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It looks like the last word on my post are being left out.

Amazing that England was the warmest country in Europe some days back and was up there with the warmest places in the world, like Cairo. Today, I got a notification that the island of Lesbos is experiencing severe wildfires. The heatwave continues?

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Is that Mr C?

Chris Foreman, Madness guitarist, posted this yesterday on Instagram ....

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Peter tried to climb abord ....

What a complete train wreck... Librium Liz, the swivel eyed loons candidate for PM sets a new world record for crashing & burning in 45 days. Never mind, the Tories will choose another one, who'll be along shortly ...

Here's the text (it displayed earlier for me, and I don't subscribe, but seems to be bringing up paywall now): -------------------------------------------------------- Liz Truss to join Tory rightwing clamour for immediate tax cuts Hunt and Sunak insist their focus is on controlling UK public finances and inflation Chris Giles and George Parker in London JANUARY 25 2023 Liz Truss is expected to join Conservative party calls for tax cuts ahead of Jeremy Hunt’s March Budget, despite new forecasts warning of slower growth and lower tax revenues than expected. Hunt, the chancellor, and prime minister Rishi Sunak are warning MPs that tax cuts are not planned in the Budget and that the priority is tackling inflation and bringing the public finances under control. But Truss, the former prime minister, and other Tory rightwingers argue tax cuts now will help to generate growth — in spite of the implosion of the Truss government’s debt-funded £45bn tax-cutting mini-Budget last September. “Liz believes that the policy was right but that she didn’t get the political backing she needed,” a colleague of Truss said. “She is still convinced we need to get out of this box of low growth.” An ally of Truss said he expected the former prime minister to break months of political silence ahead of Hunt’s Budget. The insistence of the Tory right that tax cuts are needed in the Budget exasperates Sunak and Hunt, whose strategy is to stabilise the economy and bring inflation under control. Hunt, who will set out a plan for economic growth in a speech on Friday, has told Tory MPs he hoped to offer pre-election tax cuts in the Budget of spring 2024, ahead of an expected autumn poll. “People seem to have very short memories,” said an ally of Hunt, referring to Kwasi Kwarteng’s statement last September. Sunak said last week that people were “not idiots” and could see why taxes could not be cut immediately. But Iain Duncan Smith, another former Conservative leader, told the Financial Times that Kwarteng’s tax-cutting Budget failed for several reasons and was not an excuse not to cut taxes now from their postwar high. He said markets were already febrile when Kwarteng announced the £45bn of cuts and the then chancellor compounded the problem with an excessively generous energy support package and an undermining of institutions. “We are choking ourselves off,” Duncan Smith said. “If you want to cut the economy, you have to ease off the tax burden on individuals and companies. “Politically, you can’t wait until next year for a tax reduction because that would look cynical.” Duncan Smith added that he believed Hunt would find space for tax cuts and was managing expectations. Conservative-supporting newspapers, including the Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph, are also clamouring for immediate tax cuts and many Tory MPs agree. “What’s the alternative — drive the economy off a cliff?” asked one. With the government now determined to listen to the independent Office for Budget Responsibility, insiders confirmed that the fiscal watchdog had sent the first round of its economic forecast to the Treasury last week. First reported in The Times, these show a small downgrade in medium-term growth forecasts, which would lead to lower tax revenues and could reduce the room for manoeuvre on taxes in the run-up to a 2024 election. The FT has learnt the first iteration of the forecast included a 0.2 percentage point reduction in the forecast growth rate in 2027-28. The OBR now thinks the size of the UK economy will be 0.5 per cent smaller in that year than stated in the Autumn Statement forecast. If these changes are confirmed by the OBR in the March Budget, they would represent a small revision compared with the 3 per cent downgrade the fiscal watchdog forecast last year. Treasury officials caution lower wholesale gas prices are unlikely to lead to a large war chest for tax cuts. With interest rate projections still high, the annual cost of government debt will not have fallen far. Officials are also expecting lower revenues from oil and gas taxation as well as windfall taxes because profits from the North Sea fields will drop. Internal government projections suggest oil and gas revenues might fall more than £10bn in 2023-24 on current prices, although the hit to the public finances would be much smaller in the medium term. Offsetting these effects, which would increase public borrowing and debt, are official figures for public finances this year that are better than expected, despite the government borrowing a record £27.4bn in December. The OBR on Tuesday said that once timing effects and a one-off adjustment for student loans were accounted for, underlying public borrowing in 2022-23 was running £11.3bn lower than expected. The surprisingly strong public finance figures, it said, “was broad-based across central government receipts and spending, as well as borrowing by both local authorities and public corporations”. The Office for National Statistics on Wednesday reported that UK producer price inflation slowed to the lowest rate in almost a year in December, as cost pressures receded. Producer input prices — the prices paid by businesses for materials and other goods — rose by an annual rate of 16.5 per cent in December, down from 18.0 per cent in November. Additional reporting by Valentina Romei in London

Fil’s on it ….

Win or lose the next election it won't matter as the labour party has sucessfully ousted the socialists with an anti semite witchhunt and 'sir' Keir Starmer is nothing but another Tony Blair, a tory in pink clothing who will also be led by the nose by the USA fascist establishment. This energy crisis all started when a huge field of natural gas was found off the coast of Palestine, Lebanon and Syria and Assad refused to play ball with the US. Result was the attempted CIA led coup so Assad got the russians involved who turned it around and then the CIA turned their attention to russia itself and funded and supported the fascist militias in ukraine to oust the democratically elected president who was friendly with russia. These militias were then incorporated into the official ukrainian military and sent to the donbass region to put down the protests from the russian speaking citizens who didn't support the fascist regime in Kiev, and we all know from our history how fascists deal with those they consider subhuman. That little war has been going on in the donbass since 2014 and when Zelensky gathered 60,000 troops to go in there the russians stepped in to stop it in february this year. The result will be that russia will turn off the gas supply to the EU, the yanks will supply shale gas, the yank oil companies will supply gas from Qatar and Liz Truss will give the go ahead for fracking in the UK. Meanwhile watch for what the israeli's will do about the gas field off the coast of Palestine, Lebanon and Syria. Dangerous times, the americans are no ones friends, they want it all.

Perhaps, the first thing her surname brought to mind was 'Can't Truss It' by Public Enemy . . .

hmmm, well I can't wait until Forrest Gumpette reveals her "bold plan" ...😏 I'm sure her SPADs have done extensive research ...

‘Mysterious Objects Overhead’ - Bill Nelson

Virginia Grey

Shamisen Girls Ki & Ki . . . Shamisen Girls Ki&Ki - Tsugaru Jongara Bushi

@Coach Matt cool, yeah, has to be, right? Someone just told me that ‘Real Life’ was his best, but I guess I don’t remember it.

@naz123gul like LL Cool J and Gil Scott-Heron? I guess rock's big-tent? I keep thinking of wonder toy's, "When did rock become baseball" question with regards to The Hall. 😁 It was fun seeing Roxy Music perform. It was fun seeing Roy Wood accept the award for ELO with Jeff Lynn, too.

Reading the EBU Wikipedia entry and this stands out immediately . . . The classic opening ident that preceded all Eurovision network transmissions until 1993. The logotypes of both the sending and receiving companies were shown in the middle. This sample shows the old logo of the BBC. Didn't know about it. Reminds me of this CD . . . This . . . Associate members from the United States include ABC, CBS, NBC, CPB, NPR, APM and the only individual station, Chicago-based classical music radio WFMT Interesting the inclusion of NPR, which broadcasts BBC, but so does PBS and I believe CNN might as well.

thank you. :) got second jab today.

Ooooo . . . good point. Did watch that one on baseball that he did and I'm sure a couple of others. Ken Burns with his Beatle haircut has caused me to wonder if he and Rodney Bingenheimer have ever met.

Mostly zonked. Thanks :)

This is a style I'm a fan of. It reminds me of the work of Beresford Egan.

My birthday wish to you all . . . now that the second jab's starting to take effect . . . take it away, Alvin . . .