The MungBeanPatch

About the Mung Bean Patch – and its “gardener”. This site is designed and written by Pamela Storer aka Isabella Jones. I am Cymraeg [Eng. Trans: “Welsh”] from Britain. After a classical education at a Scholarship Grammar school, concentrating in English Grammar and Literature, History, Physical Geography, Biology, Text Analysis, with minors in physics and chemistry, I left school to enter the Vocation of Hospital Trained Nurse. I spent 4 yrs obtaining my Registered Nurse and midwife Certificates, and 12 working in Hospitals in UK and Australia. After working as a Senior Charge Sister at the Melbourne Childrens Hospital, I left to pursue academic studies.  I obtained a place at Flinders University in South Australia to study Biology, eventually majoring in Microbiology, Biochemistry and Genetics, obtaining a First Class Honours and Masters of Science.  I spent time teaching at University, being elected to the position of Head of Nursing Science un...

Where does the Blame lie for the Shooting down of a passenger Airplane over Tehran.  As we all know, after America murdered the highly revered Iranian General Soleimani in Iraq whilst he was on a Diplomatic peace mission instigated by the US, Iran gave a very controlled response of targeting American bases, being careful to  not harm a single US service person. The Trump response has been vitriolic in the extreme, desecrating the memory of this soldier and Diplomat, telling lies about him guaranteed to inflame the situation in Iran, and threatening to launch missiles to destroy revered Cultural sites. Under this situation, a few hours after the Iranian missile response, a commercial passenger aircraft left Tehran airport and was shot down by an Iranian missile. The reason given was that the airline had been directed over a military site, engaging a warning system, the operator had 10 seconds to make a decision as to whether it was an incoming missile, and sadly made the wr...

Why “Eurasia” is wrong. In an essay I wrote titled “The Russia – Europe Paradox”, in which I stated why I believe it a dangerous mistake for Russia to accept being labeled as in any way “European”, I also speculated briefly on why Russia might have been so willing to accept this piece of domination by a foreign entity.   I wrote: “ Sadly, this view of Russia as being “of” Europe, as being “European,” has found a home among many of Russias’ intellectual, academic and senior political leading lights. Why is something of a mystery.  The writer L. van der Post, in his “Journey into Russia” which is highly Colonial racist in its view of Russians, states that it is because the people are desperate to leave behind their recent history of being mud hut living “white African” savages!!  They still want to “be” European, in spite of the horrors inflicted on them by Europeans, especially the siege of Leningrad by German Nazi...