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Good morning everyone and a very Happy New Year to you all.
2017
has finally arrived and may it be a better year for us all.
New
Agenda on Sunday is a little thinner than usual, but hopefully you
will find something of interest or amusement amongst the pages.
The
"New Years Honours List" contained the usual list of names
reflecting cronyism or rewards for contributions
to political parties and even for duties performed during the
previous 12 months. It has always been a great mystery to me, why
people should receive "honours" for performing duties for
which they are receiving a salary in any case.
At least some
individuals like Ken Loach, Prof
Phil Scraton
and
Lynn Faulds Wood and a few others refused their awards citing the
hypocrisy of the system. In my view the "honours system"
has become debased and
hypocritical and should be scrapped entirely.
Donald
Trump will be inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States
later this month. Perhaps he will show a little more consistency than
he has shown thus far, but already our government and our
"illustrious" leader Theresa May
are frantically scurrying around seeking to get into Trump's good
books.
Polishing
up her Margaret Thatcher impersonation, Theresa May criticises
President Obama and John Kerry as she curry’s favour with Trump.
The full story can be read at
http://new-agenda2012.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/mays-comments-designed-to-curry-favour.html
(Copy and paste link.)
Meanwhile,
back in Jersey, well Guernsey actually but is is not that far away,
the
Guernsey
Dairy
dumped
more
than 6,000 litres of fresh milk down the drain over Christmas after
the local dairy overestimated consumer demand for the holiday season.
A
dairy spokesman said as the milk had been processed into cartons and
had a limited shelf life, it could not be used to make other products
such as cheese or be stored.
Waste
of any description, but particularly food, has always been something
which makes me very angry. There are Food banks all over
mainland
UK
and even in the Channel Islands and I do not believe that it would
have been impossible to find the means of distributing the excess
milk. Perhaps it was cheaper and less trouble to pour it down the
drain.
Work has begun to stabilise the cliff face underneath the Cheval Roc
nursing home at Bonne Nuit Bay following a massive landslide earlier
this year.
Bonne
Nuit Bay. One of Jersey's great treasures of natural beauty. Tonnes
of soil and rock slipped away just metres in front of the home during
a storm on the evening of 9 March.
Weather
cold, wet, mild, sunny and windy. Nothing changes apart from the
number of the year.
(With
apologies for the lack of satire, or wit or even sarcasm. It has been
a heavy Christmas period.)
Have
a nice week.
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