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For Steyn readers, however, Nasa’s brace of non-events may evoke a certain passage from my book After America, and the words of Professor Bruce Charlton (now retired):
The real reason we have not been to the moon since 1972 is that we cannot any longer do it. Humans have lost the capability.
It is certainly easy to see the moon landings not as a bright new dawn, but as the last flickering fag end of the nineteenth century’s golden age of exploration and invention. This is how I saw it over a decade ago:
Half a century ago, the future felt different. Take 1969, quite a year in the aerospace biz: In one twelve month period, we saw the test flight of the Boeing 747, the maiden voyage of the Concorde, the RAF’s deployment of the Harrier “jump jet” …and Neil Armstrong’s “giant step for mankind”. Buzz Aldrin packed a portable tape player with him on Apollo 11, and so Sinatra’s ring-a-ding-ding recording of “Fly Me To The Moon” became the first (human) music to be flown to the moon and played there. Had any other nation beaten Nasa to it, they’d have marked the occasion with the “Ode To Joy” or Also Sprach Zarathustra, something grand and formal. But there’s something marvelously American about the first human being to place his feet on the surface of a heavenly sphere standing there with a cassette machine blasting out Frank and the Count Basie band in a swingin’ Quincy Jones arrangement – the insouciant swagger of the American century breaking the bounds of the planet.
In 1961, before the eyes of the world, President Kennedy had set American ingenuity a very specific challenge – and put a clock on it:
This nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.
That’s it. No wiggle room. A monkey on the moon wouldn’t count, nor an unmanned drone, nor a dune buggy that can’t take off again but transmits grainy footage back to Houston as it rusts up in the crater it came to rest in. The only way to win the bet is with a real-live actual American standing on the surface of the moon planting the Stars and Stripes.
https://www.steynonline.com/12781/moon-shot
Feral blacks in London again:
“Woman, 19, tells how she was beaten by a mob of youths shouting ‘get her phone’ in shocking video after she was targeted ‘at random’ in London – as CCTV shows store being ransacked moments before”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11178503/Woman-19-speaks-beaten-mob-youths-South-Norwood-Croydon-London.html
And in USA
“California model’s fury after complete stranger gropes her in store – only for trolls to say she was ‘ASKING FOR IT’ because she was wearing crop top and shorts”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11157343/Model-shares-shocking-footage-stranger-assaulting-California-grocery-store.html?ito=chromelessDM_0
She whipped around in horror and confronted the man, who she says tried to ‘pass it off’ as something of a practical joke
@Zephir that is a crap Mail story
“Hello UK readers, in the US a celeb post something on Social Media and got outrageous replies
which were probably the usual ie wind-ups written by 11 year old girls
But the liberal mob took it seriously and acted outraged”
And in London again
“Boy, 17, is stabbed to death and 18-year-old man is left fighting for his life after ‘machete brawl involving up to 100 people’ at party in east London
17-year-old boy stabbed to death in Bow, east London, following ‘mass brawl’
Second male, believed to be 18, also stabbed and in life-threatening condition
There were thought to be around 100 people involved, some with machetes”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11178439/Boy-17-stabbed-death-18-year-old-man-left-fighting-life-machete-brawl.html
“Diversity Built Britain Coin”
Any clues about their ethnicity?
Yes they went down the coal mines White and came back up Black !
If you are talking about the Tower Hamlets killing I think the clue might be in ‘tower hamlets ‘ where whites are an etnik minoritee… might well be Asians killing Asians …
Justin Trudeau?!
Can we get a few thousand of them in the rocket to the moon ?
Pedophile Sent Alone to Space Prison Goes Wrong
There’s your American decline right there: From out-of-this-world to out-of-our-minds, an increasingly unmanned flight from real, historic technological accomplishment to unreal, ahistorical therapeutic touchy-feely multiculti.
So we can’t go to the moon. And, by the time you factor in getting to the airport to do the shoeless shuffle and the enhanced patdown, flying to London takes longer than it did in 1960. If they were trying to build the transcontinental railroad now, they’d be spending the first three decades on the environmental-impact study and hammering in the Golden Spike to celebrate the point at which the Feasibility Commission’s expansion up from the fifth floor met the Zoning Board’s expansion down from the twelfth floor.
https://www.steynonline.com/12781/moon-shot
So what happened? According to Professor Charlton, in the 1970s “the human spirit began to be overwhelmed by bureaucracy”. The old can-do spirit? Oh, you can try to do it, but they’ll toss every obstacle in your path. Go on, give it a go: Invent a new medical device; start a company; go to the airport to fly to DC and file a patent. Everything’s longer, slower, more soul-crushing. And the decline in “human capability” will only worsen in the years ahead, thanks not just to excess bureaucracy but insufficient cash.
https://www.steynonline.com/12781/moon-shot
Story from March
A former London-based nurse who is currently serving an 18-year prison term for trafficking women into prostitution has been ordered to give up almost £184,000 of her “illicit earnings”.
Josephine Iyamu, 54, was the first *British national* to be convicted under the Modern Slavery Act for offences committed overseas
https://www.nursingtimes.net/news/policies-and-guidance/former-nurse-in-jail-for-trafficking-ordered-to-give-up-crime-money-28-03-2022/
2017 … 2022 …
Has voodoo been misjudged?
By Pumza Fihlani
BBC News, Ouidah, Benin
Published
1 September 2017
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-41048840
….
VOODOO NURSE NHS nurse trafficked sex slaves into Europe before making them drink blood and eat chicken hearts as part of bizarre voodoo ritual
Josephine Iyamu, 51, forced five Nigerian women to take part in humiliating voodoo rituals
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6648817/nhs-nurse-trafficked-sex-slaves-into-europe-before-making-them-drink-blood-and-eat-chicken-hearts-as-part-of-bizarre-voodoo-ritual/
Not only do we have to put up with being robbed, mugged, stabbed, raped and sexually assaulted by them but then have the added insult of them endlessly paraded in front of us on TV and all other ads as if they did not live feral with no fathers in city ghettos comprising 3 % of the population.
David Lammy MP says absent fathers ‘key cause of knife crime’
Published
3 October 2012https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-19815831
I think the advertising industry is actually creating a major breakdown in society by falsifying reality all the time, it is building a wall of irritation and driving people who normally would be neutral towards a feeling of being blamed for who they are and personally responsible and angry.
This will end with a greater divide amongst the races in the UK.
I hear it all the time in pubs, workplaces etc.
The only way to kill off this rubbish is for mass purchase denials.
I have already divested myself from banks and insurance companies etc. who are constantly waving this tawdry flag and will buy nothing from any brand that joins in with this charade.
These companies need to question the actions of their new younger Uni brainwashed employees rather than appeasing them come what may.
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Same in my pubs.
Ironically, OFCOM, infested with woke crap, is driving and forcing ad agencies to be inclusive or be denied ad release.
OFCOM was designed to prevent advertisers from making spurious and misleading claims.
Their job now is to enforce spurious claims. I am sure the. Companies and agencies would for instance prefer to show a slinky indigenous model to promote their wares to their target audience rather than a one-legged, overweight lady of colour but they now have no option.
It’s bloody bizarre and can’t possibly last!
OFCOM have become a political tool. It makes the title ‘watchdog’ a complete joke.
‘infested’ is the right word. The ones controlling the country are now on the opposite side of the fence to the majority of the people.
It’s how revolutions started in the past and why the police come down like a ton of bricks on any dissenters. If the silent majority really knew what was going on and if a movement was ever allowed to actually get started, it could be civil war.
That’s why thing like anti-Muslim protests are not reported and have more police than protesters. They follow a police-lined route to the protest site, make their noise then are shepherded back out again. They got their democratic protest in the least democratic way possible.
They actually tried to blackmail Tommy Robinson to become an informant on right-wing groups by threatening his family.
I think the USA is much closer to it than we are. They are split beyond anything I could have ever imagined and the Democrats are now not even trying to hide their hate of the Right. With the BBC fully on-board of course – but I sense they starting to wonder what monster they might have been feeding.
These afro swimming caps
Isn’t it like having a flotation device on your head ?
..dunno if that is an advantage or hindrance.
Put this on your bloody DFS / Halifax / Lloyds, Sofa worlds advert please: tell the bloody truth for a change:
Zephir
Is that what is called an example of a British “Food Bank”?
To Africans, Asians are fair game!
Robbing their own.
All it takes is to bring back Borstals. Take away two or three years of their lives. Enough CCTV there to put away about a dozen of these parasites.
GBnews Lembit Opik
“The Greens got us into the energy crisis
and the result is that in Germany is burning more trees
.. Greens are causing the forests to be destroyed”
In terms of durability, wind turbines last an average of about 25 years. About 85 percent of turbine component materials—such as steel, copper wire, electronics, and gearing—can be recycled or reused.30 Oct 2020
…..
Newly-published research has examined what should be done with wind turbines when they become outdated. Some of the solutions are unusual.
The study was commissioned by Scottish Natural Heritage, which is expected to issue new guidance on dealing with old turbines later this year.
The research looked at the decommissioning of the machines, the restoration of wind farm sites and also how turbines, towers and the various components can be recycled.
Dealing with the massive devices when they are replaced by more efficient ones is expected to become an increasingly weighty issue.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-23048093
Wind Turbines
Scientists say the blades can be recycled into gummy bars and we can eat them.
The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/23/wind-turbine-blades-could-recycled-gummy-bears-scientists?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=soc_568&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter&fbclid=IwAR04e8I5x7R-gLD0kOdU0NEjq2f7zXuTXOlsHZqwyzXGP-jJwHj7KD2S6yo
“You have the watches but we have the time,” is a quote from the book The Warrior Ethos by Steven Pressfield. This line is attributed to the Taliban and the current war in Afghanistan. Though the Taliban claim credit, we have seen this result many other times throughout history.8 Sept 2015
“Channel migrants: More than 25,000 cross to Kent so far in 2022”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-62705913
A thousand crossed yesterday according to the MOD .
Can’t the MOD do anything to stop them instead of reporting the “Landings”? Do they know how many came across by other means?
The huge burden of cost of that these illegal invaders have placed on the people of this country in these critical times will be enormous.
The conservative government must know that unless they take action pronto they will lose the next general election .
Over to you Liz Truss…………..
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An 1858 illustration from the French newspaper Le Monde illustré, of the lingchi execution of a French missionary, Auguste Chapdelaine, in China
Lingchi
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Lingchi in traditional (top) and simplified (bottom) Chinese characters
Traditional Chinese 凌遲
Simplified Chinese 凌迟
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Lingchi (simplified Chinese: 凌迟; traditional Chinese: 凌遲), translated variously as the slow process, the lingering death, or slow slicing, and also known as death by a thousand cuts, was a form of torture and execution used in China from roughly 900 CE up until the practice ended around the early 1900s. It was also used in Vietnam and Korea. In this form of execution, a knife was used to methodically remove portions of the body over an extended period of time, eventually resulting in death.
Lingchi was reserved for crimes viewed as especially heinous, such as treason. Some Westerners were executed in this manner. Even after the practice was outlawed, the concept itself has still appeared across many types of media.
That’s £5 MILLION A DAY of taxpayers money to the block-booked hotel’s.
The BBC and their desperation to run ’empathy’ articles on ‘victims’ are to blame in no small measure.
It makes them feel ‘worthwhile and superior’.
They are too naive and stupid to realise what the long-term consequences are of what they are doing. Not a single one will have the wit to realise that the outrgeous state of crime and murder in Londonistan is a direct consequence of people like them.
New police commissioner in londonistan tomorrow ? This weekend has seen only a couple of fatal shootings and fatal stabbings so pretty quiet really .
And parliament returns at liz truss is finally voted the next Blue Labour PM …..
…. Maybe we should have a competition to spot a truly conservative policy – initially she and her new chancellor will be getting out chain saws for the money trees again ….
..whatever they come up with won’t be enough – won’t stop ‘hardship ‘ won’t stop ‘food banks ‘ – to run the coming BBC Labour narrative …..
They will be printing more currency and throwing it at people ….
Although it seems that capping fuel prices for people and businesses at government level would be both easier from an admin point of view and maybe fairer – cost is only about 40 or 50 billion for 6 months …..
Met Police chief Cressida Dick calls on social media giants to remove Drill music videos that ‘glamourise’ gang life to quell London’s tide of violence
The Scotland Yard chief calls on social media giants to remove Drill music videos
She says they have a ‘social responsibility’ to take down clips from the internet
The Met Police boss says they have a ‘terrible effect’ on the rise in violent crime
Drill is a hip hop sub-genre and is said by campaigners to be fuelling gang wars
Another nail into footballs coffin.
Its now “player of the match”.
Trans of the match!
This will stir them in the Tesla belt.
Hurly must miss the old place.
Reads like it was written by a snowflake with a hangover …. Is there a decript?
What Burley said makes perfect sense to me
That Lycett’s false narrative ruined the show
cos it distracted from analysis of what she actually said
Burley wants to go to think about whether tax cuts for the rich do end up benefitting the whole of society much more than you’d first think.
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THIS HAS TO STOP
As the fleet approaches the Suez Canal, Egyptian military forces fire a warning shot, causing the fleet to steer south, around the Cape of Good Hope. To the surprise of observers, the apartheid regime of South Africa floats out barges of food and supplies, which the migrants throw overboard. The international press is thrilled, believing the rejection of these supplies to be a political statement against the apartheid South African regime. Western leaders, confident the migrants will accept supplies from their “more virtuous” nations, organize a supply mission, funded by governments, charities, rock stars and major churches, to meet the migrants off São Tomé. However, the fleet does not stop for these barges either, and when a worker from the Pope’s barge attempts to board one of the ships, he is strangled and thrown overboard. The press attempts to contain coverage of the murder.
Saw this coming a mile off, nasty white people caused the floods so need to give Pakistan zillions in compensation.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/04/pakistan-floods-reparations-climate-disaster
Why is the begging bowl always preferred to getting off their arses and sorting out flood defences with Pakistan cash?
The Space Programme 2040 is a satellite development and launch programme of the Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (Suparco), Pakistan’s space research authority. The Space programme 2040 intends to replace the Badr satellite programme and geo-stationary communication satellite.
Space programme 2040 – Wikipedia
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The UK is providing further urgent life-saving support to Pakistan following devastating floods that have left a third of the country underwater, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss announced today (1 September 2022).
Humanitarian support totalling £15 million from the UK will help provide shelter and essential supplies to people across the country. The flooding has affected more than 33 million people, with 1,100 lives lost. The latest funding announced by the Foreign Secretary comes after the UK provided £1.5 million to the disaster last weekend.
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“…and it shouldn’t have been our high commissioner (UKs) called in by the Pakistani Government to be lectured, we should have pulled in the envoy of Pakistan here and said ‘Stop that right now (protesting by blowing things up), or do without the aid we give you (Pakistan) …'”
– Christopher Hitchens had a point in 2007
@digg
pfff…
Maybe they could get Imran Khan in as guest editor for a while?
Review of the early morning news
It is obvious that the ‘isties’ and the ‘ismists’, much easier to describe them as the Left and the BBC, are terrified at the the thought of Boris Johnson becoming Conservative Party leader again. It’s just like with Donald Trump in the USA. Lead item on the news: “It will be a temptation for Liz Truss, if she becomes PM, to pack her Cabinet with Boris Loyalists.” Another item on the news “Liz Truss, if she wins the leadership, has been warned not to cancel the House investigation into ‘Partygate’.” The newspaper that was instrumental in the Boris Johnson defenestration, the Mirror, along with the BBC reckons in its Sunday Edition that already 12 members of the House are ready to send letters of ‘No Confidence in Liz Truss’ to the Chair of the 1922 Committee.
Already, so soon?
Boris – left of labour.
Boris Johnson’s Guarantee
We will get Brexit done in January and unleash the potential of our whole country.
I guarantee:
Extra funding for the NHS, with 50,000 more nurses and 50 million more GP surgery appointments a year.
20,000 more police and tougher sentencing for criminals.
An Australian-style points-based system to control immigration.
Millions more invested every week in science, schools, apprenticeships and infrastructure while controlling debt.
Reaching Net Zero by 2050 with investment in clean energy solutions and green infrastructure to reduce carbon emissions and pollution.
We will not raise the rate of income tax, VAT or National Insurance.
Thank you for supporting our majority Conservative Government so we can move our great country on instead of going backwards.
BORIS JOHNSON
PRIME MINISTER
https://www.conservatives.com/our-plan
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He operated well with Cummins arm up his backside, but it all went pear-shaped when Carrie said ‘No more gobbles unless you put mine up there instead’.
Boris is an empty shell. He has been such a disappointment.
But not as much – I fear – as Truss is going to be. I do not think she is anywhere near PM material at all. Like Brown and May, she would never make it to the top spot for an actual election.
We can overcome this impasse! Let’s Move Forward! “Enough for the Many, Enough for the Few”.
It seems to me that Labour have lost (democratically@40%) but act as though they have won and the Conservatives have won (democratically@42.4%) but are waiting to lose, rather than take power and getting on with it.
So I suggest rather than this continuing this tiring political, we take this problem further a field. Venezuela is praised by some Labour Members as a socialist dream, along with Cuba, South Africa and China. So we do a ‘wealth transfer’ of people.
All members of Labour Party with families (483,000 Labour Members March2017) can transfer to one of the countries that signs up for this great experiment. In response, people from the socialist countries who no longer want the socialist dream, because they are living it, can come to the UK – trying to keep it one for one as close as possible – same skill would be great but this won’t be completely possible.
We run this for 10 years and see where we get to. Socialist get to build their socialist dream in a socialist country, possibly with sunnier weather. The people who have had enough of the socialist dream can come to the UK to work hard and improve the UK.
“For all his flaws, Castro’s support for Angola played a crucial role in bringing an end to Apartheid in South Africa and he will be remembered both as an internationalist and a champion of social justice.” – Corbyn
“Thanks Hugo Chavez for showing that the poor matter and wealth can be shared. He made massive contributions to Venezuela & a very wide world” – Corbyn
“He said his ‘core values’ (interesting to know what they are) had not changed during the 34 years (thats a lot of time to be an MP) as an MP and cited his campaigning against discrimination in South Africa and fighting ‘unfairness’.” Corbyn, april2017
“Well over 150,000 Venezuelans have fled the country in the last year alone, the highest in more than a decade, according to scholars studying the exodus.” newyorkpost / nov2016
The total full-time staff numbers are at 18,974 this year compared with 18,674 in the previous 12 months. The amount spent on on-screen and on-air talent has also increased from £194.23m in 2013/14 to £208.49m in 2014/15.
* “The Great British Bake Off” presenters. BBC salaries paid by you: £500,000. Aug2016
* Claudia Winkleman. Rumoured BBC salary paid by you: More than £500,000.
* Gary Lineker. Rumoured BBC salary paid by you: £1.5 million ($2 million).
* Graham Norton. Rumoured BBC salary paid by you: Up to £2.5 million
BBC and it’s presenters can go as well! Everyone Wins!
Why holiday in a socialist country – when you can live there!
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/06/19/start-the-week-open-thread-129/comment-page-2/#comment-846232
WE ARE ALL EQUAL
It’s like they’ve just stepped out of a salon! It’s the hair-raising question of football in lockdown: how DO so many stars have such stylish cuts when hairdressers are banned?
Premier League players seem to have immaculate hair, despite restrictions
Many of these players’ new dos appear more accomplished than a DIY job
Newcastle United’s Joelinton was fined £200 after posting a snap at the barbers
By JAMES SHARPE FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY
PUBLISHED: 22:30, 6 February 2021 | UPDATED: 06:47, 13 April 2021
Antique Roadshow “Nottingham Here in the museum they have Raleigh bikes”
.. ‘and you know what Raleigh is famous for ?
… That right’s employing black workers
Black and white scenes of the factory
sly edit .. right into a different clip of 50s or 60s black people on a ship ..porthole window
then gang plank
Meanwhile Fiona Bruce’s voice over. “many of its employees came from the VAST influx of African Caribbean immigrants
who arrived in Nottingham as part of the Windrush generation in the post-war years”
(she means AfroCaribbean .. none were from Africa directly)
.. Windrush was not really post was was 1952 ..those were tourists not invited to work
and I’m guessing few came to Rayleigh.
.. footage is still of Windrush to deceive you into thing the black Raleigh
“and two of these black former Raleigh workers have come to the roadshow today”.. it’s not like we set all this up
Lloyd started working there in 1961 at 16 in the wheel shop
it was like a social gathering we could meet all our Caribbean friends and work at the same time
Bettina worked in the offices of the warehouse but I was more interested if any of them went to Jamaica
government set up a special campaign to get Raleigh workers
the Jamaican government threaten to return a consignment of bikes if they weren’t employed
little known fact that many Windrush Caribbean immigrants worked for Raleigh
My error Windrush was 1948
what I mean is that most workers came years later on other boats
So the narrative is that all the black people came on the Windrush right after the war to help Britain rebuild and they were all invited.
The truth seems to be by that they came later and we’re uninvited.
but the Jamaican government pulled tricks because they wanted to solve the unemployment problem in Jamaica
So Raleigh I was kind of blackmailed into accepting more black workers.
The worker that started the campaign to bring more black workers to Raleigh was George Powe he was half Chinese from his father.
Wikipedia says his campaign started in 1956
that is way after the war
From 1966 he was elected as a Labour Party local councillor, he became one of the first Black Labour councillors and the first Black Labour councillor in Greater Nottingham.
Oh “While he advocated for Black people to work at Raleigh George Pow never worked at Raleigh himself.”
A webpage puts the date of the Jamaican worker recruitment plan as after 1958
Strangley I can’t find a date
all sources use the same phrase
“Powe sought the assistance of Jamaica’s first premier, Norman Manley, who promptly placed an embargo upon bicycle imports from England. “
I haven’t seen Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) in some time. Filmed on location at the Raleigh factory.
Are there many black workers in the background while Albert Finney is machining bottom bracket spindles?
OK the root of this story is Nottingham Black Labour Party
there are several websites so that is why they use the same wording
The exhibition montage says that oral histories say that first there were race riots in 1958 then the Norman Manley delegation came and met George Powe
but it says that is contradicted by the letter in Raleigh’s own archive which says the delegation was coming on April 25 1956
The exhibition says that “what is irrefutable is that a large number of black workers worked at Raleigh from the early 1960s after an intervention by Powe”
They also say “We have a letter written by Oswald George Powe to Norman Manley, imploring him to refuse consignments of bicycles ”
The story that Jamaica actually threatened to send back a container of bicycles seems to be undocumented
ie a legend rather than truth
Since the story is so firmly part of the Nottingham Black Labour Party movement I suspect that it is they who set up the item with Antiques Roadshow
So far the story that Raleigh invited black workers to emigrate is undocumented
Rather they say that Raleigh agreed to improves it labour practices towards blakcs
Well there’s one actor anyway!
“All the rest is propaganda!”
They have so far ONLY interviewed black people. Hope they sleep soundly with such obvious white hate fermenting in their heads.
Countryfile , lasted three minutes….so what we need is more horses in UK farming then….reduce the use of nasty diesel tractors…..less food produced and at a higher cost…..OK so I emblazoned it a bit but in a BBC style…and then the coloured presenter ….agenda agenda agenda
The Brazenly Black Communicators can’t help themselves.
The Black and EU proms. Black orchestra and choir banging out Ode to Joy. Couldn’t be better (not).
Black continuity man begging us all to be brothers.
Next week The Eton Boating Song by Syrian dinghy travellers.
An alternate take on Epstein … more reasons that BBC et al won’t touch it with a bargepole…
– from a convicted conman …
– that said it has a certain ring to it and explains a great deal if only partly true…
– from a basketball fan site – of all places…
“It’s gigantically deep.
These are the largest crimes in American history,
and it hasn’t been exposed yet
… You’re on the tip of the iceberg.
Is that where you want to be?”
-Jeffrey Epstein’s former partner Steve Hoffenberg, who was found dead last week