Local historian, Hanworth, Mx. and Shoreditch Brd of Guardians 1880s. BA(Hons) Hist., Uni of Westminster 2014
Gosport, Hampshire
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Alexander von Humboldt: Humboldt wrote in1800:
‘Humans were meddling with the climate and that this could have an unforeseeable impact on future generations.
Forests enrich the atmosphere with moisture, its cooling effect, water retention and protection against soil erosion.
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The Crown Estate is worth £16.7 billion making £1.2 billion in profit last year.
They're chasing out the UK's oldest Indian restaurant, Veeraswamy.
The Crown Estate wants to refurbish the building and create a larger entrance for offices upstairs, allowing it to charge higher office rents. It says the work requires removing Veeraswamy’s separate entrance and cannot proceed with the restaurant remaining there.
Veeraswamy disputes that eviction is necessary. Its owners say they have offered to share the enlarged entrance, accommodate the works and match the rent expected from office tenants. The Crown Estate has rejected those alternatives.
The estate has offered around £500,000 compensation, while the owners estimate relocating would cost £5 million.
Labour keeps talking about reviving our high streets. Yet here is Veeraswamy, a cultural landmark with a century of history, facing eviction so its landlord can command higher office rents.
It reflects a familiar problem across the country: the places that give our high streets their character are sacrificed for greater returns.
If Labour is serious about revival, protecting that heritage should be part of it.
Any plans to step in and help @RNBlake (if you aren't already)?
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Trump is in massive danger.
Democrats have now released a 50-page report accusing Trump of being an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of young women.
They're now setting up an independent counsel to investigate Trump's ties to Epstein.
The DOJ is also set to face scrutiny over attempts to obstruct previous investigations and carry out multiple cover ups.
It keeps getting worse.
Democrats, through the Senate Finance Committee, are preparing to investigate JPMorgan's relationship with Epstein.
JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank and Bank of America were red flagged internally for years over suspicious money transfers to Jeffrey Epstein.
But the warnings were ignored.
The banks continued processing transactions worth more than a billion dollars to Epstein.
All three banks could now face aggressive investigations.
If found guilty, all three banks could be completely destroyed.
Trump's close friends and business partners, who frequently visited Epstein's island, will also come under investigation.
This could lead to multiple arrests and a complete political collapse.
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Carrying on from yesterday’s spoons & taking it to the next level.
First photo is the prototype & finally got there finished total time taken two full weeks 🙄.
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The story in Paraguay is insane.
The Epstein class took over the banking and political systems and used PUBLIC MONEY to enrich themselves.
This is what’s happening EVERYWHERE. That’s why it’s being ignored. It’s all part of the plan.
UPDATE: 🇵🇾 PARAGUAY’S PRESIDENT RESIGNS IN DISGRACE AFTER “FRAUD OF THE CENTURY”
(FYI, similar conditions exist in our countries…)
Paraguay’s President, Santiago Peña, has been forced to resign in DISGRACE, after shocking details of his MANY connections to what’s being described as the "biggest FRAUD of the century” came to light.
1. Peña was a business partner of the conglomerate that owns Ueno Bank, the largest digital bank in Paraguay, until 2025…
2. Peña personally accepted two “highly irregular private loans” directly from Ueno Bank during his tenure.
3. Peña used his presidential platform to shield the bank from inspectors, aggressively dismissing financial warnings as "fear-mongering" to keep public money flowing into the fraudulent bank.
4. Shortly after becoming president, he appointed Ueno’s former chief executive to run the country’s central bank…
Think about that.
The person overseeing the bank previously ran the bank… The fox was literally guarding the henhouse (we have the same situation in the west..)
And guess who is on the hook to bail them all out? The taxpayer…
AND THATS NOT ALL
1. Under Peña, Ueno Bank started as a niche digital app and suddenly became the government's preferred bank. Funneling MASSIVE State Wealth into his friends pockets.
2. This included LOOTING PENSIONS by forcing ~$380M of workers' health and pension funds into Ueno.
3. While the government was pumping public money into Uneo, executives were quietly shoveling it out in the form of MASSIVE UNCOLLATERALISED “INSIDER LOANS”
The taxes, life savings and pensions of citizens were used as a personal slush fund, with no assets left behind to cover the bad debts.
By the time it collapsed, 25% of all the bank's deposits consisted of public funds….
Opposition lawmakers are FURIOUS, 8 bank executives have been arrested. 27 other bank officials and business associates face severe criminal charges.
Don’t forget, this could happen ANYWHERE. Our banking and market systems are corrupt and stressed. My advice? Save in physical gold and silver.
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I flat-shared with 4 others in London age 20. I had finished Uni...worked a good job Selfridges, slept on friends floor to try save for my own place closer to town. A flatmate was a loud obnoxious Australian, scary even, everything was shouted..he was horrible, I avoided him, he would find ways to demand more money from me. I paid towards council tax and some towards 'floor' as well as of course my part of general bills too so we never knew why he was being so vile..aside from vile sake...
I came home from work to a flat party at 8pm. I was handed a coke, I can't drink alcohol, I have crohns..it hurt to drink. I have ZERO recollection of anything until 6am, i was ontop of him, he was SA'ing me fully.
I was a virgin saving myself. I am autistic, I had serious issues with people touching me. I immediately jumped off..horrified...there were others in the room one guy watching it all...I still can barely speak of this..but there is a point.
I IMMEDIATELY packed my suitcase. I was so confused...I had no idea what happened...I was sore..tired..and utterly confused. My friend who's floor I slept on was still asleep. I left to go to nearest tube...he chased me the whole way repeating 'it's just sex..what's your deal, what's wrong with ya?' I now can't even listen to Australian accents...I never said a word. I got on the tube his voice ringing in my ear..
I went to my nearest friend who was In Oxford. I got bed in a hostel until I could gather my mind. I had interviews at MTV and TV channels all set up.. I didn't want to return to scotland. I had bruising on my neck..arms, absolutely brutal cystitis..i was torn up 'down there'.
What did I do?
I disassociated. I did not know what the hell I had done all that night. I could not figure it out. One year later my friend got married. That beast was there, I froze in fear. Infront of everyone in hotel breakfast he shouts 'Why you ignoring me..i fucked ya'
what did I do?
I just didn't respond..I was frozen....he had terrified me in such a deep way...I froze..am sorry...thats what happened.
TWENTY years later. I am a mother, lost a child, my own mother died, covid hit..my marriage failed..moved country..son struggling autism, i had a tumour nearly kill me, then my crohns..it was A LOT.. and I ended in therapy
It was not until then I could piece anything together. 1- I openly disliked this man, people knew I avoided him ad was afraid of him..I would NEVER have consented ever, even drunk...and...as I mentioned i can't drink, Id throw up. Only one answer, he drugged me.
On top of SA..he could have killed me, with crohns you don't know what your absorption is doing, so dangerous...I as able to sit and piece it together when I could face it...and it took 20 years...
so I don't judge anyone who 'took 20 years' to report.
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The testimony of the then 16 year old schoolgirl, who accused Brand, is one of the most harrowing and horrific things that I’ve ever read.
It’s being reported that she has come forward to add her case. I hope she gets justice and they throw the book at the bastard.
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A Gates Foundation-funded research team released about 16,000 genetically modified male mosquitoes in Bana village, near Souroukoudinga in western Burkina Faso On August 11, 2025. It was the first release of its kind in West Africa.
Eleven days later, the project was dead.
On August 18, judicial police raided the IRSS research institute in Bobo-Dioulasso. They sealed offices and laboratories, marked them as crime scenes, and searched scientists—including their vehicles—on the suspicion they might be carrying mosquitoes in their pockets.
On August 22, the Ministry of Higher Education terminated all Target Malaria activities across the entire national territory. The communiqué cited "national interests." The remaining mosquito samples were ordered destroyed.
The government did not accuse the researchers of a biosafety failure. It did not cite a regulatory breach. It said the project was over.
Target Malaria had operated in Burkina Faso for over a decade. It had approvals from the national biosafety agency. It had community consent from the villages where releases took place. None of that mattered in the end. A foreign-funded project had been conducting an experiment on Burkinabè soil, and the Burkinabè state decided it would no longer do so on terms set elsewhere.
This is what sovereignty looks like in a laboratory. Not a slogan about independence. A sealed door, a destroyed sample, and a ministry communiqué that says: not here, not on these terms.
The Gates Foundation has poured billions into African health research. Some of it has saved lives. But funding is not authority. A cheque does not buy the right to decide what happens inside a country's borders.
Burkina Faso made that clear in eleven days.
Africa is not a play ground !
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Am now starting an all night session to write up the whole Supreme Court hearing.
Feel free to send cheery messages over the next 12 hours to keep me going!
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We do not need Andy Burnham’s permission to investigate Britain’s role in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
He refused an inquiry. 80,000 people answered him in thirteen days.
Truth does not need the Prime Minister’s signature. It needs 100,000 of ours.
Sign:
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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The British government says in the Supreme Court that those thousands of pensioners being arrested for holding placards are criminals and are engaged in terrorist activity.
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In Fahrenheit 451, the chief book-burner, Captain Beatty, describes how reading became obsolete because the public demanded increasingly fast-paced entertainments, and those entertainments slowly corroded their ability to think. “Books cut shorter. Condensations. Digests, tabloids. Everything boils down to the gag, the snap ending. Classics cut to fit fifteen-minute radio shows, then cut again to fill a two-minute book column … Many were those whose sole knowledge of Hamlet was a one-page digest in a book that claimed, ‘Now at last you can read all the classics.’ … School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches?”
In this passage Ray Bradbury foretells the intellectual hollowing out of the working class, the advent of AI-generated “summaries” of classic novels, the attention-frying culture of short-form video, the relaxation of educational standards into non-existence. All of this in a book published in 1953.
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Russell Brand is now a convicted rapist. Understandably, the focus will be on the man himself and what he’s done, but today I’m thinking of the women who came forward. Having gone through a rape trial myself, I know just how much strength is required. Today, they’re my heroes.
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Trump may appear to have accepted his bombing of Iran lost the Republicans the mid-terms, but that doesn't mean he won't do it again!
Should attacks resume, join us, @CND and @iaiw_ outside the US embassy on Saturday to say No to Trump & Netanyahu's illegal war on Iran!
⏰ 1pm
📍 US embassy, Nine Elms Lane, London SW11 7US
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Remember Nuremberg
Obeying illegal orders is no defence and the Police cannot claim that they are obeying orders
I think this is another example of how we are now living in a police state." - Margaret Owen OBE, 94-year-old Jewish veteran Human rights lawyer
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In February the High Court ruled the Palestine Action ban unlawful. In June the Court of Appeal ruled it lawful.
Now the Supreme Court decides if it limits free speech too far. 4,000+ arrests. 1,200 charges. Lives on hold.
Burnham could end this today. He chose not to.
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“İngiliz progresif rock grubu Jethro Tull’un 1969 yılında Fransız televizyon programı “La Joconde” için gerçekleştirdiği “Bourée” performansı, rock tarihi ve televizyon performansları açısından ikonik bir kültürel simge olarak kabul ediliyor.
Performansta, Johann Sebastian Bach'ın lavta için yazdığı “Bourrée in E minor” eseri; progresif rock, caz dinamikleri ve barok kontrpuanın harmanlandığı caz tınılı dinamik bir enstrümantal rock parçasına dönüştürülmüş.”
Klasik müzik for ever :)
Hamiş: Lavta (veya ud benzeri telli çalgılar ailesi), kökeni Orta Doğu'ya dayanan ve Orta Çağ ile Rönesans döneminde Avrupa'da zirveye ulaşmış, gövdesi yarım armut şeklinde olan telli bir çalgı.
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🔴 CENSURE EN COURS SUR X / TWITTER !
Ils viennent de masquer la vidéo originale sous prétexte de « contenu sensible » parce que les images de Lyon faisaient trop de bruit
Le silence est leur meilleur allié : faites péter le RT ! 🔁🩸
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The behaviour of Ian Winter KC delivering foul mouthed abuse at @RosamundUrwin at the end of the Russell Brand trial was revolting & wholly reprehensible.
I have written to his chambers & to @thebarcouncil urging them to act.
Others should do so.
[email protected]
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Following the widespread video of him holding an empty pot at a soup kitchen, the elderly man has been identified as 77-year-old engineer and educator Abdullah Mohammad Saber Ayoub, who spent his life teaching in multiple countries after graduating in mechanical engineering in Egypt.
Today, Hajj Abdullah lives under harsh conditions alongside his wife, daughter, and daughter-in-law, both of whom lost their husbands in the war, leaving him to care for the grieving family and their children amidst severe hunger and displacement.
For direct contact and assistance: +970599361762
بعد انتشار مقطعه وهو يحمل وعاءه الفارغ أمام التكية، تبين أن المسنّ هو المهندس المعلم “عبد الله محمد صابر أيوب” (77 عاماً)، الذي قضى عمره في التعليم والتدريس في عدة دول بعد حصوله على بكالوريوس هندسة الميكانيكا من مصر.
يعيش الحاج عبد الله اليوم ظروفاً قاسية مع زوجته وابنته وزوجة ابنه بعد أن فقدت الشابتان زوجيهما خلال الحرب، ليجد نفسه مسؤولاً عن رعاية عائلته وأطفالهما وسط أزمة الجوع والنزوح.
للتواصل والمساعدة المباشرة : 0599361762 (+970599361762)