As ominous ‘black rain’ was falling over Tehran, the US/Israeli Holy War in Iran entered week two. There’s a lot else too. All we can do at this stage is keep taking notes: documenting the insanity as it continues to
“The President was shocked this morning when he learned of the new Israeli bombardment of west Beirut…” and ”expressed his outrage.” No, of course we’re not talking about Trump and Netanyahu here. The above description is of Ronald Reagan‘s
“President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to
The devastating attacks on both Iraq (2003) and Libya (2011) were launched on symbolically significant
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Well, one ambiguity from the recent drop of Epstein files was promptly cleared up. The initially redacted name of the sender of
Hey, have you seen the footage?! Jeffrey Epstein is alive! Here he is, filmed in Israel! Yes, this clearly AI-generated imagery is
On February 3rd, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi was murdered in his home in Zintan, Libya. Four unidentified gunmen invaded the property and opened
Where to even begin? Implied murders? Missing babies? A reinforcement of Pizzagate…? And plenty of ambiguity and continued enigma. And that’s barely scratching
Some kind of US attack on Iran seems to be imminent. Iran hasn’t been out of the news for weeks, since protests
“You’re wasting your time appealing to the moral conscience of a bankrupt man like Uncle Sam. If he had a conscience, he’d straighten this thing out with no more pressure being put upon him…” “That whole thing about appealing to the moral conscience of America; America’s conscience is bankrupt. She
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On the 70th anniversary of the dropping of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, the world-changing event – which, combined with the bombing of Nagasaki, is the only (officially) recorded use of a nuclear bomb against an enemy target – still divides opinion. The famous, haunting statement by Robert J. Oppenheimer,
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At this time, there are no doubt scores of World War I articles and expositions being published right now. But I also want to talk about one of the more famous cultural homages to the First World War – the fourth and final series of the classic British series Blackadder;
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Amid all the speculation surrounding the shoot-down of Malaysian Airlines
So… monkeypox. Has the media, particularly in the UK, overstated
Whatever we may or may not think about Fidel Castro
35 years after the original film, the sequel to the
The riddle of the Roman ‘ghost legions’ is one of
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Guardians of the Galaxy was about as enjoyable as I
Why on earth has Ben Hur been re-made? If we’re
In anticipation of the highly anticipated X-Men: Apocalypse movie, I
Eighties kids and film fans have inevitably been getting excited
You might’ve heard already, but there’s a Supergirl live-action TV
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Music
A fair amount of new music comes my way on
Much as I slated the Kurt Cobain statue in Aberdeen
So. Soup. If you’ve already heard it, you probably don’t
Malala Yousafzai, the now world-famous (and Nobel Prize winning) Pakistani
There is of course already plenty of evidence and logic