A Michael Broad Blog
Thought of the day! We all know that President Trump, God bless him, loves a deal. He has reduced politics to deal making. Everything is transactional. Forget the ethics and morality. Just make a fast buck. So much better from Trump’s perspective. He keeps disseminating mistruths about the amount of aid that the US …
Note: Rare earth minerals are deposits of ore that contain rare earth elements, which are used in many high-tech applications. Trump’s insistence on linking past U.S. aid to Ukraine to future mineral access is not legally enforceable. Zelensky is perfectly entitled to reject Trump’s demand for ‘consideration’ for the gift of billions of dollars in …
I am afraid the world has turned a corner and we are facing a huge amount of uncertainty as three megalomaniacs are currently running it: Putin, Trump and Musk. Ethics and morality do not factor in his thinking process. It is all about the deal, power and holding the cards for leverage in deal …
Below the infographic there is some useful information 😊😉 on alternatives to buying cashmere which I know is very popular as people love its softness. Is there an alternative that is as soft as cashmere? See below…. Why cashmere production is a form of animal abuse. Infographic. by Michael Broad Yes! There are several …
This article is indirectly about cats as they need their caregivers to be healthier enough to discharge their duties towards them 🙏😉😻. Like many other British institutions, the NHS is somewhat broken. It feels like the country is in a funk, a malaise of soggy work practices and a lack of self-discipline and desire …
It perhaps goes without saying but I like to say obvious things anyway as a reminder, in this instance, that there is an inherent power imbalance between cat and human. It creates inequality. Equality between humans is fundamental to human society. From this inherent power imbalance many negatives flow. It will always subsist. The …
Of course this site is fundamentally about cats but everything we do that affects us also affects our cat companions as we wholly create their world. That’s the overlap and it justifies me briefly touching on AI and how it is ‘dismantling our world’ according to Laurie Anderson, a US avant-garde artist and musician. …
I see a commonality between Netanyahu and Putin in their desire to annex adjacent sovereign lands. They are both destroying the infrastructure of adjacent sovereign states with the intention of annexing them; taking control over them. There is a very noticeable similarity here. Netanyahu says that IDF have to destroy large swathes of Gaza …
