Choley into a pot and heat on a mild fire. The main ingredients are curried chick peas in a richly spiced hot sauce. As soon as the sauce is warm, I add the ...

This article in the Guardian describes the harsh life for ordinary people in Raqqa, the capital of the Isis caliphate. It shows that not only people in cities under attack from Isis suffer, but also that ones a city is taken by Isis, life becomes very difficult for most people as Isis fighters are real psychopaths with no intention to improve the life of people but only exist to benefit their own desire to destroy. But also following paragraph in the article does not surprise me (I highlighted in bold the essence): " When warplanes belonging to President Bashar al-Assad killed scores of residents last week , repeatedly targeting heavily populated areas of the city, Isis and its battery of anti-aircraft and missile defences did not fire a single round . The lack of response further enraged Raqqa’s inhabitants towards the extremists , according to witnesses. " Indeed, as I mentioned before, I think Isis and Assad are closer than we may think although of course I hav...

A report published in the UK claims it shows that poor people gamble more than rich, and thus some (all?) conservative people claim the culture of poor people, rather than betting companies, is at fault. It seems about 4-times less people gamble in rich rural areas of southern England compared with northern cities (= poorer region) and with London areas with high levels of unemployment. 1) Gambling The results of the report about gambling , should these numbers surprise? Many years ago, when PM Thatcher was the iron boss, people protested against the closing of mines which were mainly located in the north of England and thus people were showing their anger for loosing their jobs (many people called the strikers lazy and said their protests showed they didn't want to work. But would lazy people protest against loosing a job ?) . The region never fully recovered afterwards and became poor. I can imagine that when people earn only a few hundred pounds or euros a month ...

As could be expected, the party of President Obama, i.e. the Democrats, lost the midterm elections and as the Republicans have now a majority in both Chambers of Congress, they are in effect the ruling party. There are some major players to blame for this shift and I list them in, what I consider, descending order, i.e. the top is what I consider the main factor for the loss. Analysis of midterm elections 1) The politicians of the Democratic Party . Indeed, these politicians have the largest responsibility because they are directly involved in the policy making and thus should have known how difficult it was for their president. Still, many candidates distanced themselves from their president instead of defending his policies and thus they confirmed what the Republicans claimed, i.e. President Obama is a weak politician whose ideas are wrong. Indeed, a number of Democratic politicians were already moving in the direction of the ideas of the Tea Party and after these results proba...

Look at the print screen picture and at the pictures in the article , showing how health workers are dressed to help victims of the Ebola virus. Are health workers normally dressed like this? They are not. Most of them, and certainly those who choose to work in poor countries, do this out of love for other humans and thus are often very social, preferring direct contact with patients (although may wear gloves to tough patients) instead of wearing those protective clothing, certainly in such hot countries. Indeed, workers describe how they have to follow a course to know how to dress , how they struggle to put the clothes on and take them off while they can only work for a short period of time in these clothes because people get very hot inside. Thus, when healthcare workers have to wear such clothing, it indicates something is seriously wrong. Nevertheless, although all healthcare workers wear protective clothing, the best ones are not available for all workers and as a result, althoug...