No Fuel Available For M25 Drivers After Eco-Mob Smash Petrol Pumps

Eco protesters have blocked service stations and damaged pumps on the M25, enraging drivers at the height of rush hour on the UK’s busiest motorway.

Nine people have been arrested as they attempt to force the government to act now on fossil fuels by damaging petrol pups so that no fuel is available.

At least 32 activists from Just Stop Oil have blocked Clacket Lane, Cobham and Thurrock services, and also claim to have disrupted petrol and diesel reserves from regional depots since yesterday. The depots affected included Navigator, Grays and Kingsbury.

Police are at the scene and have arrested nine people on suspicion of criminal damage, and in a statement, Surrey Police said activists had reportedly damaged fuel pumps and glued themselves to the forecourts.

At present, there’s no fuel available from services on both sides of Clacket Lane and Cobham.

Just Stop Oil has carried out a string of measures in current months to try and pressure the government to take more action to transition to a low carbon economy amid the climate problem.

Protesters had previously barricaded roads and other fuel depots across the country, and last month various activists glued themselves to several priceless works of art in London’s museums.

Pieces targeted included Van Gogh’s Peach Trees In Blossom and John Constable’s The Hay Wain.

Activists are now facing the UK court system after previous actions such as these and repeatedly thwarting various areas of the M25.

Several protesters, who the group say acted peacefully, have been remanded in custody while they await trial, which will probably take months. This may be postponed even further after criminal barristers voted to strike from September earlier this week.

The group barricaded the entrance to fuel stations at the service stations, starting at 5 am this morning, unfurling banners reading, ‘Just Stop Oil’.

In a statement on the group’s website, Adam 53, from Gloucestershire demonstrated why he’d decided to disrupt fuel reserves today, and he said that in twenty years’ time, when his grandchildren point out that we knew about the devastation and suffering that the climate crisis would bring, he didn’t want to have to tell them that he just sat at home and worried about it. He wanted to be able to tell them that he did what he could.

The group added that this climate crisis was evolving as the worst cost of living crisis since the 1930s hit with millions being pushed into poverty as oil and grain companies make record earnings and starvation stalks the globe.

I can understand why people are protesting, but if they believe that damaging property will get the government on their side, then they’re so wrong because the government will just dig their feet in even further.

These people have convinced themselves that vandalising property will help their cause, but it won’t, and what they’ve done is shameful and dangerous, but then someone has to take a stand – at least they’re not being sheep, and it’s without a doubt that the United Kingdom is in a mess.

Most people blamed Brexit, but I don’t believe that the UK realised just how bad our politicians were until after Brexit, which demonstrated their lack of incompetence, capability and decency, and it seems that none of the players can produce anyone good because all of them subscribe to the same little conspiracy of values.

The missing point here is that our government want a Utopia – no oil, no gas, no cars, no aircraft, no powered boats, except human power. No lights, no plastics – it all sounds a bit like the Middle Ages to me and I’m pleased I was born at a time when I won’t be around to see it all.

False Widow Warning

Poisonous spiders are set to descend on the UK this Bank Holiday weekend with temperatures in regions of Britain predicted to be higher than in Mexico.

The intense heatwave has caused false widow spiders to reproduce and multiply across the British Isles.

They’re related to the black widow, the world’s most poisonous species, and are one of 12 spiders in the United Kingdom to have bitten humans.

According to the Natural History Museum, the false widows aren’t especially venomous and being bitten by one can feel like a wasp sting. However, there’ve been occasional instances where they’ve caused a severe sting and triggered an allergic reaction in humans.

The news comes after the Met Office predicted an approaching week of climbing and plunging temperatures.

The weekend is predicted to be warm across the United Kingdom with parts of the UK reaching a low 30C, leading to the possibility of another heatwave, and the warm temperature will enable false widows to increase as their hibernation period concludes.

False widows were first documented in the United Kingdom in the 1870s but reproduced in the 1980s in numerous southern counties.

According to the Natural History Museum, the species first established itself in Dorset, Hampshire and Devon, but can now be seen in Scotland.

Its name comes from the Latin name steatoda nobilis and can be as big as a 50p coin.

They have lustrous, black, bulbous bodies and frequently have sinister markings resembling skulls on their abdomens.

Nine schools were forced to close in London after infestations in 2018, and former Wrexham footballer James Gray was rushed to hospital after a false widow bit him in 2016.

In April 2017, the mother of five Gemma Hunter, 41, of Rossendale, Lancs, was told she could lose her foot after she was bitten by a false widow.

The attack left her with a 3cm deep cavity from the spider’s fangs, which became infected with cellulitis.

Ms Hunter said that she’d seen the spider before but didn’t think anything of it, and saw it on the top of her foot, and that it looked like a garden spider, and that it had a pattern on it and its two front legs were longer than the rest.

She said that she just lightly shook her foot, but it didn’t come off so she reached to brush it off with her left hand, which is when doctors believe that it bit her because she’d likely disturbed it, and it bit her twice in a vein.

However, a newspaper outlet said that deadly spiders were set to descend on the UK this Bank Holiday, so that’s okay, it’s just this weekend we have to worry about because I didn’t realise spiders knew about public bank holidays and a calendar.

Perhaps spiders are also busy making ends meet during the weekdays in this cost-of-living crisis, and they only have free time to bite when they’re off work. Perhaps they have access to the web, but then, clearly, COVID knew what time of the day it was. Well, then spiders must know about Bank Holidays. Intelligent little critters, aren’t they?

Perhaps we should all insist that a lockdown is executed until all spiders in the world are thoroughly eradicated, along with all viruses, fungi, criminals, human beings, and most of all politicians.

Maybe the spiders all had a conference and decided to raid our homes on the Bank Holiday, they’re extremely punctual you know. I hope they’re all being paid time and a half, and if they’re coming for the Bank Holiday, they’d better not use the M25 and Dartford Crossing, they’ll never make it in time.

It’s Will Behind The Wheel!

It’s been said that Prince William is determined to be present for his children as they grow up and is set to take on the morning school run when he and Kate move to Windsor with George, Charlotte and Louis.

A newspaper outlet reports that the Duke of Cambridge, 40, will take his three children to school when they start the new term together next month.

William and Kate have chosen the £21,000 a year Lambrook School near Ascot, Berkshire for the young royals. It’s just a 15-minute drive from their four-bedroom Adelaide Cottage on the Queen’s Home Park estate.

As revealed by a newspaper outlet earlier this year, the pair had set their heart on the favourably regarded co-educational school established on 52 acres of grounds to replicate their own happy childhoods in the countryside.

But their offices and charitable realm will continue to operate out of London, with the couple returning several days a week for work. To all intent and purposes, though, Adelaide Cottage will be their primary home, day to day.

And while there, both will pick up the school run. Kate has frequently been the one pictured taking Prince George to his present school, Thomas’s in Battersea, but a source told a newspaper outlet that both William and Catherine are extremely eager to do the school run.

It comes as it was reported how during meetings to discuss the family’s forthcoming plans in current months, Prince William’s own experiences as a grieving schoolboy have, once again, come to the forefront.

More than just a physical move from Kensington Palace, experts have suggested that William is sending a transparent message to the Royal Family that, while his children remain in their formative years, he considers his most important job as being a father.

One royal insider said that Prince William had forgiven his father and that relations between them are stronger than they’ve been in some time, but he’s been abundantly clear to all that he won’t replicate the way he was prioritised as a child.

The royal insider said that William feels Prince Charles’ undeniable work ethic had a direct impact on his upbringing, particularly after the demise of his mother, and far too frequently, his father chose his responsibilities over being a dad.

While the pair will spend most of their time now at Windsor, one source told a newspaper outlet that their headquarters at Kensington Palace will still be utilised.

But what’s unpalatable is that the Royals are totally tone-deaf to the struggles of ordinary people. Of course, we all struggle but some a little less than others.

Royalty is royalty and they are rich beyond our understanding, but maybe it shouldn’t be the tone-deafness of the Royals that we should be interested in, but the tone-deafness of our own government. The Royals are just there for PR purposes, and they do quite well, by the way.

Nonetheless, the media appear to be fanning the flames, and it’s all very subtle how they phrase things and use the words ‘friends’ and ‘sources’. And the media have found a cash cow in manipulating people’s emotions about the Royal Family because doing the school run is an indulgence for most dads, most of which have to work to provide for their families.

And it’s not very eco-friendly, William driving his children to school. Why can’t they walk like other children?

Perhaps once the Queen pops her clogs, the Royal Family should be wrapped up for good because let’s face it, it’s run its course and place in the world of today. Then at least we can get rid of these ridiculous entitled people that have absolutely no relevancy in this day and age.

A Million Households Are Likely To Miss Out On £150 In Council Tax Rebates

New figures show that a million households could miss out on the £150 council tax rebate to help with the cost of living.

Ministers have been cautioned that those who don’t pay council tax through direct debit risk being left out in the cold if they forget to apply by the end of the month.

The Liberal Democrats submitted Freedom of Information requests to every regional authority in the country, of the 155 that replied, there were 3,530,831 people who don’t pay council tax via direct debit.

Of those, 1,077,378 eligible for the rebate hasn’t applied, equating to nearly one in three who pay through other ways such as cheques.

Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey told a newspaper outlet that this was a botched government scheme which will leave families and pensioners out in the cold and that it was evident from the beginning that payments were never going to reach some of those who need it most.

He said that now time was running out to protect people from catastrophic energy bills, and he said it would have been far easier to send money straight to people’s homes, now the only way to protect people is scrapping the energy price rise in October.

He said that we have a zombie Government refusing to act even when their own half-baked programmes are proved to be ineffective.

The Government announced the rebate in February for properties in bands A-D.

Families will also receive £400 discounts on energy bills in six instalments this winter.

Families will also receive £400 discounts on energy bills in six instalments this winter, but ministers are under pressure to go further as inflation hits a 40-year high of 10.1 per cent.

A government spokesman said they were encouraging councils to make payments without further delay and have given a host of options to do this quickly and securely, including bank account transfers, council tax account credits or a voucher-based system.

You can apparently get £150 back from the council to help pay your energy bills, which they have called a rebate, but you can only get the rebate if you pay council tax and your home is in council tax bands A and D.

You will only get the rebate if you’re the person who has to pay council tax for your household, and if you can’t get a rebate, the council might still be able to offer you financial support.

Wow, £150, that’s really going to balance the books for the year and transform the world.

If people don’t pay by Direct Debit then the council won’t have their bank details to pay them the £150, but saying that, it could always be credited to their accounts and thus knocked off their account the following year.

It was the easiest thing for councils to have done. All they had to do was subtract the rebate from the council tax bill instead of making it complicated filling in forms et cetera, although I guess that was the idea, to make it as difficult as possible so that some people would forget to claim, so there was more money to put into the council’s coffers.

And why is it just assumed that people whose council tax is E or higher don’t require any assistance? This is despicable because some people that live in social housing, particularly if they live in London have a higher tax band because of the location that they live in.

Again, this is the government assuming that because your home is in a high council tax band you don’t require help, and this is all just assumption by the government and we don’t need that because assumption is the mother of all goof ups.

POLICE Remove A 4-Year-Old Boy From His Silicon Valley School After Refusing To Wear A Mask

A Californian father has told how his inconsolable four-year-old was escorted from his school by a police officer because he refused to wear a face mask.

The father, who wished only to be known as Shawn, was confronted by police on Thursday when he dropped his son off for his second day at Theuerkauf Elementary School.

In a clip that Shawn shared to a newspaper outlet, the little boy can be seen walking out of the school in Mountain View, the town that’s home to Google’s global HQ, without a face mask.

Michelle Williams, the school principal said that she was sorry, the boy was not able to come in unless he had a mask on, and she said that he was welcome there, and that she wanted him there, but that it was the district’s policy that students have to wear a mask.

She added that he was a lovely child and that they were there to help and serve him, and that she was there to help all her pupils on the campus, but that she couldn’t keep spending time on the same problem.

The little boy held up a form he’d been given, to his father and asked what it said.

She finally told Shawn that she was going to have to have him removed from the campus if he didn’t leave of his own accord, but Shawn who was still recording noted that they called a police officer to remove a four-year-old from the campus.

The officer then tells Shawn that he’s just there to implement the rules as they stand, and the officer said that he couldn’t say what they were doing was wrong and that both sides had reasonable points and that for him, he just had to make sure as a whole the children got their education.

The day after the incident, Mountain View Whisman School District changed its policy, in response to a new CDC guideline. The students at their nine primary schools and two middle schools are now no longer required to wear face masks.

The seven-day rolling average for positive COVID cases in the region, one of the most wealthy in the country, is 544, significantly down from the summer rise of 1,127, and dropping.

The highest spike ever documented was in January this year, with a rolling average of 5,127.

What they should have done is keep the four-year-old in school and dismissed the school principal because this is depraved behaviour and COVID is now being used so that they can introduce their long coveted master slave Nazi utopia, and these nutcases have got to be eliminated, and it appears that lunatics have taken over.

And who would have thought that the US would run so quickly down the road to totalitarianism? These are grown-ups that are involved and this is disgraceful, and those that act in this way should be named and banned from any contact with children, and if you believe that schools these days exist to make children intelligent, then I have a bridge to sell you because all they are now are indoctrination camps, and that’s all they are.

And then there are criminals out there laughing their heads off because they just saw an officer take a four-year-old child off campus while they perpetrate crimes with no consequences, you’d think that the police in the US had much more demanding crimes to deal with.

And why are small children wearing masks anyhow, perhaps we should call California Commie-fornia?

A Massive Technical Glitch Disrupts Tesco’s Home Delivery Service

A newspaper outlet announced that Tesco’s home delivery service was flung into disarray as the supermarket withdrew all orders after 1 pm and told customers it was unable to reschedule them.

Customers calling to enquire about their orders were being met with a message informing them that all deliveries had been cancelled due to technical problems.

Tesco is the biggest supermarket in the United Kingdom and delivers about a million online orders every week, meaning tens of thousands of customers were likely to have been affected by the issue.

The recorded message said that due to technical problems they’d had to withdraw all orders after 1 pm and that if customers’ orders were due after 1 pm that they’d not been charged and they were unable to reschedule their orders.

Fed-up shoppers slammed the company for leaving them with no food for the weekend, with many saying they’d booked weeks in advance, with some only being offered a £5 voucher as compensation.

One unhappy consumer told a newspaper outlet that they worked full time and it was difficult to navigate work, childcare and shopping and this had just been a huge inconvenience along with a loss of money when everything counts at the moment, now out of pocket almost £20 with taxi and delivery charge.

They said that this was the knock-on effect that was created by a giant company that makes millions of pounds in earnings yet can’t have a computer system fit for purpose, and she added that when she asked about compensation a woman at Tesco’s customer service said that it would be agreed by the hierarchy and didn’t know when or by how much.

She said that it was only when she pushed and said that online forums had stated they were being awarded compensation that she reluctantly said she would load a £10 voucher into her account which was still not there, and that she felt the eye roll she was doing down the phone, she couldn’t care any less if she could have tried.

DownDetector, which tracks problems with company websites and apps, documented a wave in reports from 1 pm, which still seem to be ongoing.

One woman commented on the website that she was absolutely furious to have her order cancelled and that two hours before her delivery was due and after being on the phone, she was offered a £5 voucher. She said that she didn’t want a voucher, she just wanted to do her weekly shopping.

It’s actually no joke for those people without transportation and miles away from shops who depend on online shopping. Particularly with online shopping habits firmly being embedded, customers now expect seamless, timely experiences that they’re not getting, so retailers need to deliver a harmonious shopping experience across online channels and brick-and-mortar stores.

Tesco said that it was a technical issue, but perhaps it was because of the scarcity of delivery drivers due to work conditions, tight schedules, long stressful hours and minimum wage. Wait for it, next they’ll be going on strike!

And although it’s extremely irritating for the average person, what about pensioners and disabled people who depend on online shopping, and if disabled and Diabetic, then this could be catastrophic, and because online shopping appears to be a thing these days, there should be a penalty system for non-delivery for all companies, and it’s not that they withdrew their orders, it’s that they cancelled all orders after 1 pm but didn’t inform customers until hours later, so they missed their opportunity to get an alternative from another store.

The Dark Side Of Being Dragon Girl

An Australian woman who totally changed herself from a no-frills girl next door into a heavily tattooed adult model has revealed how her extreme ink and body transformations have changed her life.

Amber Luke, 27, also known as Dragon Girl, has spent $250,000 on tattoos, piercings and surgery to fulfil her chosen look, but said she faces prejudice in public and in the workplace as a consequence.

She told Brisbane radio show, Robin, Terry and Kip, that having 600 tattoos, which cover 99 per cent of her body, sometimes makes her day-to-day life challenging.

She told radio hosts Kip Wightman, Robin Bailey and Terry Hansen that she was getting heavily tattooed, but that she wasn’t hurting anyone in the process.

She added that everyone’s entitled to their view, but that she finds it distressing when people make unkind comments in public, particularly when they say she’s ruined her looks with tattoos.

She said that everyone has their own idea of what beauty is, and that you see civilisations where people stretch their necks, their ears, their lips, but that at the end of the day, we’re all entitled to our beliefs and that’s okay, but she said that what gets to her is when someone voices their opinion to her in public and comes up to her and says that she’s hideous or that shes ruined herself.

She continued that it’s extremely distressing to know that people have that strong belief and they can simply express it without any repercussions.

Amber also revealed she struggles to find a job because of how she looks, and she said that she wasn’t going to sugarcoat it and that it had restricted her career choices but that’s okay, because the way she see’s it, she doesn’t want to work for a company that’s shallow minded and can’t look past her appearance.

She said that they don’t want to look at her work ethic, they won’t look at her morals or her importance or even what she has to bring to the table, and Amber said that having so many tattoos and body transformations was worth it because she’d learnt how resilient she was by pushing her body to the extreme.

I can’t see why she can’t get work because tattoos are extremely fashionable these days, and many people with tattoos see them as art and self-expression.

It’s not sad that she has all these tattoos, but it is sad that other people react in the way that they do, all because she now looks different to what people expect, and instead of seeing her beauty they now see her as a monster which she’s not!

It shouldn’t matter what’s on the outside, it’s what’s on the inside that matters.

It’s her body, her choice, and perhaps she should think about making a living with her own modelling company. Maybe with other tattooed models, but then we are going back to segregation and that’s not on either because no one in this day and age should be segregated because they’re different.

I think that she looks stunning because her tattoos were tastefully done and done well, and why wouldn’t anyone employ her, looks don’t mean anything as long as she’s efficient and capable, then that’s all that counts, and if an employer refuses to employ her, then that employer lacks understanding.

Nevertheless, numerous people have said that her tattoos are demonic and that she’s got the number 666 tattooed on her body, but as long as she’s not forcing her beliefs on other employees what does it matter? This is just prejudice and prejudice is a real struggle but only as real as you want it to be.

A World Run By Algorithms

You might not have heard of the algorithm that drives the world. Very few people have, though it can determine much that goes on in our day-to-day lives. The food that we eat, our schedule at work, and when the train will come in to take us there.

Somewhere, in some server basement right now, it’s likely working on some aspect of your life tomorrow, next week, in a year’s time.

Maybe unawareness of the algorithm’s workings was bliss. The door to Plato’s Academy in archaic Athens there’s said to have borne the legend ‘let no one ignorant of geometry enter’.

That was easy enough to say back then when geometry was firmly grounded in the three dimensions of space our brains were built to cope with, but the algorithm works in totally higher planes. Four, five, thousands or even many millions of dimensions.

Perhaps, though, we should try slightly harder to get our heads around it, because effective though it clearly is, the algorithm is steering into a spot of bother, and the algorithm might not be quite as reliable as it once appeared.

Algorithms are behind numerous ordinary, but still significant, decisions in your life.

The code frequently replaces humans, but it doesn’t mean the results are infallible. An algorithm can be just as imperfect as its human creators.

Basically, the Facebook algorithm evaluates every post. It scores posts and then places them in descending, non-chronological order of interest for each particular user. This process occurs every time a user, and there are 2.9 billion of them, refreshes their feed.

Three examples of algorithms are as simple as the recipe for baking a cake, the way we use to solve a long division problem, the method of doing laundry, and the functionality of a search engine, but the question is, are algorithms dangerous?

There’s a long history of investigations of how flawed design, unintended bias, and negative interventions can cause algorithms to initiate enormous financial losses, facilitate unfair judgments, violate laws, and even cause deaths.

Algorithms can save lives, make things easier, and conquer chaos, but still, experts fear that they can also put too much control in the hands of corporations and governments, perpetuate bias, create filter bubbles, cut choices, creativity, serendipity and could result in greater unemployment.

So, what are algorithms used for in real life? Well, algorithms lie at the core of computing, and if you observe your surroundings, you’ll find several algorithms working to solve your daily life problems, such as social media networks, GPS applications, Google search, e-commerce platforms, Netflix recommendation systems et cetera, all these applications are powered by algorithms.

Is there a perfect algorithm, no there is not, and they frequently contain the prejudices of the people who have created them, but they’re still extremely useful and they’ve made all of our lives a lot easier?

So, what is a Google algorithm? It’s a complicated system utilised to retrieve data from its search index and immediately delivers the best possible results for a query. The search engine uses a variety of algorithms and multiple ranking factors to deliver webpages indexed by relevancy on its search engine result pages (SERPs).

So, how does a TikTok algorithm work? The TikTok algorithm is a system that makes content suggestions personalised for each user. It determines which videos a user might like based on their personal interests and displays them on the user’s For You Page and as a result, the For You Page is highly personalised for each user.

Basically, algorithms run the world and it’s a secret code that’s controlling our everyday lives, and we’re being watched, monitored and documented 24/7, it’s no surprise that some people have had enough, and the whole thing is extremely insidious and worrying, although at the moment algorithms are coded by humans – it’s the natural learning AI we need to watch out for.

At the moment these algorithms can only control your life if you let yourself become dependent on them and get addicted to devices and social media.

Unfortunately, most people have become addicted to these gizmos and social media, and of course, our cell phones, when we’re calling out for pizza.

As Inflation Ramps Up, Britons’ Pay Plunges At A Record Rate

Britons’ spending capacity is declining at a frightening pace as wages are outstripped by runaway inflation.

Regular pay decreased by 3 per cent in real terms in the quarter to June, the most destructive since comparable records started in 2001. Including bonus earnings were down 2.5 per cent.

Using the headline CPI inflation rate that doesn’t include housing costs the situation was even more alarming, with a 4.1 per cent drop in regular pay and 3.6 per cent in total pay.

Meanwhile, there are worrying signs that the employment market is slowing down, with vacancies declining for the first time since 2020, albeit from record levels.

In cash terms wages are going up sharply, by 5.1 per cent for total and 4.7 for regular pay, but inflation is swelling even quicker, with fears figures will show CPI in double digits and prompt the Bank of England to push up interest rates again.

CPI inflation struck a new 40-year record of 9.4 per cent in June and is predicted to rise to about 11 per cent later this year.

The ONS said the number of UK workers on payroll increased by 73,000 between June and July to 29.7 million.

Meanwhile, the unemployment rate rose to 3.8 per cent for the quarter compared with 3.7 per cent for the earlier period.

Vacancy numbers hit 1.274 million over the three months from May to July, dropping by 19,800 in the first signal the UK’s hot labour market could be cooling.

ONS director of economic statistics Darren Morgan said that the number of people in work grew in the second quarter of 2022, whilst the headline rates of unemployment and of people neither working nor looking for a job were little changed, and he said that the total number of hours worked each week seems to have stabilised very little below pre-pandemic levels, and that redundancy was still at extremely low levels.

He also said that the number of job vacancies remained historically very high, it fell for the first time since the summer of 2020, but that the real value of pay continues to decline, and he said that excluding bonuses, it’s still falling faster than at any time since comparable records began in 2001.

Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi said that the stats indicate that the jobs market is in a powerful position, with unemployment lower than at almost any point in the past 40 years, which is good news in what are difficult times for people.

Of course, we shouldn’t be overlooking the furlough for COVID and with that, there was always going to be a price to pay, along with Brexit which is like a weight tied to a swimmer’s foot, and its effects will be felt for years to come, and denying this is simply denying the truth.

The United Kingdom is plunging into the sea with the weight of too many people living here with the fat and greedy bleeding everyone dry, and if you go into shops there are more and more shelf serve tills with hardly any attendants. Ultimately, everything will be manned by robots and machines. Some call it progress, but it looks like the human race is committed to making itself redundant, and the Terminator movie is beginning to look a lot like a prophecy, not a fantasy.

The Tories have destroyed this country and it’s time they were voted out. They’re wealthy snobs who have no idea of the struggles we all face every day.

An Elvis Biographer Claims His Family’s History Of Incest Destined Him To Die Young

An author has claimed in a biography that Elvis Presley’s premature death was unavoidable and brought on by genetic flaws caused by incest in his family tree.

In Elvis: Destined to Die Young, Sally Hoedel claimed Elvis’ premature demise from a heart attack at 42 was a foregone conclusion brought on by flawed genes handed down from his maternal grandparents, who married despite being first cousins.

Sally Hoedel, a lifelong fan of Elvis Presley, told a newspaper outlet she was motivated to research the book after noticing similarities between the rocker’s demise and the demise of his mother Gladys Presley, who also died in her forties.

Much like Elvis Presley, Gladys suffered a sudden period of intense health decline and substance abuse, leading to her demise at 46 of heart failure.

Gladys’ three brothers also died at similar ages to her of heart or lung-related illnesses.

Sally Hoedel said that it ceased being a coincidence by the time it got to Elvis Presley because there was so much going on in that family tree.

Elvis Presley was discovered dead in his Memphis, Tennessee bathroom on August 16, 1977. His demise was officially ruled as being caused by cardiac arrest, but the role drug use played in bringing that about has long been subject to controversy.

Elvis Presley was known to have become addicted to multiple prescription medications throughout the 1970s trying to cope with the demands of a decade of famously gruelling touring.

But in her book, Sally Hoedel claimed Elvis Presley’s decline was not driven by overindulgence or reckless drug use, but that he was overprescribed medication to mitigate illnesses he’d already developed and was being exasperated by his tour demands.

She said that Elvis had various health problems but he concealed them so well that over-medication is what we remember now. He often took too much, and there were issues there, but you have to question why he was taking those pills in the first place.

Sally Hoedel argued the clues to understanding Elvis Presley’s death lay in his mother, whose demise came almost 19 years to the day before her sons.

Like Elvis, Gladys’ health deteriorated unexpectedly and rapidly in her 40s. She also developed a substance abuse problem of her own, dying as a drunk on August 14, 1958, days before her son was due to begin his military service in Germany.

I’m guessing that out of this a new film about Elvis’s life will appear, with all the insects and malicious stories, but the fact is he was a legend and always will be.

His mother always looked so glum though. I don’t believe that I’ve ever seen a photograph of her smiling.

And whether the steady diet of high-grade drugs on which Elvis was dependent, wasn’t a factor. Or the fried sandwiches and huge burgers that blocked his arteries, no, evidently it was all predestined by his DNA.

Elvis Presley was such a wonderfully handsome man, and it’s such a shame what happened to him, and clearly, it wasn’t his family DNA that was the issue. Food was his addiction along with the medication that he was taking, and sadly addiction is an extremely bad habit that’s very hard to kick.

The man has been dead for 45 years, I believe it’s time to let the poor man be because it actually doesn’t matter now.

Maybe it’s not good marrying your first cousin, but I believe that his addiction to medication and extremely unhealthy lifestyle was a huge factor in his demise. Sadly he didn’t really have anyone to look out for him apart from those that benefitted, and his death was a tragic ending.

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