What the f--k is wrong with all the talking dicks in Russia. All they can do a threaten everyone with nuclear weapons and we all know if the crap starts no one will win as it is certain all life as we know it will cease to exist.
No one in their right mind wants Russia and all the problems it has from the drunks and failed state it has always been. Russia provides Oil and gas but nothing else. Now Russia has become Chinas little boy as it can not stand on its own without China helping it stand. Putin sends his people to die for no reason, Ukraine has no desire to bother Russia but Russia calls them Nazis so its people are so dumb they buy into that crap. Russian people, wake the "F" up and toss out the baby killer now known as Putin. He is no different than Hitler and will now be remember as a mass killer like his role model, Hitler.
He talks and has no info but yet blames Assault Rifles. What is being said is they are similar to AK Style weapons. Biden needs to shut the F--k up as guns are not killing anyone but the PEOPLE pulling the trigger. They are stating the side door was unlocked and seems that is what happened the last time. Until schools stop leaving the doors open bad things will happen. This person could have brought in gallons of gas and started first inside. If someone wishes to kill others it will be impossible to stop them.
We need to wait for all info and is in and then decide what to do.
It is now time for the US/Europe to move on from depending on the Middle East for Oil and Gas. We must rethink the needs of our countries and with China becoming a country the Middle East countries look to for guidance. Wind, Solar is nice but not always dependable for our energy needs. I realize what I say here is not what the leaders want but many the people do. Governments must try to remember it is "We the People" who pay the bills and that 39% who at one time believed the government had it own money better wake up.
The US can and should open drilling, gas exploration, and nuclear power for all the world that doesn't wish to be under the control of China/Middle East and the power they may use if we do not follow them. Isn't it time for the world to understand where China wants to take us and how the Middle East doesn't give a damn about Europe or the US.
If the Middle East wants to go with China, let them and no longer sell military supplies to them as they can purchase from China. Everyone knows China steals everything in Tech from the US or Taiwan as they are unable to build themselves.
There is a concern the Middle East will now use the Yuan (China Currency) in place of the dollar and should that happen it could damage the USA beyond what most of us can conceive. Possible inflation of 40 to 50% or more. We think Carter was bad, that would look like a cake walk if the Yuan become the currency of oil.
Wake up world and stop depending on the Middle East for your power needs. We can do it IF the governments get the hell out of the way and we drill, build modular nuclear plants while also using solar/wind to fill gaps. WE will need that "All of The Above" mind set to remove the cloud hanging over the USA and Europe. Build not only our power needs but everything as China want wishes to run the world and I for one have no desire to live under a dictator.
China, Russia and the Middle East don't give a damn about the people of the world unless they can control us.
Watching what has taken place recently and years back as we were not watching. China seems to get a pass from this administration. Is this due to the Biden family and what they have been doing with the communists country for years past and present to enrich themselves?
The same may be true of Russia as I remember Hunter being given Millions of dollars from some women in Russia and what was that for? Looking at old phones from that time period the crackhead was a mess and yet he gets all that money. Maybe that is why no serious weapons are going to Ukraine to defeat Russia and the butcher Putin.
There are so many questions around the Biden family that looks like a Mobsters family with so many members being paid either from funds from China, Russia and of course the funds Hunter got from his time in Ukraine. Who remembers Joe telling the government in Ukraine to stop looking into Hunters dealings or they would loose aid. Makes him sound like the Godfather of a crime family.
I think Joe and those around him have sold out America and until something changes, America is going down the toilet. Think about it and now we are concerned about the Dollar. Countries are considering moving away from the dollar and moving to the Yuan (think it spelled right). Other countries have also lined up to do the same. Should that happen and the dollar is no longer the main currency, inflation will destroy our way of life. Those who remember inflation during Carters time will pray for that again as the possible rates if the dollar falls, how does 25 to 45%? The Middle East is considering moving to the Yuan instead of the dollar for oil.
Wake up people as America is on the brink and we no longer have leaders who put "We the People" ahead of themselves.
While I was driving Thur. I was listening to the murder trail of
Murdaugh and thinking while listening, where is the PROOF that he killed his son and wife? I heard a lot about the money he stole, how he lied and how the drugs he was taking affected his thinking. I have knowledge of how drugs could alter you why of thinking and stealing from other to support your habit.
I found myself not willing to convict him of a double murder without some evidence. Where is the gun, bloody clothing or anything linking him to it. It has been mentioned that the police "Rushed to Judgement" and never considered anyone else. Could this be another case where they took the easy way out? Not sure but maybe there is another possibility as others wanted to punish the family due to a related death of another in a boating accident.
How about this, he came upon the person or persons killing his wife and son. They (killers) could have decided to allow him to live with a threat of killing him and his other son if he ever said anything as they felt the revenge for the death due to the boating accident had been paid. By killing his one son and wife he may be convicted and would remain quite to protect his last son. Just maybe but no one ever appears to have looked into it as they rushed.
Right now after listening to all parties, I have not heard ANY evidence showing he killed anyone. He is a liar, thief, scum and he will go to prison for theft but not murder. I could not vote to convict at this time.
John Hurt in the film adaptation of George Orwell's dystopian novel, 1984
What is it about the past that some young people find unbearable? After all, no one is expecting them to live through it. Indeed, some of us who did find the present infinitely worse. The vandalism of Roald Dahl’s writings for children by “sensitivity readers” to make them “suitable”, has brought the wickedness of rewriting, or eliminating, the past and evidence of it to the forefront of our discourse. It would also have Dahl (with whom I once spent an evening: shrinking violet he was not) turning in his grave. Sadly, it goes far beyond children’s books, and indeed books generally: films, statues, television programmes, indeed, if they are allowed into the public arena at all. Are we really so delicate? Why tolerate this lunacy?
George Orwell, to whom the Thought Police (a term he invented in Nineteen Eighty-Four) have yet to apply themselves, wrote in that very novel of a Britain in which “every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
We have arrived at our own endless present, or Year Zero, where the record, historical and otherwise, is readily falsified. Its rules are designed to prevent what that arrogant and self-regarding minority who feel obliged to police and alter the thoughts of the rest of us consider the ultimate crime: giving offence. Most of us have spent our lives encountering things that could, if we wallowed in self-regard, offend us deeply. We were trained to ignore them and get on with life. Now, suddenly, we cannot be trusted to do that.
Therefore books, art, films and television programmes must be censored or suppressed, statues taken down as though the lives they commemorate never happened, streets and buildings renamed to eradicate thought criminals. Like Pol Pot, that minority feels a moral duty to erase the past to attain Year Zero. Sadly for us, their main qualifications are an overbearing self-righteousness, a profound ignorance of history and a deep misunderstanding of the idea of liberty that few of us share.Simon Heffer
John Hurt in the film adaptation of George Orwell's dystopian novel, 1984
What is it about the past that some young people find unbearable? After all, no one is expecting them to live through it. Indeed, some of us who did find the present infinitely worse. The vandalism of Roald Dahl’s writings for children by “sensitivity readers” to make them “suitable”, has brought the wickedness of rewriting, or eliminating, the past and evidence of it to the forefront of our discourse. It would also have Dahl (with whom I once spent an evening: shrinking violet he was not) turning in his grave. Sadly, it goes far beyond children’s books, and indeed books generally: films, statues, television programmes, indeed, if they are allowed into the public arena at all. Are we really so delicate? Why tolerate this lunacy?
George Orwell, to whom the Thought Police (a term he invented in Nineteen Eighty-Four) have yet to apply themselves, wrote in that very novel of a Britain in which “every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
We have arrived at our own endless present, or Year Zero, where the record, historical and otherwise, is readily falsified. Its rules are designed to prevent what that arrogant and self-regarding minority who feel obliged to police and alter the thoughts of the rest of us consider the ultimate crime: giving offence. Most of us have spent our lives encountering things that could, if we wallowed in self-regard, offend us deeply. We were trained to ignore them and get on with life. Now, suddenly, we cannot be trusted to do that.
Therefore books, art, films and television programmes must be censored or suppressed, statues taken down as though the lives they commemorate never happened, streets and buildings renamed to eradicate thought criminals. Like Pol Pot, that minority feels a moral duty to erase the past to attain Year Zero. Sadly for us, their main qualifications are an overbearing self-righteousness, a profound ignorance of history and a deep misunderstanding of the idea of liberty that few of us share.
Last year the London Borough of Haringey renamed Black Boy Lane “La Rose Lane” - PA
It is why the former slaver Sir Edward Colston’s statue was tipped into the water at Bristol, why extremists at Jesus College Cambridge (including the half-witted Bishop of Ely) wanted the Tobias Rustat memorial ripped out of the college chapel, and why others want to remove the effigy of Cecil Rhodes from Oriel College, Oxford, to punish his colonialism. Last year the London Borough of Haringey renamed Black Boy Lane “La Rose Lane” after John La Rose, “a champion of black history and equality”. None the less, the expensive new signs – the whole exercise, including compensating residents (none of whom wanted the name changed) cost £186,000 – all say “formerly Black Boy Lane”.
Cassland Road Gardens in Hackney, named after the slave trader John Cass, has gone, and is now Kit Crowley Gardens after a half-Barbadian “community hero” who experienced “poverty and racism”. A suggestion that Brent Borough Council would rename Gladstone Park after Diane Abbott, because of the Gladstone family’s links with slavery, has so far not been acted upon. Churchill’s statue in Parliament Square is considered a fair target for vandals because he favoured British rule in India: defeating Hitler is a minor consideration to historical ignoramuses. Elsewhere in the art world, Tate Britain is rehanging its paintings to put women at the centre of its display.
Protesters throw a statue of Edward Colston into Bristol harbour during a Black Lives Matter protest rally in 2020 - PA
Self-appointed censors are not new. In 1807 Thomas Bowdler, a doctor, published the first edition of The Family Shakespeare, in which his sister Henrietta Maria had “edited” 20 of the Bard’s plays to remove immorality or indecency, a task that must have given this proto-snowflake the vapours. She removed around 10 per cent of the text, leaving something she thought women and children could read unsullied. Bowdler himself took on an even saltier task, sanitising Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
At least you could still buy the unexpurgated Shakespeare and Gibbon if you wished: the late Georgians believed in choice. However, in the last century there were still suppressions: it was not until nearly 15 years after publication that James Joyce’s Ulysses, widely considered the greatest novel in our language, could be bought in Britain; not until after the war that Radclyffe Hall’s anodyne 1927 lesbian tale The Well of Loneliness was permitted. The Lady Chatterley trial in 1960 finally allowed men to contemplate allowing their wives and servants to read that book, and changed everything. We thought we had all grown up: how wrong we were.
Instead, a section of society with high responsibility for preserving freedom of speech and discourse – the trade of publishing – now willingly sacrifices its historic principles, for which people once risked prison, to censor books. I know a novelist and a social scientist, both of great standing, who cannot find publishers prepared to put out such books as they want to write, because of fear those works might offend the self-righteous clique. Even 10 years ago they would have been published without demur.
Dahl’s children’s books have effectively been censored - Ronald Dumont
The most scandalous recent case is of Prof Nigel Biggar, the Oxford academic whose book Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning was accepted by Bloomsbury, which then – shame be upon them – decided not to publish. William Collins did; it is now a bestseller (and one imagines uncensored Dahl editions are, similarly, selling like hot cakes, too). People like an argument and in a free society deserve to be allowed one: they don’t want some affronted youth telling them they can’t read, learn and dispute something, like the Victorians covering up their table legs.
Prof Biggar’s book committed the crime of stating a simple truth: that the British Empire did good things as well as bad. The hostility with which such a contention is met today is deranged: it is literally undebatable. Indeed, a prime motivation in wiping out the past and creating the endless present is the determination of a young generation of British people – ironically almost all white, and expensively educated – to make their fellow Britons hate themselves for their heritage.
Doubtless there is much outrage to come. In the past, our people wrote books that mocked minorities (think of Dickens’s treatment of Fagin in Oliver Twist, or Trollope’s of Melmotte in The Way We Live Now, or almost anything by Carlyle. Before long a “sensitivity reader” – someone of a mindset incomprehensible to most of us – will decree it best we do not read these works at all. The climate has changed violently, precisely because we have allowed it to.
Charles Hawtrey and Terry Scott in Carry On Up the Khyber - AF archive
Repeat channels on television warn viewers they may encounter “language and attitudes” they find offensive: but at least, for now, these programmes are still shown. There are no repeats of It Ain’t Half Hot Mum, because an actor blacked up in it (the fact that the satire’s main target was the British Army, and its officer class, seems not to have registered). Nor can Till Death Us Do Part be shown, even though Johnny Speight, its writer, was a Leftist who wished to highlight racism through his brilliant creation, Alf Garnett. By far the best Carry On film, Up the Khyber, can’t appear because Kenneth Williams and Bernard Bresslaw black up as the Khasi of Kalabar and his henchman Bungdit Din, in mocking the hated Raj. And Guy Gibson’s faithful labrador in The Dam Busters has his name bleeped out.
The notion that if you don’t like it, you don’t have to watch it is beyond our censors. Their pompous self-righteousness about “safe spaces” at their universities was never questioned: their dons lived in fear of them, in case the Stalinist Twitter mob attacked them and destroyed their careers (which very nearly happened to Prof Biggar, and has happened to others, usually for criticising the lunacy of identity politics). They inflict their control freakery on their elders, who are equally terrified to gainsay them.
It does not bear saying often enough that these are a small, unrepresentative minority whose undue influence is wrecking free expression. They seek to distort and even eliminate our past, a past they deem too unsafe for us to encounter, and in doing so squash the vital impulse of intellectual curiosity. It starts with censoring a few children’s books. If we don’t make a stand, it will end with destroying our democratic right to liberty, and sooner than we imagine.
