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MAY I express my pleasure at the announcement of talks between the SNP and the Greens on the possibility of a formal cooperative arrangement between…
It is over till the next time. Of course, this iteration of the cycle was different in terms of the widespread Israeli Arab resistance and the intensity of the rocketing from Gaza. Plus, the politically embattled prime minister Netanyahu was only too willing to over-do the bombing of the Gaza ghetto in a vain bid to divert attention from his own career troubles. But the ceasefire changes nothing. We are back where we started till the next round of oppression, resistance and repression begins. The obvious question arises: what kind of practical, permanent solution is possible? There is m...
May 5 , 2021 Looking at this picture of the caring people of Qatar Cargo, including mon ami Guillaume Halleaux, Chief Officer Cargo, who is pictured far left just prior to the carrier leaning in with relief flights into COVID stricken India early this week, brings to mind the need of continuing to mask up, despite some reports and confusion here in America that mask time may be over. Masks to a generation of Americans beginning in the 1950s could also be equated with a hero named The Lone Ranger who wore...
Why No FIATA IATA Partnership Yet? When I think of airfreight these days I get a different reflection depending on the viewpoint, like entering Hendrix’s “Room Full of Mirrors” and I get dizzy, as though I was looking at it through the Pretenders’ dazzling version In a way this is not surprising, if you look at the figures monthly published by ICAO. The yo-yo feeling you get by looking at airfreight rates that are on a rollercoaster ride for months now, capacity ...
Marcin Ryszard Strak, of no fixed abode, appeared at Llandudno Magistrates Court on Wednesday. The 42-year-old admitted that over a period of weeks in July last year, he pursued a course of conduct that amounted to the harassment of his former partner, Magda Wawrzkowicz. Prosecutor Justin Espie said the two were together for about six months and he moved into her home in March 2020. But the relationship ended about a month later due to Strak’s alcohol addiction. Ms Wawrzkowicz tried to help him, and would let him shower at her home. But when he started drinking again she told hi...