The Letter Carrie Symonds Wanted To Send To The Times

Boris Johnson refused to back fiancee Carrie Symonds’ complaint to The Times after it claimed the pair wanted to get rid of their pet pooch Dilyn.

He objected because the proposed complaint, drawn up at the start of the COVID crisis, was ‘a nonsense.’

A copy of the draft letter was leaked to the Daily Mail’s Simon Walters after Dominic Cummings told MPs on Wednesday that Carrie Symonds went crackers over a report claiming the couple hated Dilyn.

Boris Johnson’s former chief adviser Dominic Cummings said Carrie Symonds response had averted the Prime Minister’s attention at a critical stage ahead of the first lockdown.

He was also dealing with a demand by Donald Trump for Britain to back bombing raids in the Middle East.

The leaked letter reveals that Carrie Symonds wanted Boris Johnson to support her formal protest that Jack Russell cross Dilyn was not chronically ill and there were no plans to callously rehome him.

The draft letter, in both their names, was prepared after Carrie Symonds was angered by an editorial in The Times on March 11 last year.

It was addressed to The Times and in it, the pair threatened to take their grievance to the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO).

The article said Dilyn could be put up for adoption because the pair were fed up with trying to house train the sick animal.

Carrie Symonds denounced the story as total crap on social media, and when The Times declined to print an apology, she urged Boris Johnson to write to it, but after reportedly telling Carrie Symonds he would send the letter, Boris Johnson changed his mind after Dominic Cummings intervened, according to well-placed sources.

An insider said that the Prime Minister went along with it initially because Carrie Symonds was cross and that it was none of Dominic Cummings business but he disliked Carrie and went berserk.

He told the Prime Minister it was a waste of time, and the Prime Minister agreed. He sympathised with Carrie’s feelings but said that he couldn’t sign it because it was nonsense.

Boris Johnson’s decision to not complain came after Dominic Cummings was told he couldn’t attend a COVID meeting because he was dealing with the Dilyn row.

Eight months later, Dominic Cummings was removed from his No 10 post when he lost a power struggle with Carrie Symonds.

Perhaps she’s up there with Meghan Markle in terms of delusion, and poor Dilyn, having to live with such awful people, someone should save him.

But really, who’s interested in a letter about a dog? And it appears that Carrie Symonds is a manipulative drama queen, and Boris Johnson has been rather slow getting round to marrying her, and this gets to be more like a soap opera every day.

And maybe we should be worried for Dilyn – perhaps he should get himself a lawyer, of course, he would have to work pro- bone-o!

NYC’s Billionaire’s Row Gets New Neighbours

A homeless shelter is to be created on one of New York City’s most expensive streets, after a legal battle to stop its opening ended in defeat.

A New York state appeals court on Thursday rejected the concerns voiced by an alliance of residents and businesses from the Manhattan neighbourhood by Central Park, nicknamed Billionaire’s Row.

Billionaire’s Row isn’t one street or officially defined.

Real estate agents describe it as an area south of Central Park, between 57th Street and 59th Street from north to south, and extending from 8th Avenue in the west for eight blocks east to 2nd Avenue. Trump Tower is just to the south.

Bill de Blasio, mayor of New York, started an initiative called Turning the Tide, which aimed to create 90 homeless shelters across the city.

One of the chosen sites was the Park Savoy Hotel, which closed permanently in 2018.

Bill de Blasio planned to house 140 men in the hotel’s 70 suites, yet the objections were immediate.

A group calling themselves The West 58th Street Coalition sued the city in 2018, describing the building as essentially unsuitable for a homeless shelter and maintaining it as a fire risk.

The coalition wrote on a Change.org petition against it that the plan was never shared with anyone in their neighbourhood, and their input was not solicited, and they said that while they realised there was a need to shelter the city’s displaced, they believed that the Mayor’s Turning the Tide plan was very flawed.

They described de Blasio’s plan as an expensive band-aid, that didn’t come close to addressing the deficit of affordable housing.

It was said that it would cost $63 million over nine years, or $50,000 per person, and argued that the funds would be better employed on alternatives, and they argued that putting large groups of men together in shelter situations would create opportunities for conflict and crime, as opposed to an opportunity for men to have a home of their own with solitude and pride.

The lawsuit says that the shelter’s building features just one pathway to enter and exit, according to the coalition’s lawsuit, which means that in the event of a fire emergency, both first responders and residents evacuating the building would be forced to use the same staircase.

Since 1968, the city’s building code has mandated that buildings have at least two ways to enter and exit.

The city has said that compliance with prevailing codes wasn’t needed because of a grandfather clause in the city’s building regulations that would apply to the former Park Savoy Hotel.

A judge rejected the lawsuit in April 2019, noting that the issuance of a temporary certificate of occupancy meant the city’s Department of Buildings determines the building complied with local laws.

Such a large amount of cash is being used in the wrong place to help the displaced of NYC, and it’s a death trap as well with only one entry and exit point in the event of a fire, and the Department of Homeless Services needs to make sure that money that’s been proposed to be used on this location is better utilized to assist those in need, and perhaps it’s time for them to reconsider their plans and do so much better.

And they’re blaming the homeless, but NYC has transformed into a hell hole even before this came about.

Shelters are a hoax. They’re dangerous and they don’t solve anything. Instead, build housing for these people, or just make shared housing for destitute people that have nowhere to go because these shelters boot people out in the morning.

Then what? They beg all day long. Perhaps this mayor and all officials should spend 72 hours with someone that’s in a shelter, then they might finally do something.

The ex-Trump Official Who Was Part Of Pompeo’s Inquiry Into Wuhan Lab

A former State Department official in the Trump administration involved in investigating the origins of the coronavirus said his team found no evidence that it made its way to humans from animals.

The former State Department official David Asher told Fox News on Thursday that they were finding that despite the claims of their scientific community, including the National Institutes of Health and Dr Fauci’s NIAID organisation, there was virtually no evidence that supported a natural, zoonotic evolution or source of COVID 19.

David Asher was part of the State Department’s arms control and verification bureau when his then-boss, Mike Pompeo, requested an investigation into the cause of the virus that causes COVID 19.

At the time, public health officials including Dr Anthony Fauci rejected suggestions that the coronavirus may have been man-made as a conspiracy theory, though circumstantial evidence has surfaced of a possible lab leak.

Mike Pompeo wanted to know whether the virus was created as part of China’s secret biological weapons programme.

President Joe Biden’s administration terminated Mike Pompeo’s inquiry after entering office in January. The decision arose from concern about the quality of evidence collected by Pompeo’s team.

CNN reported that the probe was met with internal opposition by those concerned it was part of a political effort by the Trump administration to blame China for the virus, and sources say that when Biden’s team was briefed on the investigation’s findings in February and March, they chose to close it down amid concerns about the legitimacy of the evidence.

Joe Biden ordered his intelligence agencies to investigate whether the coronavirus leaked from a lab after public health officials acknowledged that there was a possibility that this did happen.

Asher said that his team of investigators concentrated on the two main theories, that the virus originated in bats and was transferred to humans, or that it inadvertently leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and Asher told Fox News that the data disproportionately stacked up as they investigated that it was coming out of a lab or some unknown source, and he said the lab in Wuhan, which was known for its research on bat coronaviruses, had become a focal point for investigators.

Asher said that it was the epicentre of synthetic biology in the People’s Republic of China and that they were up to some pretty hairy stuff with synthetic biology and so-called gain of function techniques.

It’s looking more like that China did breed this virus in a lab and did control research and experiments on it, and that they owned it and then let it escape to the world while concealing the entire episode.

And if they did lie to the world and they did infect us, then China owes the world for every cost and every death, and Chinese leadership should agree, or be arrested, and payments should be owed to the world.

But of course, China doesn’t want transparency, which is an alien concept to their stringent control of everything in China, and if this was biowarfare, the question is, whose biowarfare was it?

But let’s just hope that this was an accident or natural because it could have been a test run before they unleash a dangerous and deadly virus that can’t be cured with a fast track vaccine.

And never forget this is a communist regime that’s ruthless.

The Dentist Will See You… In Three Years

A damning report reveals that dental patients are being made to wait until up to 2024 for NHS appointments.

Laying bare the extent of the crisis, watchdogs said many people were turning to private care or even pulling out their own teeth, and doing DIY fillings.

A number of surgeries have thousands on their waiting lists and others have closed their books to new patients. However, some of the same practices will offer an appointment inside a week to those who can afford to pay privately, according to research by Healthwatch England.

It found that one in three patients have felt pressured into paying for private care because of intolerable pain. Others say they’ve been driven into debt to meet dentistry bills.

The report finds that those who are unable to go private can be left waiting for up to three years to be seen, and even emergency care entails waits of up to six weeks.

The report said that the delays can lead to worsening of their dental problems and losing their teeth, and Healthwatch England claims public opinion of NHS dentistry has never been lower and highlights a twin crisis of lack of access and affordability.

The number of dental surgeries offering NHS treatment dropped from 9,661 in 2014/15 to 8,408 in 2019/20.

The British Dental Association said dentistry was the only part of the NHS operating on a lower budget than a decade ago.

Spokesperson Shawn Charlwood said that for too long meaningful reform of NHS dentistry had been repeatedly kicked down the road and that COVID has pushed a system already in crisis to breaking point, with millions left with no options.

He said that patients need to know that by this time next year ministers will have turned the page on a decade of failed contracts and underfunding and that while it should be shocking that some are waiting weeks, months or even years to access care, that was business as usual before this pandemic struck, and he said that this wasn’t just the result of lockdown but years of treating NHS dentistry as the Cinderella Service.

The Healthwatch England report highlights the case of a patient who required hospital treatment after they overdosed on painkillers they were taking to ease their dental problems.

Others have been told to use DIY filling kits or have been prescribed antibiotics with no chance of a follow-up appointment to treat the underlying problem.

Some people have been calling pretty much every dentist to try to find one that was taking on patients – they all said the same thing, that due to COVID they’ve not been provided with authorisation from the NHS to register any new patients within are having to pay privately for treatment, and this is a national disgrace.

The dentist system in the United Kingdom is chaotic at best, and it’s been allowed to become private without any consultation, and it appears that successive governments don’t want to finance dentistry properly and have pushed to private.

The Government need to sort his problem out because people are being left in pain.

If you want to see your local dentist on the NHS, it’s come back in 3 months – offer to go private and they’ll see you in 24 hours – there appears to be a certain amount of COVID profiteering going on here.

It also begs the question – what are we paying all this tax towards because the NHS clearly isn’t being used correctly, and the NHS isn’t free at the point of contact – we already pay for it in our taxes.

England’s NHS Plans To Share Patient Records With Third Parties

England’s NHS is making ready to scrap the medical records of 55 million patients, together with sensitive data related to psychological and sexual well being, prison information and the abuse of adults and youngsters, right into a database it’s going to share with third parties.

The information assortment venture, which is the primary of its kind, has triggered an uproar amongst privateness campaigners, who say it legally questionable, especially as patients only have a couple of weeks to decide out of the plan.

NHS Digital, which runs the well-being service’s IT techniques, confirmed the plan to combine collectively medical information from each affected person in England who’s registered with a GP clinic right into a single pool that can be available to educational and business third parties for analysis and planning purposes.

Cori Crider, the co-founder of Foxglove, a marketing campaign group for digital rights, said that all of us need to see the NHS come out of the pandemic stronger, however famous that the NHS has been fully silent on who would have entry to the data.

She said is it pharma corporations? The well-being arm of Google Deepmind? When you ask patients whether or not they need details of their fertility treatment or abortion or results of their colonoscopy shared with those companies, they’re not going to need to.

Foxglove has issued an approved letter to the Division of Well being and Social Care, questioning the legality of the plans underneath present information safety legal guidelines, and threatening additional authorised motion.

Rosa Curling, a solicitor at Foxglove, wrote within the letter that she had severe issues concerning the legality of the change as a consequence of no specific permission had been given and only a few segments of the general public could be conscious that the brand new processing was coming or directly affected their private medical data.

NHS patient’s GP records are the most detailed and sensitive medical records that exist, containing the history of events in an individual’s lifetime affecting their physical and mental well-being.

But, from 1 July, NHS Digital has announced that data may be shared from the GP medical records about any living patient registered at a GP practice in England when the collection began.

NHS Digital, the health and social care system’s information and technology partner, will be able to take the following from GP’s records, which will be data about diagnoses, symptoms, observations, test results, medications, allergies, immunisation, referrals, recalls and appointments, including data about physical, mental and sexual health.

This will also include data about staff who have treated patients, and data on sex, ethnicity and sexual orientation, as well as other delicate data.

Although NHS Digital states that patient’s data will be removed from GP systems across England from 1 July 2021, and its privacy notice states that individuals have until 23 June 2021 to opt-out.

And while its press release on the matter states that people can opt-out at any time, the privacy notice states that NHS Digital will nevertheless still hold the patient data which was shared with them before they registered the Type 1 opt-out, meaning that for anyone who’s not opted out by the time their GP history was first extracted, the data taken will never be deleted.

Having collected millions of patient’s GP records, their data will be distributed, including into the secret VIP lanes for GP data, and, likely, the preponderance of the population will not be conscious of any of this.

It will not know that the Government has commanded NHS Digital to instruct their GP to hand over a copy of their lifelong medical history to be sold, because the Government has taken the decision not to tell anyone.

When a similar GP data grab was attempted before, junk mail flyers were sent to homes. That programme failed.

This time, patients could and should have been written to, as millions of people have been throughout the Coronavirus pandemic.

If a member of the public did happen to find out about this programme, including the opt-out, they would be forgiven for thinking that NHS Digital would not sell their health and care data, because that’s precisely what it says on its website, including in this myth-busting fact check about social media posts.

On its website, NHS Digital states that it’s publicly funded and that they don’t work on a cost-recovery basis, and that it doesn’t charge for data, only to meet the cost of processing and delivering its service.

Although it states that there’s lots of protection in place to make sure patient data is used securely and safely, it’s not doing the safest thing, which would be to not let its customers have copies of patient’s data at all.

Like the Office for National Statistics and Genomics England, NHS Digital does now have what’s known as a safe setting, a secure data processing facility with layers of rules, approvals, protections, and monitoring. But the Government hasn’t made it mandatory for patient’s GP data to only be accessed via this highly secure, heavily audited environment, and so, in all probability, NHS Digital’s customers will continue to buy copies.

NHS Digital does audit some, but not all of its customers which receive copies of data. Several of these audits have revealed that, and not only do organisations break the protections in place, but that these don’t hinder them from getting data once they’ve been broken.

Some of these protections are legal obligations, but audits have revealed that one public body didn’t even conduct a legally required data protection impact assessment.

This recently obtained GP data will be distributed in the same way as patient’s NHS data obtained from other health and care settings already are.

After the failure of a similar data grab in 2014, NHS England undertook that any subsequent collection of GP data would be in a safe setting only. But, that promised safeguard is now entirely missing.

Some may say that there’s no point arguing with a Government that doesn’t listen and doesn’t appear to care, but people do care, and in this situation, they have options.

To fully opt-out from having your NHS data used for purposes beyond your direct care is a two-step process:

1) If you have concerns and want to stop your and your family’s GP data being taken from your GP practice for purposes other than your direct care, you can do so by filling in and giving this ‘Type 1’ form to your GP practice. (This form allows you to include details for your children and dependants as well.) This is the most urgent step; the deadline to get your form to your GP is 23rd June 2021, according to NHS Digital.

2) If you want to stop your non-GP data, such as hospital or clinic treatments, being used/sold for purposes other than your direct care (e.g. for “research and planning”) you should also do the following:

· If you are opting out just for yourself, use NHS Digital’s online National Data Opt-out process – this process only works for individuals aged 13 and over.

· If you have children under 13, you need to fill in this form and e-mail or post it back to NHS Digital – this form works for both you and your children.

Inside Lukashenko’s Brutal Torture Chambers

Dissident journalist Roman Protasevich has almost certainly been tortured after his Ryanair flight was hijacked over Belarusian airspace on Sunday.

The 26-year old’s own coverage of last year’s brutal crackdown by Europe’s last dictator, Alexander Lukashenko, is an insight into the ordeal that awaits him.

It was his news channel that inspired hundreds of thousands to gather in the streets against Alexander Lukashenko, where many were beaten and hauled into police vans on the mere surmise that they’d attended demonstrations.

Roman Protasevich’s bold coverage while an editor at Nexta alerted the world to the relentless beatings being given out in Roman Lukashenko’s torture chambers.

Captives suffered broken bones, broken teeth, skin lesions, electrical burns, brain injuries and kidney damage.

Police in balaclavas would hold people for three sleep-deprived days, during which time they suffered electrocutions, stress positions and starvation as guards forced them to sign confessions.

The ruthlessness was such that video captured by a witness recorded victims screams reverberating from the prison walls in Minsk at night.

United Nations experts have recorded no less than 450 cases of torture up to September and ten victims have launched a human rights legal challenge against Lukashenko in Germany.

Lawyers for the group describe the state’s treatment of them as brutal.

In the summer of 2020, Valery Samalazau was working as an IT specialist in the United Kingdom.

The father of three travelled to his homeland of Belarus to complete paperwork so that he could vote in the presidential election on August 9.

The following day Lukashenko, who’s ruled with an iron fist since 1994, was given another term in elections widely thought to have been rigged.

Nationwide demonstrations erupted as Valery Samalazau took a trip to see a friend in Minsk.

He said he was walking along the pavement when he was swiftly surrounded and questioned, and that he responded politely and showed his ID.

Valery Samalazau happened to be wearing a T-shirt with a skull logo from The Punisher comic book printed on it.

Belarusian police insisted it was a Third Reich insignia and accused him of sympathising with the Azov Battalion, a neo-Nazi group fighting in eastern Ukraine.

The officers also became fascinated as they searched him, finding British bank cards and a SIM card from the United Kingdom, and Valery Samalazau said that they believed they’d caught the protest organiser.

He was dragged around the back of the train station in Minsk and beaten, he was then taken into a police van on suspicion of being a foreign spy.

He said the van was a torture chamber on wheels. Many people screamed, cried, prayed, barfed in it, and he lost awareness twice from pain.

His hands were bound behind his back and twisted by the masked men as they murmured in his ear: ‘Apparently, you don’t fear pain…but we will make you suffer.’

His arms went numb below the elbows as the pain became intolerable, and he begged them to have some compassion, telling them he was a father, but they only tightened their grip and he lost consciousness.

They were transported to a prison in Zhodzina, about 30 miles outside the metropolis, where the other captives were launched from the van, but Mr Samalazau was kept in the vehicle and told that he required special treatment.

He was told to kneel and then get up on his feet but he toppled over.

The officers in balaclavas held him up against the side of the van and beat him around the head, torso and legs.

He said that he was thrown out of the van and made to kneel until they called his surname. Once again, masked officers said they would be paying extra attention to him.

This is absolutely repulsive behaviour, and dictators of Belarus should be charged with international criminality because this is unacceptable behaviour from another human being, and this sort of behaviour should never be condoned in this day and age.

And we whine about the police in other countries when there are places where people experience terrifying cruelty and then they simply disappear and there’s no recourse, and it appears that we live in such a sick world, where there are countless daily horrors everywhere.

Why can’t we just all live in peace, and why does man’s greediness for wealth, power and want to control others lead him down this extreme path of eventual self-destruction without a second thought?

Sadly, vestigial communism is still as cruel, wicked and criminal as it was under Joseph Stalin and it’s a heathen dogma that pulverises non-believers in the state religion of communism and socialism.

And people are the worst thing that ever happened to this world because we will never live in peace together. And we make it impossible because we are too selfish, jealous, intolerant, greedy, aggressive, violent, hateful, spiteful and stupid.

And it’s really difficult to understand the sick brutality being meted out to detainees in that country.

This isn’t human behaviour, and yet it’s being done by humans on humans, but what sort of human being can do that to another human being?

CDC Investigates Dozens Of Reports Of Heart Inflammation In Teenagers

The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine safety group is investigating reports that a small number of teens and young adults who’ve been vaccinated against coronavirus have encountered heart problems days after getting their second jab.

The condition, known as myocarditis, results in a swelling of the heart muscle which can happen following certain infections.

Precious little detail was given by the safety group which said there were comparatively few cases that may even be unrelated to vaccination.

Nonetheless, several dozen cases in children and young adults have been reported after taking their second dose of one of the mRNA vaccines, which are Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech.

The CDC is said to be reviewing the reports and is still in the initial stages of exploring the data before it can determine for sure whether there’s a connection between the vaccine and sudden heart condition.

Doctors were first alerted to the possible link between myocarditis and vaccines on May 14. The working group then reviewed the data on myocarditis on May 17.

The cases seem to appear to be occurring largely in adolescents and young adults about four days after their second dose. The symptoms also appear to be affecting males more than females.

The vaccine safety group said that most cases seem to be mild, and follow up cases are continuing. The CDC firmly recommends COVID vaccinations for Americans aged 12 and older.

Guidance has been posted on its website for doctors to be on the alert for heart symptoms which are rare amongst young people.

Infectious disease specialist Dr Celine Gounder said that it may just be a fluke that some people are developing myocarditis following vaccination, and she said that it’s more likely for something like that to occur by coincidence because so many people are getting vaccinated right now.

The CDC is looking to uncover more data concerning the cases to fully realise if they’re directly related to the vaccine or if they’re just a coincidence. The agency has so far not revealed the ages of the patients affected.

Doctors have endeavoured to emphasise that the side effects of getting myocarditis pale in comparison to the possible dangers of catching COVID. Acute COVID itself can cause myocarditis.

The latest figures reveal how more than 3.9 million children have been infected with coronavirus with more than 16,000 hospitalised.

This is an experimental vaccine, it wasn’t FDA approved, and this is a clinical trial – wakey, wakey people. Plus the vaccination does nothing to prevent the spread of the disease, and the mRNA vaccines are entirely new and unknown. The AstraZeneca jab while not ideal is a modified SARS vaccine which at least has a few years track record.

And when they say the CDC is investigating, what they mean is that the CDC is looking for ways to blame the injured children for a pre-existing condition, or a mass psychogenic illness which brought on their heart inflammation with their imagination, or the old favourite, it’s all a big coincidence.

CDC protects pharma, not us!

The trials aren’t over until 2023 and we no longer allow animal testing, so we’re literally all human lab rats, but most people are okay with that, and the word experimental isn’t being used as much as it should be.

And anti-vaxxers aren’t anti-vaxxers at all, and most of these people have had all of their childhood vaccines – you know, the ones that prevented us from getting diseases or illnesses, and the only reason they’re against this one is that it’s been around for five minutes, and doesn’t really stop you from getting the virus or spreading it, and absolutely zero studies on the long term side effects have been done.

Russia’s Submarines Are Circling Britain’s Entire Coastline

The Defence Secretary has said that Russia’s submarines are circling Britain’s entire coastline and warned that Vladimir Putin’s force continues to be our number one rival threat.

Ben Wallace, 51, attacked Russia for constantly sending their vessels to UK waters, and maintained that Moscow had carried out several operations, deliberately at Britain.

Ben Wallace, who’s been the Secretary of State for Defence since 2019, also told a news outlet that a Russian Kilo-class submarine was detected in the Irish Sea for the first time in a very long time, at the end of last year.

He told the newspaper that they were repeatedly visited by inquisitive Russian ships, and they were frequently visited by several Russian warships.

It’s the first time that the Government has reinforced the appearance of Russian vessels in the Irish Sea.

Russian vessels are usually detected in either the English Channel or the North Sea, with at least 150 occasions of Russian vessels being discovered by the United Kingdom since 2013.

Mr Wallace added that they’ve tried de-escalation, they’ve tried methods but at the moment until Russia improves its position, it was pretty difficult to see where they were going to go, and while established sightings of Russian vessels were limited, it was reported that at least seven Russian naval ships and a submarine were detected off the United Kingdom last year.

Meanwhile, in February, Portsmouth based patrol ship HMS Mersey shadowed a Russian kilo class submarine as it travelled through the North Sea and the English Channel on the route from the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean.

Mr Wallace’s comments came after the Royal Navy flagship HMS Queen Elizabeth withdrew from Portsmouth for Asia on Saturday evening for a 28-week operational deployment, and he told a news outlet that the deployment showed Britain was back as a global military force and dismissed allegations that the excursion would bypass travelling between China and Taiwan.

Mr Wallace said that they were going there to Japan in a positive way, but not a confrontational way, and that the deployment of the fleet, named the Carrier Strike Group (CSG) would cover 26,000 nautical miles moving through the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, then from the Gulf of Aden to the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean to the Philippine Sea.

It has been organised as part of the UK’s tilt to the Indo Pacific region to bolster deep defence partnerships, as well as to take part in an exercise to mark the 50th anniversary of the Five Powers Defence Agreement with Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand.

Does Russia seriously think that Britain is a menace, I hope not, but let’s just say that they do, does this mean that we are at war with Russia and that Vladimir Putin is the next Stalin, and call me cautious, but I don’t believe that we should be provoking the largest nation on earth with the greatest nuclear cache of weapons.

And let’s face it, it wouldn’t exactly be difficult to attack us with their weaponry because we’re only a tiny island, and as long as they stay in the waters, they’re not infringing any red lines that would justify our response, and having watched the demonstrations in London, I asked myself what would this nation do if we were put on a state of war?

Lucille Ball’s Disreputable Past

I Love Lucy’s idyllic depiction of 1950s America made it the most-watched show of its time, and its stars Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were supposed to be the ideal twosome both on-screen and off.

But a new book has laid bare their fiery two-decade relationship with revelations of alcoholism, extramarital affairs, prostitution use and brutal arguments.

The book, Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz: They Weren’t Lucy & Ricky Ricardo, outlines their rise from aspiring actors to America’s sweethearts.

While the couple’s flings were an open secret during their marriage, the book goes into remarkable detail about the destructive nature of their personal life.

It also exposes how Lucille Ball posed nude in modelling shoots and turned tricks to make ends meet throughout years spent attempting to make it in the showbiz industry.

Lucille Ball, who was eight years senior, and wed Dezi Arnaz in 1940, having met the same year, when they were at opposing ends of the Hollywood power dynamic.

Lucille Ball was an undeniable star of more than 50 films, while Dezi Arnaz had escaped Cuba and been forced to take work as a janitor, before trying his luck as a musician and actor.

After their careers had both hit roadblocks, the duo convinced TV executives at CBS to cast Dezi Arnaz as a Cuban bandleader, a fictionalised version of himself, alongside his all American spouse Lucille Ball.

Almost as soon as it started in 1951, the show soon became the top-rated programme on television, but behind the scenes, the sex-obsessed Dezi Arnaz was continually cheating with prostitutes, while Lucille Ball also solicited the company of other men.

The book quotes Dezi Arnaz saying that marriage was okay, but adultery was more fun – just ask Lucy.

Author Darwin Porter remembers meeting the famous duo in the late 1950s when they appeared together at a ‘Lucy & Desi’ day at the University of Miami.

Darwin Porter, the student body president at the time, had arrived to transport them to the event and found the couple having one of their legendary arguments.

Porter wrote that she yelled accusations at him, at one point calling him a racial slur, and she accused him of having sex with two prostitutes the night before.

He didn’t deny it but insisted that it didn’t mean a thing, his fooling around with some hookers and that Peccadilloes didn’t count.

The biography also outlines the pair’s somewhat different pathways to fame.

This of course isn’t brand new information to those who’ve studied Lucille Ball’s captivating life, and it seems that at a time when all this lewdness was kept under wraps, well, that was tolerably normal, but now it’s being made as if this was abnormal.

For years it was understood that the couple had a rocky marriage – Desi Arnaz wrote about it in his book, even while making it plain that he loved her to the degree that he knew how to, but this was all typically Hollywood, and name a star that didn’t indulge, and Lucy wasn’t naked in the photos, she was covered by hair.

She also succeeded in a time when women’s roles were vastly different from today, so we can’t judge her to today’s standards, whatever her truth is, and she’s been dead for a long time, so what’s the purpose of trashing her memory? Book sales and money – it’s always about money!

Big Block And Fries!

Animal rights protestors are blockading four UK distribution centres for McDonald’s which they say will impact approximately 1,300 establishments.

Animal Rebellion said they’re using trucks and bamboo structures at the distribution sites in Hemel Hempstead, Basingstoke, Coventry and Keywood, Greater Manchester, to prevent lorries from leaving depots.

The group is demanding that McDonald’s commit to becoming completely plant-based by 2025.

Animal Rebellion said they plan to remain at the sites for at least 24 hours, creating significant disruption to McDonald’s supply chain.

James Ozden, a spokesperson for the group, said the action was directed at calling out the animal agriculture industry for their part in the global climate crisis.

He said that the meat and dairy industry was slaughtering the planet, causing enormous quantities of rainforest deforestation, releasing immense quantities of greenhouse gases and destroying billions of animals each year.

And continued that the only sustainable and practical way to feed ten billion people was with a plant-based food system and that organic, free-range and sustainable animal-based options just weren’t good enough.

The group added in a statement that they were shutting down McDonald’s distribution to all of its 1300 UK restaurants because of their responsibility for the climate emergency, the cutting down of the Amazon rainforest to make way for grazing cattle, and their continued unwillingness to take action and change to a plant-based menu.

The statement said that their activists were locked into concrete tubes and secured on bamboo constructions, and it was wet and cold, but they were there until McDonald’s issued a statement or met with them to discuss how they can play a better part in their collective future.

They said that for decades all they’ve been interested in is profit, with some of the unhealthiest foods one can eat, and that climate change, deforestation, and animal agriculture were the greatest menaces to the planet, not to mention the obesity crisis fed by fast food, and that there was no McFish on a dead planet, and that they needed to act now.

McDonald’s has been contacted for comment.

However, is it not a person’s right to eat whatever they want, which includes meat, and if McDonald’s did become fully plant-based, there would be hundreds of people who definitely wouldn’t eat there anymore.

Of course, the big question is, are McDonald’s hamburger patties actually 100 per cent beef?

Well, according to McDonald’s, their meat is 100 per cent beef with no fillers, no additives, and no preservatives, according to a statement on their website, and most of the meat is a ground up mixture of chuck, sirloin, and round. As for it being completely grass-fed like what you might expect at a fine steakhouse, well, probably not. The cattle might start out eating grass, but they’re then moved over to a diet of grains, grasses and minerals.

As for the health concerns regarding McDonald’s meat, well, it is fast food, so you have to take that into account, and whilst I’m in support of a plant-based diet, this was a group that decided to impose their views on others.

This is deemed to be a free world, supposedly, and we should all have freedom of choice, which some people try to deny to us for their own narrow-minded and misguided views.

You can arm people with information, and that’s fine, but those people can choose what they want to do with it, and this animal rebellion is missing the point.

If they want a plant-based outlet, then make one by opening up premises that just sell plant-based foods only, and whilst cattle farming is responsible for the vast preponderance of climate-changing gases and deforestation, the idea that plant-based diets are the answer is naive.

The planet is overpopulated, so the only long term answer is to lessen the population. How we do that is another story, but I wouldn’t recommend viruses!

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