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Val Kilmer – a talented and troubled soul
Actor Val Kilmer, renowned for Top Gun and Batman Forever, has died after a long battle with throat cancer. He gained a reputation as “temperamental, intense, a perfectionist and sometimes egotistical.” Numerous spats with directors and co-stars, plus a series of flops, dented his later career. Batman director Joel Schumacher called Kilmer “the most psychologically … Read more
Corey Booker leads a Democrat pushback
Democrat Corey Booker has broken the record for the longest speech in US Senate history after speaking for more than 25 hours without a bathroom break to deliver a marathon protest of the policies of Trump. He said the threats to American democracy were “grave and urgent”. Born 27 April 1969 1.10 am Washington, DC … Read more
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Peter Thiel – right-wing with a mind of his own
Peter Thiel, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist, net worth stood US$16.2 billion, a co-founder of PayPal, gave money to the Trump 2016 campaign but not this one. He is an elusive character, describing himself as a conservative libertarian. He has criticized economically-liberal attitudes towards free trade and big tech, is pro stricter border control, … Read more
Stock Markets in shock as tariffs loom
Stock markets across the world fell heavily after Trump suggested that new tariffs he is expected to announce this week would hit “all countries”. An explanatory piece in the FT pointed out he is driven by realpolitik which is practical, not moral or ideological. “If Trump thinks tariffs will help him, he won’t care who … Read more
Marine Le Pen – knocked off course ++ La France in turmoil, Bardella etc
Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader, has been banned from standing for office for five years and sentenced to jail after being convicted of embezzling EU funds. She was handed a four-year jail sentence, of which two years are suspended, would only begin once no further legal recourse after appeals remains. She was also … Read more
Richard Chamberlain – a screen icon of yesteryear
Actor Richard Chamberlain, once renowned as the “king of the mini-series” for his leading roles in Shogun and The Thorn Birds, as well as in the 1960s medical drama Dr Kildare has died aged 90, a day before his birthday. He was born 31 March 1934 6.20pm Los Angeles with an alcoholic, emotionally abusive … Read more
Greenland – united against intimidation – Vance and Usha out of sorts
On Greenland: Trump: “It’s an island that we need. And we’re going to have to have it.” JD Vance: “I think Greenland understands that the United States should own it. And if Denmark and the EU don’t understand it, we have to explain it to them. We need Greenland for international security.” Greenland, a former … Read more
Myanamar & Thailand – earthquake disaster
The Aries Solar Eclipse of March 29th is certainly living up to its turbulent Saros Series with a major 7.7 magnitude earthquake hitting Myanamar and Thailand with many dead and injured. It is the strongest quake to hit Thailand since the 1839 Ava Earthquake, of 8.3 in magnitude. The Partial Solar Eclipse of 29th … Read more
Prince Harry – charity woes
Sentebale, the Lesotho charity[ founded in 2006 to help children and adolescents struggling to come to terms with their HIV and AIDS diagnosis has been torn apart by a rancorous dispute between the chairman, a Zimbabwean lawyer, Dr Sophie Chandauka, and the founders Prince Harry and Prince Seeiso of Lesotho and the board of trustees. It was initially set up in April … Read more