On the eve of what turned out to be a disastrous mid-term elections for Trump and the Republicans, the President made an interesting statement. He declared essentially that the yearly US military aid funding to Israel ($3.8 billion a year)
It’s the eve of the US mid-term elections. And the Trump Republicans have already been playing the usual game of casting doubt on the legitimacy of the process before any of it has even happened. This same strategy of
‘With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought
You might’ve noticed a number of news items about the government advising people to stock
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WandaVision really is a masterpiece. And I don’t throw that word around lightly. I always loved it, but ahead of the approaching
Russell Brand’s trial has begun in the UK, as the celebrity grifter/influencer begins defending himself against various sexual abuse allegations. Obviously, I’m
So, we’re told a major terror operation was just heroically thwarted: involving a potential hijacked plane headed for Israel. A dramatic mid-air
The RAF Fairford Incident is still veiled in mystery. I have a sneaking suspicion it might actually remain unresolved, going forward.
There’s almost nothing left to say about 9/11 that hasn’t been said already by someone at some point. And there’s nothing new
History is cyclical, they say. Or, to quote George Lucas, “it’s like poetry, it rhymes.” That idea has been very much in mind as I’ve watched this Imran Khan saga and the degradation in Pakistan’s politics unfolding. I examined the important details concerning Khan’s removal from office here: and, crucially,
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So… the Pentagon’s long-awaited and much-hyped report on UFOs has arrived. And, perhaps predictably, nothing much has been said or established in the report. The merely nine-page document seems to express next to nothing: and leaves the entire matter completely open-ended. Which raises the question of what all this hype
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On May 5th 2000, police in the south of France found a burnt body in the wreckage of a car, deep into the woods close to Nantes. The dead body was so extremely charred that it took a month for the DNA tests to ascertain the victim’s identity. The burnt
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An update on the ‘Jade Helm’ business. A nice lady
You know, sometimes you start out with a simple question.
We already looked at reasons why the Orlando Massacre was
If the recent horse-meat scandal made a lot of people
I happened to notice that a week or so ago
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This is a belated review of Solo: A Star Wars
2014 marked three decades since the death of Richard Burton.
For me, a Star Wars movie used to be a
It’s a weird, difficult time to be a Star Wars
So Star Wars is now in the hands of Disney:
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As a lifelong Nirvana fan, it has always stuck out
The ongoing infantilisation of American politics and discourse is something
As much as I have mixed feelings about Nirvana’s imminent
Along with the twentieth anniversary of Live Through This, a
“I’ve always detested mechanized dance music, its stupid simplicity, the