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It's be brilliant to hav an alternative & inspiring real story notion of how 6 boys were able to cooperatively work together to survive for over a year instead of the fictitious Lord of the Flies nonsense, which so many people has swallowed as "human nature". 🙄
Makes me wonder why nobody ever made a movie out of the Tongan castaways. Can screenwriters even envision a film where everybody just works together against adversity? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongan_...
Tongan castaways - Wikipedia
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Tongan Castaways: make this film! Amazing story about 6 boys who stole a boat, got shipwrecked & survived
more than a year, living cooperatively and amicably. Not “Lord of the Flies” at all! It seems a natural for the big screen and apparently a studio called new Regency bought the rights in 2020.
Me, I like the existence of the book ' The Lord of the flies' but like to think about the real story of the 6 Tongan schoolboys who were island castaways for 15 months instead.
Why has this film still not been made? I would think it'd be of interest to millions of people. & would be inspiring. Instead of the terrible film Lord of the Flies, inspired by the author's experience of Britain's "public schools", reputed to harbour harsh conditions for the students.
I love the story and meaning behind this song:
The Tongan castaways were a group of six Tongan teenage boys who shipwrecked on the uninhabited island of ʻAta in 1965 and lived there for 15 months until their rescue!
Another cowardly statement by Starmer: of course the violent hooligan fans of that Israeli football club should be banned from their match with Aston Villa.
@thetimes.com Stop lying! Meghan Sussex has NO connection to the charity in UK (World Vision, UK), which has been hit by scandal. Her involvement with World Vision, CANADA, a separate org., ended in 2017. Correct your lies @thetimes
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She was already a huge Hollywood star at the age of 18. Keira Knightley tells Caitlin Moran how she struggled to cope with the intense scrutiny — and why she walked away from it all in her early twenties
Keira Knightley: ‘I went mad. I just managed to hide it’
www.thetimes.com
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The co-editors of The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht says the national librarian’s reaction to a critical report suggests she has not fully understood what went wrong | ✍️ Susan Dalgety & Lucy Hunter Blackburn
We are vindicated — but library still needs to reassure women
The co-editors of The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht says the national librarian’s reaction to a critical report suggests she has not fully understood what went wrong
www.thetimes.com
Netanyahu & his military brass should be facing the International Court of Justice for multiple was crimes. Israel is shameless!
Israel is considering the creation of a special war crimes tribunal to prosecute those who carried out the October 7 attacks in mass trials, which could see them sentenced to death ⬇️
Hamas fighters may face death sentence at Israeli war crimes tribunal
Israel’s justice minister moves to establish a special body to prosecute perpetrators of October 7 attacks, which could bring the return of capital punishment
www.thetimes.com
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A group of peers is at the centre of a House of Lords plot to derail guidance protecting women’s single-sex spaces, leaked documents have revealed ⬇️
Lords plot to derail Labour’s trans guidance on single-sex spaces
Stonewall veterans Lord Cashman and Baroness Hunt are among those seeking to scupper EHRC rules
www.thetimes.com
Another misogynist toddler having a tantrum because the whole world does not agree with his absurd notion that men should be able to violate women's separate sex-based toilets, change rooms, sports etc. any time they feel like it 🙄🙄
My take is that NDP lost a lot of votes because many folks were worried that the far right Polievre would get in if they didn't vote Liberal. That's the situation: worries about the maniac to the South would affect who got into power in Canada. Not sure what the answer is.
The NDP has been asking itself a question since April:
what happened?

But for former NDP MP @mrpeterjulian.bsky.social and former NDP candidate Jiwon Jung, that question isn’t enough.

They also what to know: what can the NDP become? What do Canadians want it to be?

This was a great conversation:
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Can we please get some perspective. If Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters were banned because of a risk to them it would absolutely be anti-semitism. When they are banned because they have a track record of causing violence it is just common sense. Preventing football hooliganism is normally a good idea.
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And this is why we saw so much about wanting to reconcile with Harry and a renewed focus on Meghan in British press lately. It will never cease to perplex me that the royals didn't see this coming a decade ago.
BREAKING: Prince Andrew is giving up all royal titles, including the 'Earl of Inverness' after discussion with the King

It comes days before the publication of a book by Andrew’s late alleged victim, Virginia Giuffre
Queen Elizabeth paid USD$16 million to Virginia Guffrie to "settle" the civil suit against Prince Andrew. She just wanted the bad press about her favourite son to go away! There was pressure about the US Courts demanding to interview Randy Andy!
Notably, Virginia Guffrie was paid $10 million bucks by the Queen of England because her boorish pedophile of a son never met her and did nothing wrong. The queen just felt bad for her and sent her the money out of the goodness of her heart.
Kash Patel says the FBI has NO information that Jeffrey Epstein trafficked minors to anyone other than himself.

SEN. KENNEDY: "Who, if anyone, did Epstein traffic these young women to?"

PATEL: "There is no credible information, none ... that he trafficked to other individuals."
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis

Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today.

We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.