text: While babysitting a boy and his baby brother, Casey Beldon has a dreadful nightmare involving a weird dog and an evil child, and she tells her best friend Romy over the phone. Casey is haunted by this boy, and when she goes to the ophthalmologist, he asks if she has a twin brother or sister. She asks her father and discovers that her mother lost a son that died in the womb. Casey suspects that she is haunted by the spirit of her brother. She finds a letter addressed to a woman called Sofi Kozma and a creepy picture at home that belonged to her mother. She goes with Romy to a retirement home to meet Sofi, a survivor of the experiments during the Holocaust. But Sofi tells Casey that she had never met her mother and later calls Casey to tell her she is in great danger.


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Updated 2/20 to add another review of "Roman Woodworking."
On March 3 & 17 we will be reading Ancient Rome on Five Denarii a Day by Philip Matyzcak and Working IX to V: Orgy Planners, Funeral Clowns and Other Prized Professions of the Ancient World by Vicki Leon.
If you have the time and inclination, here are some other subject related books:
- Travel in the Ancient World
by Lionel Casson
- A Taste of Ancient Rome
by Ilaria Gozzini Giacosa
- Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome
by Lesley & Roy Adkins
- Roman Woodworking
by Roger B. Ulrich my review / N.S. Gill's review
And then there is Apicius (Wikipedia, handle with care) and the only current online translation, thanks to Bill Thayer. Yahoo has an Apicius Group.

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H. Upmann Vintage Cameroon Toro
A very attractive Cameroon wrapper, spicy Nicaraguan binder and a blend of Dominican, Nicaraguan and Peruvian fillers give this cigar its distinct flavor. You will find that this Toro has the excellent contruction you've come to expect from H. Upmann. The smoke will yield complex earthy flavors, a cedary aroma and a medium body. The cigars comes in a cedar sleeve (try using it to light the cigar to get more of the wonderful cedar aroma
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Weston man arrested on drug trafficking charges
Police charged a 63-year-old man with trafficking cocaine and marijuana from his Warren Avenue home over the weekend, following months of surveillance by officers.
Alan D. Zuckor, 63, of 43 Warren Ave., Weston, was arrested at his home on charges of trafficking cocaine and trafficking marijuana on Saturday afternoon, said Weston Police Lt. Danny Maguire today.
Zuckor was arraigned today at Waltham District Court and a plea of not guilty was filed on his behalf, according to the clerk's office. His bail was not yet set as of early this afternoon, according to the clerk's office.
Weston police, along with officers from the Suburban Middlesex County Drug Task Force, conducted a search warrant on Zuckor's home at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, said Maguire.
Maguire said there was about $30,000 worth of money and drugs, including $18,000 in cash, inside Zuckor's apartment.
Police found about five ounces of cocaine and between three to four pounds of marijuana. The law considers possession of more than 100 grams of cocaine to be trafficking, he said.
Maguire said the cocaine trafficking charge carries a mandatory 10-year prison sentence with a conviction.
"His biggest problem is the coke," referring to the cocaine, said Maguire, calling the charge "pretty serious."
The search followed three months of surveillance on the home, he said. Police were first alerted to allegations of drug trafficking from neighbors' complaints and an anonymous tip suggesting Zuckor was involved with drugs, Maguire said.
Police saw at least three "regular customers" visit the house, stay for about 20 minutes and leave, he said. Maguire said he identified three of those people as from the Waltham area.
Maguire said the investigation is continuing and future arrests are possible in the case.
Zuckor has faced drug charges in the past, but they were dismissed, said Maguire. In 1985 and 1988, Zuckor was arrested on marijuana possession charges, but the charges were dismissed, said Maguire.
John Hilliard can be reached at 508-626-4449 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Virtual Offices
Virtual Offices
Coworking Spaces
Coworking Spaces
Private Offices
Private Offices
Enterprise Solutions
Enterprise Solutions
Meeting & Events
Meeting & Events
This Policy explains the manner in which we, The Executive Centre Limited, collect, process and use your personal data and applies to all companies in The Executive Centre group, which include The Executive Centre Limited, a Cayman Island company, and its subsidiaries.
The Executive Centre group understands that your privacy is important to you and that you care about how your personal data is used. We respect and value the privacy of everyone who visits this website, www.executivecentre.com ("Our Site"), and also our other digital platforms, namely the MyTEC Portal, the TEC Mobile App and also the TEC WeChat Mini-Program (Our Site and these various platforms being referred to collectively herein as our "TEC Digital Platforms"). This Policy applies to all of these digital platforms unless such application is expressly excluded by a provision set out herein. We will only collect and use your personal data as described in this Policy. Any personal data we collect will only be used as permitted by law.
Please read this Policy carefully and ensure that you understand it. Your acceptance of this Policy is required.
1. Information About This Website
The TEC Digital Platforms are owned and operated by The Executive Centre Limited.
Registered address:
190 Elgin Avenue, George Town
Grand Cayman KY1 9005
Cayman Islands
Main trading address:
3rd Floor, The Factory
1 Yip Fat Street
Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong
Data Protection Officer:.
Email address: firstname.lastname@example.com
Postal address: same as main trading address specified above
We are regulated by the relevant data protection authorities, laws and regulations in all the jurisdictions in which we operate.
2. What Does This Policy Cover?
This Policy applies to your use of TEC Digital Platforms and all parts of them. TEC Digital Platforms may contain links to other websites. Please note that we have no control over how your data is collected, stored, or used by other websites and we advise you to check the privacy policies of any such websites before providing any data to them.
3. What Is Personal Data?
3.1 Personal data is defined by legislation in various countries, including the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance in Hong Kong and the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union (EU Regulation 2016/679) (the "GDPR") (collectively, "the Data Protection Legislation") and may generally be described as 'any information relating to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified in particular by reference to an identifier'.
3.2 Personal data is, in simpler terms, any information about you that enables you to be identified. Personal data covers obvious information such as your name and contact details, but it also covers less obvious information such as identification numbers, electronic location data, and other online identifiers.
4. What Are My Rights?
4.1 Under the applicable Data Protection Legislation, you have the following rights, which we will always work to uphold:
a) The right to be informed about our collection and use of your personal data. This Policy should tell you everything you need to know, but you can always contact us to find out more or to ask any questions using the details in Part 10.
b) The right to access the personal data we hold about you. Part 9 will tell you how to do this.
c) The right to have your personal data rectified if any of your personal data held by us is inaccurate or incomplete. Please contact us using the details in Part 10 to find out more.
d) The right to be forgotten, i.e. the right to ask us to delete or otherwise dispose of any of your personal data that we hold. Please contact us using the details in Part 10 to find out more.
e) The right to restrict (i.e. prevent) the processing of your personal data.
f) The right to object to us using your personal data for any particular purpose or purposes.
g) The right to withdraw consent. This means that, if we are relying on your consent as the legal basis for using your personal data, you are free to withdraw that consent at any time.
h) The right to data portability. This means that, if you have provided personal data to us directly, and we are using it with your consent or for the performance of a contract, and that data is processed using automated means, you can ask us for a copy of that personal data and may be able to re-use it with another service or business in many cases.
i) Rights relating to automated decision-making and profiling. We do not use your personal data in this way.
4.2 For more information about our use of your personal data or exercising your rights as outlined above, please contact us using the details provided in Part 10.
4.3 It is important that your personal data is kept accurate and up-to-date. If any of the personal data we hold about you changes, please keep us informed as long as we have that data.
4.3 Further information about your rights can also be obtained from the Privacy Commissioner's Office in Hong Kong or the equivalent body in other countries where we may conduct business.
4.5 If you have any cause for complaint about our use of your personal data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Privacy Commissioner's Office in Hong Kong or equivalent body elsewhere if applicable. We would welcome the opportunity to resolve your concerns ourselves, however, and so please contact us first, using the details in Part 10.
5. What Personal Data Do You Collect and How? – Cookies
5.1 Subject to the following, we do not collect any personal data from you.
5.2.1 TEC Digital Platforms may collect certain personal and non-personal information automatically, including your IP address, the type of browser you are using, your location and certain non-personal data about your computer or device such as your operating system type or version, and display resolution.
Collection of personal data from our website
5.2.2 Your personal data will be collected and stored if you visit our website www.executivecentre.com and submit a business enquiry concerning the potential use of our services, submit an enquiry for a meeting room, or purchase a service plan from us online. Such data will be used to initiate and finalise a contract between us for the provision of our business services.
5.2.3 We do not, however, store details of your billing address or credit card data after using them to process a purchase request online.
5.2.4 We may use cookies when providing our online services and your use of our website gives us permission to do so. Cookies are small digital files that are stored on your computer or other device for the purpose of enabling us to provide you with an enhanced level of services by helping us better understand the nature of your particular business preferences, computer settings and interactions with us.
5.2.5 All cookies used by us are anonymous and used solely for the purposes of marketing products and services that we believe you would be interested in as a result of your past visits to our website. You may therefore receive from us advertisements and promotions from third party suppliers in the form of digital advertising from time to time.
5.2.6 You may disable the cookies at any time by changing the settings on your browser but you should bear in mind that disabling cookies may restrict our ability to serve you with relevant products and services.
5.3 If you send us an email or sign up for an email newsletter, we may collect your name, your email address, other contact details, and any other information which you choose to give us for or on behalf of yourself or the company that you represent.
5.4 All data that we collect from you and other users of our services at or through The Executive Centre Limited and TEC Digital Platforms in particular will be distributed to and used on all our digital platforms and some parts of the data may be accessible to and visible by other users by means of our online members' directory as further described in clause 8.4 below.
Indicative types of data collected by us, some of which may be accessible to members through the online directory, are as follows : –
Via the
Website (Our Site)
Via the Mobile App and MyTEC, WeChat Mini-Program
Individual Data
Company Data
Individual Data
Member Name
Company Name
Localized Name
Localized Name
Preferred Location
Preferred Contact Language
Phone Number
Phone Number
Secondary Email
Preferred Service
Phone Number
Preferred Start Date
Country of Origin
Secondary Phone Number
Company Size
Linkedin Profile
Company Industry
Billing Address
Mailing Contact
Credit Card Details
Billing Contact
TEC Location
TEC Location
5.5 For the purposes of the Data Protection Legislation, we are the data controller responsible for such personal data.
5.6 The lawful basis under the Data Protection Legislation that allows us to use such information is article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR which allows us to process personal data when it is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests, in this case, the proper operation and functionality of TEC Digital Platforms. If you contact us as described above, you will be required to consent to our use of your personal data to contact you. In this case, our lawful basis for using your personal data will be article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR, which allows us to use your personal data with your consent for a particular purpose or purposes. We shall collect your personal and other data when you apply for our services through TEC Digital Platforms or in person and, in particular, when you use our website www.executivecentre.com or the MyTEC Portal or our TEC Mobile App.
6. How Do You Use My Personal Data?
6.1 Where we collect any personal data, it will be processed and stored securely, for no longer than is necessary in light of the reason(s) for which it was first collected. We will comply with our obligations and safeguard your rights under the Data Protection Legislation at all times. For more details on security see Part 7 below.
6.2 Your personal data may be used for making reservations with us, for customer service, for maintaining your account and service agreement with us, for marketing and promotion of our services to you, for providing customer service and for facilitating communications between our members to cultivate business relationships should they wish to participate in our online members' directory through our dedicated portal ("MyTEC Portal") and mobile app ("TEC Mobile App) or our TEC WeChat Mini-platform. Subject to clause 8.4 below, the directory will enable members to contact other members via the TEC Digital Platforms but members will not be able to contact each other direct by using the data on our system.
6.3 As stated above, we do not generally collect any personal data directly from you, but if you contact us and we obtain your personal details from your email, we may use them to respond to your email and such details will include members' names, titles, locations and their companies' details if relevant. The other technical data referred to above is necessary for the technical operation of TEC Digital Platforms and will not normally be used in any way to personally identify you.
6.4 Any and all emails containing your personal data will be deleted no later than seven years after the subject matter of your email has been resolved, or such earlier date that may be required by local legislation in a place where we conduct business, and no other personal data will be retained for any longer than is necessary.
6.5 We will not share any of your personal data with any third parties for any purposes other than storage on an email server which at present is located in the US and a web hosting server which at present is located in Singapore (but see clause 7 below).
7. How and Where Do You Store My Data?
7.1 We will usually store your personal data in Singapore or in the particular country in which we conduct business with you but we may also use the services of cloud service providers in multiple locations. Wherever stored, it will be fully protected under the Data Protection Legislation applicable to the place where we conduct business.
7.2 Personal data security is essential to us and to protect personal data, we take the following measures:
(a) limiting access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties with a legitimate need to know and ensuring that they are subject to duties of confidentiality;
(b) procedures for dealing with data breaches (the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to, your personal data) including notifying you and/or the Privacy Commissioner's Office in Hong Kong or equivalent body elsewhere if we are legally required to do so;
(c) security features available in our cloud hosting platform and employment of the security guidance and best practices as recommended by said platform to secure our servers and applications running on these servers.
8. Do You Share My Personal Data?
8.1 We will not share any of your personal data with any third parties without your consent for any purposes, subject to the following exceptions.
8.2 If we sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or assets, your personal data may be transferred to a third party. Any new owner of our business may continue to use your personal data in the same way that we have used it, as specified in this Policy (i.e. to communicate with you).
8.3 In some limited circumstances, we may be legally required to share certain personal data, which might include yours, if we are involved in legal proceedings or complying with legal obligations, a court order, or the instructions of a government authority.
8.4.1 If you agree to initiate a service contract with us, you thereby authorise us to share your personal information (or such part of it as you decide to share) with other members in our community and this information will consist of the data referred to in 8.4.3 below. Such sharing would typically be for the purpose of facilitating general networking.
8.4.2 Your personal data, other than your billing address and credit card data, will be collected when you finalise your contracts with us and will be viewable by you (but not other users) on the MyTEC Portal, the TEC Mobile App and the WeChat Mini-Program.
8.4.3 Other users of the TEC Digital Platforms (except for Our Site) will be able to view some of your personal data in the TEC online directory, such data being restricted to your name, title, description, business logo, picture and business location (plus any other data that you may voluntarily provide for viewing by other users). You will be able to opt out of participation in the online directory at any time if you wish to withhold your personal information from other members.
8.4.4 You may initiate communication with other users (both companies and individuals) on an anonymous basis by using the viewable online directory but, for such purpose, you will not have access to any contact details such as telephone numbers or email addresses.
8.5 We may also share personal information with relevant existing members in the event that, for example, an employee of a member reserves or occupies office space provided by us and it becomes necessary to verify the employee's status by contacting the employer.
9. How Can I Access My Personal Data?
9.1 If you want to know what personal data we have about you, you can ask us for details of that personal data and for a copy of it (where any such personal data is held). This is known as a "subject access request".
9.2 All subject access requests should be made in writing and sent to the email or postal addresses shown in Part 10. To make this as easy as possible for you, a Subject Access Request Form is available on request for you to use. You do not have to use this form, but it is the easiest way to tell us everything we need to know in order to respond to your request as quickly as possible.
9.3 There is not normally any charge for a subject access request. If your request is manifestly unfounded or excessive (for example, if you make repetitive requests) a fee may be charged to cover our administrative costs in responding.
9.4 We will respond to your subject access request within a period of less than one month and, in any case, not more than one month from the date of receiving it. Normally, we aim to provide a complete response, including a copy of your personal data, within that time. In some cases, however, particularly if your request is more complex, more time may be required up to a maximum of three months from the date we receive your request. You will be kept fully informed of our progress.
10. How Do I Contact You?
To contact us about anything to do with your personal data and data protection, including the making of a subject access request, please use the following details (for the attention of our Data Protection Officer)
Email address: email@example.com
Postal Address: 3rd Floor, The Factory
1 Yip Fat Street
Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong
11. Changes to this Policy
11.1 We may change this Policy from time to time. This may be necessary, for example, if the law changes, or if we change our business in a way that affects personal data protection.
11.2 Any changes will be immediately posted on TEC Digital Platforms and you will be deemed to have accepted the terms of the Policy on your first use of TEC Digital Platforms following the alterations. We recommend that you check this page regularly to keep up-to-date. This Policy was last updated on 1st June, 2020.


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Charlie Sheen wants to slash Denise Richards' child support because she won't let him spend Christmas morning with their daughters.
Charlie Sheen vows to hit Denise Richards where it really hurts -- in the child support department, because he says he's going to court to get a judge to slash the amount she gets.
Charlie is telling friends ... a judge has NEVER signed off on his current child support agreement with Denise -- it was all agreed to privately.
Denise currently gets $55,000 a month in support for their 2 kids. He's enraged that he's been so generous, and not just with child support. Charlie says he shelled out $9 million for the home he bought for her -- specifically so their 2 girls could be close to him.
So Charlie is telling his buddies ... Denise is epically ungrateful because he says she's denying him the right to have XMAS morning with the girls. He says she's actually taken away the girls' phones so they can't call him.
So Charlie's going to court. Not only does he want child support reduced, he wants the judge to establish his iron-clad right to see his kids on specific holidays.Jacked from TMZ


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Ladies Vintage Open Blouse Size XL
Ladies Vintage Open Blouse Size XL
Vintage Bold Floral Patterned Oversized Open Blouse. Made with Viscose.
Grade A
Colour White Green Blue & Yellow
Size L
Pit to Pit - 23 inches
Length - 30 inches
Vintage & Retro Clothing
Please note, all of our vintage and retro items are grade A handpicked items. Any minor flaws will be in the description with a photograph.
All of our items come washed and ready to wear. Our model is 5ft, size 6
How We Measure
How We Measure
As most of what we sell is vintage, some sizing is not as per the label. We therefore list all measurements in the description in inches and provide an approximate UK size equivalent. Sizing can vary in different countries therefore please check against the measurements for the most accurate fit. The measurements we take are shown below.
The arrows indicate where we measure, all items laid flat. For pit to pit and waist, we measure flat and multiply by 2.
How we measure tops:
How we measure bottoms:
Shipping & Returns
Shipping & Returns
What postage options do you have?
We use Royal Mail services and your parcel will be sent out 2nd class in the UK.
For our UK orders, shipping cost is between £3 - £6. If your order is over £60 shipping is free.
European Shipping
For our European Union customers, your parcel will be sent internationally tracked. You will receive a shipping confirmation with a tracking number. There is a 2Kg limit on International parcels.
Orders shipping to the European Union are exclusive of VAT. This means you will have VAT and duties to pay along with a handling fee. This must be paid to release your order. If in any doubt please check with your local customs office.
If you reject these charges your order will be sent back to us. We will refund the cost of the items only.
For Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey shipping costs £6 - £24.62.
Rest of the World Shipping
For our other International customers, your parcel will be sent internationally tracked. You will receive a shipping confirmation with a tracking number. There is a 2Kg limit on International parcels.
Please see customs section below for more information.
For Canada, Malaysia and Israel shipping costs £12.25 - £26.25
For Australia, New Zealand and Singapore shipping costs £13.50 - £32.40
For USA shipping costs £7 - £29.88
We will aim to dispatch your order with 2 working days
How long will it take?
For UK parcels 2nd Class takes 3-5 working days
For European parcels 5-7 working days
Zone 1 & Zone 2 (Rest of the World) 6-10 working days
It is important that your address details are correctly completed at checkout or you may not receive your parcel. If you notice you have made an error with your address, please contact us as soon as possible to correct this.
Our prices are calculated by size and weight and are based upon Royal Mail prices, which are very competitive.
Our circular clothing collection will arrive separately in paper packaging from our textile remanufacturing centre.
What happens if my order hasn't arrived or is damaged upon arrival?
When contacting us please provide us with your order number which can be found on your order confirmation email. This helps us to easily find your order and ensure we have the correct details. If you are unable to find your confirmation email, it may be in your junk folder.
If your order hasn't arrived in the expected time frame, or your order is damaged, UK customers should contact here. Please bring this to our attention as soon as possible.
For outside the UK, circumstances can vary and parcels can take a little longer, however, if the item hasn't arrived please first check against tracking details. The tracking details will be found in the shipping confirmation email, where you can follow your items journey.
If you are not able to take collection when your item arrives, the postal company will leave a card for you to either arrange re-delivery with the postage carrier or organise collection of your order.
If your item has arrived but damaged please contact us here.
If you are outside of the United Kingdom you may be subject to additional duties.
We collect VAT in the UK.
When buying from us, if you are based in the European union, you will be subject to taxes such as VAT and import duties which are applied once your order reaches your country. These must be paid to release your item from customs. We have no control over these costs and you should check with your Customs Authorities before placing an order for the latest rates.
All other countries please check with your local customs authority to see if VAT/sales tax/GST or duties are applicable for the value you are looking to purchase.
If you refuse to pay the duties to release your order, the order will subsequently be returned to Fierce Petite and refunded minus the shipping & handling fee
We do not accept returns on sale items.
We do accept returns however as we are a small business and returns are at a cost to us, we would be grateful if you could check all measurements before you purchase to ensure a good fit.
When contacting us please supply us with your order number found on your order confirmation email so we can easily find your information.
Once you receive your order you have 14 days from receipt of your order should you wish to return your item. Please contact us here first and we will send you return instructions.
You will be responsible for your return shipping costs unless the item is damaged on arrival.
If the item is damaged or has not been described accurately, we would request you contact us here in the first instance.
To qualify for a refund, Item's sent back must be in original packaging, with packing slip, any tags must be in tact and items free of odours.
After we have received and inspected your item we will notify you by email to confirm the refund has been processed within 14 days of receipt of the return.
Your refund will take 5-10 working days, and automatically be applied back to the original payment method.
What if your refund is late or missing?
If you haven't received a refund yet, please check your bank account again, then contact the payment company as it can take some time before your refund has cleared to your account.
If you've done all of this and you still have not received your refund, please contact us here.
Address Errors and Non Delivery
Please check your order carefully for errors.
If a customer inputs an incorrect address which causes the order to be delivered incorrectly, we are not responsible for the parcel and it is the recipients responsibility to to retrieve the parcel at their own cost.
If an order was unable to be delivered and was not collected from the courier it will be returned back to us. We will refund the cost of the item minus the shipping fee and the item will be added back to stock. If you still wish to purchase the item you have the option of buying it again if it is available.
We care about our customers & our products
Thousands of Happy Customers: Yes, we are a small business but we have thousands of happy customers many of whom purchase from us repeatedly.
Free UK Shipping £60+ and no quibble returns.
Claeshaus Quality Guarantee: Our own branded clothing is designed to last using high quality materials.
Our Vintage & Retro Clothing is always Grade A.
We are confident our clothing will make you look and feel your best.


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Don't let pregnancy stop you from staying fit! Exercise will help you feel better and more energetic, and it will also help maintain healthy weight gain during pregnancy (most women should gain around 30 pounds while pregnant). Furthermore, it will increase your stamina to make for an easier labor and can help prevent pregnancy-induced diabetes. […]
Register for your First OB Visit!
Most are covered 100%
Our Gyne Girl Guide is for New Patients 23 & Under for their first visit to the gyne
Come in for a Bodimap $50
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Another year, another Mercury Music Prize, and another DiS selection of alternative album choices, which probably should, in our opinion, have made the Mercury list.
We weren't going to do the Neptune Music Prize again this year. Pah! We thought, as the names were being read out, we must be doing something right as the previously Neptune nominated Metronomy have made the bloody Mercury list. Gah! We thought, as records we loved that were presumed sure things didn't get read out after that. Blah! We thought as lotsa other sites set-up their own alternative we-know-best lists and it felt like there wasn't really much point adding another arbitary marketing exercise for records we love to a crowded listicle world. And then, nothing. And then lotsa emails came in, in the past few days, asking where our list is this year. So, er, here it is, 'inspired' somewhat by this quote from Mercury judge Simon Frith:
"This year's
Barclaycard Mercury Prizeshortlist highlights the remarkable possibilities of what can be achieved with music – the grand gesture and telling detail, albums that are dramatic, ambitious and artful, emotional and affectionate, funny and profound. Much of the music here evokes a sense of place and time, providing a wonderful snapshot of Britain's varied musical life."
As per previous years, this is a selection of records we highly-recommend that offer our snapshot of UK music now (or at least in the eligible July-July timeframe of the Mercury). Click on the artworks to read our reviews. To vote for your choice of our picks, fire up http://facebook.com/drownedinsound. And if you've not heard any of them or fancy listening again, we've compiled this Spotify playlist of all this year's Neptune nominated albums.
NEPTUNE 2011 - Nominees
So that is...
Mount Kimbie Crooks & Lovers
Luke Abbott Holkham Drones
Emmy The Great Virtue
Friendly Fires Pala
Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat Everything's Getting Older
Wild Beasts Smother
Forest Swords Dagger Paths
Darkstar North
Bryan Ferry Olympia
This year you just need to hit up our Facebook page http://facebook.com/drownedinsound and select the album you love. We'll announce the winner on Tuesday September 6th, just after lunch.
DiScuss: This year's Neptune list with fellow DiSsers and share who you voted for and why, and who shoulda been on the list, here.
Photo of Neptune via Cirkeline.


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U.S. Senate candidate David Dewhurst probably didn't need a press release to communicate his nose-thumbing disdain for President Obama's visit to Austin and San Antonio this week, but a press release we got nonetheless.
"President Obama is using Texas as an ATM, the same way he's using taxpayers' hard-earned dollars to spend our country into oblivion," the lieutenant governor proclaims, before delivering himself of a jeremiad worthy of talk-show ranter Michael Savage. His upstart rival, former Texas solicitor general Ted Cruz, routinely describes the president as "the most radical president in American history," but Dewhurst ramps up the screed. "President Obama," he asserts, "is the most serious threat to America since World War II." (Worse, apparently, than Cold War nuclear threats, Al Qaeda attacks, the heartbreak of psoriasis)
Our national fate, Dewhurst warns, is a dismal Obama-led Continental tour: "Through his disastrous and reckless policies like Obamacare, it seems Obama is trying to mirror America in the image of Europe. If we do not change the path we're on, Obama will kill our economy, spend America into bankruptcy and relegate us to a failed future."
The relatively low-key lieutenant governor, who has fallen behind the energetic and hyper-articulate Cruz in recent polls, calls for "a complete transformation of how our government works" and "leaders who will get government out of the way and allow the private sector to flourish."
He's waited 66 years for his Mr. Dewhurst-goes- to-Washington-moment, and now, even if he gets by the pesky Cruz, he may find the Capitol crumbled, thanks to "the most serious threat. . . " Like Charlton Heston's Statue of Liberty moment in "The Planet of the Apes," all he'll be able to do is shake his head at the folly of his fellow Americans, take one last look at the fallen dome and then trudge on back to Texas. It's that bad, folks.
Or so says an over-heated candidate in the home stretch of a long, bitter race.


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http://mmajunkie.com SAN JOSE, Calif. – All 18 competitors fighting at Saturday's "Strikeforce: Carano vs. Cyborg" event successfully made weight for the show on Friday evening.
MMAjunkie.com was on scene for the ceremony and captured images of all 18 competitors as they hit the scale at the San Jose Marriott Hotel in San Jose, Calif.
Check out the images, which include main-event competitors Gina Carano and Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos, interim lightweight title holder Gilbert Melendez and challenger Mitsuhiro Ishida, as well as Fabricio Werdum, Mike Kyle, Jay Hieron, Jesse Taylor and others.
For a complete list of the results, check out our "Strikeforce: Carano vs. Cyborg" weigh-ins post.
As a reminder, MMAjunkie.com will be on scene for Saturday's Showtime-broadcast event and will have complete round-by-round updates and official results from the preliminary and main cards beginning at approximately 8 p.m. ET (5 p.m. PT).
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text: In a certain kingdom, a prophecy was made about a child born with a birthmark on his back. It was said that he would bring an end to the kingdom, and that his death would bring about its destruction. When the twin prince and princess were born, Len and Rin, Len was discovered to have the birthmark. He was banished to a lonely tower, and Rin was raised as the only princess. However, it ended up being impossible to keep the siblings apart, and soon they formed a deep friendship. Although circumstances may pull them apart, nothing can break the bond they have with each other. They struggle together to survive the treacherous and dangerous world they were born into.


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Robin Roberts Comes Out As Gay In Facebook Post
"Good Morning America" anchor Robin Roberts has officially come out of the closet as gay in an end-of-the-year post on her Facebook page
Roberts' sexuality has apparently been known to her family, friends and co-workers for some time, but her mention of longtime girlfriend Amber Laign was her first public acknowledgment.
"I am grateful for my entire family, my long time girlfriend, Amber, and friends as we prepare to celebrate a glorious new year together."
The post also discussed Roberts' bone marrow transplant after being diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) forcing her to take a leave from "GMA" in October 2012. She returned to the show in February 2013.
Read the revealing post in it's entirety below:
"Reading this comforts me and I hope the same for you: 'If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.'
"At this moment I am at peace and filled with joy and gratitude.
"I am grateful to God, my doctors and nurses for my restored good health.
"I am grateful for my sister, Sally-Ann, for being my donor and giving me the gift of life.
"I am grateful for my entire family, my long time girlfriend, Amber, and friends as we prepare to celebrate a glorious new year together.
"I am grateful for the many prayers and well wishes for my recovery. I return every one of them to you 100 fold.
"On this last Sunday of 2013 I encourage you to reflect on what you are grateful for too.
"Wishing you a Healthy and Happy New Year.
"Peace, love, and blessings to all..XO"
See Also:
- 'Fresh Prince' Producer Dies While Jogging At Age 54
- Carlos Santana Reunites With Homeless Former Bandmate
- Chuck Norris Spoofs Jean-Claude Van Damme's 'Epic Split' Commercial With Christmas Split On Planes
SEE ALSO: Robin Roberts Becomes Highest Paid Woman In Morning News With New $20 Million 'GMA' Contract [Report]


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- Legend has it that when the President of Carleton University walks down the hall, hours later you can still hear the faint sound of all the shekels jingling in her pocket.
- Wayne Madsen summarizes the recent criminal history of Jew Jersey. If you set up a charity and some of its donations end up in the hands of hospitals run by the democratically elected government of Palestine, American officials will label you an enemy combatant, lock you up, and throw away the key. I'll bet none of the accused Rabbis is convicted of anything, and in fact all will receive contrite apologies for all the anti-Semitism. The audacity of arresting them for breaking American laws!
- More lies produced by the Cheney torture system used to back up the usual bullshit.
- The Ottawa UFO. The Ottawa Valley north of Ottawa has long been a hot-spot for UFO's, probably because it is both readily accessible and fairly unpopulated, making it a good area to test secret things.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Friday, July 31, 2009
Thursday, July 30, 2009
The tragedy of the Shabas Goy
There is one good nugget in the Washington Times story (my emphasis in red; I assume he is talking about the Bush Administration - which neocon is it?):
"Former FBI counterintelligence agent and supervisor I.C. Smith said anti-Semitism in pursuing Israeli spying was "not my experience" during a lengthy career in the FBI.
"There was a great deal of frustration within the FBI in dealing with the Israelis," Mr. Smith said. "In my time in the Intelligence Division [later the National Security Division], the Israelis displayed a very real arrogance and with their constant contacts on Capitol Hill, they showed a confidence that they could do just about anything they wanted to do, and they could."
He said the Pollard case, in which Israel ran a clandestine agent in the U.S. intelligence community, was "simply shameful" and not in keeping with Israel's role as a staunch U.S. ally.
In another case, Mr. Smith said, a Jewish presidential appointee was found during an FBI background check to have "very real problems" related to Israeli interests, but the White House ignored the FBI and went ahead with the appointment."
Franklin has ruined his life, and the life of his family, by a combination of having the world's worst judgment - what a moron! - and working for snakes as a Shabas Goy. His plight should be a lesson to a lot of others following the same tragic path.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
- The rehabilitation of Eliot Spitzer is helped by the fact that he seems to have been brought to the attention of the FBI by the Wall Street scum he had previously been pursuing:
"Gawker has learned that Vanity Fair's Craig Unger and John Connolly are currently looking into the prospect that the banking and financial interests that Spitzer took on during his tenures as attorney general and governor of New York tipped off the feds to Spitzer's proclivities and launched the investigation."
"The New York Times is also interested in how the Emperor's Club crossed the FBI's radar—the paper has filed a request in federal court to compel the Department of Justice to release its applications for wiretap warrants in the case, which have so far remained under seal. The application, and other sealed documents the Times has been trying to lay hands on, might shed light on how the investigation got started, and the Times has argued that it wants to see the documents because "because the public has a legitimate and understandable interest in reviewing and monitoring the decisions made by the Government in determining to pursue this case, which involved at least one high-level public figure, and then to not seek charges against any clients." A federal judge sided with the paper in February and the government appealed; the case went to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals last month and a decision could come at any moment."
This might play out well: Spitzer has a need to be a crusader, and the United States has a need to see a lot of Wall Street executives - did anyone say Goldman Sachs? - in jail.
- The Jews embarrass Carleton University, again.
- "Regardless of the details of the case - I am not familiar with the precise charges and the evidence - you would never see the FBI and police behaving that way with Muslim sheikhs or Christian priests. It is so obvious that the whole thing is motivated by anti-Semitism." No need for details or facts - just pull out the slur. The details are that there are no perp walks for other religious leaders because other religious leaders don't act like the leaders of organized crime gangs. Note the important Shas connection (and note from the comments how fed up Israelis are with these scum). This wasn't just crime - it was political. As a large part of the intent was to fund illegal settlements, these defendants should be prosecuted under the Patriot Act, as terrorists.
- The real scandal, apparently:
"Rabbi Dweck delivered a very emotional sermon in which he strongly denounced the phenomenon of a Jew informing on other Jews, said that he is also a victim in this saga together with Klal Yisroel, and asked for prayers from the entire Jewish community for his terrible suffering."
- Jean Bricmont on the 'responsibility to protect' scam - much beloved by tools or Empire like Michael Ignatieff and Samantha Power - more white man's burden.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
"There is no more important issue facing the West than Zionism, Judeonazism or — to use yet another label — Jewish supremacism. And there is no more necessary precondition to countering that threat than understanding it: where it springs from, how it is expressed and the ways in which it is spreading. But before we do any of that, we have to agree that the threat exists.
For the United States, the danger so far has taken the form of terror, as 9/11 so clearly demonstrated. In Europe, terror is real too, but a more insidious problem has now taken hold: just about everybody is making common cause with Zionism and then brazenly and bizarrely denying both the existence of that alliance and in fact the existence of any Jewish threat whatever.
Bruce Bawer's "Surrender: Appeasing Judaism, Sacrificing Freedom" is focused on this phenomenon. Bawer, an American writer who lives in Norway - the archetype, even the caricature, of the liberal European mind-set - seeks to show, among other things, that the United States is becoming as culpable as Europe, its liberal news media and college campuses willfully refusing to acknowledge the danger posed by Zionism and opening their pages and seminars to those who seek the undoing of the very tenets that allow liberals - and everyone else - their freedoms. Bawer devotes much of his book to an attack on The New York Times for refusing to highlight the Zionist threat while swallowing the claims of figures like Stephen Pollard, a supposed moderate who, Bawer writes, is "a habitual practitioner of the Jewish art of hasbara — which essentially means lying one's ass off in the Jew-controlled mainstream media like The New York Times in order to allow Israel to continue to kill Palestinians and steal their land."
But it's when he turns to Brooklyn that Bawer is able to provide example upon example of how the West is becoming its own worst enemy. He cites, for instance, the activities of Orthodox Jewish Rabbis, a group who supports money laundering, organ trafficking, contraband smuggling, and the manufacture and distribution of illegal drugs, all under cover of their status as religious leaders (not to mention the cries of anti-Semitism that have already accompanied their arrests), with much of the proceeds going to build illegal Jewish settlements on Palestinian lands.
That protection for Rabbis who would return the West to barbarism is far from unique. But the FBI is terrified of crossing organized American Jewry, and the politicians have all been bought off by Jewish money.
More pernicious, perhaps, is the misuse of their power to control political debate by institutions that depend on freedom of speech for their very existence. Bawer analyzes the story of the 12 cartoons of Muhammad published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in September 2005, which is emblematic of the 'surrender' of his title. When the paper was attacked by devout Muslims for mocking Muhammad, solidarity for the Danish newspaper from other newspapers in supposedly free nations across the globe was total. The response of political leaders was even worse. Rather than confronting a blatant, indeed self-proclaimed, attempt to make fun of the religious beliefs of others, politicians and editors simply made even more fun of Islam. Those newspapers that offered words of support to Jyllands-Posten rushed to reprint the cartoons or insult those who were offended.
Almost the only leader to show any backbone was the Danish prime minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen. His response to a demand by Jewish leaders for body parts from living Danes to be sold for transplants for patients in Israel was to tell them that "it is so self-evidently clear what principles Danish society is based upon that there is nothing to have a meeting about."
"Surrender" is, at times, hard going. In part that is because of the level of detail Bawer offers in support of his argument. But "Surrender" is hard going in another respect as well. Bawer is unquestionably correct, and that fact is quite simply terrifying."
Monday, July 27, 2009
Old patterns
"As quietly as possible during 1963, the Kennedy brothers were brewing their own Cuban disruption campaign. They had a two-track strategy: A coup launched from foreign shores if necessary, or an agreement with Castro to rid the island of Soviet influence. Working with a separate wing of the CIA than those supporting the Cuban exiles, this project was known as AM/WORLD.
The leaders of this effort were Manuel Artime and Harry Ruiz-Williams, with the CIA's Harry Hecksher as the main case officer. The plan to create this junta in exile was picked up by the Associated Press as early as May 1963. By October, JFK had approved thirteen new sabotage missions as well a project called AMTRUNK proposed by New York Times correspondent Tad Szulc to enlist Cuban military officers into the coup effort. Although many referred to Artime as the Kennedys' "Golden Boy", it is revealing that the CIA referred to him as AM/BIDDY-1.
Oswald joins the FPCC and meets the CIA's David Phillips of the anti-Castro forces, who is involved in a deceptive operation designed to counter the FPCC in foreign countries
During this same period Oswald used the opportunity to build up his resume as the head of his one-man FPCC chapter in New Orleans, culminating in an arrest and widespread TV coverage in August as he picketed on behalf of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee and outraged his Southern neighbors. The arrest for breach of the peace grew out of a contrived fight between Oswald and the anti-Castro DRE, after what looked like a deliberately clumsy effort by Oswald to pose as an anti-Castro activist to infiltrate the DRE. Oswald even wrote VT Lee and described the fight several days before it actually happened. The head of the DRE was David Phillips."
and (my emphasis in red):
"That autumn, when CIA agent David Phillips became Chief of Cuban Operations in Mexico City, he became one of these SAS coordinators. Phillips was in effect rejoining the officers he had worked with on the Bay of Pigs in 1961, at which time he had been responsible for propaganda operations against the newly-created Fair Play for Cuba Committee. The SAS was packed with people who wanted to invade Cuba and saw JFK as an impediment.
During September, Alpha-66 Cuban exile leader Antonio Veciana met with David Phillips and Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas at the lobby of the Southland Building for fifteen minutes. Oswald was talking about "something that we can do to kill Castro."
On 9/16/63, John Tilton of the CIA asked the FBI to help obtain FPCC stationery and any existing foreign mailing list in order to have a sample "to produce large quantities of propaganda in the name of the (FPCC)" in order to "counter" their activities in foreign countries.
Tilton also said that the CIA was considering planting "deceptive information" which might "embarrass" the FPCC in areas where it has some support. Tilton assured the FBI that no "fabrication" would take place without advance notice and agreement.
The CIA request was directed to the "Nationalities Intelligence Section" -to chief Raymond Wannall. Its analogue in New York was Harold Hoeg's Squad 312. "The reply to CIA should be delivered via Liaison."
On 9/26/63, a memo then went out to SAC NY from LL Anderson on behalf of Director Hoover. "New York should promptly advise whether the material requested by CIA is available or obtainable. If available, it should be furnished by cover letter with enclosures suitable for dissemination to CIA by liaison."
This is right when Lee Harvey Oswald left for Mexico City for a week, and repeatedly visited the Soviet and Cuban embassies in an unsuccessful quest for a visa to get to Cuba. Wasn't this the foreign FPCC activity the CIA was gearing up to counter? Transcripts of calls that were supposedly made by Oswald to the Cuban embassy reveal conversations so contrived that it is obvious that an imposter was making these calls. Photographs and a tape recording made available to members of the Warren Commission showed that someone impersonated Oswald in Mexico City. Even Hoover said it to LBJ the morning after the assassination.
The 10/4/63 response from SAC NY James Kennedy reiterated his understanding that "CIA desires information regarding the availability of samples of FPCC stationery and FPCC mailing lists in connection with their consideration of plans to counter the activities of FPCC in foreign countries. The NYO plans to contact 3245-S* (Vicente) on 10/27/63."
The attached blind memo is a COINTELPRO letter suggesting that VT Lee should be asked "how many dupes are still contributing to Castro's propaganda arm here in the US…his fervor for Castro's cause is directly related to the amount of funds being received."
Angelton's aide Jane Roman stated that the man who "takes over Cuban operations in WH/3/Mexico on the 8th of October 1963 is named David Phillips." The PR man who was key in bringing down the Guatemalan government now has a second chance at getting Cuba right.
The next day after Phillips takes over Cuban operations in Mexico, October 9, FBI supervisor Marvin Gheesling canceled a FLASH notice on Oswald that had kept him on the aforementioned Watchlist among all FBI offices. As mentioned earlier, Oswald was placed on this Watchlist due to his defection to the USSR in 1959 and his statements to the US embassy that he was going to provide military secrets to the Soviet Union.
When Gheesling canceled the FLASH just hours before the twin October 10 cables were sent by the CIA containing critical information about Oswald, he "turned off the alarm switch on Oswald literally an instant before it would have gone off". Gheesling's explanation for why he released the "stop" on 10/9/63 is contained in a memo to FBI #2 man Clyde Tolson from Inspector Gale: The "stop was placed in event subject returned from Russia under an assumed name and was inadvertently not removed by him on 9/7/62 when case closed."
James W. Douglass, a Catholic theologian who has pondered this question, suggests that Gheesling may have been misled by Tilton's memo "into thinking Oswald was only working under cover in Mexico to counter the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. As a CIA operative, Oswald did not belong on the Security Index. Thus, his security watch was lifted. His staged Soviet connection could then be documented for scapegoating purposes after Dallas, but without sounding a national security alarm that would have put a spotlight on Oswald and prevented Dallas from happening."
The next day, the CIA sent two totally conflicting documents. One was a teletype to the FBI, State Department and the Navy about Oswald contacting the Soviet embassy in Mexico City, inaccurately describing him as "approximately 35 years old, with an athletic build, about six feet tall, with receding hairline...believed that Oswald was identical to Lee Henry Oswald", a seeming error made by the CIA in their initial filing of 1960 when the CIA finally (and mysteriously) opened a file on Oswald a year after his defection and his threat to reveal military secrets to the Soviets.
The other document was a cable sent two hours later to the station in Mexico: "Oswald is five feet ten inches, one hundred sixty five pounds, light brown wavy hair, (and) blue eyes." This description came from his mother to the FBI's John Fain years earlier, which then ricocheted back and forth between INS, the FBI and CIA for years after that, although Oswald's weight only varied between 130-150 and was 150 at the time of his death. The description sent to the FBI, the State Department, and the Navy is a deliberate lie.
The wording of this cable was repeated to the Dallas police officers almost verbatim in a mysterious call-in to the dispatcher fifteen minutes after Kennedy was shot: "white, slender, weighing about one hundred sixty five pounds, about five feet ten inches tall, and in his early thirties." Despite repeated attempts to find out the source, even J. Edgar Hoover had to admit that the information came from "an unidentified citizen".
Both of these messages were drafted by Mexico City desk officer Charlotte Bustos, while a key role in checking for accuracy was played by Ann Egerter of Angleton's CI/SIG mole-hunting unit (the woman who opened the 201 file on "Lee Henry Oswald") This may have been as part of a larger strategy to confuse the FBI, with the goal to withhold information about its anti-Cuban operations in Mexico City. Egerter admits that she thought Oswald "was up to something bad" and that she knew he had spoken with a KGB agent at the Mexican embassy."
and (whatever you might think about Hoover, he wasn't in on the scheme of the rogue FBI agents working with the CIA):
"18 FBI agents were punished by Hoover for their pre-assassination work. Lundquist and Hoeg of New York were two of them. At an HSCA hearing Gale stated, "Tolson called me on two of the agents in New York they (the Warren Commission or the FBI) found had, they felt, were derelict in the way they had reported the matter, and he asked me if we had found those...and I told him that, yes, we had found those."
Hoover believed that Oswald's background as a Soviet defector (and marrying the daugther of a Soviet intelligence officer) triggered espionage concerns; and his FPCC activism triggered security concerns. The FBI files available to Hoover also revealed that Oswald had initially threatened to provide US military secrets to the Soviets in exchange for citizenship and that he was presently a self-declared Marxist.. For these reasons, Hoover felt that Oswald should have been on the Security Index, and certainly should not have been removed from the Watchlist.
The others punished included Gheesling for removing the FLASH, Elbert Turner for not taking action on the CIA memo received the day after Gheesling removed the FLASH, and Hosty, Kaack, and Lambert L. Anderson for not following up more aggressively. Fain would have been punished, but he retired in 1962. Nevertheless, the same men proceeded to lead the post-assassination investigation as well."
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Good news
- the loss of the productive Jews;
- the international boycotts caused by the increasingly insane approach to the Palestinians of the Israeli state and the settlers who run it; and
- the failure of the lite American plan to impose a two-state solution, derailed by the settler movement
will mean that the shitty little country is just about over. I give it no more than ten years.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
A large number of doctors trained in Canada, with an education hugely subsidized by Canadian taxpayers, immediately head for the United States, where they can make much more money (Canada deals with this by poaching doctors from places like South Africa). Most stay, but a few come back, giving as a reason the complete lack of focus in the American system on actually caring for patients. In the American system a doctor is not a professional, but a cog in a massive profit-making machine. The main advantage of single-payer, besides the oodles of money it saves, is that it maintains the doctor-patient relationship as a professional medical relationship, not solely an economic relationship. Patients understand this, if politicians and 'journalists' do not.
All of this is not to say that there are not some fine, caring people who are doctors. Most, however, are neither fine nor caring. In Canada, it is doctors who are behind most of the attempts to ruin the Canadian system by Americanizing it. Although the official opposition in the United States to a first-world medical delivery system is insurance companies and drug companies, and their lobbyists and owned politicians and 'journalists', American doctors could force the system to change by themselves if they wanted it to change. Unfortunately, they see patients as dollar signs, have become filthy rich off the current system, and have no interest in changing it. American patients know this, which is one of the reasons Americans, if they are honest, will tell you how much they hate doctors. As I do.
Friday, July 24, 2009
Friday, July 24, 2009
- It seems that there are two types of Orthodox Jewish religious leaders: the drug smugglers and the money launderers. Both use their religion to cover their activities, and thus implicate all their followers (perp-walk: I wonder if they have those hats and coats in orange?). The rabbis were the real target: the FBI had to scramble to pick up some crooked Jersey pols - not hard to find - in order to avoid the wails of 'anti-Semitism'.
- Excellent prank pulled on psycho law professor John Yoo. It would be neat if some group were to arrange that Yoo could never go out in public again, or even look out his window, without seeing someone dressed like the Abu Ghraib victim.
- It is hilarious that the supposed Canadian dislike of 'socialized medicine' is being used to block Americans from having a first-world medical delivery system. When the CBC held a poll to determine the greatest Canadian, the choice was Tommy Douglas, the father of the Canadian system, who had to fight the doctors tooth and nail to force it through in his home province of Saskatchewan (doctors are the worst group of people in society, by far). Some wag suggested that the Canadian choice of Tommy Douglas would be like the Americans having a similar poll and picking Eugene Debs.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Hasbara attack
Very fine detective work
By way of control of history, thou shalt do war
"It appears now that the English-speaking world will have to wait
some time yet for a translation of Two Hundred Years Together, Alek-
sandr Solzhenitsyn's two volume study of Russian-Jewish relations.
Translations into both French and German have been available for five
years, and Italian, Hungarian, Greek, Czech, and Latvian editions are
in the works. But no publisher in America or Britain seems to want to
bother with a book which has clearly generated an unusual degree of
The taxpayer money goes round and round
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Jeff Gates does the Zionist math
"The political math was enabled by Senator John McCain whose support for all things Israeli ensured him the GOP nomination to succeed Christian-Zionist G.W. Bush. McCain's style of campaign finance reform proved a perfect fit for the Diaspora-based fundraising on which the lobby relies. Co-sponsored by Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, this change in federal election law typifies how Israeli influence became systemic.
'McCain-Feingold' raised the amount (from $1,000 to $2,300) that candidates can receive from individuals in primary and general elections. A couple can now contribute a combined $9,200 to federal candidates: $4,600 in each of the primary and general elections. Primary elections, usually low-budget, are particularly easy to sway.
Importantly for the Diaspora, this change also doubled the funds candidates can receive without regard to where those contributors reside. A candidate in Iowa, say, may have only a few pro-Israeli constituents. When campaign support is provided by a nationwide network of pro-Israelis, that candidate can more easily be persuaded to support policies sought by Tel Aviv.
Diaspora-based fundraising has long been used by the lobby with force-multiplying success to shape US foreign policy. Under the guise of reform, John McCain doubled the financial resources that the lobby can deploy to elect and retain its supporters.
The influence-peddling process works like this. Candidates are summoned for in-depth AIPAC interviews. Those found sufficiently committed to Israel's agenda are provided a list of donors likely to "max out" their campaign contributions. Or the process can be made even easier when AIPAC-approved candidates are given the name of a "bundler."
Bundlers raise funds from the Diaspora and bundle those contributions to present them to the candidate. No quid pro quo need be mentioned. After McCain-Feingold became law in 2003, AIPAC-identified bundlers could raise $1 million-plus for AIPAC-approved candidates simply by contacting ten like-minded supporters. Here's the math:
The bundler and spouse "max out" for $9,200 and call ten others, say in Manhattan, Miami, and Beverly Hills. Each of them max out ($10 x $9,200) and call ten others for a total of 11. [111 x $9,200 = $1,021,200.]
Imagine the incentive to do well in the AIPAC interview. One call from the lobby and a candidate can collect enough cash to mount a credible campaign in most Congressional districts. From Tel Aviv's perspective, that political leverage is leveraged yet again because fewer than ten percent of the 435 House races are competitive in any election cycle (typically 35 to 50).
Additional force-multipliers come from: (a) sustaining this financial focus over multiple cycles, (b) using funds to gain and retain seniority for those serving on Congressional committees key to promoting Israeli goals, and (c) opposing any candidates who question those goals.
Jewish Achievement reports that 42% of the largest political donors to the 2000 election cycle were Jewish, including four of the top five. That compares to less than 2% of Americans who are Jewish. Of the Forbes 400 richest Americans, 25% are Jewish according to Michael Steinhardt, a key funder of the Democratic Leadership Council. The DLC was led by Jewish Zionist Senator Joe Lieberman when he resigned in 2000 to run as vice president with pro-Israeli presidential candidate Al Gore.
Money was never a constraint. Pro-Israeli donors were limited only by how much they could lawfully contribute to AIPAC-screened candidates. McCain-Feingold raised a key limit. The full impact of this foreign influence has yet to be tallied."
and the story of Harry Truman (long before campaign finance 'reform'):
"Harry Truman, a Christian Zionist, remains one of the more notable recipients of funds. In 1948, he was trailing badly in the polls and in fundraising. His prospects brightened dramatically in May after he recognized as a legitimate state an enclave of Jewish extremists who originally planned to settle in Argentina before putting their sights on Palestine.
That recognition was opposed by Secretary of State George C. Marshall, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the bulk of the diplomatic corps, the fledgling Central Intelligence Agency and numerous distinguished Americans, including moderate and secular Jews concerned at the troubles that were certain to follow. Not until 1984 was it revealed that a network of Jewish Zionists had funded Truman's campaign by financially refueling his whistle-stop campaign train with $400,000 in cash ($3 million in 2009 dollars)."
What's most amazing is that it is still fashionable in American liberal circles to deny outright that this sort of foreign control of American politics is going on. The fact that American politicians always favor the Jewish politics of hatred and land theft over real American national interests shouldn't be a surprise; given the insane way American politics is funded, non-treasonous activity by American politicians simply doesn't pay.
If the tell-tale shoe fits your heart
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Speaking of the CIA
"At 33, she has taken it on her shoulders to confront her family's dark story in an exhibition of sculptures and works on paper that come from her core. Before coming to meet with her, I reviewed the facts: In the mid-fifties, her late maternal grandmother, Velma Orlikow, was diagnosed with postpartum depression. She was sent to Montreal for treatment, to the Allan Memorial Institute at McGill University, the site of now infamous mind-control experiments under the direction of Dr. Ewen Cameron.
Though her family didn't know it at the time, the clinic was receiving funding from the CIA to conduct procedures in brainwashing. The project was called MK-Ultra, and the team made the Winnipeg mother of two, and a number of other patients, their unwitting subjects. "They were looking for the ideal Manchurian Candidate," Johnson says. "It's almost impossible to believe, it is just so crazy."
Over the course of several stays, her grandmother was subjected to intensive electro-convulsive therapy, with an aim to wipe her memory clean for re-programming.
"Dr. Cameron called it psychic driving. He was willing to push his experiments to the limit," Johnson says. The medical records also show that her grandmother was the subject of 14 experiments with LSD.
"When I was little, I used to go every day and spend a couple of hours at my Nan's house after school, waiting for my parents to finish work," Johnson recalls, remembering her grandmother's later years. "There were always so many books and magazines stacked up everywhere in her house, and I used to think: 'Wow, she is so smart to have read all of this stuff.' It was only later that I understood it could take her a month to read a newspaper, or a week to write a note. Before the hospital, she had been a huge reader, but now she just was sitting there in the middle of her own failure."
Johnson, who has read her grandmother's journals, marvels at her vulnerability. "In those days, you didn't ask questions, and my grandfather was convinced that she was receiving the best cutting-edge care," Johnson says. Her journals report that she protested the treatment, but the doctors prevailed. "One of them was from Scotland, and he would say, 'Now lassie, you know you have to trust me.' She fell in love with him I think. In her journals, she writes about his hands, his voice. She gave her sanity over to him. How can a person do that?" If she failed to comply with treatment, Johnson says, the doctors would tell her she was a bad mother and a bad wife, unwilling to take the steps necessary to get better for her family's sake.
It was by fluke that they came to understand what had happened to her. The New York Times broke the story of the experiments in an article in 1977. "My grandfather happened to read it and he thought, 'Wait, those are the years Vel was there.' " She mobilized herself, leading a group of seven other former patients and waging a class-action suit against the CIA. (In 1988, they finally settled out of court, each receiving less than $80,000.) "She was just such a fighter," Johnson says, describing the life her grandmother would make for herself in the aftermath, travelling with her husband, David Orlikow, who became an NDP member of Parliament. "I mean, she was one of the first Canadian women to go to China. I have a picture of her patting a lion in Africa."
The damage, though, was irreversible . . . ."
Dr. Ewen Cameron (see also here and here and here and here - note how the Conservative government of Brian Mulroney screwed its own citizens) was one of the most evil men who ever lived (it would have been a blessing if, at the time of his interview with Hess, they let Hess go and locked Cameron up for the rest of his life). His mad scientist experiments were funded by the CIA (and the Canadian government).
Friday, July 17, 2009
What does it take to make Americans angry?
C Street affair
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
- If Michael Jackson was gay, a probability, he was almost certainly not a pedophile. More on this and other Jackson rumors later.
- If an Orthodox Jewish policeman beats you up in New York City, the Holocaust will protect him and get you fired, all with the able assistance of the New York Post.
- Noam: "In Iran, the electoral results issued by the Interior Ministry lacked credibility both by the manner in which they were released and by the figures themselves." I didn't know Noam worked for the CIA.
- Holocaust Museum attack conspiracy theory. Very unlikely, though it is curious that von Brunn would attempt an attack so likely to end as it did.
- Is there anything in the world lamer than Guinness World Records?
Sunday, July 12, 2009
La Toya
"In a moving exclusive four-hour interview with the News of the World, grieving La Toya - the closest person to Michael from the whole tight-knit Jackson clan - revealed she and the family are convinced her brother's apparent drugs overdose was "foul play" by a shadowy group out to get their hands on his £1 billion fortune.
"Michael WAS murdered," declared La Toya, 53. "And we don't think just one person was involved. Rather, it was a conspiracy of people. I feel it was all about money. Michael was worth well over a billion in music publishing assets and somebody killed him for that. He was worth more dead than alive."
As she posed a series of vital questions about 50-year-old Jacko's sudden death 17 days ago at his rented mansion in Los Angeles, La Toya said the pop icon was:
- FED a series of addictive drugs to keep him submissive and controlled.
- KEPT from his family by manipulative people who blocked their visits.
- WORKED to exhaustion even though he DIDN'T want to do the gruelling string of 50 shows due to start at London's O2 arena tomorrow.
- ROBBED of TWO MILLION in cash and gems as he lay dying."
""A couple of years ago Michael told me he was worried that people were out to get him. He said, 'They're gonna kill me for my publishing. They want my catalogues and they're gonna kill me for these.'
"I knew something terrible was going to happen."
Brushing her long dark hair back from her face - features that closely resemble her tragic brother's - soft-spoken La Toya added: "Michael was being inappropriately treated by people who got him hooked on drugs.
"I can't say who I believe is responsible as I don't want to jeopardise the police investigation. But not everybody had Michael's best interests at heart. A month ago I felt Michael was going to die before he did his London concerts.
"I felt it would be foul play. I felt he'd never make the show."
La Toya claimed those plotting against her brother deliberately cut him off to become "the loneliest man in the world".
She told us: "They tried to keep the family away at all times, even my dad.
"Michael was being controlled. No one could get through to him.
"We wanted to know why we were being kept away and my father Joe was always trying to get to see him. He tried so hard to be there for Michael. He was seen as a threat but he was trying to help. And if you keep the family away, you can conquer. It's like they say, divide and conquer."
La Toya also claimed millions of dollars in cash and jewels disappeared from Jackson's house the day he died.
She said: "Michael always had cash in his homes, usually around $2 million (£1.2 million) which he used to pay out on things. People said he wasn't wealthy, but Michael always had money with him.
"When I went to the house later that day there was NO cash or jewellery. So many people had been through that house before I got there. Someone went in there and did a good job. It was very strange.""
""There was an empty pill box on a cabinet. We also found loads of empty oxygen tanks in the garage of the house." Jackson was found to be on a potentially lethal cocktail of drugs when he died, with twice-a-day injections of morphine-related painkiller Demerol and doses of powerful narcotic Dilaudid.
He was also taking twice-daily jabs of painkiller Vistaril, anxiety drug Xanax, anti-depressants Prozac and Zoloft, plus anti-indigestion drug Prilosec.
Cops removed two dustbin bags-full of prescription drugs from the house.
But La Toya insisted vegetarian Jacko had told her he was on a six-month DETOX.
And the last time they'd met, at 60th wedding anniversary celebrations for their parents in a Beverly Hills curry house three weeks before his death, the singer seemed strong and healthy to his sister.
She said: "Michael was fit, happy and enjoyed every minute of it. Sure he was thin, but Michael was always thin. From my understanding, he was very healthy.
"When I arrived Michael was there standing by the door greeting people, and he said to me, 'You look fabulous.'
"It was a wonderful time. When he left we embraced each other and he said, 'Thanks for a nice time. We have to do this again in Vegas.'
"He went to the door, and as he got into the vehicle he looked back and waved goodbye. It's sad to think that was the last time I saw my baby brother."
La Toya claimed that he was then wiped out by the punishing rehearsal schedule for the London shows. In the last two days before his death, the Thriller star had performed a dress rehearsal and then a full day's run-through and strategy session. But La Toya insists that in reality Michael wanted to GIVE UP music.
"He really wanted to be a movie director," she said. "He was doing everything to make that happen. He had an idea do a horror film called Thriller. He designed the poster for it already.
"He didn't want to do 50 shows, he only wanted to do 10. But he was pushed. And Michael being Michael didn't want to let down his fans.
"But even his daughter Paris said, 'They worked Daddy too hard.' Somebody that fragile can't keep going on like that." La Toya revealed she is also mystified by the sacking of Michael's entire staff just HOURS after his death.
She said the family found out when they went back to the house at 11.30pm to claim the star's belongings. La Toya added: "We were told all the guys loyal to Michael had been fired. I couldn't work it out.""
I think La Toya has worked it out quite well. The banksters isolated him, filled him full of drugs (note how their controlled media is making Jackson out to be a record-setting consumer of drugs), murdered him, stole everything that wasn't nailed down, and fired anybody who might get in the way. Now they will avoid the problems with Jackson being unable to finish the impossible tour, and can reap the rewards of that billion dollar catalogue. Jackson came to realize, to his horror, that he was worth more dead than alive, and the banksters would stop at nothing to get their hands on his money. All he had to protect himself was a voodoo curse.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
- One 'Iran talk' trick. Of course, there are factions in Saudi Arabia, some of them close to the Jews (Bandar) - the impolite might say that a good portion of the Saudi royals are crypto-Jews - but the giveaway is that the Saudis would never make a deal that might be publicly revealed.
- Another. Of course, Biden was supposed to be playing 'good cop' to the Obama-Mitchell 'bad cop'. While Obama leaned on their fangs to stop the settlements, Biden was supposed to be whispering sweet nothings. Unfortunately, Biden likes the sound of his own voice so much that he doesn't know when to stop talking. Biden might be slightly pre-Alzheimer's.
- Wristwatch conspiracy theory.
- Publicity sometimes embarrasses the authorities into doing their jobs and even arresting their masters.
- Single-buttock theory (you have to click on 'next' on the little picture at the right side top of the page).
Friday, July 10, 2009
MJ medical disaster
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
- It is no shock that the French version of the Jewish Defense League commits vicious crimes against what it perceives as its political adversaries. It should also be no shock that this violence is committed without the slightest mention in the French mainstream media, the same media that makes the tiniest allegations of anti-Semitism - even phony anti-Semitism, as is usually the case - into headlines. The French police don't bother to investigate JDL crimes due to the Holocaust Exception,. which makes violent crimes committed by Jews not only completely legal, but admirable.
- Excellent analysis of why the Jews are in the process of stealing - and stealing is the proper word - Jerusalem.
- A lovely encounter by a reporter with those who not subject to the laws the rest of us are. She's lucky to still be alive.
Sunday, July 05, 2009
They're not subject to the laws the rest of us are
- Since he was caught, Larry has been making his living cleaning restrooms, mopping floors, parking cars, digging trenches and cleaning cesspools. If you think that doing the will of the Jewish Billionaires by working as a Shabbas goy betraying your own country will land you on easy street, think again.
- Of course, it could be worse. Franklin reported to American officials that two people approached him and suggested it would be a good idea for him to disappear before the trial of the two AIPACers. Since Franklin had no competence at completely disappearing (a very difficult thing to do), and knew that the two people approaching him knew he had no such competence, Franklin took their approach, rightly, as a death threat. Franklin had five conversations with one of them, wired by the FBI, but we're told there is insufficient evidence to prosecute. Of course, everybody is sworn to keep the names secret on the basis of 'national security'.
- Franklin, who has ruined his life by suffering from what amounts to a terminal case of Islamophobia, seems to think the brave American officials fighting the extreme danger of Zionism - and in particular their ongoing search for 'Mega' - are a bunch of anti-Semites. Larry: "In the intelligence community you refer to Israelis as 'Izzis' and it doesn't have a pleasant connotation. They can't get away with kikes, so they say Izzis."
- Larry has some interesting things to say about the infamous Rome meetings (but is vague about the good stuff, and can't remember anything about the Niger documents!):
"Ghorbanifar's plan was "to buy off a bunch of truck drivers who would shut down the main arteries in Teheran. They would block traffic for miles around."
And then?
"At that point, he felt he could shake the regime from the inside. . . . He could get enough people up, a critical mass, to do the deed, to overthrow the regime."
Ghorbanifar sketched out his scenario for Franklin during a 2 a.m. meeting in his hotel lobby, Franklin said.
He wanted $5 million. "Seed money."
Franklin didn't like it.
"I didn't tell him, but I thought it was amateurish and would've gotten people killed and America embarrassed. And we would be out $5 million, while he would be $5 million richer."
As loony as it was, Franklin says some of his neoconservative colleagues back in Washington liked the idea, among them, Cheney's top national security aide, John Hannah.
"He was wondering why I didn't support Ghorbanifar," Franklin said.
Hannah would not discuss the affair for the record except to say he never met with Franklin to discuss it.
Apprised of that response, Franklin stuck to his guns.
"Oh, yes, he did," Franklin said. "It was at the Cosi restaurant near the Old Executive Office Building. I remember it in spades.""
Note how close this is to the general strike much beloved by Juan Cole and his ilk. The recent failed coup appears to be part of a much larger Ledeen-Ghorbanifar plan that failed simply because most Iranians were happy with the guy they voted for, and were unhappy with outside interference.
- Speaking of a larger plan, the original Franklin-AIPACer meeting was arranged by a dangerous neocon who has flown largely under the radar named Michael Makovsky. He was in the infamous treason factory known as the Office of Special Plans, a man who had moved from the United States to Israel and had once wanted to become an Israeli diplomat. It seems the Zionists figured he could do more harm inside the American government. He is also largely responsible for this document, which is a bunch of lies about the Iranian nuclear program and seriously discusses an American or Israeli attack in Iran. As I keep saying, there is not going to be an attack on Iran, but the details of the neocon wish list are becoming clear. The recent phony coup in Iran is meant to begin the destabilization which is supposed to bloom into a full-fledged installation of the Shah in the unrest caused after the American or Israeli attack on Iran.
- The best line of all, showing rare insight from the addled Larry, comes from the discussion of the meeting with the guy who said he ought to 'disappear' (my emphasis in red, best line in green):
""It was in West Virginia. I was parking cars at the time. He came to see me at the Charles Town Race Track. He said, 'Let's go to lunch and talk about raising money for my defense.'
"And we talked about all these rich people," Franklin continued. "But first I had to agree to a scheme...
"I was going to go somewhere, and it was going to be arranged that I could occasionally meet my wife. It was supposed to be on a bridge."
In Israel?
"No," he said. "Florida."
Who was the man who approached him?
"Well, the guy was definitely a Zionist," Franklin said. "And he was a true believer. And like a lot of true believers, he's beyond good and evil. They're not subject to the laws the rest of us are.""
Never forget that much of the success of the 'one-issue' guys is that they suffer from a kind of insanity, a monomania to build Anti-Assimilation-Land that means that they will do anything - anything! - to achieve their one goal. Those fighting them have to take a scorched-earth policy. The only possible cure to the problem is the end of Jewish-controlled Israel, and thus the end of even the slightest hope of Anti-Assimilation-Land.
Friday, July 03, 2009
Whoops, we did it again
"A Federal Court judge said revelations that Canada's spy service mishandled evidence in the terrorism case of a Syrian refugee is of "great concern to the court" and could affect the outcome of the case.
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service admitted it failed to disclose evidence that a confidential informant was "deceptive" when answering questions. A second source cited in the government's case against Hassan Almrei was not subjected to a lie-detector test, contrary to what the agency had claimed in court documents.
The disclosures were outlined in two letters written by Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley and obtained by the Star earlier this week. They come just weeks after an Ottawa judge criticized CSIS for omitted evidence in a separate terrorism case, prompting an internal CSIS investigation.
Lorne Waldman, Almrei's lawyer, began closing submissions yesterday arguing the mistakes are an abuse of process and that the case must be thrown out.
Since the proceedings are held partly in private and sources are not subjected to cross-examination, Waldman argued the court has to "rely on assurances by CSIS" that the information is accurate. The blunders amount to a "patter of consistent non-compliance," he said, and throws into question eight years of previous court decision based on faulty evidence."
This is exactly the same sort of obstruction of justice/perjury/contempt of court stunt that CSIS pulled in the Harkat case. Since the entire system is predicated on scrupulous honesty by CSIS - a poor replacement for the protections provided to everybody who hasn't fallen into Bibi's 'war on terror' - and CSIS is now providing evidence of a consistent pattern of deception, all the security certificates have to be thrown out.
Isn't it time to prepare for the end of the 'war on terror'? After all, the sole purpose for the 'war on terror' is to allow Jews to steal land. Even the CIA is predicting the end of Jew-controlled Israel within the next decade or so, and once Jew-controlled Israel is gone Jews will no longer have an opportunity to steal land and thus will have no more need for Bibi's 'war on terror'. The rest of us should throw off our chains now.
Thursday, July 02, 2009
Thursday, July 2, 2009
- The Huffington Post continues with its undignified attempts at traditional Jewish folkdancing (invented in 1952 by an Eastern-European choreographer who no doubt stole all the moves from the Palestinians), all at the whip of its Jewish financiers, but until they turn the comments off, it isn't going to work.
- David Irving's very partial list of links referring to Israel's involvement in the global narcotics and ecstasy trade.
- The Jewish attempt to queer the Toronto Pride parade backfired. The Jews haven't yet come to grips with 'post-Gaza syndrome'.
- The mystery of why Juan Cole outed himself as a full-fledged neocon is solved. He's Baha'i, and he presumably hoped to help his supposedly oppressed coreligionists in Iran by shilling for the coup plotters. If Juan Cole stopped blogging - and stopped spending every second word telling us what an expert he is - I wouldn't miss him at all, but I will miss Moon of Alabama (and I hope b posts comments somewhere).
- Jefferson Morley's continuing saga of attempting to have the CIA obey the law and direct court orders requiring it to release information concerning its agent George Joannides and the assassination of JFK. Is there a judge brave enough to put Leon Panetta in jail until the CIA coughs up the records?
- Another successful divestment story. Shareholders of companies losing huge contracts because they refuse to stop dealing with Israel should start suing the officers and directors of such companies for failing to meet their fiduciary obligations. Tribal obligations don't trump duties to the company and its shareholders.
- The attempted coup in Iran taught us to put such notables as Juan Cole, Robert Dreyfuss, and even Al Giordano on the permanent blacklist as either idiots or American imperialists (same thing, come to think about it), but Robert Perry comes through with some deep analysis.


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Saturday, July 05 2014
Brazil has advanced to the semi-finals for the first time in 12 years. However, with Neymar having broken his third vertebrae, he will not play the Tuesday game against Germany according to the team's Doctor.
Yesterday's game has been branded the dirtiest. Brazil had 31 fouls and 23 for Colombia.
Their daughter turned 7, a few days back.
During the interview, MC Kats caught up with his baby mama on a number of issues ranging from her Extended Play that she will be releasing soon, the two collaboration songs that King Saha agreed to work on with Fille.
Asked what the magic was, and Hellen was like and that is nothing, he is capable of a lot more.
"I have two children, Ata and Ark, with my Heaven sent Anwar, we have been together for five years. I am a good person and my hubby is the only one in this world, he was made for me and by the way, that is nothing compared to the things he has done."
In a Snapchat post decorated with green snakes emojis, God's Plan who is currently in the UK has revealed how the 'Bango' singer ended up dating his then girlfriend Sheilah Gashumba.
"He used to come to my apartment to chill, drink and eat food..."
Not long back, when Zari was explaining how she hit the rocks with King Bae, who turned out to be romance scammer, she said that it is not about money when it comes to dating her, so even the not so loaded guys were welcome to give it a try, but looking at her new lover, GK Choppa, he seems to be wearing two faces, in him you see a combination of her late hubby and Diamond Platnumz.
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