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As Oliver Willis noted:
CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
December 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
As Oliver Willis noted:
The story is relegated to the opinion section because the news section is helmed by an executive editor richer than Croesus who as a member of the extraction class has to place his family interests selling office products made in China above all else
December 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The story is relegated to the opinion section because the news section is helmed by an executive editor richer than Croesus who as a member of the extraction class has to place his family interests selling office products made in China above all else
Indeed, two chaps named Kenneth actually retraced the "Riddle of the Tsangpo Gorges" route some years ago and produced a lavish book: shop.glendoick.com/Riddle-of-th...
Frank Kingdon Ward's Riddle of the Tsangpo Gorges
A new updated and greatly expanded edition of the plant-hunter's classic. 100s of colour and black & white photographs. A new chapter covers conservation issues
shop.glendoick.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Indeed, two chaps named Kenneth actually retraced the "Riddle of the Tsangpo Gorges" route some years ago and produced a lavish book: shop.glendoick.com/Riddle-of-th...
Soon enough we might see hiking apps retracing all the steps of the various Frank Kingdon-Ward expeditions ... www.rhododendron.org/v45n3p140.htm
December 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Soon enough we might see hiking apps retracing all the steps of the various Frank Kingdon-Ward expeditions ... www.rhododendron.org/v45n3p140.htm
Standing at this so-called door in mid-November 2019 where tour groups would regularly congregate for the lectures by their guides — except on Mondays when numerous places on Gorée are closed — it was the ideal day to contemplate how it would have been impossible for so many to pass through there.
December 1, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Standing at this so-called door in mid-November 2019 where tour groups would regularly congregate for the lectures by their guides — except on Mondays when numerous places on Gorée are closed — it was the ideal day to contemplate how it would have been impossible for so many to pass through there.
The same Mobuto so brilliantly described in the 1997 obituary by the same @hofrench.bsky.social that's always worth a re-read — truly one of the most harrowing political obituaries of our era: archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
November 30, 2025 at 7:01 AM
The same Mobuto so brilliantly described in the 1997 obituary by the same @hofrench.bsky.social that's always worth a re-read — truly one of the most harrowing political obituaries of our era: archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
Would that be the same Michael Bloomberg who engineered a third term (and overturn term limits the voters had approved) and spent $174 per vote to win his illegal third term? He spent $112 per vote to win his second term and $99 per vote to win his first term. Best democracy money can buy!
Bloomberg Spent $102 Million to Win 3rd Term (Published 2009)
www.nytimes.com
November 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Would that be the same Michael Bloomberg who engineered a third term (and overturn term limits the voters had approved) and spent $174 per vote to win his illegal third term? He spent $112 per vote to win his second term and $99 per vote to win his first term. Best democracy money can buy!
Will the construction workers even get paid? Flashback to 2016: www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
USA TODAY exclusive: Hundreds allege Donald Trump doesn’t pay his bills
Among those who say billionaire didn't pay: dishwashers, painters, waiters
www.usatoday.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Will the construction workers even get paid? Flashback to 2016: www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Trump s exactly who Alexander Hamilton warned about in 1792:
October 17, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Trump s exactly who Alexander Hamilton warned about in 1792:
The racism is of course always the point ever since he and his racist dad Fred (who was arrested at a 1927 KKK rally) were sued by the Justice Department for racial housing discrimination in 1973: www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/u...
‘No Vacancies’ for Blacks: How Donald Trump Got His Start, and Was First Accused of Bias (Published 2016)
www.nytimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The racism is of course always the point ever since he and his racist dad Fred (who was arrested at a 1927 KKK rally) were sued by the Justice Department for racial housing discrimination in 1973: www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/u...
Guy who couldn't make money in the casino business in Atlantic City set to make money in the casino business in New York City
September 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Guy who couldn't make money in the casino business in Atlantic City set to make money in the casino business in New York City
Indeed, that's exactly how it works in an authoritarian state: “...What regulator is going to say no to the president’s son-in-law?"
How Jared Kushner brokered the $55bn takeover of Electronic Arts
Trump’s son-in-law used deep ties in Saudi Arabia to help pull off the largest buyout
www.ft.com
September 30, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Indeed, that's exactly how it works in an authoritarian state: “...What regulator is going to say no to the president’s son-in-law?"
The Seychelles presidential election heads to round two as no candidate obtained a 50% absolute majority: r1.mu/aux-seychell...
September 29, 2025 at 9:41 AM
The Seychelles presidential election heads to round two as no candidate obtained a 50% absolute majority: r1.mu/aux-seychell...
It's truly a remarkable story...
September 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
It's truly a remarkable story...