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Wed, 19/04/2023 - 19:11
Wilful blindness of UK politicians and media not mirrored internationally Al Jazeera’s ‘Labour Files’ documentary reveals the racism, sabotage and rigging committed by the Labour right during the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn – and to complete the purge of the left after Keir Starmer conned party members into voting him in as leader. The documentary […]
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Wed, 19/04/2023 - 17:58
Welcome to my Wednesday Blog. As you’ve probably noticed, there’s some work being done on the site, to make everything ready, hopefully, for the launch of Witches of World War 2 next week! Something in the Water Returns to Radio 4 Extra! My horror radio play Something in the Water, directed by Nadia Molinari and […]
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Wed, 19/04/2023 - 16:46
It’s Wednesday and apart from music I am talking mostly about poverty – opposites indeed. The beauty of the beat against the ugliness of enforced poverty. Enforced by government policy, which if there is political will can always eliminate systemic poverty. Yesterday (April 18, 2023), a major report was released in Australia by the grand-titled…
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Wed, 19/04/2023 - 11:17

At least two 9/11 hijackers had been recruited into a joint CIA-Saudi intelligence operation that was covered up at the highest level, according to an explosive new court filing.  A newly-released court filing raises grave questions about the relationship between Alec Station, a CIA unit set up to track Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and his associates, and two 9/11 hijackers leading up to the attacks, which was subject to a coverup at the highest levels of the FBI. […]

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Wed, 19/04/2023 - 09:00
Here’s the latest on the debt ceiling from TPM. Sigh. This could easily go sideways. It’s a clown show. And after all, Marge Greene is the shadow speaker of the House. Kevin McCarthy is Speaker in name only: Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has such a tenuous grip on his own conference that the debt-ceiling hostage-taking he is attempting to pull off has all the hallmarks of the bumbling kidnapping capers you see in the movies: -The House GOP can’t agree amongst themselves what to ask for as ransom. -They can’t get the White House to take them seriously enough as a ragtag band of kidnappers to engage in negotiations. -They keep threatening dire consequences for not taking them seriously but are repeatedly hobbled by their own lack of consensus. At this point, McCarthy wants the House to vote by the end of the month on a package that combines the debt ceiling with draconian spending cuts, but he clearly doesn’t have (i) internal agreement on those cuts or on how much to raise the debt ceiling by; or (ii) the votes to push a package through as early as next week.