Context :
UK Moves Asylum-Seekers
to Barge Off Southern England in Bid to Cut Costs … 08
Aug 2023
Extract
:
A small group of asylum-seekers
has been moved onto a barge moored in southern
England as the U.K. government tries to cut the cost of
sheltering people seeking protection in the
country, British news media reported Monday.
The asylum-seekers were transferred to the Bibby Stockholm, a floating hostel that will ultimately
house up to 500 men, from other
sites around the country.
More were expected to arrive later Monday as authorities seek to
reduce the number of asylum-seekers housed in expensive hotel rooms that were requisitioned on an emergency basis as the number of
arrivals has surged in recent years.
The barge, which is owned by UK-based Bibby Marine, is normally
used to provide temporary housing for workers when local accommodation isn’t
available. With three stories of closely packed bedrooms, the barge resembles a college dormitory, though the rooms are utilitarian. It also includes a kitchen,
dining area, common rooms and laundry facilities.
The U.K. government wants to use barges and former military
bases to accommodate some migrants after the cost
of housing them in hotels soared to 1.9 billion pounds ($2.4 billion) last year.
Home Office Minister Sarah Dines told the
BBC that people arriving in the U.K. via
unauthorized means should have “basic but proper
accommodation” and that they “can’t expect to stay in
a four-star hotel.”
My Take :
Ø MUAMMAR GADDAFI - A VISIONARY ? …………………………….. 04 Aug 2015
Extract :
In the first 7 months of 2015 , some 190,000 north Africans have
tried to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy
2,000 died on the way
188,000 were rescued on high seas and permitted to land in Italy
That is some 1,000 per day ! Soon to become 10,000 per day
!
And , whereas some European leaders are taking a humanitarian
view of this illegal migration , others want to stop this " Human Flood
"
May be those who realize that these " Waves " of
persecuted and starving people are unstoppable , dare not blame their
governments for ignoring what Guardian reported
on 01 Sept 2010 ,
as follows :
"In a highly theatrical visit to Italy this week, Gaddafi warned that Europe would turn "black" unless it was more rigorous in turning back immigrants.
Libya is a key transit point for illegal migration from Africa to Europe. The Libyan leader said the bill for sealing the crossing routes would be at least € 5 bn a year.
While in Rome Gaddafi advised Europeans to convert to Islam and sought to bolster
his claim for billions from Europe by
warning that millions
of Africans were seeking to migrate to the EU.
"We don't know what will be the reaction
of the white and Christian Europeans faced with this influx of starving and ignorant
Africans," the Libyan leader
told a Rome meeting attended by Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister.
"We don't know if Europe will remain an advanced and united continent or
if it will be destroyed, as happened with the barbarian invasions."
You may have umpteen reasons to blame Gaddafi but you cannot fault him on his vision !
I foresee something similar happening to Australia in the next 5 years , with millions of poor / starving people from
all over Asia , flooding its shores
Ø No use Fighting ! ………………………………………………………………….
25 Apr 2016
Extract :
Entire world produces 280 million
tons of plastics , every year
Of this , some 20 million tons finds
its way into world's oceans
Rest finds its way into ugly
land-fills
A very tiny percentage of this has
accumulated at one spot in Pacific
Ocean
It is called Great Pacific Garbage Patch , , covering an area , twice the size of United Kingdom ( approx.
Since most of this is non-degradable , it will continue to float for 50 years
Hundreds of scientists and
governments are working for years to find a solution to this problem of
cleaning up the ocean by removing floating plastic
But the solution is evading !
Use of current method of skimming
will take several decades to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
But if some method can be found to ,
* Increase the thickness of the patch to several hundred feet
* Bind the loosely floating plastic with some glue / resin , to turn it
into a
strong land like
mass ( of course , still floating )
* Build onto this light weight pre-fabricated homes
then ,
it could become a Nation of 126 million inhabitants ( twice the population of UK
, since Pacific Garbage Patch
Of course , if this method succeeds , 280 million tons can create an entire continent , the size of Europe !
Every year , too !
For EU threatened with an influx of a million migrants every year , this could be a much cheaper – and humanitarian - way of housing them
Much cheaper than what Elon Musk / Mark Zukerberg / Jeff Bezo etc are spending on Space Missions to locate inhabitable distant Earth-like planets !
Just find a way to " Re-Use
" it for benefit of poor people !
Call it USM ( United States of Migrants ) !
Ø Did You Say, “ Ahead of Times “ ? ........................ 23 Dec 2017
Extract :
There’s a country-sized
problem in the north Pacific Ocean — a patch of trash has grown
to the size of France.
So the environmental charity Plastic Oceans Foundation has
paired up with the news and entertainment publication LadBible to
campaign for it to be recognised as an official
country.
The campaign claims that, under Article 1 of the 1993
Montevideo Convention on the rights and duties of states, a country must be
able to :
· define a territory,
· form a government,
· interact with other states , and
· have a permanent population.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch has borders ( sort of ), and it’s easy to create
a government and institutions for
interacting with others.
Now with former US vice president Al Gore signing up as the country’s first
citizen and more than 100,000 signing the petition to be granted citizenship,
the campaign has submitted its application earlier this month to the United
Nations to
recognise the Trash
Isles as the world’s 196th
country.
The project is the brainchild of advertising professionals Michael Hughes and
Dalatando Almeida, according to AdWeek. Designer Mario Kerkstra helped
create a flag, a passport, currency (called debris) and stamps.
Dear Heidi ,
( CEO - Byfusion / Heidi@byfusion.com
/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/heidikujawa/ )
On your website, you claim ( FAQ ) :
WILL BYBLOCK FLOAT?
Yes. Despite its hefty 22lb weight, ByBlock is buoyant. This is due to the small air pockets which reside between sections of the shredded platic.
This property of ByBlock renders it the IDEAL MATRIAL for turning the Great Pacific Garbage Patch into a large CONTINENT that can house millions of MIGRANTS
If you succeed, you would have found solution for humanity's great problem
If you create a working demo ( a floating isle of ByBlock , 1 Km x 1 Km , and supporting , light , one story ( only Ground Floor ) , pre-fab houses, then , your company will not have any problem , raising $ 100 BILLION in the market
With regards,
Hemen Parekh
www.hemenparekh.ai / 10
Aug 2023 / hcp@RecruitGuru.com
Related Readings :
Ø Procuring
Technology for “ Recycling of Plastics “……………………….. 19 Feb 2022
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/heidikujawa/
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