Yesterday Elisabeth and I shared a lunch at a new Joey’s along 17th Ave at 32nd SW. Fish and chips, but without an urging for an encore. Next week we’ll go to our coffee place in Bowness.

I did some grocery shopping, but have to watch that I don’t buy more than I can carry home. I just made it. Coming Tuesday will be the bulk, as in big, shopping day with its ten percent (10%) discount.

I posted my daily entry of yesterday and boned up on the schema.org type information. My intent here is to learn how to properly use the HTML5 microdata markup for embedding reference links for the articles I use in my writing. I am not there yet, but will make an attemps today.

I also checked out the TLS book review site, but they want about three (3) dollars per viewed article, which is too much. However, I can link to the site in my writings as a reference.

My hidden - as in unannounced - aim here is to finally - next week - publish my site to the search engines, some thing I have never done since I started with my site in 2009-05.

I have followed the Bangladesh garment factory disaster and its implied consequences for the clothes I buy. I do shop on price, not many people don’t, so I may be an accessory in a sense. Yet, I also recall the factory and human conditions during the industrial revolution in the West, now almost two centuries ago.

The Dhaka disaster is not unique and the situation is historical. It appears the we humans will only take the right action when we are forced to do so. But, the corrective actions do come and in the West socialism and human rights were part of the outcome.

I find it food for thought that we wait for such emotive type disasters to occur, before we take the required action we already know beforehand will be required. International politics is full of similar ‘let’s see, wait and react’ scenarios, allowing much suffering to be ‘implemented’.

It is all a part of the globalisation equally applicable to capital, jobs and no less to human rights and dignity.

In business some people like to be known as ‘proactive’, it appears that in the garment industry we have an abundance of post-active type managers. This is not without ethical and moral consequences and may even lead to criminal charges.

Finally, there is also the possibility of - God forbid - this disaster having been caused with intent and expose Joe Fresh as the sole culprit in order to slow ‘him’ down in the market place. Lives of the world’s dispossessed are neither a top priority, nor a bottom line criterion in the beneficial sense, when making money is the goal.

Yet, the work is needed in Bangladesh and we should be able make improvements in our decision making processes in a humanitarian sense. It is all a part of the globalisation equally applicable to capital, jobs and no less to human rights and dignity. The latter must now be added to the calculations.
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