Our Prime Minister, I am speechless

"In my opinion that photo is not appropriate, I apologise for that, that photo shouldn't have been taken." 

PM Sanna Marin and Sabina Särkkä.

Here in Finland we have couple of videos of the Prime Minister dancing, singing and partying with various Finnish celebrities and public figures spread throughout social media. I see from this picture that soon they (guests in Prime Minister's official Kesäranta residence) will make love - maybe.

Speaking to reporters following a speech at the annual meeting in Helsinki of Finland's heads of missions abroad, Marin explained that she invited some friends over to Kesäranta after the Ruisrock music festival to "sauna, swim and spend time together."

For six out of nine days, PM has been found drinking.

Everything is not okay.

Tänään tuli Seiskalta ulos Sabina Särkän ja Sanna Marinin kiehnäysvideo.

Tällaista kuvastoa löytyi vielä hetki sitten Sabina Särkän TikTokista päiväyksellä 10.7.

Näyttäis valtioneuvoston grafiikkaseinä päässeen arvokkaampaan käyttöön...🤔#jauhojengi #kesärata22 pic.twitter.com/oMBJ0rpWFQ

— Kimmo Kautio (@Kimmo_Kautio) August 22, 2022

Welcome back to the Middle Ages

Here comes a brand new report Safeguard Defenders, Drugged and Detained: China’s Psychiatric Prisons. PDF.

In 2022, the Chinese Communist Party, so called CCP is still routinely locking up political targets in psychiatric hospitals despite implementing legal changes to stop this barbaric practice more than a decade ago.

In the name of stability maintenance, the CCP is able to remove petitioners and activists entirely out of the justice system, with no hope of seeing a lawyer or going to trial, while “diagnosing” them with mental illness so that they are socially isolated even after release.

Detained: China’s psychiatric prisons, exposes how Chinese police and government agents are still sending petitioners and activists to psychiatric wards for medically-unnecessary compulsory treatment, where some languish for years.

Raport China’s Psychiatric Prisons tells all what's going on.

It provides evidence that China is routinely locking up activists and petitioners in mental hospitals, one of the most chilling ways that China silences critics.

Mental torture: China is locking up critics in psychiatric facilities

In China, posting a political comment, submitting a complaint about a corrupt official, or shouting slogans in the street, will quickly get you locked up in a detention centre.

Or it might get you committed to a psychiatric hospital.

Organsiation used secondary sourced interviews of victims and their families and found 99 people had been locked up in psychiatric wards 144 times in the seven years from 2015 to 2021, covering 109 hospitals in 21 provinces, municipalities or regions across China.

Sure, may all those numbers are just the tip of the iceberg. Countless more cases would not have been noticed by NGOs and media, especially in this climate of fear under Xi Jinping that has increasingly closed off China to the outside world.

Alcohol destroys human chromosomes

Human Chromosomes' telomere length medical concept and 
telomeres located on the end caps of a chromosome resulting in 
aging by damaging DNA or protection.
Credit: Lightspring Shutterstock.com

Alcohol’s impact on telomere length, a proposed marker of biological aging, is almost clear. 

The studyTrusted Source, published by Nature, in Molecular Psychiatry, is the largest of its kind to date.

Shorter telomeres were found in those who drank heavily or had alcohol use disorder (for example, there were about 400,000 alcoholics in Finland, in other words, about seven percent of the entire population).

In this case researchers reviewed data of over 245,000 UK individuals to assess how alcohol impacts aging.

We performed the largest observational study to date (in n = 245, 354 UK Biobank participants) and compared findings with Mendelian randomization estimates, 

they say.

Telomere length is linked to biological aging and disease onset.

The pros and cons of drinking alcohol are frequently relayed, and there’s a new addition to the ever-growing list. Research conducted by Oxford Population Health, part of the University of Oxford, indicates excessive alcohol consumption can speed up the aging process at a biological level.

Data on participants’ weekly alcohol consumption — self-reported when joining the Biobank — was used as the basis of an observational analysis.

Observational analysis findings indicated that heavy alcohol drinkers and those with alcohol use disorder (AUD) were significantly more likely to have shorter telomeres — an essential part of our chromosomes linked to aging and the onset of various health concerns.

Meanwhile, the MR analysis also found a strong link between telomere length and genetically-predicted AUD. The most influential gene was discovered to be AD1HB, which acts as an alcohol metabolizer in the body.

Also stress has even been reported to accelerate aging and the onset of age-related diseases. Recent research links both chronic and perceived stress and alcoholism with telomere shortening, a phenomenon with a known relationship to cellular aging.

A lackey of the Kreml

“Although unwillingly, the organization created material that sounds like support for Russian narratives. Seeking to protect civilians, the study has instead become a tool of Russian propaganda.” 

So says Director of Amnesty International Ukraine, Oksana Pokalchuk, who has spent seven years documenting and investigating human rights abuses as Director of Amnesty International Ukraine, tendered hers resignation as the backlash continued over a controversial Amnesty International report titled, 

“Ukrainian fighting tactics endanger civilians.”

Pokalchuk took to Facebook on August 4 to disavow the report, explaining that Amnesty’s global branch had effectively sidelined the Amnesty Ukraine team and proceeded with publication without their input or consent. She resigned the following day.

The Kremlin has warmly welcomed Amnesty’s claims, with Russian officials actively promoting the report to justify Moscow’s ongoing bombing campaign in Ukraine.  

Some of the expectations expressed in the Amnesty report, such as the notion that Ukrainian troops should defend civilians from Russian attack without stationing themselves nearby, are nothing short of absurd

Hundreds of people canceled their donations to Amnesty.

Vi mår bra

Vi mår rätt bra i jobbet, gott ledarskap är viktigt för att vi ska orka.

Aktivt lärande hopar sig till dem som i och med sin utbildning och sina arbetsuppgifter redan har bra kompetens, goda färdigheter och goda utvecklingsmöjligheter, säger arbetslivsbarometern. 

Det är en undersökning som utförs varje år och får vi tro på resultaten från 2021 så har 80 procent av löntagarna en god arbetsförmåga i förhållande till arbetets fysiska och psykiska krav.

Det kontinuerliga lärandet är en viktig faktor för att vi ska må bra i arbetet. 

Men till exempel detta kontinuerligt lärande är inte alla förunnat utan blir lätt en klassfråga, visar den nya arbetslivsbarometern. 

Den arbetarskyddsreformen är på gång. Arbetslivsbaromentern visar ändå stora klasskillnader när det gäller kontinuerligt lärande.

En rätt positiv syn på arbetsmarknaden, så beskriver Arbets- och näringslivsministeriet löntagarnas känslor från det andra coronaåret. 

Первое судно с украинским продовольствием вышло из Одесского порта

Президентом Украины Владимиром Зеленским
Фото: Офис президента Украины.

Сегодня Украина вместе с партнерами делает очередной шаг к предотвращению мирового голода. Разблокировка портов даст не менее 1 млрд долларов валютной выручки для экономики и возможность для аграрного сектора спланировать посевную в следующем году.

Украина является 4-м крупнейшим экспортером кукурузы в мире, поэтому возможность его вывоза через порты – это колоссальный вес успех для обеспечения глобальной продовольственной безопасности.

 На его борту 26 тыс. тонн украинской кукурузы.

Вместе с представителями ООН и Турции уже наработаны внутренние операционные регламенты. Со своей стороны, Украина сделала все, чтобы возобновить работу портов и всех задействованных предприятий. Важно отметить о неукоснительной поддержке со стороны американских и европейских партнеров на пути к разблокированию украинских морских портов

Это был сложный путь продолжительностью 3 месяца. Все это время процесс переговоров и согласования вопросов безопасности контролировался Президентом Украины Владимиром Зеленским:

"Мы благодарны партнерам, которые, несмотря на сложности, не останавливали работу по подготовке к экспорту."

Хороший!