As is the tradition of this blog .....
Buster 31st December 1966 |
.... A British Comic cover from our childhood ......
With most of the public sector on strike and demanding massive pay rises, while retaining their final salary pensions .....
Beano Xmas 1970 |
.... and with inflation going through the roof, with a lot of people huddling at home in three jumpers and under a pile of blankets .... it may not be the happiest of Christmases we have had in the UK, but hey, its another year gone by, and surely this will all pass some time.
Those Chinese 'private' state loans (from state owned companies) ......
The Chinese Are Coming .... To A Neighbourhood Near You Soon! |
...... that have brought a few Asian countries such as Sri Lanka to their knees, have also been quietly taking place in Europe's smaller economies.
I once worked in the Fylde/Blackpool area of Northern England for a couple of years, and so got to know it quite well whilst I was staying in a boarding house for that time ....
I've Drunk In The No3 Pub In Blackpool |
.... so when I saw a magazine reference to strange phenomena on a White Gate Lane in the Fylde, Lancashire, I was just curious enough to wonder if it was related to the Whitegate Drive that I did recall from those years ago.
In a little reported (well I didn't see it headlined), story at the time, in October 2018 President Putin of Russia reportedly said ......
Death Visits Kurgan ... |
...... that in the face of foreign aggression to the motherland (Rodina) they would be met with nuclear war.
A recent NPR/Ipsos poll found that 64% of Americans believe ....
Democracy At Risk? |
.... US democracy is at risk of failing, and the fragility of America's democracy is what alarms foreign observers of the country.
In the USA and the leftie woke press (like the BBC), the release of the previously largely unknown black lesbian basketball player Brittney Griner, in a prisoner swap, has been greeted as almost like the release of Nelson Mandela .....
Griner For Bout - A Fair Swap? |
..... with almost minute by the minute reports of her progress westward.
The popular TV show CSI Las Vegas in which crime scene investigators / scientists solve crimes that would take many weeks or months .... inside an hour (TV time 24 hours ... max!) ....
A Suspicious Death In Florida ... CSI On The Case |
.... is believed to have inspired at least two real life crimes.
We have often laughed at the gullibility of the religious on this blog ....
The Gullibility Spot Has Been Identified |
With the USA officially declaring that it has had a death toll from Covid-19 exceeding one million ....
.... and the fact that we are all (apart from China) learning to live with Covid (with deaths still occurring, its interesting to compare the US political map, with the official US Covid death rates.