Boko Haram girls. where are they?

Is there a "Religious Divide" between the Muslims in the North and the Christians in the South of Nigeria. This has been going on for such a long time ago. It was on the night of April 14/15 last year that young girls were kidnapped by Boko Haram urging them to marry some of their men under pain of death. Some young girls have even been made to become suicide bombers by Boko Haram. The father of one of the suicide bombers Zeharau who said that she wanted to visit Paradise , but after she was threatened with being " buried alive" she refused to detonate her vest. Can you believe it ! Most of the girls were Christian and so very young!

Organophosphates and MS

Is there any correlation between multiple sclerosis and the use of organophosphates in sheep dip? Up until 2002 all sheep dips used in the UK had to contain organophosphates by law. These chemicals were similar to Agent Orange used in the Vietnam War. Can the use of these chemicals have lasting effects upon its users? Years ago I kept sheep in Wales and I have always wondered whether the organophosphates I was exposed to when we used sheep dip triggered my MS. I was invited to Parliament to discuss this and it was incredible that a dozen or so of the people there had the symptoms that I have. There is no way that the government can admit that there is a connection between the two otherwise they would be liable to a massive compensation payments. I only found out about this meeting with Andy Burnham MP through a friend  who alerted me to it. Friends said afterwards they would have loved to have gone! Is this a conspiracy by the government to keep us in the dark? It is not that so much, as an admittance that this was the case would give some sort of closure. Farmers have committed suicide because their livelihood had been destroyed before their eyes. Indeed the consequences were damage to their eyes too; they had been affected as had their hearing. They had developed continual headaches - and so it goes on! 

Paris shooting

I am extremely saddened by the killing of the satirists in Paris yesterday. I found as a student in Exeter all those years ago, that satire was the easiest way of making a joke about something and though you debunked it, people didn't take it so seriously. But I have found that senses of humour are very different and can upset some people. But I believe that it wasn't supposed to be taken on face value! Sadly there is no discussion,

Where did those Mexican Students disappear to?

A long time ago back on Friday 5th December there appeared a story that 43 student teachers had been kidnapped by Police in the southern Mexican city of Iguala. Six weeks ago they were probably massacred. Parts of their bodies were discovered in a rubbish dump! People started demonstrating to retrieve their bodies and find out what happened to them. The parents of the student teachers got together and demonstrated. This was effective and seemed to indicate that the government were more interested in the advertisement for the country as the result of the enquiry! Jon Tuckerman from Mexico City wrote an article explaining that, as they disappeared in the  Southern city of Iguala they were handed to a drugs gang called Guerreras Ihides. It seems that the parents still have no idea what happened to their children! Unfortunately we know!   I am afraid this may sound very heartless but it is the truth. Mexico needs to smarten up its actions against its criminal gangs.