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Felix Baumgarten – born to fly
Austrian Felix Baumgartner, the first skydiver to go faster than the speed of sound in 2012 after jumping out of a balloon 24 miles (39 kms) up in the air over New Mexico and smashing the record for the highest ever freefall, has died in a paragliding accident in Italy. According to media reports, he … Read more
Connie Francis – great highs and worse lows
Connie Francis, the American singer, who was the best selling performer in the late 1950s/early 1960s after Presley and The Beatles, with Stupid Cupid, Who’s Sorry Now?, and Lipstick on Your Collar, has died aged 87. From 1964, her career was blighted by a catalogue of personal tragedies including three divorces, two miscarriages, rape, … Read more
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CIA – even its critics are on the defensive ++ UK SIS (MI6) and MI5
The CIA rides high on Trump’s hate list as he considers the agency the beating heart of a “deep state” that is working to undermine him. The agency’s track record of past screw-ups is not such as to inspire respect anywhere but a new book points to the risks of putting “the instruments of American … Read more
High voltage Earth Air – Janet Street Porter + Billy Joel
Mars Earth plus Air appears to be a recipe for multiple marriages and enduring, pro-active careers according to two showbusiness types in the news. One is ‘motormouth’ Janet Street Porter, English broadcaster, journalist, writer, media personality, at one point a BBC executive and then editor of the Independent. The other is Billy Joel, American singer, … Read more
Ingmar Bergman – flawed genius
Ingmar Bergman, the film director, was widely hailed as a genius for The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, and Fanny and Alexander amongst many others. Martin Scorsese said “it’s impossible to overestimate the effect that Bergman’s films had on people”. Stanley Kubrick and Woody Allen both proclaimed him “the greatest film artist, all things considered, since … Read more
Ghislaine Maxwell – down the generations
Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s right-hand woman is serving 20 years in prison for sex trafficking offenses, the only person held legally responsible to date. Her family are now claiming she ‘did not receive a fair trial’, claiming she should have been protected under an agreement Epstein entered with the Department of Justice in 2007, in which … Read more
The aristo, the rapist – and a neglected baby
The tragic, tawdry, off-the-grid lifestyle of aristocrat Constance Marten and her convicted rapist boyfriend Mark Gordon which lead to their four children being taken into care and adopted because of a domestic violence incident and a fifth baby dying of hypothermia while they were on the run has finally been brought to a halt. After … Read more
Giorgia Meloni – Mars in full flight ++ Francesca Albanese
Giorgia Meloni, the Italian Prime Minister, known as the enfant terrible of the European Right and ‘Mussolini in high heels’, much feted by Donald Trump, has managed against all expectations to stay in power for three years. No mean feat given her country’s carnival politics – 69 governments in power over the past 79 years. … Read more
Jewish Diaspora – Pluto in Aquarius
Researching past times of Pluto in Aquarius which next picks up from 2023 till 2042 it caught my eye that the original Jewish diaspora occurred under the Pluto in Aquarius in 60 to 84 AD when the first of the Jewish Wars against the Romans took place. The Romans laid siege to Jerusalem crucifying tens … Read more