Man Turn On De Stove!

Posted by Rosemary Parkinson on BU blog – Is Junk Food Really Cheaper? – reposted because of its relevance

Have just returned from The Bahamas where I delivered a presentation on the future of culinary tourism…so I was very pleased to see all the above comments re food except for alien’s own. Sir or Madam – this is a blog about food not about sexual food but real food, the kind one puts into one’s stomach through the mouth – how black and white sex gets into here is beyond me…but I guess some minds just are able to turn everything into a barrage against whites because of historical facts whether they were good, bad or ugly (and they were all but it is past and these sexual unions have produced a wonderful colourful people of all hues, some who eat healthy food and others that open their mouths and immediately show what their stomachs are filled with so that the brain is never in gear with today’s life but seems to have been left to fry in the dirty oil of history. Whilst we should not forget, we should be happy we are now gorgeous Caribbean people with great soul food, and turn our thoughts positively about that! To each his own sadness I guess.)

Yes! Fast Food is not cheap. Yes! Fast food is unhealthy. This cry has been going out now for a very long time. But the fast food business is booming and will continue to do so because we are a lazy lot. And yes! what we do not realize is that Fast Food is also ‘addictive’. And yes! Fast Food can cause us to spend more with the doctor (they are happy…has anyone seen a poor doctor ’bout hey?).

National Insurance Board Responds To Public Concern

Click to read Press Release Issued by National Insurance Board in response to rising public concern about the management of NIS funds

The Crime Factor ^

Senator Irene Sandiford-Garner

In February 2009 BU posted Rihanna To Turn Spotlight On Domestic Violence  which she suffered from hands of Chris Brown. Although there is the evidence Rihanna has achieved her objective of ‘good girl gone bad’, we agree that when a high profile person adopts a cause it attracts more attention than if the average Joe or Jane did the same. That is the way it is, deal with it!

The recent and unfortunate experience which Senator Irene Sandiford-Gardner had in Warrens car park is another example of a prominent person drawing attention to a situation hopefully for the better. Of course similar acts have been occurring almost on a daily basis but never attract the front page cover which the Senator got on Friday. BU of course joins with the many Barbadians who wish the Senator well and a speedy recovery.

For months the public has become very concerned about the prevalence of crime in Barbados. The concern has heightened in recent weeks.  Public concern has not* been quelled by the politically correct statements issued by Attorney General Adriel Brathwaite or Commissioner of Police  Darwin Dottin. It is understandable the response by officials is to issue statements which will promote calm. However there is a point when the reality of any situation must be confronted with a view to formulating an action plan; we have reached that point. While it is the job of the Police to serve and protect, it is the job of all of us to make the job of the Police that much easier.

Is Junk Food Really Cheaper?

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It’s a common notion that part of the reason why so many people are overweight and obese and saddled with diet-related chronic diseases like heart disease and type 2 diabetes is because they simply can’t afford to eat healthy. But are healthy foods really more expensive than their junk food counterparts?

An interesting opinion piece in the New York Times, by columnist Mark Bittman, argues that you can actually feed your family home-cooked meals for less than it costs to go to McDonald’s. Most people can, in fact, afford real food, Bittman argues. Which means, of course, that money alone doesn’t guide decisions about what to eat. In fact, the convenience, pervasive presence, and the addictive nature of processed food may be far more important factors.

Is Junk Food Really Cheap?

Most families nowadays are juggling not only tight schedules but also tight budgets, and when it comes time for dinner, a $1 hamburger from a fast-food “value menu” may seem like a frugal option. You have the U.S. government to thank for that $1 hamburger, as U.S. food subsidies are grossly skewed, creating a diet excessively high in grains, sugars, and factory-farmed meats. So there is some truth to the idea that junk foods can be cheap.

Biggest Lies Ever Told By Politician And Christians (2) – The Significance of Occupy Wall Street and Everywhere

Submitted by Pachamama

For more than forty years some of us have been predicting the end of capitalism and its trappings of ‘democracy’ as represented in their latest manifestations within the Anglo-American Empire. The Athenian project, though originally well-intentioned, has degenerated into a pappy show, a trick, a mirage, an hypocrisy. Its twin brother capitalism was always destined to collapse under the enormous pressures of internal contradictions and lies. There is little doubt that in order for us to survive as a species, capitalism must die. What is unknown at this time however, is what should replace capitalism. And this is where Barbados is being ill-served by its ‘so-called brains’ in academia and the scholarship ‘winners’ who have been accepting money from the central government under false pretenses for too many decades.

Political democracy in Barbados is little more than a plutocratic dictatorship where the major parties play musical chairs with the population. The Barbadian political and academic elites seem incapable of fashioning an alternative or even removing the vestiges from the colonial ‘epoch’, as a necessary but insufficient pre-condition for a new paradigm. In the United States of America, Barbados and most other countries in Europe economic democracy is currently almost always limited to the rapacious printing of money that even ignores the rationalization by binary economics. It is the equivalent of printing currency that was one of the central causes for the collapse of the Roman Empire and that has the modern representation of Empire tottering right now. This hegemon has been skilful in erecting the window dressing of democracy all over the world but has NEVER had any real interest in democracy itself, cannot be properly defined as a democracy in political science terms and is working day and night to scuttle any semblance of popular democracy in the MENA (middle-east and North African) countries. At home it is already resorting to subterfuge in relation to the major existential challenge of the ‘Occupy’ movement that is making a persuasive and legitimate case for FUNDAMENTAL economic and political change.

Several Barbados Government Websites Hacked

It appears that several government websites have been hacked. Of interest is the NIS website which has been the subject of robust discussion in recent days – http://www.bginis.gov.bb/, http://www.lawcourts.gov.bb/, http://www.barbadospolice.gov.bb/images/, http://www.zone-h.org/archive/notifier=Xrapt0r, http://bao.gov.bb/

Owen Arthur Calls The PAC To Order To Investigate Malfeasance By Government Over The Marina Project

Senator Darcy Boyce (l) Opposition Leader Owen Arthur (r)

It has become patently obvious to the BU household that politicians in Barbados are members of a fraternity who will defend their ‘club’ even at the expense of the national interest. The two political parties have been latched on to a good thing for the last 30 years. Each party gets a chance to enjoy the ‘sweets’ compliments of the taxpayers.

The Barbados Labour Party (BLP) promised to introduce integrity legislation in 1976, the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) opposed it. The Democratic Labour Party promised integrity legislation in 100 days of assuming office in 2008, it is now over 1000 days and counting. The legislation reached the lower house as it did in 1976 to be relegated to a sub committee of parliament. It would be an optimistic sort who would expect the legislation to rear its head for the balance of the government’s term.

Where the collusion of the BLP and DLP can be seen – whether by accident or design -  is in the loud silence the opposition party has been able to manage on the matter of integrity legislation. It seems a no-brainer that a party which was accused of massive corruption at every turn leading up to the last general election would have held the feet of the government to the fire regarding the promise to proclaim integrity legislation in Barbados to sanitize its reputation.

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Innocents In A Barbed Wire Cage: Little Black Children Of The Rhineland In Germany

Submitted by Yardbroom

Historic urban centers of the German Rhineland, from Mainz to Cologne (map of 1909) - Wikipedia

I will ask the obvious question, before it is asked of me.  Yardbroom why do you write of this now almost a hundred years later?  I could be flippant and retort, why not.  However, a serious question deserves a considered answer and in so doing, I simply state October is Black History Month and if  now is not appropriate for black history, when?

A defeated Germany after the first world war was subdued and as is often a retribution of war, had foreign soldiers on it’s soil – the  Rhineland.  This was barely tolerable but that some of those troops were black, seemed to pile humiliation on humiliation.  As is often the case when men and women inhabit the same environment; despite prejudice, laws and a plethora of different obstacles, some even if only a tiny segment, will have sexual contact.  This leads to relationships some casual, others more permanent and eventually marriage.

Later, Hitler in his book Mein Kamph in an effort to explain away the German women who associated with  black French colonial soldiers called the women “bitches and whores.”  At the end of the 1st World War what appeared casual became permanent and the soldiers married German women.  Into this mix were German settlers returning to the fatherland with black women whom they had married abroad as well as a few missionaries from Africa.

During the Third Reich the black population in Germany was no more than 500-800 persons, miniscule in comparison to a German population in excess of 60 million but numbers, position or class matter little when race dictates regulation.

A Programme – note the word programme – was organised under Dr. Eugen Fisher of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology Human Heredity and Eugenics – as a black person, when you hear grand sounding names be watchful and guarded and be slow to be impressed – he used the 1933 Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseased Offspring.

  For through this Law, the knife was taken to those young flowers of innocence, children of a union between black men and German women.  “Some 400 children of mixed parentage were arrested and sterilized”.

Breeding The Alternative Lifestyle

The name of the person who submitted this concern has been withheld.

How is it that a house of lesbians in Pickwick Gap, can have young children mixed up in their lifestyle, especially boys. The father of the youngest one tries hard to combat what he sees to no avail, isn’t the Child Care Board aware of this morally incorrect situation. When its the men doing foolishness, society takes a stand, when it’s the women they keep quiet.

What are the rights of children, the advertisement says on Channel 8. Somebody better check up on this before it gets any further out of hand.