Don't Do Drugs

Indiana University student Corey Hamersley was jailed for 28 years ....

Corey Hamersley

.... back in 2013 after having a meltdown while high on drugs .....

The Boys Who Cried Wolf

Anthony Deane Rapp is a 50 year old actor ....

Anthony Deane Rapp

.... who currently plays the role of Lieutenant Commander Paul Stamets on the television series Star Trek: Discovery.

Rumble In Russia

 Well, the 48 hours in Russia last weekend have been interesting, to say the least.

Wagner Rebellion In Russia

An insurrection by the Wagner Group of mercenaries almost reached Moscow, stopping just 124 miles (200km) away on the M4 motorway. They were cheered and applauded by civilian onlookers in the city of Rostov that they captured (or liberated, depending on the point of view).

Told You So!

Amou Haji, was a 94 year old Iranian hermit who had been dubbed by media as "the world's dirtiest man,"  

Worlds Dirtiest Man?

..... after he had refused to use soap and water (or even just water), for more than half a century, fearing it would make him sick.

Florida Girl Teachers

First some legal background: In Florida, the age of sexual consent is 18. However a 16 or 17 year old can give consent to a partner up to the age of 23. 

Florida Has A Romeo And Juliet Law

 

This latter provision is under Florida's “Romeo and Juliet law”which recognised that young people will be, well, young people. No one under the age of 16 can give consent under any circumstances.

Universal Justice?

In the West, its taken as normal, that in principle we have one set of secular laws for all of us to live under ....

Alternative Legal Systems
Opposed By Many In UK

.... regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, education or wealth.

Calvine Photograph Mystery Solved?

This is the infamous Calvine UFO photograph ...

 .... it was part of a set of six taken in 1990, presumed 'lost' in the black hole that is the UK postal system.

Pig Butchering Scam

The Chinese term "sha zhu pan"  - it technically means to fatten a pig before slaughtering it - but this is also a term for an Internet scam, which is often referred to as Pig Butchering ......

Sha Zhu Pan - Pig Butchering

 ..... and in particular it is the term oriental scammers (Yahoo Boys in West Africa) use to describe for 'Love or Romance Scams'. These scammers also operate Business Email Compromise (BEC) and crypto frauds (aimed primarily at Americans and Europeans, but also elsewhere), money laundering and illegal gambling scams (these last two, particularly the gambling, are aimed more at oriental Asians).

The Darker Side Of Freedom

Way back in 2017, I read a story about Mark McKenzie, a Manchester man trying to claim that he was exempted from paying his local council tax because, he was was a "freeman on the land" 

Freeman on The Land ID Card ....

.... and that as such, he and others were only subject to English laws if they 'consented to them'. He claimed that he had this right as a "freeman on the land."

Strange Statistics

According to the Office of National Statistics ....

Black Gays .... USA

..... only 0.9% of the UK’s black population describe themselves as openly gay, compared to 2 - 3% of the total UK population (not the 10 - 15 per cent the BBC thinks). But it hasn't always been a subject that Black men couldn't admit to ... Oddly in pre-colonial Africa homosexuality was widely recognised.

Military Economic Cabals

Once again the begging bowl rattles ....

The Fauji Foundation Part Of The Pakistan Military

 

Pakistan has been hit by extensive floods, coincidently, at the same time as it had been negotiating a $1.1bn bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

"Is Nothing Sacred Any Longer?"

 Another mass school shooting in the USA .....

Huguenot High School Graduation Tears

..... this time at a school graduation ceremony, caused local Mayor Levar Stoney to ask "Is nothing sacred any longer?"

The Perfect Specimen

Despite reports that the human race is still getting fitter, stronger, and longer lived .... 

The Perfect Specimen

...... a study by Paris's Descartes University has suggested that actually all the trends of the last few centuries may have peaked, and that we have just about reached the limits of human lifespans, height, and physical performance have been reached and we are actually now at the start of the decline.

Sins of The Flesh

Phillip Schofield, is or was a day time TV celebrity in the UK .....

.... his celebrity was cemented when he started presenting the ITV show This Morning in 2002, with his last co-presenter Holly Willoughby joining him as in 2009.

The Tail Wagging The Dog

With the news that Yevgeniy Prigozhin, who is heavily linked to the founders of the notorious Russian Wagner Group of mercenaries, and also a crony of President Putin ...

Yevgeniy Prigozhin aka 'The Chef', Started As Putin's Cook

.... was filmed recruiting Russian convicts from Prisons to fight for 6 months in the Ukraine (in return for their sentences being commuted), a lot of people's perception of the Russian army have been confirmed.