tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27619119648222450702024-03-12T16:03:14.324-07:00The Significance of Ran autobiographical journey
through the wacky world
of synchronicity,
social engineering and the unexplained...
My search for sanity
in an insane world! ...slowly syncing...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04552643095016293044noreply@blogger.comBlogger237125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761911964822245070.post-14972564350301064552023-05-25T12:11:00.002-07:002023-05-25T12:18:55.588-07:00Oh No.… No Odeon... Another Cinema Bites the Dust<p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqt1Mg4rdoqIXfQNkLEu5GS0oO0m3zK69qHgSrwkri7TaoykaqVfD7UesaYXqkHcYhtqZ5ce7X1WDdnj1Gb4-6OBtd4vhsx0L5aKPU4kERpbTlzclHDpwdwkg-od6MmSoYRfmpXNptkdi00DizYckK-0UWMNaCdh2UIu8eHYoxVz00mMqTr5AXehp_/s282/Gremlins%20in%20the%20theatre%203D.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="179" data-original-width="282" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqt1Mg4rdoqIXfQNkLEu5GS0oO0m3zK69qHgSrwkri7TaoykaqVfD7UesaYXqkHcYhtqZ5ce7X1WDdnj1Gb4-6OBtd4vhsx0L5aKPU4kERpbTlzclHDpwdwkg-od6MmSoYRfmpXNptkdi00DizYckK-0UWMNaCdh2UIu8eHYoxVz00mMqTr5AXehp_/w373-h237/Gremlins%20in%20the%20theatre%203D.webp" width="373" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gremlins (1984)</td></tr></tbody></table></p><p><b>Another iconic theatre is set to close its doors.</b></p><p>Any cinema lover growing up, watching favourite films at their local ‘picture house’ will lament with me today. The sad news filters through of yet another Odeon Cinema closing down. Weston-super-Mare’s beloved but slightly neglected Odeon Theatre, is shutting its doors on 5th June. This is not only a blow to the cinephile’s intellect, but also a deep strike at this movie-lover’s heart. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhotwAf1ajFJX6eL2SSENJ80y-e9e8bVmnWEnG6YkfTADlzXnWE-VXfX-6tRJ2hzIDWYZm3nRWv8vS_XAlqKJxqmifsVISileiLRcDU5Qo3eusR8aqxHn-oh8NLl3we-AJh5C4PhC6674GGqnp0yxhhhuRmeTJ427TnsfSueZeqiivGwoXWuoa0crwO/s1024/Odeon%20on%20Modernist%20Britain.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhotwAf1ajFJX6eL2SSENJ80y-e9e8bVmnWEnG6YkfTADlzXnWE-VXfX-6tRJ2hzIDWYZm3nRWv8vS_XAlqKJxqmifsVISileiLRcDU5Qo3eusR8aqxHn-oh8NLl3we-AJh5C4PhC6674GGqnp0yxhhhuRmeTJ427TnsfSueZeqiivGwoXWuoa0crwO/w346-h260/Odeon%20on%20Modernist%20Britain.png" width="346" /></a></div><p>Mirroring the once vibrant town centre of Weston, another seaside resort on the North Somerset coast, which has slowly fallen into dis-repair and despair, the Odeon dies along with tourism and the memories. The Covid pandemic, world-wide economic decline, Internet streaming services, and other technological advances resetting for the digital AI age, have claimed their next victim.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK0_AJv5QmGe_dGA-T0LIgM6jA3hUBDxFMkhTSbZwBa4dufnU1sIafgozN_0rbr8KK4ER5B2XAjtkzqnYadJSvzd0hPUDaws3ITJoYPnKTTSfWkUkILO_ge_Q1Bn2xTZhhNqWd2raLR_qw7Cxm0eeBOM7kJAz5crbvYiDQB2OxSVOFJ5Ey_4M8sgvs/s640/Screen%204%20Odeon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK0_AJv5QmGe_dGA-T0LIgM6jA3hUBDxFMkhTSbZwBa4dufnU1sIafgozN_0rbr8KK4ER5B2XAjtkzqnYadJSvzd0hPUDaws3ITJoYPnKTTSfWkUkILO_ge_Q1Bn2xTZhhNqWd2raLR_qw7Cxm0eeBOM7kJAz5crbvYiDQB2OxSVOFJ5Ey_4M8sgvs/s320/Screen%204%20Odeon.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">No rescue for this Odeon!</td></tr></tbody></table><p>I was alerted through Twitter by friend, and fellow movie-buff, aka The Headless DJ, that my beloved local Somerset Art Deco cinema is closing too. Gone will be its standout 30s architectural heritage, showcasing a minimalistic style, the epitome of ‘high-tech’ for a post-war Britain, and housing (in the floor of Screen Four) one of the two remaining working ‘Compton Theatre Organs’ in existence in the UK. A venue the Beatles once played, apparently twice-nightly for a week in the summer of 1963, and other similar luminaries of the era, like Gene Vincent and Gerry and the Pacemakers.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUYkexJsnUDlOEtn4yIRz3Pr9p1K5Of47ayBbt0SIRRQWf_MNeUpi49yZ2K0h9IUJmqTd8jv-b_cKcmst-vtgzJVdH7wfT248ebKVEyS0NtByV0hZuO-QEADGDk-HFXEtePwk1BmoaUfA4SMbZ9p02p1Kt4JTpJskEXIgs49b4L2e8j1yobZmZAIUH/s1924/Beatles%20Ticket%20to%20the%20Odeon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1924" data-original-width="1240" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUYkexJsnUDlOEtn4yIRz3Pr9p1K5Of47ayBbt0SIRRQWf_MNeUpi49yZ2K0h9IUJmqTd8jv-b_cKcmst-vtgzJVdH7wfT248ebKVEyS0NtByV0hZuO-QEADGDk-HFXEtePwk1BmoaUfA4SMbZ9p02p1Kt4JTpJskEXIgs49b4L2e8j1yobZmZAIUH/s320/Beatles%20Ticket%20to%20the%20Odeon.jpg" width="206" /></a></div><p>I had no idea that the Odeon Cinema Group was cutting its losses by closing several venues throughout the country, including the Blackpool Odeon, Banbury and Oxford, as well as the Odeon in Ayr, Scotland. I was so shocked at this sad news that I rushed over to my local theatre to get the truth from the manager face-to-face. It was alarming to find a table of old billboard posters in the foyer with a ‘Please Take One’ sign, and confirmation from the staff. I admit, I shed a tear or two.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkytOe_vcLfEnA6IvfPYozd5owcXe-uchkrUEADEvtDgeFPyT6dhETPAUB31g4WjeGTsJMvzisyKJplC092LPGD8YljiZiQE93zbpgWzU3j3D2DBuUfX9SQHhi5gFY5C7KPHa6WIlonlxBrBzOYXfa7OkTW14fIcZfPMtzIaM6_BABkanrGhBk5pAS/s643/Gene%20Vincent%20at%20Odeon%20Weston.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="643" data-original-width="458" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkytOe_vcLfEnA6IvfPYozd5owcXe-uchkrUEADEvtDgeFPyT6dhETPAUB31g4WjeGTsJMvzisyKJplC092LPGD8YljiZiQE93zbpgWzU3j3D2DBuUfX9SQHhi5gFY5C7KPHa6WIlonlxBrBzOYXfa7OkTW14fIcZfPMtzIaM6_BABkanrGhBk5pAS/s320/Gene%20Vincent%20at%20Odeon%20Weston.webp" width="228" /></a></div><p>This jolt to the senses had me reminiscing about the good ole’ days spent as a child, watching all the big movie releases with friends and family. So many distant memories, forgotten events, suddenly brought to life again.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijkzRL31FbAywPEIypW0OQ-f_aDwUyNvppQaG_kemFPZ2p1T5fqxaQOce3gNvSPu00syAAwAdID_wgpa8bTcY8FVaPDBNSuouobPycFL03vK5baDW92KDz8QrTOZ3mpOibCKQw4MMTiKhBt7PoF8mSKjkEmTkW7m1vpgxdWBl3MnEWrFh6q6F72_88/s1200/Compton%20Organ.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijkzRL31FbAywPEIypW0OQ-f_aDwUyNvppQaG_kemFPZ2p1T5fqxaQOce3gNvSPu00syAAwAdID_wgpa8bTcY8FVaPDBNSuouobPycFL03vK5baDW92KDz8QrTOZ3mpOibCKQw4MMTiKhBt7PoF8mSKjkEmTkW7m1vpgxdWBl3MnEWrFh6q6F72_88/s320/Compton%20Organ.webp" width="320" /></a></div><p>I remember my first movie experience in Screen One. Climbing up the grand red carpeted split-staircase, into the upper foyer, the velvet Chaise Longues with gold trim edges, packed with people, and then up more stairs into a low-light auditorium, revealing more velvet chairs, a large screen looming white above my head… full of promise. We found our seats and waited with excitement for Walt Disney’s ‘The Rescuers’ (1977). </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEl1Bd78GhcOA-otmvwJKnrCymPORtgl71RidsAD303OKSd1KAC4rNUkMw2ouJQtrCiqzL1qYrqJsEmsn3j-PILX07Z9bXzBgbVa2Pqe1aR_aZsKzLWBQEHuxlrVDIkQfST5UuMQERTrVH4i4BodS1NVhtw8RmmBWlm3GLhzDuf8K-XpyyavMeZSNh/s3000/The%20Rescuers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2273" data-original-width="3000" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEl1Bd78GhcOA-otmvwJKnrCymPORtgl71RidsAD303OKSd1KAC4rNUkMw2ouJQtrCiqzL1qYrqJsEmsn3j-PILX07Z9bXzBgbVa2Pqe1aR_aZsKzLWBQEHuxlrVDIkQfST5UuMQERTrVH4i4BodS1NVhtw8RmmBWlm3GLhzDuf8K-XpyyavMeZSNh/s320/The%20Rescuers.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>It was a rare occasion when my mum wasn’t working and had an hour or two to take me and my little brother to the cinema. We were treated to popcorn from the Usherette’s selection box, during the long-lost tradition of an interval. It was a magical time for us kids, a time before computers, smart phones, and disillusionment.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTf3m-rwMF4iAxR9yxs1hOkR2whKcesOIwdG1Dv51tHEEGT97nm1MJ53f6jCKFJcSceK1rmAJRw9Hloj6ir-8HrVSd6-i8h67ZttP1W_6iXa4ZuzT5xWV4qnqiY_3lOIfrJR0cXvPMopNiNIOkop3juEPTuvVlHGprn70jqwv8jCunYmoqo1KmrmKl/s640/Screen%204%20Odeon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTf3m-rwMF4iAxR9yxs1hOkR2whKcesOIwdG1Dv51tHEEGT97nm1MJ53f6jCKFJcSceK1rmAJRw9Hloj6ir-8HrVSd6-i8h67ZttP1W_6iXa4ZuzT5xWV4qnqiY_3lOIfrJR0cXvPMopNiNIOkop3juEPTuvVlHGprn70jqwv8jCunYmoqo1KmrmKl/s320/Screen%204%20Odeon.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Screen 4 with fashionable hexagonal clock</td></tr></tbody></table><p>I remember my dad trying to get us seats for ‘Star Wars IV: A New Hope’ (1977), but they were like gold and sold-out every day. We cried and sulked, until one afternoon he came home with the coveted tickets, and we finally got to see our first blockbuster in wonderment.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY7e5g4-86s7h2YumAhbO_5946G3My6yt7l0RBkR45ZL8kuKYiuT01dHUrCvWq0rRzaAxzCaEjyUajlFA-O8PBnP3oDJKd7x9F0qdTMlx6-BzZXw2UFuOEiJG9UbfqUP4_x4p-SlrAHiUON45nfQEWg7-gm68z_5uXqASUZOipI93jAbWajRu-7MEb/s1002/bond%20007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1002" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY7e5g4-86s7h2YumAhbO_5946G3My6yt7l0RBkR45ZL8kuKYiuT01dHUrCvWq0rRzaAxzCaEjyUajlFA-O8PBnP3oDJKd7x9F0qdTMlx6-BzZXw2UFuOEiJG9UbfqUP4_x4p-SlrAHiUON45nfQEWg7-gm68z_5uXqASUZOipI93jAbWajRu-7MEb/s320/bond%20007.jpg" width="255" /></a></div><p>I remember a giant cut-out iconic James Bond 007 of Roger Moore, Walther PPK gun in hand, adorning the tall flat roof of the Odeon in 1981, ‘For Your Eyes Only’, held in place by ropes, it was visible for miles. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_uqH-jrdwmL-epg5CHc71ehU9sbUoTWKOAwzD6UzhucTLligI52ACcyHYl9t3zAdmG3B_I1Se_9H2TODi5xQmDg3bp2js96qkXW24iSGqJ8MPqW3EWudLMe60C4k1LYBSqZi5XWVw5CgGZpPk5IrVXhQBl39sk2IYhoNr0rXaNfD7yQkBQOKQi-i7/s1407/Blue%20Thunder%20poster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1407" data-original-width="936" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_uqH-jrdwmL-epg5CHc71ehU9sbUoTWKOAwzD6UzhucTLligI52ACcyHYl9t3zAdmG3B_I1Se_9H2TODi5xQmDg3bp2js96qkXW24iSGqJ8MPqW3EWudLMe60C4k1LYBSqZi5XWVw5CgGZpPk5IrVXhQBl39sk2IYhoNr0rXaNfD7yQkBQOKQi-i7/s320/Blue%20Thunder%20poster.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><p>I remember trying to get into the Odeon, pretending to be 15, to see director John Badham’s ‘Blue Thunder’ (1983), a very ‘adult’ film at the time. The lady that sat in the round cubicle ticket office, which use to be in the centre of the foyer, checked me up and down saying I looked about 12 so there was no ticket for me!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVivuV7tZ7lLo7Rk4e5TCljnWzAXJBaMb2LIYVUwUFumgJp962NeRBhNgHz9rQ5tB3AuXwIi61Iy1rcPMD9bGUde9bmzbpYTrOQ5f0hyl6WLQ3jEbq0zBIRX8N_ngewCNUJCPXI7uxxifiX9RNNkJQ89iOuYFTQGQuHmpAwCWhNIu4--Gve5ExF_nH/s1486/BacktotheFuture.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="836" data-original-width="1486" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVivuV7tZ7lLo7Rk4e5TCljnWzAXJBaMb2LIYVUwUFumgJp962NeRBhNgHz9rQ5tB3AuXwIi61Iy1rcPMD9bGUde9bmzbpYTrOQ5f0hyl6WLQ3jEbq0zBIRX8N_ngewCNUJCPXI7uxxifiX9RNNkJQ89iOuYFTQGQuHmpAwCWhNIu4--Gve5ExF_nH/s320/BacktotheFuture.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>I remember my best friend visiting from Bournemouth, to watch ‘Back to the Future (1985) in Screen Two, and it was so packed out that management brought in metal foldable chairs to add to the end of the isles. People were turned away in droves, even though they filled two auditoriums. We were the lucky ones it seemed.</p><p>I remember baby-sitting a friend’s sister and taking her to see ‘Hook’ (1991), attempting to be mature, while dozens of very loud children trampled all over my feet going in and out of the isle. I swore I’d never do it again. My feet hurt just watching a TV rerun of it now.</p><p>I remember seeing ‘Remains of the Day’ (1993) in Screen Three, and everyone talking loudly over each other whenever a Somerset landmark appeared on screen, it was so off-putting in that tiny auditorium. I can’t watch Emma Thompson anymore, far too annoying.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtZJae_2p85yqagw9Hj81BeQporK4T9S360mc-Allv0P3tsCybCbNF18nMtgR7s-QUWoYISR8RFHMa1qTGsD_eJwXELy22Ebivmy193SPD8-7nE3OQcf0t6hQp7rXg3FJr0h1HGUhIvYnMa_MLkWoDvKnd9wjuLmzBj594xoRVwuHgmGLZqunhv5u1/s1920/remains%20of%20the%20day%20on%20the%20pier.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtZJae_2p85yqagw9Hj81BeQporK4T9S360mc-Allv0P3tsCybCbNF18nMtgR7s-QUWoYISR8RFHMa1qTGsD_eJwXELy22Ebivmy193SPD8-7nE3OQcf0t6hQp7rXg3FJr0h1HGUhIvYnMa_MLkWoDvKnd9wjuLmzBj594xoRVwuHgmGLZqunhv5u1/s320/remains%20of%20the%20day%20on%20the%20pier.jpg"/></a></div></p><p>I remember my brother and his mates trying to sneak in through the side Emergency Exit door on Alexandra Parade, to see Val Kilmer in ‘Batman Forever’ (1995), while myself and a friend had bought our tickets and waited for them to arrive through ‘legal’ means. When they didn’t turn up, we went to look for them, figuring that they would be messing around, and finding one of them snogging his girlfriend in the stairwell, next to the Mens toilets, forgetting to open the fire-door to let the others in.</p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4nH2VLBLUwKwKX_WZkckeqDAcmaQV3Zmya6T8rbqP811ubzNMVf35Ca_IoHjrk37OUtgE7cilN67ofMKEx-vEMlDGPkzDzvZ6US9J23nEf8hALQyZsox3E1TYR23BOVIhRaqCGtRCgDl9JTzz-e7biHTYenPD4GsPFsGnOqWF5ZzqRXmox2WsXU7X/s1200/Val%20Kilmer%20Batman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="1200" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4nH2VLBLUwKwKX_WZkckeqDAcmaQV3Zmya6T8rbqP811ubzNMVf35Ca_IoHjrk37OUtgE7cilN67ofMKEx-vEMlDGPkzDzvZ6US9J23nEf8hALQyZsox3E1TYR23BOVIhRaqCGtRCgDl9JTzz-e7biHTYenPD4GsPFsGnOqWF5ZzqRXmox2WsXU7X/s320/Val%20Kilmer%20Batman.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p>The 80s and 90s were the ‘hay days’ of the Weston Odeon I remember from my youth. Can you see a trend…. as the economy sinks, and technology changes, viewing figures plummet. It was only a matter of time before running a seaside cinema became, in the words of the Odeon’s spokesperson, “no-longer viable”. </p><p>Many of us will be sad to see it gone, boarded-up, yet another casualty of ‘progress’. A pivotal element of our art and cultural experience soon reduced to dust. It would take hundreds of thousands of pounds to save the Odeon now, and more than nostalgia to bring it out of a soon to be bygone age. </p><p>I will forever remember it as the place that brought my dreams alive, put stars in my eyes, and gave me hope for the future… all on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Goodbye Odeon old friend and thanks for the memories!</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxexDQfrd1McOqrMjZltal8kTSMcO3czY0A30PzdSQxR0Y7HMTp6-1sfBHnvEXlQLGrOZBsLm_NvbrNSKxu8qac14V8miC0vv3tkY_a7-a3bxpEAHRwqkjAuelOA5-aMCfI9-lBXjOmHps94KQij1lV2xYBQQss_Oj7lsp-LB3EYDJN4RE87EAHRAv/s450/beyondthunderdome.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="299" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxexDQfrd1McOqrMjZltal8kTSMcO3czY0A30PzdSQxR0Y7HMTp6-1sfBHnvEXlQLGrOZBsLm_NvbrNSKxu8qac14V8miC0vv3tkY_a7-a3bxpEAHRwqkjAuelOA5-aMCfI9-lBXjOmHps94KQij1lV2xYBQQss_Oj7lsp-LB3EYDJN4RE87EAHRAv/s320/beyondthunderdome.webp" width="213" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">RIP Tina Turner (1939-2023)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p>...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04552643095016293044noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761911964822245070.post-37758745658585109202023-04-11T11:42:00.002-07:002023-04-11T11:42:49.231-07:00Bird on The Wyre - The Strange Case of Nicola Bulley<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqp5UYCxDUmLEQ-SjPDSEUEHAr7yx9RtUSmtfVzwMrATW76a82iHNb5mF6PLGukbDC0bxC2mUKwfOwf6GFE27874me-H1yykn24QVG-q7Mix4nerZ3-jQF0xOJHhlLHPFyPYRBxwom4xiFyTtIzHOltK3xWPeaN0RGV0K3Y3akfutdkw8Rm5Wk03HN/s284/Bird%20on%20the%20Wyre.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="177" data-original-width="284" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqp5UYCxDUmLEQ-SjPDSEUEHAr7yx9RtUSmtfVzwMrATW76a82iHNb5mF6PLGukbDC0bxC2mUKwfOwf6GFE27874me-H1yykn24QVG-q7Mix4nerZ3-jQF0xOJHhlLHPFyPYRBxwom4xiFyTtIzHOltK3xWPeaN0RGV0K3Y3akfutdkw8Rm5Wk03HN/w382-h238/Bird%20on%20the%20Wyre.jpg" width="382" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(Disclaimer:
Sensitive subject matter, could be triggering for some, could be seen as a Psyop
by others!)<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It was a
cold January morning… </span>this is how the story goes… but let’s not repeat
overly used tropes and intros, they do no justice. <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There’s scarcely a person in Britain that’s not heard of the
strange case of Nicola Bulley, a young, fit, white middle-class mother of two,
with loving partner, nice home, good job, who seemingly had everything to live
for. She had disappeared. Not a soul had seen hide nor hair of her since the
morning of Friday, January 27<sup>th</sup>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, 23 days later, she turned up dead on a countryside
riverbank, unseen for weeks, apparently bobbing and floating in the murky cold-water
reeds. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Why is it a strange case you ask, don’t thousands of people
go missing everyday everywhere? That’s true, and statistically 170,000 people
are reported missing annually in the UK. Some are found, some remain a mystery.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Nicola Bulley case would’ve been no exception, if it
wasn’t for the media furore and international attention that her disappearance
garnered, along with that inevitable social media frenzy. You know, when everyone,
and their mother, becomes transfixed with solving a seemingly ‘odd’ missing
persons case. Where people trade insults and make nasty crude videos, or claim
they know a friend of a friend of the family, who saw such-and-such at the Pub
last night. The Youtubers, the Tik Tokers, the Twitterers, the Insta-blaggers.
We all know them, some of us ARE them. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Where could she have gone screamed the hordes, even her
partner and close family stated in media interviews: ‘People don’t just disappear
into thin air… someone knows something!’<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Obviously, someone does know. People taking their children
to school and walking the dog along their usual greenspace don’t just happen to
fall into rivers and drown without cause. Then again, maybe people throw themselves
into bodies of water to purposely put an end to their lives, but who would
choose a water depth of only a couple of meters, no guarantee your goal would
be reached. Better to jump off a high-rise, or poison yourself, the chances of
success greatly increase.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My personal fascination with the case falls in line with my
interest in true crime, or rather, trying to solve the unsolvable. I have an
urge to delve into the mysteries of the world thinking I can find a solution
where others fail. A bit vein I know, but who doesn’t love a good ‘Who Done It’,
and bragging rights on ‘I told You So!’ <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Let’s get serious now. This case continues to cause a buzz
on social media due to the ‘Mainstream media’s’ explosive coverage, and the Police’s
seemingly inept handling of the case. A story quickly picked up on by international
news outlets and high-readership newspapers, seeing the British public’s interest
skyrocketing in this digital age, where information moves like lightening, and
TV news anchors are left flailing in the backdraft. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Police and public undertook extensive searches of the area Nicola
went missing. Experts were brought in but found nothing. Then suddenly her body
is found in an area gone over by many. The question of ‘Why wasn’t she found?’
became the mantra for those who felt something was not ‘quite right’ with the
case.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There’s been 24-hour coverage, which on the surface is no
different than your average missing persons mystery, but it’s helped cement
this case, turning it into one for the history books. As it speeds along,
becoming as bizarre as the public’s imagination can devise, everyone is asking,
‘What happened to Nicola Bulley?’ It’s March now, and there is no clear answer,
yet.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’ve covered a few of these strange cases on this blog over
the years, from a synchromystic point of view. The world has moved on a lot,
and public perception of ‘highly strange’ incidents has evolved. People have
become more sophisticated in trying to understand things that don’t make sense.
Synchronicity plays its part, so does conspiracy. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The elements of ‘high strangeness’ in the Nicola Bulley Case
are listed below. I won’t delve in detail as there is far too much to analyse.
I leave that to others. A superficial Google search will garner all the info
you might need to do your own ‘investigating’. </p><p class="MsoNormal">However, just looking at the
number of inconsistencies, strange coincidences, and down-right weirdness surrounding
this case, you have to wonder what is really going on here. The media frenzy
has quietened down, readying for the inquest in June. Was this a simple case of
a missing person, or a masterly crafted Psy-Op, manipulation of the masses for
money, Police corruption, or something else entirely …There are people saying
that Nicola Bulley was never at the location she disappeared from in the first
place… others are saying… <b><i>she never existed at all?</i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Missing and last seen at Bench no. 23<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>No. of days missing, then found on the 23<sup>rd</sup> day.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>The Online Psychic ‘Medium’ who stated he was in contact
with her and eventually located her.</u><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(He could be seen as one of those Internet Ghouls, one of those
trolls that everyone hates on, right?)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>‘The Body Language Panel’ experts exonerated the partner,
as did all professionals in the case BEFORE she was found</u>! <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Strange ‘<u>Go Fund Me’ activity by the best friend</u>. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(The page recently reactivated by the sister in favour of
the partner (by default, the children)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Images of Google Maps showing the wrong location of the
supposed ‘last place seen’.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Home CCTV ‘images’ released were provided by the best
friend – images only - NOT video.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(Some commentators mentioning the likeness of the image to
the best friend, and NOT to Nicola e.g.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Facial, hair and clothing similarities between Nicola and
best friend in pics and videos).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Geolocation, mobile pings, and Fitbit data accessed by
Police, but ambiguously referred to only once in a press conference.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>The Work Teams Data accessed by Police but not made
public except for an end-time.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>The eyewitnesses remain unnamed, public kept guessing,
some witnesses did NOT come forward in the first few days, even though their
pictures from Police released CCTV, were on the front pages of the tabloids.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Timeline</u> skewed… as Nicola’s belongings were found,
but not reported on for one hour and a half. This time has now been disputed as
Sky news ‘bumped into’ a witness who gave a differing timeline to events. (Said
witness turning out to be a relation to other witnesses in the case!)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">No explanation for the<u> Clothing worn at time of going
missing</u> not being accurately reported in the media appeal for information.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>The ‘Jan 10th Incident</u>’, where Police and medical
personnel were called to the home of Nicola following an incident. Police
referred themselves to the Independent Commission for Police Conduct (ICPC) and
are now under investigation themselves, after their so-called ‘Welfare Check’ at
Nicola’s home on January 10<sup>th </sup>was mishandled. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(This led to questions about what Police already knew prior
to her disappearance.)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Media v Social Media backlash after Police reveal </u><b><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">private medical information</span></u></b><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span>about Nicola to the press.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>A reported witness coming forward to say they saw a
suspicious ‘Red Van’ in the area </u>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(A red car/van is then seen in the background (through a
window) of the ITV/Channel documentary presented by Dan Walker.)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>The Channel 5 Documentary</u> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Allegedly: The sister was an audience member at the BBC
Strictly Come Dancing TV show. She was there watching news presenter Dan Walker
participate. Nicolas’s ex-husband was also there, he is married to a TV actress
from a popular soap drama, taking part. Nichola’s ex-husband and sister all
know each other, photos showing them back-stage with ITV presenter Dan Walker. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(This story is pretty confused so forgive me for any
inaccuracy of ‘rumours circulating’ and thus being picked up online!)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ITV presenter<u> Dan Walker</u> is almost killed during a
bike ride on the following Sunday morning, the same morning Nicola is
discovered.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(News media run a story of Dan with blood on his face
sitting in a hospital bed)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The ’Hunted’ Reality TV show for Channel 4 was filmed at the
<u>caravan site</u> a few years earlier – being the last known location of
Nicola seen by witnesses. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(Reported on Twitter & YouTube in various places)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Nicola’s Partner businesses</u>, their dealings with the
Aerospace industry, with engineering, with insurances and mortgages, their bankruptcies,
and the locations of their businesses being out of the area they live. They
worked from home (like many people) which gave them flexibility. Part of their
daily routine was apparently to take turns running the children to school in
the morning and picking them up later on.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It was reported that best friend Emma made online searches
and contacted <u>True Crime YouTube</u> <u>influencers</u> for help during the ‘search
period’! <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>The Pin Interest pics of girls</u> – and subsequent
reports of hacking partner’s online sites, or vice -versa. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>The Famous Diving expert</u> – Social media push for him
to get involved for free and now vilify him for not finding Nichola, after
saying ‘If she’s in that River, I’ll find her. I can categorically say she was
not in that river!’ <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(The expert now dropped from crime professionals list by
Police and publicly disgraced. The expert’s book launch and subsequent meetings
with family – claiming he was not being told full history by them.)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Police not revealing</u> then ultimately revealing too
much information about Nicola, forcing them to change the officers in charge,
twice, one detective being joked about due to her attire (tight fitting dress
and makeup).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Helicopters and drones</u> – but NO road closures, or
sealing off, or cordoning off of the areas by Police. This allowed sightseers
and amateur sleuths to walk all over the ‘possible crime scene’!<u> Tik Tokers</u>
walking the route, searching, and digging.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Police continued to state that Nicola fell into the River
Wyre, but then changed their comments to say that they believed several
scenarios could have taken place. The family publicly stated that they had now disagreed
with this, although Police kept to their working hypothesis that she fell in
the river.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sky News chief anchor Kay Burley walking the route, talking
to people, meeting witnesses and reporting live from the scene.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">True crime gurus discover two <u>previous missing persons
cases from the same location.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Not clear answer yet as to the <u>drowning/suicide/or murder
angle – Police give no further press conference.</u><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Coroner to release full findings in June 2023, with
outcome of forensics and ‘further investigations’ taken after autopsy etc.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On 9<sup>th</sup> March, it was reported a man has been
arrested over footage shot from inside a police cordon (!) on the day the body
of Nicola Bulley was found in the River Wyre.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“The 34-year-old man from Kidderminster, Worcestershire, was
arrested on suspicion of malicious communications offences and perverting the
course of justice in connection with the investigation to find Ms Bulley. <u>The
arrest relates to footage taken from inside a police cordon on 19 February and
later posted online</u>.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It was further reported that ‘the man from Kidderminster’
has been talking to witnesses, the sister of Nicola Bulley, and her friend
Emma. What will he discover whilst getting under the feet of detectives.
Someone was digging in the woods at the beginning of the case, in flagrant
violation of police pleas for people not to do so but applauded by the public
for being ‘proactive’. Was this the same person with a YouTube channel and huge
number of clocks, viewed thousands of times, or was it one of the True Crime
podcasters that descended on the area?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Today, 11<sup>th</sup> April, we hear the following from authorities, after weeks
of silence…<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11960259/Police-divers-return-river-Nicola-Bulleys-body-found.html">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11960259/Police-divers-return-river-Nicola-Bulleys-body-found.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">“Dr James Adeley, Senior Coroner for
Lancashire, has asked Lancashire Police to return to the water for
investigative work to help confirm her cause of death and what happened before
she was found in the reeds on February 20.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><i><o:p> </o:p></i><i>A senior national police source, with
experience of similar cases, told MailOnline that the decision to send divers
back in shows how seriously the investigation is being taken.</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><i><o:p> </o:p></i><i>'The coroner clearly wants more answers
and potential evidence', the insider added.”</i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><br /><p></p>...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04552643095016293044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761911964822245070.post-37287074449997379182023-01-30T11:36:00.001-08:002023-02-02T11:43:37.194-08:00The Fabelmans (2022)<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYLugmXwsbJdzqQ5iyO27gjH7ZLeKqQjUW9fciSs5ApAaLajh6IfTc-7oZ8CP2Xyncj7O3E8gJtQ1BnsaacVjrBSmAQmKhXqxUzEeC3tXWktY-CUDMVGPXgos5Pb7Ncsa7ZKFhXizvl5JOMG8IT1JkgF3L72MJkZFqwvP9PsmFudBwW7HNF3n99cA6/s1096/the-fabelmans-image-1-e1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="548" data-original-width="1096" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYLugmXwsbJdzqQ5iyO27gjH7ZLeKqQjUW9fciSs5ApAaLajh6IfTc-7oZ8CP2Xyncj7O3E8gJtQ1BnsaacVjrBSmAQmKhXqxUzEeC3tXWktY-CUDMVGPXgos5Pb7Ncsa7ZKFhXizvl5JOMG8IT1JkgF3L72MJkZFqwvP9PsmFudBwW7HNF3n99cA6/w489-h259/the-fabelmans-image-1-e1.jpg" width="489" /></a></p><p></p><p><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>(Some spoilers) ... </b></span></i>From the moment the screen lights up, Spielberg lets us know immediately what ‘The Fabelmans’ is. It’s a fable. It’s a story about a family that falls apart for various reasons, and how our young protagonist Sam ‘Sammy’ Fabelman, (loosely based on a young Spielberg, and played effortlessly by TV actor Gabriel LaBelle) sees, and ultimately deals with the truth of life witnessed through the lens of his various cameras. </p><p>We meet Sammy at age 6 when he’s taken by mum and dad to the ‘moving pictures’ for the first time. They’re about to watch Cecil B. DeMille’s ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’ (1952). A reluctant Sammy is persuaded into the cinema by his father Burt (Paul Dano) who explains things in scientific jargon, while his mother Mitzi (Michelle Williams) appeals more to his senses. This, we’re told, is the catalyst which sends Fabelman (Spielberg) off down the road to Hollywood.</p><p>As Sammy grows, he takes inspiration and courage watching his family, though mostly apathetic, he’s writing a script to suit his POV. The Fabelmans is not the Spielberg film you expect, despite the by-lines that its semi-autobiographic. Yes, it’s Spielberg’s passion project, his most personal film, and perhaps his most intimate movie and … yadda yadda yadda… to use a well-worn-out Yiddish phrase so beloved of Hollywood. It’s all those things, but is it the truth? You can guess at the real story if you like, there are clues scattered throughout, hinting to anyone who cares to question a little deeper. It’s a truth he’d like you to believe.</p><p>Let’s be honest here, Spielberg wants to be honest after all, he wants the audience to see what it was like growing up for arguably the world’s most famous contemporary director. For example, he wants you to see how he envied his Christian neighbours as a child, not because of ‘Jesus’, but because he coveted their Christmas fairy lights, which turn up later in the movie, in full-blown, slightly hilarious, sacrilegious glory. When asked by his mother what he wants for Hannukah, among other things, he asks for fairy lights.</p><p>Talking of magic, the cast is enchanting as Spielberg rarely gets this wrong, and Michelle Williams as Sammy’s very patient mother is a standout, deserving her Oscar nom. In fact, the entire cast is wonderful, dare I say, even the uncle that’s not really an ‘uncle,’ Bennie (Seth Rogan)!</p><p>Spielberg reveals his inspiration for some of the big hits, but strangely only a little sci-fi. Jaws is blaringly obvious, even 1941, ET and Schindler’s List, are here, ‘Hollywood’ heroes old and new, annoying little sisters, you name it, they’re in here somewhere. There is plenty of shameless name dropping of all the corporations, and government projects, his father worked on, going some way to explaining why the family did so much moving across the country during the 50s and 60s.</p><p>Although I liked the film for its subject, I found it overly long, and far too slow, with some scenes really dragging during the first half, – so slowly in fact, that you think you’re watching some European art film on BBC4 (sorry to BBC4 viewers). Counterbalance this and intersperse it with shorter scenes of pure genius; I wouldn’t have paid the ticket for a Spielberg movie experience otherwise. </p><p>Sorry Steven for what I’m about to say. I don’t want to be downbeat about your film, it’s a great film for fans, and those with a love of filmmaking in general, or the history of cinema, perhaps also those who are looking for answers into why their dysfunctional family broke down, The high-school scenes are genuinely brilliant, but this is not really the movie I want to watch. I’ve never ever said that about a Spielberg film before. Go see it and tell me I’m wrong.</p><div><br /></div>...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04552643095016293044noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761911964822245070.post-91081884038086793402022-07-04T16:38:00.003-07:002022-07-04T17:22:34.023-07:00Elvis (2022)<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAiETw9gFMhE7xocgFewL2S6uY01NJsG6hxxZZQSq6z3ZyaCDD0VF_gSyu5qLmfEKXnBcDkbGFraUQCYohSZa3oSiBLBsGrBE65YvfIJR3WK1qphqNZt5PzlEgSZ3OUVVum8Pp4QQNL_E7YLdM9Abvw6ySYVQNg0mUgJlwXzXnRfzbezn46LE9IVJJ/s300/Elvis%20pic%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAiETw9gFMhE7xocgFewL2S6uY01NJsG6hxxZZQSq6z3ZyaCDD0VF_gSyu5qLmfEKXnBcDkbGFraUQCYohSZa3oSiBLBsGrBE65YvfIJR3WK1qphqNZt5PzlEgSZ3OUVVum8Pp4QQNL_E7YLdM9Abvw6ySYVQNg0mUgJlwXzXnRfzbezn46LE9IVJJ/w384-h215/Elvis%20pic%201.jpg" width="384" /></a></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I went into this movie expecting the usual formulaic biopic, with an extra rhinestone thrown in, seeing as the main attraction is the <b>King of Rock n’ Roll Elvis Presley </b>and its director/writer extraordinaire, one Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge, The Great Gatsby). I came out with a song in my heart and tears in my eyes, as co-writers Sam Bromell, and Craig Pearce, dished out an extravaganza rarely comprehended on the silver screen by previous films tackling the rise and fall of beloved music icons.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Presley, embodied here by Austin Butler, who you may remember from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) has resurrected Elvis for a new era. There are plenty of good actors in this movie, impersonating well known characters in Elvis’ life, but Butler is a standout. He first appears channelling a sort of John Travolta (his Danny Zuko period) then swiftly transforms before our eyes into The King of Rock n’ Roll, like a contemporary rock star taking to the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This latest story, told to us by the weary eyed Tom Hanks as Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis’ infamous manager, is narrating an apology for our misconceptions. He fancies himself as the Greatest Showman, a sort of PT Barnum of the 1950s. Like all entertainment managers who raise to the top but fall harder, he dreams of a mega Vegas opening night to take him away from the usual circus acts and family shows that he promotes. Hanks is always good playing real people if you can push prosthetics aside. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">There are a couple of moments which drop the spectacle, where you could even call ‘Elvis’ a satirical political thriller, though only just. There’s a comic-book style which moves us at a dizzying pace through Elvis’ life, capturing the Zeitgeist, from segregation to Vietnam. Not everything we’ve heard about Elvis is in here, just the headlines, but your questions about the music that moulded him are answered. It’s also an interesting show and tell about the business, and the way artists are used by their managers to make a fast buck. It’s also a story about prejudice and culture, about our double standards, in a world where ‘change is gonna come’ whether you like it or not.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Fans of Elvis should find this movie appealing, although anyone with an ounce of appreciation for rock n’ roll, will be tapping their feet and singing under their breath. There are clipped scenes of orgasmic rapturous number one tunes that have been hiding in our collective unconscious, lyrics we thought we didn’t know, until they’re dragged out of us on karaoke night.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It’s a rollicking ride, brash and ballsy, full of the hype that Hollywood promises, and a sharp blow to the senses. With all the subtlety of a bulldozer crushing rides at a fairground Elvis delivers. Never again will you look at him in quite the same way. As I said at the beginning, I went into this movie expecting the usual formulaic biopic, I came out of the cinema knowing Elvis Lives!</span></p><div><br /></div>...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04552643095016293044noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761911964822245070.post-56761419032406053162022-04-06T10:22:00.000-07:002022-04-06T10:22:09.816-07:00The Long Game – Cypriot Style<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5IK0QdMy0fCQ1555Z9VrX6GKWClV6MtaWsK4hzcTuG6eBrU_vvBllCJbfSdEfPYEt7wmcnlJDYzJ0ILXxFLbUoCAz_D1s7y8fgWSiD7AwdmgAMcRDh361d9rzpFZMStxwkwHpdyIAxCCDEhY9e1KFtA163SpwVF8rCRmjWhr53Dwt2RSfRMhUSdKT/s770/Zelenskyy%20US%20Congress.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="513" data-original-width="770" height="273" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5IK0QdMy0fCQ1555Z9VrX6GKWClV6MtaWsK4hzcTuG6eBrU_vvBllCJbfSdEfPYEt7wmcnlJDYzJ0ILXxFLbUoCAz_D1s7y8fgWSiD7AwdmgAMcRDh361d9rzpFZMStxwkwHpdyIAxCCDEhY9e1KFtA163SpwVF8rCRmjWhr53Dwt2RSfRMhUSdKT/w411-h273/Zelenskyy%20US%20Congress.webp" width="411" /></a></p><p><b>Yes, Cyprus has some fabulous golf courses</b>, there have even been a few PGA European Tours held at the aptly named, ‘Aphrodite Hills’. This post however, is nothing to do with golf, and everything to do with the geo-political power-grabbing machinations of the elites, who love using Cyprus as their ‘play thing’. My comments are prompted by the news today, that the heroic (sic) President of Ukraine, <b>Volodymyr Zelenskyy, will address Parliament. </b></p><p>On March 8th, <b>America, on behalf of Zelenskyy</b> we’re told, asked the Cypriot Government to send its military hardware to Ukraine to aid the fight. Rightly so, those in the know, are upset with the suggestion that, under pressure from the US, Cyprus would give up its expensive Russian made arms and send them to the Ukrainians.</p><p>As one TV news anchor put it, what will we use to defend ourselves if we do that, sticks and stones, bows and arrows? He’s not wrong though. The weaponry bought at considerable cost from Russia was precisely because of<b> US sanctions on ‘Lethal Aid’ </b>and embargo on any kind of weaponry being brought into Cyprus to avoid a ‘future’ conflict scenario. </p><p>Let’s remember though, the threat of a new invasion by Turkey was/is very much in the background of everyone’s psyche in Cyprus. <b>Turkey has after all 30,000+ troops stationed a few miles away from the capital city, Nicosia.</b> (According to the UN, this is the most militarised zone of amassed soldier-power <b>ANYWHERE in the world!</b>) It’s the last European city remaining divided by war since 1974, which was the last time the Turks invaded, taking 37% of the island. Doing precisely the exact same thing that the West accuses Russia of doing to Ukraine today.</p><p>The frankly pathetic Cypriot military machine is no match for a superpower like Turkey. Everyone knows this, but the false sense of security provided by Russian arms, keeps the status quo appearing to be legitimate on the world stage. Nobody expects Turkey to re-invade, but then again, Erdogan, Turkey’s president, isn’t known for his predictability. The animosity between Greek and Turk has never ceased, it quietly festers in the background of every ‘peace envoy’s mission, every peace summit and dinner party that the Cypriot president holds with his friends from the north. Therefore, to ask the Cypriots to relinquish their arms in favour of keeping the Americans happy is like … well… you’d have to be dumb to fall for that one!</p><p>To really get to grips with what is happening, and why this tiny, wounded island of Cyprus, is so important, yet is often left off maps of the region… until recently… mainly because they found vast reserves of natural gas and possibly oil, which since has spawned the ‘<b>EastMed</b>’ project…. We need to understand Cyprus’ position in the world. I won’t get into a long-protracted history lesson which shows where we have reached <b>since the Turkish Invasion of 1974</b>. However, using Wikipedia, and all its faults, I’ll give you a rundown of the events I lived through over the last few years. It’s my truth as they say. These events are 100% externally triggered, and show you the long game in play … and that we’re almost reaching the culmination of American and British efforts to collect their pay-off…</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6R_HHJLx71n9rcOr2EGSHqNTFgHFC-UZNVCZfW5EJPDekt-xo-d1r312mocaNhkeKA5jc1ofHEmVq97Q55SQiLm6AvzBwbfbVyHFVDqAhzvn-QGh9PL6B4HXBmcNoa4Ympk9wffI9RqRjQ0TUjhXdrqeqEGUngvyLWBXNMzNK673YfEFCkf7GSjWk/s600/s-300_missile_system.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="340" data-original-width="600" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6R_HHJLx71n9rcOr2EGSHqNTFgHFC-UZNVCZfW5EJPDekt-xo-d1r312mocaNhkeKA5jc1ofHEmVq97Q55SQiLm6AvzBwbfbVyHFVDqAhzvn-QGh9PL6B4HXBmcNoa4Ympk9wffI9RqRjQ0TUjhXdrqeqEGUngvyLWBXNMzNK673YfEFCkf7GSjWk/w382-h209/s-300_missile_system.jpg" width="382" /></a></div><div><b><u>The Cypriot S-300 crisis </u></b>was a tense and rapidly escalating political standoff between the Republic of Cyprus and the Republic of Turkey between early 1997 and late 1998. The confrontation was sparked by Cypriot plans to install two Russian-made S-300 air-defence missile sites on their territory, provoking Turkey into threatening an attack or even all-out war if the missiles were not returned to Russia. The missile deal with Russia represented the Cyprus government's first serious attempt at building a credible air defence system after all the years of Turkish superiority in the air. The crisis effectively ended in December 1998 with the decision of the Cypriot government to transfer the S-300s to Greece's Hellenic Air Force in exchange for alternative weapons from Greece. The crisis also led to the collapse of Cyprus's coalition government. Greece's Hellenic Air Force installed the system on the island of Crete. As of 2021 the S-300s still operate there. </div><div><br /></div><div>My truth: We walked around with our passports in our pocket, day and night, ready to evacuate to the ports, because everyone feared Turkey was about to invade. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiOZVNaWSSdlCQ_IdwUsrx7cFYkyASn04d6l2OvuXIIPDvLOT3LWTVizxDMF8uQQuqYCog3iXyK32LrIhrqAdmRqgE5EwfCuYRMuxiEaWemuZLcA7179M9Czjre84PEwg9IXzHM49I2f-Hko5uD-Hw2L1s-mWn2M4Ci-cegZ7PvAwwyZHJXtokQXCS/s456/EU%20symbol.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="456" data-original-width="456" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiOZVNaWSSdlCQ_IdwUsrx7cFYkyASn04d6l2OvuXIIPDvLOT3LWTVizxDMF8uQQuqYCog3iXyK32LrIhrqAdmRqgE5EwfCuYRMuxiEaWemuZLcA7179M9Czjre84PEwg9IXzHM49I2f-Hko5uD-Hw2L1s-mWn2M4Ci-cegZ7PvAwwyZHJXtokQXCS/w259-h259/EU%20symbol.jpg" width="259" /></a></div>On April 16, 2003, President Tassos Papadopoulos signed the <b><u>Treaty of Accession of Cyprus to the European Union.</u></b> The signing of this historic Treaty, which took place in Athens, represented the cornerstone of Cyprus’ path towards accession to the EU, which had taken many decades to reach. On May 1, 2004, Cyprus became a full EU Member State, along with the other nine acceding countries – The Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia. (Cyprus joined the Euro Zone and adopted the Euro as official currency in 2008.)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGttm2is9wZSFBgsjbji5KvNQxX0vnsWoQOUolp5fV7Wx4CW_d8xduqfO9FovjaoDStU-6K7EkBcdTj-LRQ8P9D4AOJl7In0jyvBy9Zs9S53NaYmF43O80LvHwOD4vGr_e7MtK95XfKu681lvs5u9zczDHqWjV8tvy6aHe7WMSHAYvIgxmzT3LQAHO/s1024/Kofi-Annan%20Nobel%20Peace%20Prize%20Winner%202001.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="632" data-original-width="1024" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGttm2is9wZSFBgsjbji5KvNQxX0vnsWoQOUolp5fV7Wx4CW_d8xduqfO9FovjaoDStU-6K7EkBcdTj-LRQ8P9D4AOJl7In0jyvBy9Zs9S53NaYmF43O80LvHwOD4vGr_e7MtK95XfKu681lvs5u9zczDHqWjV8tvy6aHe7WMSHAYvIgxmzT3LQAHO/w331-h205/Kofi-Annan%20Nobel%20Peace%20Prize%20Winner%202001.webp" width="331" /></a></div><div><b><u>The Annan Plan</u></b>, also known as the <u><b>Cyprus Reunification Plan</b></u>, was a U<b><u>nited Nations proposal to resolve the Cyprus dispute</u></b>. The different parts of the proposal were based on the argumentation put forward by each party (Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots) in meetings held under the auspices of the UN. <i>The proposal was to restructure the Republic of Cyprus to become the "United Republic of Cyprus", a federation of two states, with a new flag</i>. It was revised several times before it was put to the people of Cyprus in a 2004 referendum, and was supported by 65% of Turkish Cypriots, but only 24% of Greek Cypriots. </div><div><br /></div><div>My truth: I was earning good money at the time, working in International Finance, which afforded me the luxury of using the Hilton Hotel Spa and swimming alongside Nobel Peace Prize winner, and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan’s wife Nane Lagergren. A wasted opportunity as we spoke only about the weather.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoTcWi3fafDL3dGDJZbc0yWWtxkRiz117jwqKaYR0qMxmH5FLQSBzSyeL859ATumsnTgjrwNAZVzO76OUfy3rt_r2XoE1vVLer4AtQEu2IBT39ImPGUe-hNVTIfdwEmeXxShd9e5vnH3_5KRR-7F_kuB0xbkDPZzjjJK_UUrtxv3YbTwkYqIzEdhDG/s300/Atlantis%20Found%20off%20cyp.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="300" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoTcWi3fafDL3dGDJZbc0yWWtxkRiz117jwqKaYR0qMxmH5FLQSBzSyeL859ATumsnTgjrwNAZVzO76OUfy3rt_r2XoE1vVLer4AtQEu2IBT39ImPGUe-hNVTIfdwEmeXxShd9e5vnH3_5KRR-7F_kuB0xbkDPZzjjJK_UUrtxv3YbTwkYqIzEdhDG/w319-h270/Atlantis%20Found%20off%20cyp.jpg" width="319" /></a></div><div><u style="font-weight: bold;">Atlantis Found?</u><b> </b><i>S</i><i>tay with me now, the significance of this will become apparent...</i>Reported The Scotsman in 2004: While some discount the existence of the city of Atlantis as the stuff of myth, others have spent their lifetimes searching for the lost civilisation.</div><div><br /></div><div>An American researcher believes he is ready to silence the doubters after locating evidence of man-made structures sunk <b>in the sea between Cyprus and Syria</b> which he is "absolutely convinced" are the ruins of Atlantis. Experts will have the opportunity to test Mr Sarmast’s findings after he has processed the detailed computer imaging data from an expedition he made into a three-dimensional model. He is also planning a second expedition to clear away silt and sediment that has accumulated over thousands of years so that he can bring back physical proof that the underwater structures were man-made.</div><div><br /></div><div>The expedition, involving experts who helped in the search for the Titanic, used the latest side-scan sonar technology that involved a three-mile-long cable dragged 50 metres above the sea bed to map out the area, which Mr Sarmast described as <u>"<b>one of the most poorly mapped areas in the world"</b></u>.</div><div><br /></div><div>My truth: A very close friend working at the Cyprus Department of Meteorology recounted how a group of <b>US geologists</b> were granted permission to dive off the southern coast of Cyprus for ‘research’ in 2003. She was convinced, as were others in the department, that these US guys weren’t so much looking for ancient civilisations and the like, but possibly setting in place ‘tests’ for oil and gas. We laughed about it at the time.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1CWA6rFcNAW_-ZfcNx-dDIQH5qxmVVRzpj9Ggo7h6CT1_VjmBR4P8Ld7iou0o97HY_NpSpsxuy7LQ5YJb2fXJPuXEMO5MbWLfbWRISTWuRTLa4Iqlfe_smprpMLKPiRprukdVJ-Mpmb7AJ8ZM5Tc2dqQNeqHCbUFP_VesjOdesivpq8LYVmjRiP2D/s300/Helios%20and%20jet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1CWA6rFcNAW_-ZfcNx-dDIQH5qxmVVRzpj9Ggo7h6CT1_VjmBR4P8Ld7iou0o97HY_NpSpsxuy7LQ5YJb2fXJPuXEMO5MbWLfbWRISTWuRTLa4Iqlfe_smprpMLKPiRprukdVJ-Mpmb7AJ8ZM5Tc2dqQNeqHCbUFP_VesjOdesivpq8LYVmjRiP2D/w324-h181/Helios%20and%20jet.jpg" width="324" /></a></div><div><b><u>Dubbed the ‘ghost flight’, Helios Airways Flight 522</u></b> was a scheduled passenger flight from Larnaca, Cyprus to Prague, Czech Republic, with a stopover in Athens, Greece, that crashed on 14 August 2005, killing all 121 passengers and crew on board. Greek fighter jets scrambled to the scene were rumoured to have shot it down on the orders of Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis fearing a terrorist attack on Athens. </div><div><br /></div><div>The subsequent inquiry found that a loss of cabin pressurization incapacitated the crew, leaving the aircraft flying on autopilot until it ran out of fuel, and crashed near Grammatiko, Greece. It was the deadliest aviation accident in Greek history, the causes of the crash initially baffled experts and led to a change in how airline pressurization tests are carried out.</div><div> </div><div>My truth: The collective trauma of the event was profound on the population of Cyprus, as 22 of the dead were children. We were treated to nightly news from the scene where relatives walked through tents in 30 degrees, made to identify remains of their loved ones, in a vain attempt to bring closure (or was that to cement the trauma?). It was disgusting. The numbness that the population felt at the time resonates to this day, as do the esoteric numbers 522 121 22 2005.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjld-BreHZJk4tBTjnSLutJtrHlAmr5TTUPBVzn46eyAAEEX2CasFSJshtqss3naFfqmr-6upre_eBajnBXX2xF4mbEegKYj1CqNOK7XUb_K2WA-elA_ZgU2OEJmyIShxaJ9fsg-57il1YRUfa8D9OojDOSj_gzN0ZPY4E1nT4tC8N250kZtwk-NOpn/s460/US-secretary-of-state-Hillary%20Clinton%20with%20South%20Koreans.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="276" data-original-width="460" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjld-BreHZJk4tBTjnSLutJtrHlAmr5TTUPBVzn46eyAAEEX2CasFSJshtqss3naFfqmr-6upre_eBajnBXX2xF4mbEegKYj1CqNOK7XUb_K2WA-elA_ZgU2OEJmyIShxaJ9fsg-57il1YRUfa8D9OojDOSj_gzN0ZPY4E1nT4tC8N250kZtwk-NOpn/w344-h206/US-secretary-of-state-Hillary%20Clinton%20with%20South%20Koreans.webp" width="344" /></a></div><div><b><u>Hilary Clinton’s ship</u></b>: On 11 July 2011, at Evangelos Florakis Naval Base, situated at Mari, in Cyprus, a large amount of<b><u><i> ammunition and military explosives </i>self-detonated</u></b>, killing 13 people,<b> including the Commander of the Cyprus Navy, </b>Andreas Ioannides, the base commander, Lambros Lambrou, and six firefighters. A further 62 people were injured. The explosion was the worst peacetime military accident ever recorded in Cyprus, with a yield of approximately 481 tons TNT equivalent, as determined by the official investigation into the accident. <b><u>It was the largest artificial non-nuclear explosion of the 21st century until the 2020 Beirut explosions.</u></b></div><div><br /></div><div>In open storage on the base were 98 containers of high explosive artillery shells, 7.62 mm shell casings, compressed gunpowder, silver dollar-sized slugs, primers, and magnesium primers that had been <b><u>seized by the United States Navy in 2009</u></b> after it intercepted a <b>Cypriot-flagged, Russian-owned vessel,</b> Monchegorsk, t<b><u>ravelling from Iran to Syria</u></b> in the Red Sea. According to <b>leaked US cables through WikiLeaks, released in 2011, the US through Hillary Clinton exerted pressure on Cyprus</b> to confiscate the shipment. The ship was escorted to a Cypriot port and the Cyprus Navy was given responsibility for the explosives, which it moved to the Naval Base a month later.</div><div><br /></div><div>At the time of the incident in 2011, the explosives had apparently been left in the open for over two years. The Cypriot government had declined offers from Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States to remove or dispose of the material, fearing an adverse reaction from Syria. The government had instead requested that the UN effect the removal but claimed that its request had been rejected. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq2qjGaInKwG3a7Q2nkMqb36qNzZN3vBcFJKGHeXvfvBKO4i8FBZ_F_-tz2rb8irBABQaiofdk5lTugHyDP5cfXnPRVu9EWlLRlWrxwqgkqj0vT2VxyxNo3E5FOa-OopC3DGqPvA3GI2eY3d6sB2b04B-wtHIJrblE9ehdE124hlN8QWi3P9N3reEN/s640/Vasilikos%20power%20plant.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="426" data-original-width="640" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq2qjGaInKwG3a7Q2nkMqb36qNzZN3vBcFJKGHeXvfvBKO4i8FBZ_F_-tz2rb8irBABQaiofdk5lTugHyDP5cfXnPRVu9EWlLRlWrxwqgkqj0vT2VxyxNo3E5FOa-OopC3DGqPvA3GI2eY3d6sB2b04B-wtHIJrblE9ehdE124hlN8QWi3P9N3reEN/w370-h246/Vasilikos%20power%20plant.jpg" width="370" /></a></div><div>The explosion occurred at 05:50 EEST (02:50 UTC) following a fire caused by explosions of several containers starting one hour and 20 minutes earlier. Extensive damage was caused in a wide area surrounding the blast. <b><u>The Vasilikos Power Station, the largest power facility on Cyprus,</u></b> which provided ap<b><u>proximately half the island's electricity</u></b>, was severely damaged, causing widespread power cuts which affected much of the Cypriot capital, over 40 miles (65 km) from Evangelos Florakis Naval Base.</div><div><br /></div><div>The<u> €700 million Vasilikos Power Station</u> was reduced to a "mangled shell", and the <u>electricity supply to approximately three quarters of Cyprus was interrupted</u>. The Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) later instituted rolling blackouts in order to conserve the supply and stated that it would import generators from Greece and Israel while the damage, estimated at €2 billion, was being repaired. The rolling blackouts lasted for two to three hours in each area and were planned to affect only residential areas.</div><div><br /></div><div>My truth: It was the height of summer, you cannot live without air-conditioning in 40 degrees, but we did. We also lit candles, and many slept outside. I cooked using a camping gas burner. It was eerie moving around the capital city with no electricity and traffic lights, and it lasted a whole week… people said it reminded them of 1974 again, with all the trauma that brought.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQTupGd71KeZ0NTiAdd3IbSJdK5jRwuUsRSB2T-lafpX9bIYt0JF99OaAZMuJo35S3ayVDCrQqqvUNwSaFsEPZL9LXcxIdniAp5u7LBKUl_vPrT_x-nprAHT3yXSClBfv41XdMNH60-2837mJshKWsBMu1sdCsJzqY02M77S1SiKzOWUpEuuPkVfBu/s600/CYPRUS%20Laiki%20Bank%20Closure.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="415" data-original-width="600" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQTupGd71KeZ0NTiAdd3IbSJdK5jRwuUsRSB2T-lafpX9bIYt0JF99OaAZMuJo35S3ayVDCrQqqvUNwSaFsEPZL9LXcxIdniAp5u7LBKUl_vPrT_x-nprAHT3yXSClBfv41XdMNH60-2837mJshKWsBMu1sdCsJzqY02M77S1SiKzOWUpEuuPkVfBu/w355-h227/CYPRUS%20Laiki%20Bank%20Closure.webp" width="355" /></a></div><div><b><u>The 2012–2013 Cypriot financial crisis</u></b> It involved the exposure of Cypriot banks to overleveraged local property companies, the Greek government-debt crisis, the downgrading of the Cypriot government's bond credit rating to junk status by international credit rating agencies, the consequential inability to refund its state expenses from the international markets and the reluctance of the government to restructure the troubled Cypriot financial sector.</div><div><br /></div><div>Cyprus hit the world’s headlines when the media showed queues of people withdrawing money from ATMs. This followed rumours in the financial press that Cyprus’s banks would be forced into a ‘hair cut’, with depositors sharing the pain. Inevitably this created a run on accounts, with around €2bn taken out. The Cyprus Co-operative Bank was plunged into crisis. There were allegations of political intervention and influence in the running of the bank, prior to its collapse. This included, it was claimed, <b>political interference in seeking the writing-down and non-collection of 54 commercial loans, and to some individuals.</b> It was also alleged that loans had been <b>improperly approved to friends and relatives</b> of bank staff.</div><div><br /></div><div>On 25 March 2013, a €10 billion international bailout by the Eurogroup, <b>European Commission</b> (EC), <b>European Central Bank </b>(ECB) and<b> International Monetary Fund</b> (IMF) was announced, in return for <b>Cyprus agreeing to close the country's second-largest bank</b>, the Cyprus Popular Bank (also known as Laiki Bank), imposing a one-time bank deposit levy on all uninsured deposits there, and possibly around 48% of uninsured deposits in the Bank of Cyprus (the island's largest commercial bank). <b>A minority proportion of it held by citizens of other countries (<u>many of whom from Russia)</u>, who preferred Cypriot banks because of their higher interest on bank account deposits, relatively low corporate tax, and easier access to the rest of the European banking sector.</b> This resulted in numerous insinuations by US and European media, which presented Cyprus as a 'tax haven' and suggested that t<b>he prospective bailout loans were meant for saving the accounts of Russian depositors.</b> No insured deposit of €100,000 or less would be affected, though 47.5% of all bank deposits above €100,000 were seized. <b>Nearly one-third of Rossiya Bank's cash ($1 billion) was frozen in Cypriot accounts during this crisis.</b></div><div><br /></div><div>My truth: Prior to the financial collapse, in 2011, I was at the Hedge-fund-that-is-no-more, when the boss ran into the dealing room, having just returned from a fish lunch with a minister friend, and the CEO of the infamous Cyprus Coop Bank. <i>“Better hide your money under your beds from now on. They did it, they took the money!” </i>He ranted for a bit, laughed and closed himself in his office. He was referring to the Co-op buying Greek bonds, in some strange effort to save the motherland from financial collapse and make a profit, with full knowledge that this would lead to disaster. (note: Cyprus Popular Bank amassed €3.4 billion in Greek bonds which became worthless in the subsequent EU bailout.)</div><br /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm_UMTtGzJ9S4rgeo8nnINBn-pXyf6DoRyP7d8eLc64aZfEQc7vLoX0iLn_7rvQYXt5kJcM0hfzfGStnfEjvCfrADEB22bt5AG5genPc_KPNw_fAKMSIWLYzYEgmQBiqldemg2ZnaiFEVyC5HaKvkqU0A7jn7s563rZW6_GTD1DHcnkKRIhm3kT8TO/s800/EastMed%20Map.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="460" data-original-width="800" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm_UMTtGzJ9S4rgeo8nnINBn-pXyf6DoRyP7d8eLc64aZfEQc7vLoX0iLn_7rvQYXt5kJcM0hfzfGStnfEjvCfrADEB22bt5AG5genPc_KPNw_fAKMSIWLYzYEgmQBiqldemg2ZnaiFEVyC5HaKvkqU0A7jn7s563rZW6_GTD1DHcnkKRIhm3kT8TO/w467-h259/EastMed%20Map.jpg" width="467" /></a></div><div><b><u>Oil and Gas: </u></b> Reported <b><u>in 2017, the world’s third-largest gas discovery has been made in the Eastern Mediterranean, off the south-west coast of Cyprus.</u></b> The island has substantial offshore acreage in the Levant Basin, estimated by the U.S. Geological Survey to contain mean recoverable resources of 1.7 billion barrels of oil and 122 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of natural gas.</div><div><br /></div><div>Oil and gas major <b><u>ExxonMobil has completed drilling operations </u></b>on its Glaucus-2 Appraisal Well located in Block 10 off Cyprus, confirming the presence of high-quality gas. The Glaucus gas discovery was made in February 2019 with estimated in-place resources of 5 to 8 trillion cubic feet of gas. Reported on 21 Mar 2022. Let’s remember that the <b><u>EastMed Pipeline deal</u></b>, which would have brought gas to the market from Cyprus via Crete into Europe, had the plug pulled by Biden recently. The deal cost millions, irked Turkey, but made firm commitments of cooperation with Cyprus, Israel, and Egypt. Along with Lebanon, they have carved up the seabed into their respective Exclusive Economic Zones. Not a competitor to <b><u>NordStream/NordStream2</u></b>, but an addition, now stop-capped to the dismay of the Eastern Mediterranean leaders. Thanks Joe!</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdRcZEt8uAQ-dHxtWYnmCV7zUlKeBR9wa_SPysGf27Qtw0oru5G534Z0aUETxBMyeW1Gyi1XWMVFzZx_fLJiGCF-ZybP4n0WcnRYt8bnQ9keXS4Jw_h4dVnZ3Vk1HILNMYoa5ZXO3KYycUCBHOxEuVugf1y5WXNyIJBKR6jE2NofHTMxI9D7tpy0eY/s1200/Cyprus%20use%20to%20love%20the%20Russians.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdRcZEt8uAQ-dHxtWYnmCV7zUlKeBR9wa_SPysGf27Qtw0oru5G534Z0aUETxBMyeW1Gyi1XWMVFzZx_fLJiGCF-ZybP4n0WcnRYt8bnQ9keXS4Jw_h4dVnZ3Vk1HILNMYoa5ZXO3KYycUCBHOxEuVugf1y5WXNyIJBKR6jE2NofHTMxI9D7tpy0eY/w385-h213/Cyprus%20use%20to%20love%20the%20Russians.jpg" width="385" /></a></div><div>Interesting times.</div><div><br /></div><div>Further reading on the significance of Cyprus can be found in the: <b><u>Panama Papers </u></b>(2016), the <b><u>Paradise Papers</u></b> (2017), and of course the recent <b><u>Pandora Papers </u></b>(2021). Not forgetting the Cypriot Golden Passport scandal and China/Russia investments on the Island (2021). With the Ukraine conflict speeding up the destruction, all the dust is starting to settle … or should that be, the dice is thrown and its loaded.</div><div><br /></div><div>Postscript: <b><u>Zalenskyy</u></b> is to address the Cyprus Parliament on Thursday, the same day as <b><u>Victoria Nuland</u></b> (US Under-Secretary for Political Affairs) arrives in Cyprus. (Update: She just arrived in the capital) Who said anything about synchronicity!</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf4wThH08Uh64k1qbCgymvVIH6TzE641wMBG8t_rc7fcNpeQiYl73EzeTFAjcuX3nweGVYaG2vkNI-EG6td0P7f-ZIamHZoK1L63cR0I0A9H67Ce2P2ZPHGMyJZdKuksgayYgCRrpPLgQfH1nra7Ivm8RZeeZAWaGWABad9LuQaPZo3nDPqA3fkeJv/s300/1974%20Pic%201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="228" data-original-width="300" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf4wThH08Uh64k1qbCgymvVIH6TzE641wMBG8t_rc7fcNpeQiYl73EzeTFAjcuX3nweGVYaG2vkNI-EG6td0P7f-ZIamHZoK1L63cR0I0A9H67Ce2P2ZPHGMyJZdKuksgayYgCRrpPLgQfH1nra7Ivm8RZeeZAWaGWABad9LuQaPZo3nDPqA3fkeJv/w396-h242/1974%20Pic%201.jpg" width="396" /></a></div>July 1974 - Turkish Invasion<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXkFJyoLyTLrY9TWMz0dZQodLr_M-FpCpUXZnHRHUY1fRT0u-XfNdXchmD__6Cth0CzECy4hnWQwRrlUSeerFZeIrUNcaGoLv6H6PX7OgDHRDipkbZeJGqbMlvjfUtl5V_V6OVAuhUX9k4rNkci6nW3R6Ha2hnQ7rt-vm4bXx-Dl-evPkRM8uSZ_AE/s258/1974%20Pic%202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="196" data-original-width="258" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXkFJyoLyTLrY9TWMz0dZQodLr_M-FpCpUXZnHRHUY1fRT0u-XfNdXchmD__6Cth0CzECy4hnWQwRrlUSeerFZeIrUNcaGoLv6H6PX7OgDHRDipkbZeJGqbMlvjfUtl5V_V6OVAuhUX9k4rNkci6nW3R6Ha2hnQ7rt-vm4bXx-Dl-evPkRM8uSZ_AE/w399-h265/1974%20Pic%202.jpg" width="399" /></a></div>Soldier lend a hand while Turkish M47 is put out of service</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj89VCBUBvKTm_Cnnb2HLfsZFTCUOAIYdx7T93_4TvTwIwHxHeJBcGhqBzOLKZONHHo-bJoXAB5zqEq2DxdQ2TZjtSVkWADouYY4FiW-N4VsTa4rSKUhzUNnmGMUrixGzH-vnWq2q6e2OEO447k1xMfI7rIHCnWwrK5O6hx-5LJifrOvHhRnZlWP2nn/s1000/Turkish%20M47.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="1000" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj89VCBUBvKTm_Cnnb2HLfsZFTCUOAIYdx7T93_4TvTwIwHxHeJBcGhqBzOLKZONHHo-bJoXAB5zqEq2DxdQ2TZjtSVkWADouYY4FiW-N4VsTa4rSKUhzUNnmGMUrixGzH-vnWq2q6e2OEO447k1xMfI7rIHCnWwrK5O6hx-5LJifrOvHhRnZlWP2nn/w406-h260/Turkish%20M47.webp" width="406" /></a></div><br /><i>P.S. There is great hope that someone will bring up the <b>Turkish Invasion and its parallel to Ukraine </b>at tomorrow's talks/address to the nation...either from Zelenskyy or Nuland... don't hold your breath!</i><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div><br /></div><p><br /></p><div><br /></div></div>...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04552643095016293044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761911964822245070.post-81858569094974810082022-04-03T09:30:00.001-07:002022-04-03T09:30:57.562-07:00COMA<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrA6ErurbesmPJh7wYOwpdR8L4QXbTEryuvJb8fcWmvE2V0VpoYDGCMu1EQxr7wFlJtsSToEXHZHK0JWaSIVaB0UWJJRprXfpj_sHEaPa2QMueFzCwfgi_5C6JFk7DfBzBU6qgi_pGSWv-vm3RtJV475IfXxsy-UETtWrpoc3U1g8pMi9aCNpQxFMm/s584/coma3.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="328" data-original-width="584" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrA6ErurbesmPJh7wYOwpdR8L4QXbTEryuvJb8fcWmvE2V0VpoYDGCMu1EQxr7wFlJtsSToEXHZHK0JWaSIVaB0UWJJRprXfpj_sHEaPa2QMueFzCwfgi_5C6JFk7DfBzBU6qgi_pGSWv-vm3RtJV475IfXxsy-UETtWrpoc3U1g8pMi9aCNpQxFMm/w457-h291/coma3.webp" width="457" /></a></div><p></p>...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04552643095016293044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761911964822245070.post-73036290845735490472022-01-24T11:54:00.005-08:002022-03-16T13:57:53.538-07:00Wake Up Dorothy... Wake Up!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgCO_DN7-tWokMwY9bDxxcVxqiuFwKwIohxROaoufLCTKrfhQOtqUk1abPsbz5k-90X9N5grfkdWfj3jvWL985bKAvlwkZeCx-t4WtrjFsQk97ehIm2in2EXR0RlMl7R3RXidYDlp9XQm15jYtY7x_JuyUVxSTRSXh3vwxF7yja8DAlflQEx1GH_KnB=s564" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Wizard of Oz (1936)" border="0" data-original-height="419" data-original-width="564" height="347" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgCO_DN7-tWokMwY9bDxxcVxqiuFwKwIohxROaoufLCTKrfhQOtqUk1abPsbz5k-90X9N5grfkdWfj3jvWL985bKAvlwkZeCx-t4WtrjFsQk97ehIm2in2EXR0RlMl7R3RXidYDlp9XQm15jYtY7x_JuyUVxSTRSXh3vwxF7yja8DAlflQEx1GH_KnB=w467-h347" width="467" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div>In case you missed it... where were you, on Mars....? <b>World War 'Z' </b>is... well... all of the below...including my previous posts... and then some... Synchronistic much!</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi-AIJ7f6CJxrVlGAqnPFO1geyo14gJXQrSomqeuY_7imJPkeD34eiAuLOKpL8oNDqud93PMLeyR65MZctxzKH30HrVChuJggqNQj3XDqIYo5iDG7836w8owhIxL_qmuitSo2Ni7Ojrv-5s9tWMwzi9JrwYZ6ZbDyCc7G5kSvB9GomKD-nWrqic6Nr7=s2500" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1670" data-original-width="2500" height="322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi-AIJ7f6CJxrVlGAqnPFO1geyo14gJXQrSomqeuY_7imJPkeD34eiAuLOKpL8oNDqud93PMLeyR65MZctxzKH30HrVChuJggqNQj3XDqIYo5iDG7836w8owhIxL_qmuitSo2Ni7Ojrv-5s9tWMwzi9JrwYZ6ZbDyCc7G5kSvB9GomKD-nWrqic6Nr7=w480-h322" width="480" /></a></div><div><br /></div><i>"On Instagram, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) posted on 3 March that the <b>"Z" </b>symbol is an abbreviation of the phrase "for victory" (Russian: за победу, romanized: za pobedu), while the <b>"V"</b> symbol stands for "Our strength is in truth" (Russian: сила в правде, romanized: sila v pravde).</i><div><i><br /></i><div><div><i>The Latin-script letter <b>Z</b> (Russian: зет) is one of several symbols painted on military vehicles of the Russian Armed Forces involved in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, speculated to help task forces distinguish themselves from other allied or enemy forces.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>As a pro-war symbol, the <b>"Z"</b> has been used by the Russian government as a propaganda tool, and by Russian civilians as a sign of support for the invasion. Outside Russia, the government of the Czech Republic has classified the <b>"Z" </b>symbol as an equivalent to the swastika, and Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan laws prohibit publicly displaying the "Z" symbol on vehicles."</i></div><div><br /></div></div></div>...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04552643095016293044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761911964822245070.post-31373555808478364072021-09-02T15:04:00.088-07:002021-09-03T14:39:53.481-07:00 'Zorba the Greek' - who died, yet lived! The Mandela Effect, Afghanistan & the death of Mikis Theodorakis<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SgpDE2-Ief8/YTEoTrZ7LoI/AAAAAAAADh0/p4g-mcVW-Xk8R7hbCE5jja6zI5mv2hE1wCLcBGAsYHQ/s720/theodorakis.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="720" height="252" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SgpDE2-Ief8/YTEoTrZ7LoI/AAAAAAAADh0/p4g-mcVW-Xk8R7hbCE5jja6zI5mv2hE1wCLcBGAsYHQ/w449-h252/theodorakis.jpg" width="449" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">RIP Mikis - 29 July 1925 – 2 September 2021</td></tr></tbody></table>Firstly, none of this makes sense, maybe not even to synchro-mystics, unless you know what the 'Mandela Effect' is, something I've written about in the past. <p></p><p><a href="http://thesignificanceofr.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-mandela-effect-theres-guy-works.html">http://thesignificanceofr.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-mandela-effect-theres-guy-works.html</a></p><p><a href="http://thesignificanceofr.blogspot.com/2018/01/phil-collins-rides-mandela-wave.html">http://thesignificanceofr.blogspot.com/2018/01/phil-collins-rides-mandela-wave.html</a></p><p>I'll give a brief <u>universally agreed upon and accepted </u>explanation here: </p><p><i>"Dubbed </i><i><b>The Mandela effect</b>, it is a phenomenon in which a person or a group of people have false or distorted memories. Some believe that the effect is proof of alternate realities, while others blame it on the fallibility of human memory.</i></p><p><i>In 2010, this shared false memory phenomenon was dubbed<b> "the Mandela effect"</b> by self-described "paranormal consultant" Fiona Broome, in reference to her false memory of the death of South African anti-Apartheid leader Nelson Mandela in prison in the 1980s (he actually died age 95 in 2013, after having served as President of South Africa following his release from prison).</i></p><p>Today we hear of the sad passing of Mikis Theodorakis (96) ...</p><p>"Greek songwriter, composer, author and politician born in Chios on July 29, 1925, and died in Athens on September 2, 2021. He wrote over 1,000 songs including the music for the Michael Cacoyiannis film 'Zorba the Greek' (1964). The instrumental 'Zorba's Dance' (also known as 'Zorba the Greek') became renowned around the world. He also scored the films 'Z' (1969, BAFTA Film Award in 1970) and 'Serpico' (1973). He composed the "Mauthausen Trilogy" also known as "The Ballad of Mauthausen", which has been described as the "most beautiful musical work ever written about the Holocaust".</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z8Fa4IC_qEk/YTEsseV8rpI/AAAAAAAADh8/3itEcUP-aCA7EEIsq7WcKI48EXzdS-tzACLcBGAsYHQ/s501/original-soundtrack-by-mikis-theodorakis-1969-z.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="500" height="304" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z8Fa4IC_qEk/YTEsseV8rpI/AAAAAAAADh8/3itEcUP-aCA7EEIsq7WcKI48EXzdS-tzACLcBGAsYHQ/w303-h304/original-soundtrack-by-mikis-theodorakis-1969-z.jpg" width="303" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Z' (1969)</td></tr></tbody></table><p>Being from Greek heritage, I can tell you that 'Theodorakis' and his music, not to mention his political involvements, have always been a topic of conversation, commemoration, or contention in our house, depending on the season, or which film or TV program happened to be on. So much so that, after today's sad news, family have been struck dumbfounded, trying to make sense of his death. Attempting to process through a sort of collective brain fog that this has caused. Everyone swearing blind that poor Mikis died back in 2010! THIS is the Mandela Effect in all its glory. </p><p>Searching the web for some kind of validation that Theodorakis died years ago, and this is all a bit of a psychological attack by some weird entertainment/anti-Christ force of darkness. I soon discover that he has been alive all these years. According to the 'Greek City Times', he survived a heart attack back in August 2018. Could that have been the year when I thought he died? I'm sure he passed earlier than that. Later I discover a news report from June, 2017... </p><p><i>"Rare moments with one of the few Great Greeks <b>still alive.</b> An exceptional concert. One thousand voices for Mikis Theodorakis. Choirs from thirty cities and thousands of people gathered in Panathenaic Stadium in Athens to pay tribute to the great composer." </i>Reported the entertainment website, 'Keep Talking Greece' . So he WAS still alive?</p><p>In March 2017 I discover that the Rialto Theatre in Cyprus held a concert about 'Theodorakis and his music' ... he wasn't there... Okay, now wait a minute... He wasn't there? Ah ha... then I located a tribute concert held in June, 2016... again, he wasn't there! Hold your horses... then comes a report from May, 2015 which unfortunately sealed the deal...</p><p><i>"Turkish Cypriot daily Afrika newspaper (13.05.15) citing information writes that the famous Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis wants to come to Cyprus and hold a meeting with the new Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci."</i></p><p>It is so odd that we are thinking he died years ago. Perhaps all those 'tribute concerts' have stamped into our collective unconscious the idea that he was dead.. because you're always doing tributes to old dead composers, right? </p><p>Sorry Mikis!</p><p>Now there is another strange side-angle to this whole 'Mandela Effect', more synchronicity than broken memories. A weird connection between Greek music and Afghanistan, I kid you not!</p><p>It's the anniversary of 9/11 this coming week, and like others I recall where I was and what took place around me at that time. Vividly I remember (while still living in the Middle East at the time) that the aftermath was surreal... as TV news showed the Afghans celebrating in the streets of Kabul with the supposed '<u>Fall of the Taliban' by playing their favourite music</u> - It was blaring out from pick-up truck radios. The images of those poor people <i>singing in Greek</i> to another famous Greek musician's songs, Stylianos Kazantzidis. Soon after, 'Stelios' as he was known, died suddenly... on September 14th 2001. </p><p><i>"Born in Nea Ionia, Athens on 29th August, 1931, Stelios's parents originated from Pontos, Asia Minor. He is considered to be one of the most popular and influential Greek 'laiko' singers, and well known for capturing poor people's feelings in the difficult post-war period in Greece. </i></p><p><i>His father was killed for supporting the resistance (during the civil war). Στελιος was 14 at the time, and spent many years being chased/harassed for his leftist beliefs.</i></p><p><i>After finding fame, he became disillusioned and began to live a humble life away from the TV and the press. He was a plain man, and decided to stop performing live because he said people couldn’t afford the high prices that the night clubs were asking since the 60s. Such was the respect for him as an artist in Greece, the state approved the broadcast of his funeral live on Greek national television."</i></p><p>Like Theodorakis, Stelios was a national hero, a political, if not veteran war hero. Much beloved by the diaspora of Greeks around the world today, but not really a cross-over musical artist. He is often quoted and played as a 'soundtrack' to troubled times of Hellenes everywhere.</p><p>On the other hand, along with composing a myriad of acclaimed Hollywood movie soundtracks, Mikis Theodorakis is/was a much higher-profile political activist on the World stage. Even running for office at one time. There's a lot about the man, some of which can be found here: <a href="https://www.greeknewsagenda.gr/topics/culture-society/7033-theodorakis">https://www.greeknewsagenda.gr/topics/culture-society/7033-theodorakis</a> ... from his torture by the Nazis, to his organizing a solidarity movement in the late 60s/early70s, fronted by personalities such as Leonard Bernstein and Arthur Miller, his own arrest, and the Greek Junta (coup d'etat) and uprisings against the fascist dictatorship.</p><p>To cut to the chase... there is a synchronicity to current events, where Greek musical heroes, men who wrote music or sang songs <b>beloved by Greeks and Afghans</b>, about war and struggles, <u>seem to have framed the post-9/11 Afghanistan war/crisis and ending of the conflict most precisely</u>. </p><p>2001 - 9/14 - Stelios Kazantzidis dies</p><p>2001 - 9/18 - US begin attack on Afghanistan</p><p>2021 - 8/30 - US leave Afghanistan</p><p>2021 - 9/02 - Mikis Theodorakis dies</p><p>It's an odd statistic, it's symmetric, and it's synchromystic, and just adds further strangeness to this new occurrence of the <b><i>Mandela Effect</i></b>. That's not all...</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-adOt4oc6egQ/YTFFpP_ZzRI/AAAAAAAADiE/aSWOAii1ukgCImEM9ybz8ZljmME7sJszACLcBGAsYHQ/s1080/World%2BWar%2BZ%2BBrad%2B2.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="333" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-adOt4oc6egQ/YTFFpP_ZzRI/AAAAAAAADiE/aSWOAii1ukgCImEM9ybz8ZljmME7sJszACLcBGAsYHQ/w333-h333/World%2BWar%2BZ%2BBrad%2B2.jpeg" width="333" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">World War Z (2013)</td></tr></tbody></table><p>'Z' is the title of the Mikis Theodorakis soundtrack album to the 1969 political thriller film 'Z', about the events surrounding the assassination of the democratic Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis in 1963, and the Greek Junta.</p><p>The movie poster above, of World War Z (a Zombie apocalypse horror) starring Brad Pitt, has been compared to the current Afghanistan withdrawal crisis by the media... now that's really strange!</p><p><br /></p><p><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/fRLvtzLUlGI" width="480"></iframe></p>...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04552643095016293044noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761911964822245070.post-1164676549060872342021-07-17T10:02:00.003-07:002021-08-28T12:07:41.477-07:00Regarding Harry...<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vjtuGx-H0xk/YPMLJH1xamI/AAAAAAAADhQ/B0tLLtx3-K8O_lQdw5qZFe-VXTj3cWlDwCLcBGAsYHQ/s763/ClearAndPresent_Ford%2B1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="429" data-original-width="763" height="233" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vjtuGx-H0xk/YPMLJH1xamI/AAAAAAAADhQ/B0tLLtx3-K8O_lQdw5qZFe-VXTj3cWlDwCLcBGAsYHQ/w414-h233/ClearAndPresent_Ford%2B1.jpg" width="414" /></a></div><i><p><i><b>"Hello, you're looking for Harrison Ford? Sorry, no, you have the wrong number!"</b></i></p></i><p></p><p><i><b>"Hello, Harrison Ford? No, he's not here. Please stop calling!"</b></i></p><p><i><b>"Yes, you want to speak to Harrison Ford? For the last time NO, I'M NOT HARRISON FORD, HARRISON FORD IS NOT HERE, don't call again! Goodbye!"</b></i></p><p><i><b>"Hello... At the third stroke it will be four hours, two minutes and thirty three seconds precisely...."</b></i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-szXhjVpYyC4/YQvG73rC3iI/AAAAAAAADho/0uTjVIkPEDU_h1LdGnYt5GdDw4FUIJa9gCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/AB095AD5-0A57-4496-B931-C5CC749DDA82.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-szXhjVpYyC4/YQvG73rC3iI/AAAAAAAADho/0uTjVIkPEDU_h1LdGnYt5GdDw4FUIJa9gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/AB095AD5-0A57-4496-B931-C5CC749DDA82.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p>Yep, I did meet him, and I did take this picture of my mum with him! Although we said no to all media enquiries, it’s still showing up everywhere, including the Mail Online and the Star Wars Fan News websites… forever linking them in the universe…. “Awesome!” as some have said recently to me! </p>...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04552643095016293044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761911964822245070.post-30731704132841254542021-03-24T14:58:00.047-07:002021-08-05T04:06:55.341-07:00Vaccine Veracity ... or the Oxford AstraZeneca Eugenics & Money Making Machine<p> <a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l21fuVYulBY/YFu1Z--nqoI/AAAAAAAADeQ/jMCD5cEEJNEiaNUYmPfQ8_pSwNGPPLDCACLcBGAsYHQ/s474/Proff%2Bsarah.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="316" data-original-width="474" height="258" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l21fuVYulBY/YFu1Z--nqoI/AAAAAAAADeQ/jMCD5cEEJNEiaNUYmPfQ8_pSwNGPPLDCACLcBGAsYHQ/w388-h258/Proff%2Bsarah.jpg" width="388" /></a></p>She's no Marie Curie... Prof. Sarah Gilbert one of the <b>Oxford-AstraZeneca</b> Covid Vaccine creators.<br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0dbVv0LeCio/YFu1irxKE7I/AAAAAAAADeU/qXgzb_EMtjI-UuqugLbkv6LY2iPkmXNFgCLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Dr%2BAdrian%2BH.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="768" height="203" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0dbVv0LeCio/YFu1irxKE7I/AAAAAAAADeU/qXgzb_EMtjI-UuqugLbkv6LY2iPkmXNFgCLcBGAsYHQ/w360-h203/Dr%2BAdrian%2BH.jpg" width="360" /></a></div>He's no Louis Pasteur ... Prof. Adrian Hill who enthused about almost having the vaccine ready <b><i>in July 2020</i></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5yjqSGKKaXo/YFu1qgjMnOI/AAAAAAAADec/ya4ToU0UYKwlkcUoqDtrOBe9NeYdcSx6QCLcBGAsYHQ/s604/Wellcome-Sanger-Institute.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="251" data-original-width="604" height="144" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5yjqSGKKaXo/YFu1qgjMnOI/AAAAAAAADec/ya4ToU0UYKwlkcUoqDtrOBe9NeYdcSx6QCLcBGAsYHQ/w346-h144/Wellcome-Sanger-Institute.jpg" width="346" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v9Nwal5sIwk/YFu1xxkIYbI/AAAAAAAADeg/vn3XRtMmvkoEHn9RNZjBR1K1V2bFzOZIgCLcBGAsYHQ/s303/Astra%2BCEO.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="303" height="246" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v9Nwal5sIwk/YFu1xxkIYbI/AAAAAAAADeg/vn3XRtMmvkoEHn9RNZjBR1K1V2bFzOZIgCLcBGAsYHQ/w331-h246/Astra%2BCEO.jpg" width="331" /></a></div>CEO of AstraZeneca, Pascal Soriot... stands to make rather a lot of money but of course, it's at cost! <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n7k-gcJNNPc/YFu14WRDc3I/AAAAAAAADeo/bN6xnJAqXf82ex12HWDMdG-AUkVzaRi7ACLcBGAsYHQ/s373/oxford%2Bastra.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="373" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n7k-gcJNNPc/YFu14WRDc3I/AAAAAAAADeo/bN6xnJAqXf82ex12HWDMdG-AUkVzaRi7ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/oxford%2Bastra.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t_-0rAVhKXo/YFu19oYE8BI/AAAAAAAADew/AloXzr8NzFwW_QtQDsKh7n67kDRY0y_1wCLcBGAsYHQ/s462/The%2BCOnstant%2BGardener.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="301" data-original-width="462" height="260" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t_-0rAVhKXo/YFu19oYE8BI/AAAAAAAADew/AloXzr8NzFwW_QtQDsKh7n67kDRY0y_1wCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h260/The%2BCOnstant%2BGardener.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>The Constant Gardener (2005) staring Rachel Weisz based on John Le Carre novel of the same name based on true events surrounding the covert testing of vaccines in Africa (that's a VERY basic synopsis - great movie worth watching right now!)<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CiVni3nL7sU/YFu2DWink1I/AAAAAAAADe4/BPNYQIlugRchj8btE2uOos7wf7ZbRoo4wCLcBGAsYHQ/s638/Galton.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="359" data-original-width="638" height="258" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CiVni3nL7sU/YFu2DWink1I/AAAAAAAADe4/BPNYQIlugRchj8btE2uOos7wf7ZbRoo4wCLcBGAsYHQ/w459-h258/Galton.jpg" width="459" /></a></div>Francis Galton of Eugenics fame of which 'The Galton Institute' has renamed it's self.<div><br /></div><div>Here is a link to a <b>must-read</b> article explaining a lot about why they want you to accept the Covid-19 Vaccines<b><i> 'at any cost'!</i></b><br /><p><b>https://unlimitedhangout.com/2020/12/investigative-series/developers-of-oxford-astrazeneca-vaccine-tied-to-uk-eugenics-movement/</b></p></div>...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04552643095016293044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761911964822245070.post-34359766307327312792020-08-21T14:52:00.031-07:002020-11-15T11:54:46.738-08:00A Killing Season – How Belief in Covid-19 Destroyed the World<p> <a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--8pXGDi0PuI/X0BBFgW8uXI/AAAAAAAADcQ/Y7-tDP084TEXZK4TGT1XJTQGIw5nbWfegCLcBGAsYHQ/s1200/The%2BPurge%2BElection%2B%2BDay.jpg" style="background-color: #eeeeee; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--8pXGDi0PuI/X0BBFgW8uXI/AAAAAAAADcQ/Y7-tDP084TEXZK4TGT1XJTQGIw5nbWfegCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/The%2BPurge%2BElection%2B%2BDay.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p class="hdg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="hdg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: times;"><i>01/05/2020 - Denmark passed an emergency law that allows for the government to force people to take a vaccine for coronavirus.</i></span></p><p class="hdg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320;"><i><span style="font-family: times;">The emergency law gives authorities sweeping powers to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic and will remain in force until March 2021.</span></i></span></p><p class="hdg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320;"><i><span style="font-family: times;">Citizens who refuse to be tested for the coronavirus will face fines and potential prison time, and will be prevented from entering shops, grocery stores, public institutions and hospitals while also being restricted from using public transport.</span></i></span></p><p class="hdg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320;"><i><span style="font-family: times;">“As well as enforcing quarantine measures, the law also allows the authorities to force people to be vaccinated, even though there is currently no vaccination for the virus,” reports the Local.</span></i></span></p><p class="hdg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320;"><i><span style="font-family: times;">Copenhagen University law professor Jens Elo Rytter said the new measures were “certainly the most extreme since the Second World War.”</span></i></span></p><p class="hdg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320;"><i><span style="font-family: times;">The initial draft of the law was even more draconian and would have allowed police to enter private homes without a warrant if there was a suspicion of a coronavirus infection.</span></i></span></p><p class="hdg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #001320;"><i><span style="font-family: times;">However, this measure was dropped after opposition from other parties in the Parliament.</span></i></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p class="hdg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><b><span face="" style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #001320;">To Everything There Is a
Season<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="indent1stline" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 5pt 22.5pt 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="" style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #001320;">To everything
there is a season,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="indent2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0cm 22.5pt 0cm 45pt; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="" style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #001320;">and a time for
every purpose under heaven:<a name="3"></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="indent1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0cm 22.5pt; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="" style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #001320;">a time to be
born and <b>a time to die</b>,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="indent2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0cm 22.5pt 0cm 45pt; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="" style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #001320;">a time to plant
and <b>a time to uproot</b>,<a name="4"></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="indent1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0cm 22.5pt; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><b><span face="" style="color: #001320;">a time to</span></b><span face="" style="color: #001320;"> <b>kill and a time to
heal</b>,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="indent2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0cm 22.5pt 0cm 45pt; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="" style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #001320;">a time to break
down and a time to build,<a name="5"></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="indent1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0cm 22.5pt; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="" style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #001320;">a time to weep
and a time to laugh,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="indent2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0cm 22.5pt 0cm 45pt; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><b><span face="" style="color: #001320;">a time to
mourn and a time to dance</span></b><span face="" style="color: #001320;">,<a name="6"></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="indent1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0cm 22.5pt; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="" style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #001320;">a time to cast
away stones and a time to gather stones together,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="indent2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0cm 22.5pt 0cm 45pt; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="" style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #001320;">a time to
embrace and <b>a time to refrain from embracing</b>,<a name="7"></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="indent1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0cm 22.5pt; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="" style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #001320;">a time to
search and a time to count as lost,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="indent2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0cm 22.5pt 0cm 45pt; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="" style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #001320;">a time to keep
and a time to discard,<a name="8"></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="indent1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0cm 22.5pt; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="" style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #001320;">a time to tear
and a time to mend,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="indent2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0cm 22.5pt 0cm 45pt; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="" style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #001320;">a time to be
silent and <b>a time to speak</b>,<a name="9"></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="indent1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0cm 22.5pt; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="" style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #001320;">a time to love
and a time to hate,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="indent2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0cm 22.5pt 0cm 45pt; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="" style="color: #001320;"><span style="background-color: #ead1dc;">a time for war
and a time for peace.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ecclesiastes 3</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="">I enjoy reading my horoscope, it gives me hope and a mild
feeling of optimism that somehow, the lack of control of destiny experienced daily,
is just part of the plan. I don’t believe it’s an accurate foretelling of my
future but it’s interesting to use in hindsight.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="" style="line-height: 107%;">This year’s reads like a dream… <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face="" style="line-height: 107%;">“You need to be ready for changes. Observing
the tiny details of life will help you overcome all problems in 2020!”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="" style="line-height: 107%;">For everything there is a season, and it seems we are
living through that season of Pandemonium. Was this predicted do you think? It
may have been, eons ago. Today it seems inevitable. We didn’t see it coming,
but it was on its way and nothing was going to stop it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="" style="line-height: 107%;">IS our future written, can we change our destiny? Age-old
questions that occupy some minds. We can be the catalyst of our fate, I guess.
But do we really have control of anything or is it just the ‘illusion’ of
control… as things keep moving to their pre-ordained destination. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="" style="line-height: 107%;">Did we ever stop to think that our way of life might change
at the blink of an eye?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="" style="line-height: 107%;">Call it a PlanDemic or the new ‘Abnormal’ if you prefer. We
now find ourselves slaves to a real ‘Beast System’. What happened to the world?
Why is this happening now? All rational explanations have long gone out the window.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="" style="line-height: 107%;">Do we have some shadow government or elite controllers to
blame for population reduction? Are their evil schemes coming to fruition in
front of our eyes? IS there really a ‘Covid-19’ virus killing people around the
globe? Where are the bodies buried/cremated (there are barely any funerals in
my local area)? Where are the people who know people who’ve died of it… the ones
that aren’t nurses or in a retirement/care home for the elderly?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="" style="line-height: 107%;">Does testing make a difference? Does isolating make a
difference? Does wearing a mask matter? Will alcohol gel kill 99.9% of germs,
or should we volunteer for a fast-track Bill Gates approved vaccine trial with 20-page
disclaimer forms to sign?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="" style="line-height: 107%;">Does hugging our Grandfather mean we might kill him? Should
children play in plastic bubbles in the school yard ‘just in case’? Is going to
the supermarket with a slight cough or temperature actually as dangerous as the
government says?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="" style="line-height: 107%;">I have to work from home as my employer demands or else
lose my position. They’re still trying to find me a laptop so (in order not to
break the law) they allow me to work from the office. Dare I question this? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="" style="line-height: 107%;">I can shop at the few shops left on my high street, but I
am not allowed to try anything on. I can buy it, bring it into my possibly
infected home and then return it to the shop for quarantine. The same goes for
shopping on-line. The jacket I like will need to be put in isolation if I
return it. Should I bother to shop at all, especially as some people in town are
actively not wearing masks in defiance of the law? Although it’s okay if you’re
at a demonstration, especially in central London. I’m not sure if it depends on
what you’re demonstrating though. I’m wondering about this! Questions, questions,
and more questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face="" style="line-height: 107%;">Now let’s look at the silver lining to all
this, many people I speak with on the subject are happy to go along with the
status-quo. Some of their reasoning…<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span face="" style="line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1)<span face="" style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face="" style="line-height: 107%;">The
good thing about shopping online is that Covid-19, or just plain Coronavirus,
as it’s now being called exclusively by the media, doesn’t stick to packages.
What a relief. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span face="" style="line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2)<span face="" style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face="" style="line-height: 107%;">Oh,
and it’s okay to go to the local swimming baths, because you can swim without a
mask. You can use the same pool as other members of the public because everyone
is using gel etc before they get in the water.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span face="" style="line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3)<span face="" style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face="" style="line-height: 107%;">You
can get your face and eyebrows done at the beauticians because they’re wearing
those face-shields, same goes for the dentist now.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span face="" style="line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4)<span face="" style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face="" style="line-height: 107%;">It is also
okay to order take out food, and now sit in restaurants, as long as you give your
name, address, and contact number. You cannot see the state of the kitchens,
nor see if staff are adhering to the ‘rules’ so you have to eat-out in faith. It’s
a gamble but the government is giving discounts to consumers. That’s nice of
them because the hospitality sector needs customers. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span face="" style="line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5)<span face="" style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face="" style="line-height: 107%;">Masks
are a good idea because it stops you from getting a virus or if you have the
virus but have no symptoms at all and feel 100% well, you won’t give it to
someone else without knowing it. They say this is called ‘shedding’. SO, you
might be shedding for weeks and not know it. You might even have anti-bodies
because you had the virus without knowing it, it cleared up, and you are now
immune. This is good because the local doctor’s surgery has now closed down.
But it’s okay they say as you can register online and speak to an ‘advisor’ who
is ‘clinically’ trained to assist you. We will definitely have the Covid Jab
and the Flu Jab this year, because it’s the only way to stop coronavirus. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span face="" style="line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6)<span face="" style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face="" style="line-height: 107%;">Unfortunately
we had to cancel our summer holidays this year as most countries of the world
have quarantine rules when you get there, so that’s 2 weeks lost, and coming
back again means you would have to quarantine on arrival home. So that’s a
double-quarantine period and our employer frowns on that, which is a shame. We
hope to go next year, but we can still visit Scotland or Ireland for a weekend.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span face="" style="line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7)<span face="" style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face="" style="line-height: 107%;">If you
do lose your employment you are entitled to claim benefits from the government
so you need to keep proof of everything, and it might take a while to receive
any funds. But at least they are helping the population, especially as there
were loads of companies that collapsed, laid off all their staff, or went bankrupt
and everyone was made redundant. There are a lot of people in need, so we have
to be patient. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span face="" style="line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8)<span face="" style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face="" style="line-height: 107%;">We’re
looking forward to going to the cinema again once it opens. The first
blockbuster is the movie ‘Tenent’ by director Christopher Nolan. It’s about time-travel
and a rogue government agent that tries to stop the end of the world. Can’t
wait to see it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span face="" style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span face="">For pity’s sake…. Wake up people WAKE UP!!</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span face="" style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><i><span face="" style="line-height: 107%;">I will continue to add more ridiculous
arguments for the New World Order’s destruction of humanity to this post as I find
them. It will probably be the longest blog post I’ll write, and the last.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span face="" style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p> Latest crazy Covid-19 News:</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span face="" style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p>Your dog may suffer depression due to your return to the office as he's gotten use to you being at home again!</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span face="" style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p>All that mosquito bug spray that you bought for your holiday abroad won't go to waste. SKY News Breaking says that Porton Down Scientists (the top Biolab that brought you Novichok antidote) say that they have isolated a common chemical found in your bug-spray which 'blocks' Coronaviruses - but not specifically Covid-19 yet!</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"><span face="" style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p></p>...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04552643095016293044noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761911964822245070.post-44329474069159307902020-06-03T05:02:00.000-07:002020-06-10T06:10:35.096-07:00Black, White, Other... Racism for the Masses<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Killer Mike - a DJ from Atlanta talking about the murder of George Floyd</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Do I need some TV news channel “Explaining the Minneapolis Riots” to me?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">No Justice, No Peace, I Can’t Breathe, Taking the Knee<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">You say unless I’m an immigrant in America this means
nothing to me?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I’ve seen the brutality against minorities which are really
majorities with no power, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It’s about Hate and Ego, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It’s the ‘I’m better than you, so GO!’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It’s about prejudice and ignorance,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I don’t understand why you’re so different!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It’s about ‘them and us’, so, “YOU sit at the back of the
bus!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It’s about commerce and getting rich – That’s the
proto-Aristocracy’s Bitch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Someone’s always got to be on top, that’s why Communism was
blocked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Jim Crow was a liar, but we don’t talk about that. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">No one is Equal, but everyone’s Racist, we’re all the same,
living from our basest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Discrimination is a dirty word, the media sells you a lie
that you’re not part of the herd, while your government keeps you ignorant. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Won’t stick out your arm and take your medicine? Then put on
your facemask because they’re using kerosene. Minneapolis, Minnesota is the straw that broke
the camel’s back, fear keeps the masses on attack, there’s no turning back to
how things use to be. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My forefathers lived with the mantra ‘Never Forget’, like
this somehow meant change was gonna come, you wanna bet? The Turks still cut their
throats and the British hanged them. Now the Chinese Government shoots, and Saudi
Arabia backs them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Black Lives Matter, of course they do, all Life Matters,
but for who? Without education, health, justice, peace, worker rights, the
freedom to dream, and the freedom to choose, what have you got left to lose…
except Killing your Masters before they kill you!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">First performance poem in a long while - apologies for any offence but this is the mood right now!</span></i>...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04552643095016293044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761911964822245070.post-33722564901430652642020-04-17T13:04:00.011-07:002021-07-17T09:46:50.043-07:00The Significance of R 0<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Dr Strangelove (1964)</b></td></tr>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The ‘R’ is down!</span></b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"> said UK Prime Minster Boris Johnson yesterday.
He was talking about the nCOVID-19 transmission numbers, so we’re not out of lockdown
yet.</span></div>
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<span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Now that ‘R’ has come into its own, I thought it would be interesting
to revisit the causes that led to its significance, in these days of unnerving,
unpredictable, weirdness. I started thinking about what ‘R’ really is again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Over the years, I’ve been asked several times what ‘The
Significance of R’ means, or rather how I came about the name. Not sure if I’ve
answered that effectively. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I chose <b>‘R U Significant’</b> for my Twitter handle without
really thinking too deeply about it. I was trying to twist The Significance of
R into something ‘understandable’. I could have used U R Significant, but I’ve
never been one for the melodramatic although some may disagree. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Way, way back in the hazy days of a noughties Cypriot
winter, I use to listen to a myriad of podcasts from International Sync
Bloggers and documentary makers, to American ‘progressive’ writers and
thinkers. That was when the ‘trooth’ movement and all the crap with Alex Jones
really started to take off. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Call it subliminal or whatever you like, the letter ‘R’
kept appearing all over the place, and came up in discussions about mysticism, and
the significance of ‘things’, often including the letter ‘R’. So much so that
one day I was walking to work and tripped on something in the doorway. Looking down,
wondering what it was, I picked up a plastic transparent letter ‘R’ that had
fallen off a noticeboard and into the street! A strange realisation set in, sort
of how the number ‘23’ seems to trigger people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">You will know by now, if you’ve read some of my blog posts,
that I’ve covered an eclectic mix of the strange and weird over the years. These
include my own personal experiences of the ‘unknown’, I’ve divulged on news
headlines that touched me, ranging from things like film festivals, abortions, and
even international terrorism. I’ve also been approached several times to be
told about events that would bring the end of the world, and whether I’d like
to cover them on my blog, or whether I’d like to syndicate my posts to ‘far-right’
sites similar to Breitbart! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">It appears I am a soft touch after all, although I am not
about to do any of the above, unless of course, there is significant monetary incentive
for me to do so… I digress…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Never thought of myself as far right, more like ‘far-out-there’.
I don’t follow a ‘side’ or see myself as a ‘warrior for a cause’. I’m just
looking for some sanity in (what now appears to be very much) the insane world
we’re living in. As ‘Judge Judy’ says (who I am forced to watch whenever I
spend time with my elderly mother) <i><b>“If something doesn’t make sense, it isn’t
true!” </b></i>That’s what the Significance of ‘R’ is, it’s the element of truth that
eludes us, only popping up out of the ether on occasion to surprise us with its
presence. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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questions about it, offer opinions about it, doesn’t automatically mean you subscribe
to its ethos. I like watching documentaries about ‘Big-Foot’ for example. However,
I’m not about to go out hunting for one. Naturally, if someone comes out and
says they saw one wearing a t-shirt with a huge letter ‘R’ on the front, well…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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after Boris’ mentioned the figures. I have to agree with this statement. Keep
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>It’s a mathematical term</b>... R0 indicates how contagious an infectious disease is. It’s also referred to as the reproduction number. As an infection spreads to new people, it reproduces itself. <b>R 0</b> tells you the average number of people who will catch a disease from one contagious person.</span><br />
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">For more information on what R0 is and how it's calculated, here's a good article, a bit out of date now but worth the read https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/01/how-fast-and-far-will-new-coronavirus-spread/605632/ </span></div>
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<div><b>The Eye of <span style="font-size: medium;">R</span>a or Eye of <span style="font-size: medium;">R</span>e</b> is a being in ancient Egyptian mythology that functions as a feminine counterpart to the sun god Ra and a violent force that subdues his enemies. The eye is an extension of Ra's power, equated with the disk of the sun, but it also behaves as an independent goddess. This goddess can be equated with several particular deities, including Hathor, Sekhmet, Bastet, Raet-Tawy, and Mut. The eye goddess acts as mother, sibling, consort, and daughter of the sun god. She is his partner in the creative cycle in which he begets the renewed form of himself that is born at dawn. The eye's violent aspect defends Ra against the agents of disorder that threaten his rule. This dangerous aspect of the eye goddess is often represented by a lioness or by the uraeus, or cobra, a symbol of protection and royal authority. </div><div><br /></div><div>The Eye of Ra is similar to the Eye of Horus, which belongs to a different god, Horus, but represents many of the same concepts. The disastrous effects when the eye goddess rampages out of control and the efforts of the gods to return her to a benign state are a prominent motif in Egyptian mythology.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Eye of Ra was involved in many areas of ancient Egyptian religion, including in the cults of the many goddesses who are equated with it. Its life-giving power was celebrated in temple rituals, and its dangerous aspect was invoked in the protection of the pharaoh, of sacred places, and of ordinary people and their homes.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1zMji2Apv8s/YPMJOAVexMI/AAAAAAAADhI/rat0XiPp9fYfgBn8rQkRnrOqhSy2JqJJACLcBGAsYHQ/s300/Eye%2Bof%2Bra.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="251" data-original-width="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1zMji2Apv8s/YPMJOAVexMI/AAAAAAAADhI/rat0XiPp9fYfgBn8rQkRnrOqhSy2JqJJACLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Eye%2Bof%2Bra.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04552643095016293044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761911964822245070.post-5595662179229739532020-03-20T14:28:00.002-07:002020-03-20T14:57:29.856-07:00Coronavirus - THE FUTURE New World Order IS NOW! <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Well here it is folks</b>,</span> the much posited and reviled New World Order courtesy of a bio-hazard ‘contagion’ straight out of a Hollywood script writer's MAC. Coronavirus aka Novel COVID-19. That’s a new strain of a virus in a ‘family of viruses’ which cause things like a cold. They’ve been around a while, but we now have a new one (Novel) ‘Corona Virus Disease’, found in 20(19).</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like some, I do enjoy a good bio-hazard movie, Dustin Hoffman in ‘Outbreak’ (1995) was particularly good, as was Bruce Boxleitner in Contagion (2002 version), and 28 Days Later (also 2002 and far superior) with Cillian Murphy. There’s also ‘The Cassandra Crossing’ (1976). Universally panned by the critics, with its host of Hollywood greats, this particular movie had a bio-hazard background but was also a runaway train disaster movie that bombed at the box office. Ironically it made good money in Japan, can you see why?</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Cassandra Crossing (1976) A Sync messenger of doom? (See Twilight Language)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Back to the real strange and scary world for a moment…Yes, fear has gripped the world as nearly all of us realise the unthinkable suddenly is anything but. Falling through that instance in time. When was it exactly? About two weeks ago? Into some parallel universe, where all those sci-fi movies suddenly became non-fiction. We find ourselves collectively stuck in a moment where we thought we knew everything but know nothing at all. Prediction is pointless as the nightmare is suddenly lucid in the daytime. The terror is tangible, the panic, tactile. It’s the end of the world as we know it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Not to sound alarmist, Okay! Too late, I guess. Next week my government is sending out ‘letters’ to the vulnerable health system registered people of England to confirm if they should self-isolate. Failure to comply to your ‘notice’ means the powers-that-be now have the power to ‘arrest and detain’ in a venue of their choosing. Sound familiar?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Falling into this alternate reality, where all those disaster movies came true, means that civil unrest could also be part of the package. There were some instances of criminals targeting supermarkets yesterday evening, but only a few so far in London. Reading the latest news alerts and seeing that in the US there’s a ‘run on Guns’, and reports from many sources, of the military moving vehicles (and troops) in convoy via the M4 motorway near Bristol at night, makes you wonder.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Greta and her climate change screaming did nothing to save the planet, (She was here about two weeks ago also, shouting about something again) but some of the key messages we’re now having to following, like no flying, no travelling, etc. Staying at home to reduce our carbon footprint? It didn’t quite work out the way she hoped, did it? </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Faux paid for Climate Activist Greta Thunberg having a whale of a time in Bristol Feb. 2020</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Financial Collapse – well, this beats all the models with forecasts of a 30s style recession heading our way this summer, companies collapse in droves and Boris and Trump keep throwing money at it like a coked-up Chinese Tech. CEO in a Moscow strip-club.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Remember Novichok? Now that was a great test of our resilience, especially here in the west country… Porton Down (the oldest chemical warfare installation in the world) apparently helping with the Coronavirus cure effort. Nice of them.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Testing, testing, testing, are YOU ready to take the test?</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Do you like your ELE (Extinction Level Event) disaster stories to come in three’s? Well, Asteroid (52768) 1998 OR2 is on course to make a close approach to Earth on April 29th. Classed as a ‘potentially hazardous’ rock (j<i>ust a name really)</i> it’s not expected to have much impact on the planet, but the doom-seekers will say otherwise, naturally.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What’s number three? Oh, it’s earthquakes of course. Magna, west of Salt Lake City, Utah, has been experiencing unprecedented levels of aftershocks (a big swarm) following the 5.7 magnitude earthquake Wednesday. The last thing anyone wants to hear is that San Francisco, California, is shaking, or these swarms are increasing, especially anywhere near the Yellowstone Caldera for example, because if that suffers a catastrophic collapse, COVID-19 will mean nothing at all, it’s Sayonara everybody!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Peek-a-boo, this is not a joke. No, seriously, it isn't. It's a conspiracy of some proportion, but not a joke!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When I worked in the Middle East, a while ago now, you use to be able to buy surgical face-masks (made in China) at your local supermarket for two euros. It always seemed strange and ridiculous to me then, but I bought them for my asthma, so I could clean-up dust around the house. I lived through water and power-cuts and threats of war, but this time around it’s different. Seeing panic buying on the scale it is today in a Western country, truly unthinkable. Now all public places are closed to the public, even European borders closed, this was never imagined in my lifetime. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Choosing to stay indoors and forfeit wages, my employer won’t pay, this is all unknown territory. Everyone is living in a state of limbo and only a thought away from being completely terrified about the future. What does it look like? I don’t earn enough to buy an electric car, never mind a robot assistant, now I doubt I ever will. Having a roof over your head and money to buy food was, for the most part, a life-stresser but manageable. At least we still have Netflix, Amazon Prime, Apple TV and Sky Movies to keep our minds on other things, and our freedom to use ‘Social’ media to communicate with each other… right? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Oh, I just heard they have cancelled the Eurovision Song Contest this year… things are that bad, I guess.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;">See: </span><br style="text-align: center;" /><br />Tonkiri and Run Don't Walk on Twitter for some fabulous Coronavirus Syncs to really get you thinking</b><br />
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...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04552643095016293044noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761911964822245070.post-82625011574937075792020-01-25T13:47:00.002-08:002020-01-28T12:48:37.012-08:001917 <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><i> I remember my days at school</i></span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><i>,</i> when
we were forced to watch ‘The World at War’, a 1970s documentary series that our
teacher believed would help seven-year olds not to forget about the Nazis and
the second world war. School also taught us about the first world war, about
the trenches, the mustard gas, the gas masks, the mines, the tanks, and the German
‘Hun’. It also made sure we knew that millions of soldiers died a horrible death
to save us. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Writer/Director Sam Mendez (Skyfall/Spectre amongst many) has
managed an astonishing feat with his latest cinematic offering. By adding to
the annuals of war movie history, his film ‘1917’ brings those 70s child-hood
classroom horror stories agonisingly to life for the 21<sup>st</sup> century. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We know that war is hell there’s no argument, and our
fascination with it, endless. Mendez knows this too, as he drags us like a warped
holiday-ride attraction, through the battle lines of no-man’s land. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">On the surface, the story is a simple one,</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lance Corporal Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman) </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">and Lance
Corporal Schofield (George MacKay) have been set a goal by their commanding
officer (Colin Firth in low-lit perfection). It could be medals or death. They have
no idea what they are about to face, no one does, but they are not the
architects of their fate, war will dictate that for them. Mirroring a sort of Odyssey
quest, they seemingly overcome hurdles through sheer naivety.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It’s a war ravaged 1917 springtime landscape, where the cherry
blossoms shed their petals onto the decomposing corpses of men littering the French
countryside, as rats scamper about and peril lurks in the shadows. This film wasn’t
conceptualized on a Dorset rifle range where CEOs spend weekends shooting
paintballs for teambuilding. It’s edge-of-your-seat action-drama stuff, and then
some.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">What appears outstandingly like a continuous tracking shot, the action seems
to have been filmed in one take. Often, you’ll feel as if you’re sitting on the
shoulders of the protagonists as they splash their way through the muddied alleyways
of the trenches, attempting to reach the front line and not knowing what they
will encounter around the next corner. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Outside of its ‘war’ genre, 1917 is an exceptional film, particularly
for its technical production. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With sound,
music, and editing, fuelling an experience of ‘being there’, it’s the Cinematographer</span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Roger
Deakins who should bag one of the ten Oscars it’s been nominated for. The film
hasn’t been forgotten this awards season and is full throttle for bagging the
main gong; ‘Best Film’. It might just get it. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-feJV02s72rDeYysQ5fnygt4ZnGazMM3XRyELobodi09f1BDk5Zy-76AbPYbvXZg1smRYoG_AoVZTGgBnqcQscBN21gWTsNTOXEkEPc7EKn2rtSGJ5LtsMI5FXzuUKjfcM9pOvRUkkBrq/s1600/1917+7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="600" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-feJV02s72rDeYysQ5fnygt4ZnGazMM3XRyELobodi09f1BDk5Zy-76AbPYbvXZg1smRYoG_AoVZTGgBnqcQscBN21gWTsNTOXEkEPc7EKn2rtSGJ5LtsMI5FXzuUKjfcM9pOvRUkkBrq/s320/1917+7.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1917 is a stunning visual masterpiece of film making that
is more than a war film. Keep an eye out for some of your favourite actors too, (Bodyguard anyone?) putting in their cameos, because that's what they are. The main feature IS the visual spectacle of the film - the entity itself! Highly
recommended, especially for those who love drama and war movies but still understand the futility
of it. Remember to pack plenty of water, and maybe a tissue. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Writer / Director: <b>Sam Mendez</b></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Co. Writer: Krysty Wilson-Cairns</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cinematographer: <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Hlk30878625">Roger Deakins</a></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Music: Thomas Newman</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Editing: Lee Smith</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Production Design: Dennis Gassner</span></i></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Actor, singer-songwriter, and critical thinker Laurence Fox</td></tr>
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It's awards season, and anyone that knows what I'm like around this time of year, knows that all I talk about is movies. However, 2020 is turning out to be a very different year.<br />
<br />
My latest flame goes by the name of Laurence Fox. I apologise for my 'gushing' all over this British (mostly tv) icon, but he's really got people red faced, if not hot under the collar, with his latest TV appearances.<br />
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He's becoming quite the talking-point with his 'un-woke' comments on BBCs recent 'Question Time' (political chat) programme, and his subsequent interviews grabbing most of the headlines (let's not mention the Duchess of Deception Megs right now) and riding on the tail of controversy for click-bait and print coverage.<br />
<br />
What I've liked the most about the recent talking points on his comments about racism and 'white privilege' is that there is someone in the Arts that still appears to have his own mind, no brain-transplanted... yet! He says what he thinks and makes no apologies. You gotta hand it to him, that's very risky behaviour in this climate of 'woke' aka 'brain washing of the masses'. Straying from the accepted narrative of '<i><b>all normal people think...</b></i>', gets you into serious shit these days. The powers-that-be don't want you rocking boats and <b><i>really waking them up! </i></b><br />
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The Fantastic Mr Fox's Wiki page goes someway to explain why I like him:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><i>Fox is the third of the five children of actor James Fox
and Mary Elizabeth Piper. His father James was the son of Robin Fox, a
theatrical agent, who married Angela Muriel Darita Worthington, daughter of the
playwright Frederick Lonsdale. Laurence Fox was born in 1978 in Yorkshire. At
the age of 13 he was enrolled at Harrow School at which point he was, as he
later recalled, "shy around women, sensitive and a bit naïve".</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><i>Although he made friends and liked the drama teacher, he hated the school's
strict regimen and felt despised and out of place among pupils with titles and
wealth. </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><i><b>Constantly in trouble for smoking, fighting, going into town and seeing
girls, he was expelled a few weeks before his A-levels. According to him,
"It was something to do with a girl at a dance. I went back to take the
exams, but I wasn't allowed to speak to anyone." With hindsight, Fox has
said that his experience at Harrow enabled him to portray "toffs" –
the upper-class boys looking down on him and whom he disliked – with much
insight and cynicism.</b></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"></span><b></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><i>He later told an interviewer that despite doing well in his
A-level examinations he was unable to obtain a place at any university, because
of a report about him from Harrow. After working as a gardener for two years,
and a stint as an office worker which he loathed, he discovered that he
preferred acting and enrolled at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).
During his time there he appeared in numerous theatre productions, including
the lead roles of Gregers Werle in Ibsen's The Wild Duck, Marcus Andronicus in
Titus Andronicus, and Stephen Daedalus in an adaptation of James Joyce's novel
Ulysses. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><i>However, he was disappointed to find that, as an "Old
Harrovian", he was treated "like a nonce". <b>He made himself more
unpopular by being outspoken and taking on stage and movie roles in his second
and third years despite this practice being banned by the academy. </b>One of these
was his first break into film – the horror-thriller The Hole (2001). Fox feels
that in landing the role his name "probably helped – it's a combination of
timing, luck and contacts". Nonetheless, "the name opens some doors,
but then you have to show you can do the job".</i></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Someone said he'd make a nice James Bond, I agree, but then I would!</td></tr>
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If you'd like to know more there's plenty here: https://metro.co.uk/2020/01/22/laurence-fox-receives-death-threats-battling-insomnia-controversial-race-row-question-time-children-12100572/</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">That other Mr Fox, less cuddly though!</td></tr>
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<br />...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04552643095016293044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761911964822245070.post-46109086454304274492019-12-16T13:58:00.001-08:002019-12-16T13:58:07.335-08:00Mr Narwhal says Merry Christmas!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Toy characters from that Christmas classic movie 'Elf' (2003 Year of the Narwhal) ...who knew this was even a thing!</td></tr>
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<br />...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04552643095016293044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761911964822245070.post-53192684524748429052019-11-30T12:00:00.002-08:002019-11-30T12:15:11.857-08:00The Lion and the Unicorn... London Bridge is Falling<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Since very late last night I have found myself censored
from Twitter, unable to post anything with the <i><b>London Bridge Shooting or London
Bridge Attack hashtag…</b></i> it appears someone reported me. I’ve hit a nerve with my
questions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">By now I’m sure you’ve seen all the videos, or most of
them, and have heard the official narrative about this latest ‘London Terror’
incident ironically putting the ‘Black’ into Black Friday.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There is a lot of info out there if you can be bothered to
read through it. This latest story of bloody Mid-east terror intrigue to put
the fear back into the population (for good reason, turning them away from
their Brexit meltdown, or Royal controversy) has more twists than any best
seller. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/null" name="_Hlk26028815"></a></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk26028815;"></span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I’ll break it down into small chunks for those of my Tweeters
that hate, so chew on this…</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Cambridge University were holding an ‘event’ in Central London,
at the Fishmongers Hall, north of London Bridge. It was a ‘Prisoner Rehab
Program’ called something like ‘Learning Together’, where ex-cons and convicted
terrorists attended together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The first victim of the terror attack was Rehab Course Coordinator
Jack Merritt (25) who was knifed somewhere in a downstairs room of the Hall,
where other attendees then dragged the assailant, <b>Usman Khan</b>, out into the street.
It’s not clear who or how the other (female) victim was killed. Nor is there,
as yet, any information on the other victims who are apparently seriously ill
in a London hospital somewhere.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>A convicted murderer </b>(unnamed) was one of several people
attending the conference who tussled with the assailant Kahn towards London
Bridge and tried to stop him from going on a ‘rampage’ apparently. He is the
man seen in videos ‘sitting’ on Khan moments before the Police open fire. Another
man (unnamed) used a fire extinguisher to force Khan to the ground.</span></div>
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Another man, Polish chef (unnamed) had <i><b>grabbed a ‘Narwhal
Tusk</b></i>’ from the wall of the Hall and use it as a weapon against Khan. He is seen
in the videos holding something that looks like a long white pole and poking it
at the assailant. </span><br />
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SraRMdoPbjY/XeLDaivnyUI/AAAAAAAADSw/y5c4NjYv6qo_IPBNUCIQLCwlOZ80e2eLACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Nharwal%2Btusks%2Band%2Bknife.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="409" data-original-width="615" height="265" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SraRMdoPbjY/XeLDaivnyUI/AAAAAAAADSw/y5c4NjYv6qo_IPBNUCIQLCwlOZ80e2eLACLcBGAsYHQ/s400/Nharwal%2Btusks%2Band%2Bknife.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">By the time this incident was in full swing, Police had
cordoned off a large section of the city area, traffic onto the bridge had ground
to a halt, Police had stopped a <b>white lorry from trying to leave</b> by doing a U-turn, and
eye-witnesses on several London buses, and on foot, were filming/live streaming
the incident only meters away, before armed Police moved them back. </span><br />
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QaUK72248Tg/XeLNw-aB07I/AAAAAAAADT4/-DBefYce1mEHOCnFoH4wH0xk6uMQNRedgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/White%2BVAN.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="976" height="225" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QaUK72248Tg/XeLNw-aB07I/AAAAAAAADT4/-DBefYce1mEHOCnFoH4wH0xk6uMQNRedgCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/White%2BVAN.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The London Bridge location makes perfect headlines for the
papers and is easy for an international audience to understand. Better than,
say Westminster, or Tower for example. On viewing the videos posted during and
after the incident, things begin to take on an even more surreal tone. Questions
inevitably crop up.</span><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Assailant</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Some of this if from The Guardian Online… “Usman Khan, 28,
knifed five people before he was tackled and disarmed by brave witnesses and
then shot dead by police at point-blank range.</span><br />
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-psrScxM6qr8/XeLI43Tdv-I/AAAAAAAADTg/6uvdifUqzXgEnXOGutz6j1PlUQZdxheKQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/london-bridge-terror-attack%2BKHAN.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="590" height="236" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-psrScxM6qr8/XeLI43Tdv-I/AAAAAAAADTg/6uvdifUqzXgEnXOGutz6j1PlUQZdxheKQCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/london-bridge-terror-attack%2BKHAN.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He was armed with two kitchen knives and wearing a fake
suicide vest when he launched his attack while attending the Learning Together
event. Police said he acted alone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b><i>Khan was a convicted terrorist released half-way through a
16-year prison sentence for a plot to bomb the London Stock Exchange.</i></b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He was automatically released on licence in December 2018
after serving less than seven years and wearing an electronic monitoring tag
when he went on the stabbing spree.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In February 2012, Khan, formerly of Stoke, was given an
open-ended indeterminate sentence for public protection over his part in an
al-Qaida-inspired plot to bomb the London Stock Exchange and build a terrorist
training camp on land in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir owned by his family.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A list of other potential targets included the names and
addresses of the Dean of St Paul's Cathedral in London,<i><b> then London mayor Boris
Johnson,</b></i> two rabbis, and the American Embassy in London. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But the sentence for Khan, along with two co-conspirators,
was quashed at the Court of Appeal in April 2013 and he was given a determinate
16-year jail term and f<i><b>reed on licence in December last year and made to wear
the tag.</b></i></span><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Parole Board said it had no involvement </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">in his
release and that Khan "appears to have been released automatically on
licence (as required by law), without ever being referred to the board". </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Khan, of Stafford, struggled as he was pinned to the ground
until armed officers arrived and shot him in front of dozens of witnesses as
traffic came to a grinding halt on the bridge over the River Thames.”</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Knives out! And a small bag of white stuff!</td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Undercover Cop, the Knives and the White
Packet</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">So, things now become weirder as you view more and more
material on the incident you will find some high-strangeness. Several plain-clothed
Police officers just happened to be in the area and joined in to bring the assailant
down. In one video, an officer is seen picking up a white package from the
ground next to Khan and<b><i> putting it into his left pocket</i></b>. Moments later he grabs
the knife from Kahn and moves away along the bridge shouting something to his
colleagues and then to bystanders to move away. As he does so he removes the white
packet from his pocket and <i><b>throws it to the ground.</b></i> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Police are clearly seen with their guns drawn (possibly
SIG516s) pointed right at Khan only meters away. At this point Khan is on the
ground kicking his legs up in the air, he’s being held down on the ground by the
(unnamed ex-con murderer). One officer holds a Taser over Khan. However, this
doesn’t appear to have been deployed, as the Police pull the ex-con murder from
on top of Khan, and bystanders move back. One armed officer then shoots Khan in
the back of the head as he attempts to get up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Interestingly, late last night a Twitter poster re-posts a
video found on Instagram which shows another angle. The time is unclear, but
Khan is supposedly lying dead on the ground with no one (no one visible in the
shot) around him. <b><i>Khan then appears to actually get up. </i></b>The video causes
confusion but corroborates eye-witness statements that ‘several’ gunshots were
heard and not just one or two. Khan was presumed dead but was then re-shot to
make sure – the video shows that this was NOT at point-blank range. This is the
Instagram video reposted but now removed from Twitter and Instagram. <b><i>All
messages and posts surrounding this video have been deleted by the users. My
Twitter timeline no longer shows the video, the comments around it and the name
of the original Instagram poster have simply vanished.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">While in the midst of full-on Tweeting comments and
re-tweets were disabled around this. A couple of other tweeters were actively trying
to save the posts and video but were unable to, watching them disappear in front of their eyes. Social Media censorship in full
swing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I attempted to comment on someone’s thread that I didn’t believe
this was a false flag operation but rather something else that has been obscured
by clever media manipulation. However, I was immediately blocked from using any
of the related hashtags. My attempts to save the comments and video were to no
avail.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Then Sky News joins the furore by Tweeting a clip of their
documentary where <b><i>they admitted that they were actually filing in real-time when
the terror attack began:</i></b><a href="https://twitter.com/notifications"></a></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The Sky News
Documentary</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://twitter.com/SkyNewsBreak">@SkyNewsBreak</a></span><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This is the moment
members of the elite Police Territorial Support Group responded to the London
Bridge attack. Our Home Affairs Correspondent <a href="https://twitter.com/skymarkwhite">@skymarkwhite</a></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><i><b>was filming with them when they got the call</b></i>.”</span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As this is doing the rounds,
other commentators state that there just happened to be a BBC reporter on the scene too, while others posting on the ‘London Bridge Attack’ thread with screenshots
showing that the incident was <i><b>reported online before it took place!</b></i></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Time lapse?</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This latest event ranks as one of the strangest yet. Some
heavy high strangeness and synchronicity at work. The Narwhal tusk thrown into
the mix, once thought to be proof of Unicorns back in the day, makes this a
sort of fantasy fiction story, especially when you see that the Unicorn symbol,
so beloved of kids these days, forms part of the <b><i>emblem for the United Kingdom
</i></b>and on crests everywhere, including the London Police. The Lion and the Unicorn
symbols full of esoteric meaning. The Police and the Public fighting a terror
threat in full view of the world on a bridge in the middle of the most famous
city in the world. <b>You couldn’t write this stuff, but there it is on your TV
news at two o'clock in the afternoon. Do you believe everything you see on TV these days?</b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Unicorn?</td></tr>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj5II3MwvXo40p_svlFdSqUveAQQZh4gvPlNSmd26qptQZQv_z4C9TpcV4P3RCycv_ub3f2Zmy7dw16t5-we0Qz8SpqltCxv89O7EH72oRPtDUKKLcZqfO8n8jkE3005ycY1ulCr1I5H8O/s1600/JOker.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj5II3MwvXo40p_svlFdSqUveAQQZh4gvPlNSmd26qptQZQv_z4C9TpcV4P3RCycv_ub3f2Zmy7dw16t5-we0Qz8SpqltCxv89O7EH72oRPtDUKKLcZqfO8n8jkE3005ycY1ulCr1I5H8O/s400/JOker.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Spoilers Abound</span></b></i><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>Forget dark knights and flying mammals</b>, this is one sad/sick
tale that ’al have you nervously looking over your shoulder in the day-time. It’s
a reimagined Gotham City circa 1980. This is not from the annuls of the DC Comic
Batman universe you know and love(sic). A stand-alone movie, Joker is a parallel
universe much like the timeline disturbance of Back to the Future II, where that
dark dirty violent world is actually your reality.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Writer/Director Todd Phillips and co-writer Scott Silver’s homage
to movies Taxi Driver (1976) and The King of Comedy (1983) is obvious here. What’s
not so obvious is the storyline and what it’s actually trying to tell us. Joker
is subversive, perhaps one of the reasons it won the Golden Lion award at this year’s
Venice Film Festival. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">A<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">nother reason could be Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck/Joker,
the ultimate anti-hero. He puts up a mirror to the world and shows us that it doesn’t
matter who you are, what you do, there are always forces with greater power out
there. You beat them by destroying them and replacing them with something more
powerful. Our protagonist Arthur knows the difference between right and wrong,
Joker doesn’t, as he asks us to examine our heroes. Do we know who they are? The
people we worship and love, are they worthy of our affection?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Arthur’s motives throughout are in fact honourable and good.
He’s disillusioned he says because he doesn’t know he exists, but he also clearly
advertises that he has a brain injury, while teasing the cops that he might
not. His mother loves him though. (Frances Conroy as Penny, Arthur’s elderly
mother, doing a sort of Room 237 prequal scene is so good here.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">What happens to a mad man when he has nothing left to lose?
Actions have consequences, however strange that may seem in this Joker’s
universe, and those consequences lead to metamorphosis of a very menacing kind.
Are we seeing reality from his point of view, is it all in the mind, just an illusion,
a magic trick?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The way Phoenix handles Arthur’s depths of despair and the journey
is awe inspiring too – from the nuanced looks to the way he smokes that
cigarette, you gotta hand it to him, he’s as good as he was in ‘The Master’ (2012)
and ‘You Were Never Really Here’ (2017). I had to look away at one ultra-close-up
violent scene, as I’ve become squeamish to fake blood in my old age, not so
desensitized yet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Critics are divided on the influential nature of the
violence portrayed in this movie. What can’t be denied is the orchestration and
musical score, the soundtrack, complimenting a familiar skyline, that is not your
usual superhero/supervillain landscape. Touching a little too close to home,
where people wear their clown masks on the tube to demonstrations, like the 99%
and Anonymous fans wore theirs once, while on their way to Manhattan or DC. The violence is
straight from the streets of Paris at the weekend and Hong Kong last night.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">When a dubious friend gives clown-for-hire Arthur a gun to protect
himself, you know where that’s heading. The girl next door makes a joke about
blowing brains out, you know where that's going, his idol takes him down on
live tv… you know how that’s going to end up too. (Robert De Niro as Murray
Franklin, who I’ve lost respect for, does a fine job).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Arthur writes in his daily diary that, <b><i>“the worst
thing about having mental illness is that people want you to act like you don’t”!
</i></b>This is the problem, no one is listening, but by the end of the movie
they won’t be able to ignore him anymore. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">With titillating billboards lighting up the city streets, adding
a comic touch to a tragic scene of murder and mayhem, the Joker is reborn. Culminating
this surreal vision, Arthur Fleck is no more.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The film reveals to us that we’re living in a
sick world, and it’s no joke. Watch at your peril.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="font-size: large;">B</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><b><i>y pure chance</i></b> I heard an song sung by Anthony Newley on the
radio this morning, called ‘There’s Always a Joker’ (from 1965 movie soundtrack of 'The Roar of the Greasepaint). Listening to the
lyrics got me thinking about the upcoming movie starring Joaquim Phoenix, ‘Joker’,
which I hope to post a review of, as soon as it opens here in the UK.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Loren Coleman just posted on his blog, ‘Twilight Language’,
about the possibility of the ‘Copycat Effect’ being activated on opening
weekend of the film in the US (or elsewhere). Strangely, or rather, predictably,
Joker symbolism is now all over the place and slowly permeating the imagination
of the population.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I’m seeing correlations appearing in the recent entertainment
news with up-coming movies showing a distinct synchronistic flavour. Just a small selection below...</span><br />
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04552643095016293044noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761911964822245070.post-19914713918340450432019-09-19T13:33:00.001-07:002019-09-19T14:37:17.441-07:00Ad Astra ...et ultra<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">-Spoilers Abound-</span></i></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My love of sci-fi had me chomping-at-the-bit to
see this movie. As soon as it opened at my local cinema I was there, I left
work early especially to be one of the first people to see it.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Now this love of sci-fi stems from many things
in my past. Mostly a childhood built around outer space adventures, dreams of
world-saving heroes, and seeking out the mysterious, searching for answers to
life’s unknowns. The trailer for Ad Astra, or ‘To the Stars’*, seemed to tell
of just such a space adventure.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My love for Brad Pitt films on the other hand,
well that’s quite a different story. I lost my interest after Ocean’s 11 and
it’s taken a while to rekindle. Angelina had a lot to do with it, but I
digress…</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ad Astra gives us a glimpse into a ‘near future’ where entrepreneur
extraordinaire Elon Musk’s vision of space exploration has come true. So, we
have a Subway sandwich to look forward to on the Moon among other things. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">All is not what it seems in this latest tale of man’s thirst
to discover new planets, and new life. With an opening scene to die for, and a
premise to intrigue, Ad Astra’s hero Roy McBride (Pitt) is on a top-secret
mission, a quite personal mission, with a remit to save the universe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Some fine acting on show here from the likes of Tommy Lee
Jones as H. Clifford McBride, and a personal favourite of mine Donald
Sutherland, as a rather worn-out companion/handler Thomas Pruitt. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">What I found exceptional about the film is the fact that it
is full of homage to many other films on the subject, from the reflective
visors and orchestrated space-station moves of Kubrick’s 2001:A Space Odyssey
(1968), to mirroring Planet of the Apes, to styling ideas taken in copy from Chris Marker’s, La Jetee, (1962),
of which Terry Gilliam’s <b>12 Monkeys </b>(1995) is based – coincidentally another
movie featuring Brad Pitt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This film is expertly executed by writer/director James Gray, with spectacular
cinematography (a name and a half 'Mr Hoyte van Hoytema'). The action, when it comes, and goes, is thrilling, and you
certainly want more of it, but as our hero approaches his goals, things turn
dark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pitt is superb in the role for
once, as he broods and mopes, stares into space, barely cracking a smile. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Nothing beats that feeling of travelling through the solar
system alongside our protagonist. The further away from earth he gets, the
deeper into space he reaches, the more isolating and depressing it becomes. Earthlings
are bad tourists, bringing their usual crap with them, when not at war, they’re
disrespecting the environment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">With deep space comes deep sadness, ‘We’re all we’ve got’,
Roy tells Clifford. There you have it, the denouement delivered deadpan by our
hero, sealing the deal on this being one of the most interesting yet depressing
sci-fi experiences. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As a final note, I’ll leave a warning to any future space
captains out there. When a national hero says, <i>“You don’t need to answer
that call”, </i>listen to him, k?</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">*=Seneca: “Per aspera ad Astra.” Through
Hardships to the Stars</span></span></i><br />
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span>...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04552643095016293044noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761911964822245070.post-33876220216693333982019-09-10T12:53:00.002-07:002019-09-10T12:54:37.391-07:00The Mirror Cracked?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In the above screenshot we see Margot Robbie as the fated
Sharon Tate dancing around her bedroom. After this shot, you get to see the mirror on the wall behind her very closely. I was speculating on why Tarantino
chose to deliberately slow-pan the camera across the mirror.
It’s a familiar mirror, dating from the early 70s, not really the 60s though. A
lot of younger girls had/have one of these on their bedroom wall. They came in various
sizes, with a multitude of designs copied from Czech artist Alphonse Mucha’s
Art Nouveau collection, known as ‘The Seasons’, I had a smaller version of ‘The
Summer Queen’. Here we see a very large version of ‘The Autumn Queen’, chosen
perhaps to send a message? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Mucha was influenced by symbolism and by the social aspects
of William Morris' Arts and Crafts Movement in England during the early part of
the 20<sup>th</sup> century. He gained notoriety with his work co-mingling art
deco designs with advertising of the period. He even designed Paris’ Metro-station
signs and billboards. It’s interesting to note that Alphonse Mucha, apart from
being a renowned painter, much copied and re-printed, was very active in his native country as a member of
various secret societies, and a high-ranking vocal proponent of Freemasonry. </span><br />
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04552643095016293044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761911964822245070.post-20705198870424682392019-09-03T14:09:00.000-07:002019-09-04T11:49:54.221-07:00Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)<div style="text-align: center;">
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">As I've now lost access to my own movie review blog of old 'Celluloid Seduction', I've posted my spoiler-light film review here. Comments welcome!</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There’s a clue in the title, <b>Once Upon a Time...</b> is
a fairy tale, a modern Grimm, where truth and fiction mingle. The trouble with
Tarantino’s latest fable is that there isn’t much of a moral to the story and his
monsters, witches, and princes, are actors with ‘use by’ dates. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It’s April 1969 in sunny California. In the background of
the opening scene, a car radio blurts out a news report with familiar names
from the era. Sirhan Sirhan has been sentenced to death for the murder of
Robert Kennedy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Our protagonist (Leonardo Di Caprio as fading actor Rick Dalton)
and sidekick in sideburns (Brad Pitt as his stuntman double Cliff Booth) are has-been
players in the fickle world of cinematic entertainment, about to get their just
rewards as they calculate their headcount of fictitious ‘kills’. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">If you are a Tarantino fan there is no doubt you will enjoy
this latest offering, and it’s clear to see QTs love of Hollywood shining bright.
From the billboards and lights of a dozen old cinemas and theatres strewn through
a 1960s Hollywood. He delights in taking the viewer on a wild ride courtesy of a
fast convertible screeching around corners, passing famous mansions, through
the Hollywood Hills, well before the seatbelt was compulsory.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Familiar faces pop up here and there, familiar themes of buddies
on a mission, baddies with a plan, and some indulgence in revenge for the ‘what
might have been’. There’s even a bit of lazy storytelling, where a few minutes
of narration fills in for a missing half-hour of plot, segmented between some genius scenes of Hollywood irony.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Regarding that plot and characterization, well as the story
goes, this is old Hollywood meets new age and the so-called swinging-60s. If you
remember them, you were never there. It’s clear Tarantino remembers his childhood
and love of teatime TV Westerns, and hippie music, and movies about Nazis, and Asians, and
very, very high-cut denim shorts and… feet. I’ll leave you to ponder that one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Without giving too much away, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
is billed a ‘comedy’, which on the most part it is. Simmering along the edges
of the film, reflected in mirrors and windows, not quite taking us there, the
news headlines we all know (Manson Cult/Sharon Tate murder). The sinister
creeps in, together with the absurd, as the mind of the viewer is toyed with,
made fun of, and generally left traumatised by the experience...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Pure Tarantino.</span>...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04552643095016293044noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761911964822245070.post-15650079815634513332019-08-16T14:22:00.000-07:002019-08-17T02:51:03.038-07:00Lost Nora and Dora in the Golden City of Predictive Programming<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dora and the Lost City of Gold (released 16 Aug. 2019 worldwide)</td></tr>
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<b>Warning: </b>this latest post may offend - approach with caution!<br />
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You may be familiar with recent sad news of an Irish teenager (<b>Nora Quoirin</b>) who was reported missing in Malaysia while on holiday with her family. On the morning of her first day at the Seremban Dunsun resort, on Aug. 4th, in a remote area of the Malaysian Titiwangsa Mountain range, she mysteriously disappeared. Police believed she may have exited her 1st floor cabin<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span>bedroom through an unlocked window, and vanished into the jungle. This despite her reported physical and mental limitations was the official line. Her parents stated to the contrary, that they believed she had been abducted. A widening search ensued to locate her, with rescuers, law enforcement and locals searching 24/7 to no avail.<br />
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These events have been documented extensively, and updated constantly by the British media, and on the 13th Aug. the predicted and tragic outcome to this was announced. Nora was found deceased near a waterfall in a dense jungle ravine, only a mile away from the resort. A location which had been previously searched to the astonishment of all.<br />
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The British tabloid press has been busy with headline after headline about this heart breaking story. I have wondered if perhaps there was a diabolic element and synchronicity at play with this traumatic event thrust into the public's psyche.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In an undated photo released by her parents, Nora stands near a waterfall (this was prior to her being found)</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "graphik" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 34px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 40px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "graphik" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 34px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 40px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Nora </span><b>wandering ALIVE for a WEEK before she died from internal bleeding caused by starvation after she got lost in Malaysian jungle, post-mortem reveals, as police say there is no sign she was kidnapped </b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "segoe ui bold" , "segoe wp bold" , "segoe wp" , "segoe ui" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 3.6rem; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 4.4rem; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Nora Quoirin's family 'still think she was abducted from Malaysian resort</span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dora the Explorer... in the Jungle (2019)</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #292221; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 40px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 46px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Man who found body thinks she walked through river</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A scene from the newly released Dora and the Lost City of Gold </td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">National deputy police chief Mazlan Mansor had earlier told reporters at a press conference that a body which "resembles Nora" had been found. He said the body "was not in any clothings".</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A still from Dora the Explorer in the jungle cartoon</td></tr>
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The strangeness of Synchronicity comes into play with these images married to the Dora the Explorer live-action movie release and the reports of this missing girl named Nora. <span style="font-size: large;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "open sans condensed" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>The below written by Dahria Beaver, Ohio State University, (2018)</i></span></span></div>
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<i>Predictive Programming is theory that the government or other higher-ups are using fictional movies or books as a mass mind control tool to make the population more accepting of planned future events. This was first described and proposed by researcher Alan Watt who defines Predictive programming as “Predictive programming is a subtle form of psychological conditioning provided by the media to acquaint the public with planned societal changes to be implemented by our leaders. If and when these changes are put through, the public will already be familiarized with them and will accept them as natural progressions, thus lessening possible public resistance and commotion.” (Wood) </i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Danger at Whaley Bridge Dam </td></tr>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The news is yet again full of Synchronistic headlines that get you
scratching your head at the astronomical calculations that are needed to
predict them! Here are a few that seemingly appear worlds apart yet connected.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Whaley
Bridge Danger as reported by The Guardian.online…</span></b></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Last Thursday,
as water rushed over the dam wall holding back the Toddbrook reservoir, a lone
Canal & River Trust employee fought against the deluge, desperately trying
to lower the water level.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Heavy rain had led to an excess of water cascading over the
spillway above the town of Whaley Bridge in the Peak District. This would not
normally be an issue, but as the torrent continued the spillway started to
erode and concrete ballasts began to rip away.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As it became apparent that 1.2m tonnes of water
could engulf schools, homes and businesses in the town below, the manager of
the local bowling club, who has a direct view of the dam from his home, raised
the alarm and police officers and firefighters raced to the reservoir.</span></i></div>
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Engineers were soon on the scene and Toddbrook
sailing club quickly became a temporary command centre. Drone footage was
examined and just a few hours after the leaks were spotted, thousands of
residents were evacuated from their homes.</span></i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mayor Whaley press conference </td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">M</span></b><b>ayor Whaley </b>of Dayton, Ohio, gives
us the updates on the latest shooting massacre – her name appeared on the top
of the screen as live updates on the ticker scroll across the bottom telling us
that Whaley Bridge is still in danger of collapse and it could be a matter of
hours away from a catastrophic loss’.<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Telegraph.online tells us…</span></b><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Dayton, Ohio was seconds away from a
“catastrophic loss of life”, the city’s police chief said. Nine people were
killed and 27 injured by Connor Betts, 24, who opened fire on revellers as they
were leaving bars in the Oregon district of the city.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Graphic video footage released by police showed
people running for safety as Betts unleashed a volley of bullets.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">On the anniversary of the Apollo Moon Landings, the BBC
news gives us an insight into the UKs involvement…. <i>Fifty years ago, 650
million people around the world sat transfixed to their TV screens as man
stepped on the Moon for the first time. (Neil Armstrong - a Ohio native) </i></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Back on Earth, four scientists at <b>Jodrell
Bank Observatory in Cheshire</b> were keeping a close ear on events unfolding
on the lunar surface - and with good reason.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Apollo 11 crew were not alone. Sir Bernard
Lovell and his team were officially tracking an unmanned Russian space probe in
orbit around the Moon at the same time.</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Jodrell Arms Pub near Whaley Bridge</td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">A<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">ccording to the BBC Jodrell Bank gains Unesco
World Heritage status!</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It has been at the forefront of astronomical research since
its inception in 1945, the site in Cheshire is part of the University of
Manchester. It is dominated by the landmark Lovell Telescope.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It joins the ancient Iraqi city of Babylon and other
locations that have been added to the prestigious list.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The UN World Heritage Committee is meeting in Azerbaijan
until 10 July to decide on the latest sites to be given the honour - awarded to
areas considered to be important for the whole of humanity, which will be
protected by international treaties. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Scientific research began at Jodrell Bank Observatory in
1945 when the physicist Sir Bernard Lovell came to the University of
Manchester.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lovell and the team at Jodrell Bank Observatory</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The site pioneered the then new science of radio astronomy,
which used radio waves instead of visible light to understand the universe.</span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Jodrell just 33 minutes away from Whaley Bridge.
</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Don’t you just love Synchronicity?<i></i></span></b><br />
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