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Big tech – a watershed moment all round
A public reckoning has arrived for big tech with two US juries finding they were liable for products that inflict harm on young people. A jury in New Mexico ordered Meta to pay $375m in damages on Tuesday over claims that its products led to child sexual exploitation, among other harms. The following day, a … Read more
Tiger Woods – driven, determined, accident prone
Tiger Woods has had yet another crash, after rolling his car when he hit a truck at speed. He was released on bail following his arrest on charges of driving under the influence, not of alcohol which tested clear, but of drugs. He has been recovering from rupturing an Achilles tendon in March 2025 and … Read more
Vance and Rubio – fall back team, mission impossible ++ Curtis Yarvin
J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio have been sent in to negotiate peace with Iran with explanations running from – 1) Trump needing someone to blame when it does not work; 2) Kushner and Witkoff, the first team, being either incapable of understanding the technicalities of a nuclear deal or according to the Iranians being deliberately … Read more
Valerie Perrine – a wild child star of yesteryear
Valerie Perrine, the Las Vegas showgirl who fell into acting and gave memorable award-winning performances in Lenny playing his stripper girlfriend and Superman as Lex Luthor’s moll has died. The 1970s were her peak and while she continued to act afterwards never gained the same heights. Her life featured a few high risk moments: … Read more
Alan Ritchson – channelling his Mars
Alan Ritchson, the epitome of a hard-man has earned him success in TV’s Reacher, now out for the fourth season. A recent squall with a neighbour which hit the headlines has fizzled out after police said he acted in self-defence. In the past he has admitted to being bi-polar and prone to depression but appears … Read more
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Solar Eclipse – repeating Gulf War 1
Pondering on how the recent eclipse provided a backdrop for the present conflagration in the Middle East, the previous ones in this 18.5 year Saros cycle are significant if not cheering. Though it would have to be said in addition to problems there were also positive outcomes. Last time in 2008 oversaw the financial … Read more
Maria Vorontsova – Putin for a father
Maria Vorontsova, a Russian pediatric endocrinologist is the elder child of Vladimir Putin. She was married to a Dutch businessman and living in the Netherlands, until calls for her expulsion in 2014 after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down by pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine. She now lives in Moscow and is married to an … Read more
Oil – Plutonic riches from the underworld
The first ever oil strike – 28 August 1859 4pm Titusville, PA, USA. It has an 8th house Sun Moon Mercury in practical, earthy Virgo and a Saturn Mars Venus in money-oriented Leo also in the 8th. So six planets in the deeply buried 8th house which has connections with business finance. Neptune … Read more
Middle East mayhem – and so it goes on
Achieving an outright victory in a war that increasingly seems unwinnable may spur Netanyahu onwards. But Trump, as ever, gets spooked by the markets plunging, with his smash n’ grab raid turning into an expensive stalemate, costing US lives and threatening the economy. A former head of Iran research for Israel’s defence intelligence agency, … Read more