Mikeatmainbeach

 If you're anything like me you would never even have heard of  Sain-Paul-lez-Durance in Provence, France, where a community of thirty five countries have combined their scientific knowledge in an experiment to master nuclear fusion and are building a reactor known as ITER International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor. The World has been trying to master nuclear fusion since the 1930's. Something that occurs naturally in the sun but is difficult to replicate on Earth. They, the scientists, say fusion promises to supply a limitless form of energy that would do away with fossil fuels that are proven to be causing so much damage to our climate around the world and with no radioactive waste unlike nuclear power used today. This could be the saving of us all from the dreaded climate change which is happening rapidly today. And as 80% of all energy we consume is derived from fossil fuels something indeed has to change. It is said one gram of fuel created by this method is the equ...

I'm sure the families of those killed were NOT impressed....!!!!!! A makeshift memorial has been erected outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Picture: Chandan Khanna/AFP NRA Hosts Banned Guns Giveaway Highlighting Weapon Used by Shooter (businessinsider.com) “NRA is giving away 12 world-class guns that Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi want to ban,” the giveaway read. In addition, the ad also stated that each gun from the 12-gun raffle also came with 1000 rounds of ammunition While the giveaway was active on May 28, the website states it’s currently “temporarily closed”. Despite this, members can still enter by mail. https://www.businessinsider.com/nra-hosts-banned-guns-giveaway-highlighting-weapon-used-by-shooter-2022-5 NRA Hosts Banned Guns Giveaway Highlighting Weapon Used by Shooter (businessinsider.com)

 Megalomaniac: A person who has an obsessive desire for power..  With so much happening in the world Ukraine is slipping off the news! Three months in and Russians short range ballistic missiles, multiple rocket systems, heavy artillery and tanks continually pound eastern Ukraine.  Russia is now sending a horrifying rain of thermite incendiary rockets. (As shown in enclosed video clip) Thermite burns at 3,000C through metal. Ukraine's troops are facing some of the most savage, barbarous weapons ever devised. (3812) 9M22C Magnesium alloy clustered charges fired on Azovstal - YouTube The ongoing war is affecting world food supplies as Ukraine is one of the world's largest exporters of sunflower oil, corn and wheat. Russia is accused of genocide but shows no intention of stopping it's bombardment. Also it is depopulating parts of Ukraine and forcibly sending many thousands of people to remote economically depressed parts of Russia thousands of miles from their homes without ...

Another gun massacre in the U.S. 213 mass shootings so far this year and we're only 21 weeks into the  year. Averaging out to about ten a week! This time nineteen young, innocent, lives lost plus two teachers that tried to protect their young pupils. 693 mass shootings in 2021...the year before saw 611 and 2019 417. Are they all crazy as some seem to say? Doubt it. Many seemed well planned and thought out. Just seems far too easy to purchase a gun! I can understand owning a single shot gun...if you have to that is...but why a rapid firing gun shooting multiple bullets? What's the purpose? Even hunting...nothing requires that many shots to hit anything moving surely. Either that or you have to be a very bad shot and maybe shouldn't be owning a gun in the first place. As an outsider looking in it just seems mind boggingly strange that people want to kill each other so easily. Why do so many Americans want to kill each other? Something seems very very wrong somewhere...surely!...

 The following may not be a great deal of interest to anyone outside of Australia but it makes quite interesting reading and something I have been following for a while now so have many others : One very good outcome from the recent election here in Australia is a well publicised problem the previous government had regarding two people from war torn Sri Lanka. Priya and Nades came to Australia legally and separately in 2012 and 2013 and lodged claims for asylum under international laws that give us all the right to seek safety from persecution.  It is legal to seek safety from persecution, no matter how you arrive. Sri Lanka was a very dangerous place for Tamil people. Priya and Nades are Tamil.  Australia is signatory to the Refugee Convention Act which states people who come seeking safety without first seeking permission ( a visa) cannot be punished.  They abided by the conditions of their bridging visas, obeyed Australia's laws, worked and paid taxes and contribu...

                                                                                                      Australia has a new Prime Minister Ending nine years of conservative rule Anthony Albanese has led the Labor Party to victory in the national election in Australia. Whatever your thoughts on yesterdays election it proves one thing that in Australia an egalitarian country like ours can elect a Prime Minister raised in public housing as a child, from a working class background, by a single mother on a disability pension. No private school upbringing or rich surroundings but public housing...or as I would call it where I grew up on the other side of the world, a council house...or council flat, as in my case. For I was also raised in ...

 Have you ever been to an auction...an art auction? I have never been fortunate enough to actually be in that position or in other words rich enough to be able to bid at an art auction. I would love to as I just adore art; any art come to that. To own a famous picture painted by a great artist must be such a grand and wondrous feeling. I would just sit and look at it for hours...days! I was on Instagram this morning and it was Sothebys New York. A live cross to an auction in real time and it was indeed fascinating. I knew none of the artists. There were no famous names I had heard of but guess that's not really surprising as the majority of us would not know many of the collectable artists known and sought after. I was surprised watching this live auction just how much money is floating around that must be surplus to requirements for so many to be able to buy art. Paying 6.. 7.. 9 million dollars for a painting to display on a wall of a home. I can just imagine what the actual hous...