Mini Clubman review

Don't you just love this car?

Al Gore did it

Perhaps the greatest recognition anyone can get. Al Gore gets the Nobel Peace Price of 2007. He shares it with IPCC, a UN organ.

Well deserved, I think!

Where are they?

I was watching the news yesterday about the situation in Myanmar (Burma). There were no monks on the streets. Where are they? Apparently the junta has detained a lot of them, and possibly some have managed to leave for safety, but where are the rest?

The UN envoy has now left Myanmar, after his visit, and it seems his visit had no or little effect on the situation. The World must continue to protest against the junta, or else it will just go back to being a military dictatorship.

Sputnik turns 50

Today it's 50 years since the Soviet union put the satelite Sputnik in orbit. Thus they beat the USA to it. Good for them. However, they never realised at the time how important this would turn out to be. It started the space race. The Soviet union was also first to send a living creature, the dog Lajka, into space. This was followed by sending the first human, Jurij Gagarin, into space in 1961.

The USA had to wait for their glory a few years, until they were finally able to be first to land on the Moon. They've always considered themselves superior to the rest of the World, so I think they deserved being beaten in the race to space.

Chaos in Myanmar

Once again we see the rest of the World simply standing by and watching while the junta in Myanmar, formerly Burma, is cracking down on mostly peaceful protestors. About 300 monks and activists were arrested, according to some reports. The junta had banned all public gatherings of more than five people and imposed a nighttime curfew following eight days of anti-government marches led by monks in Yangon and other areas of the country.

International reactions have come from such prominent names as the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu, as well as Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, detained Myanmar opposition leader.

President Bush on Tuesday announced new U.S. sanctions against Myanmar accusing the military dictatorship of imposing "a 19-year reign of fear" that denies basic freedoms of speech, assembly and worship.

My thoughts: It's terrible what's happening in Myanmar. It needs to end immediately. The rest of the World must stand up to the junta in Myanmar. Simply having a press conference to say that you don't agree with what the junta is doing is not enough.