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  • News Summary Intelligence Report Friday 4/5/2024 Newsdump Friday British Gov't Sexting Scandal, Commander Of US Navy Biomedical Lab Relieved Of Command, Israel Moves Over Relief Worker Deaths, Boeing Makes Payment Over Panel Blowout

    04/05/2024 8:11:55 PM PDT · by Nextrush · 3 replies
    Nextrush Free ^ | 4/5/2024 | Nextrush/Self
    The Philippines announcing joint military maneuvers with the US, Australia and Japan tomorrow... "Some have been sent naked images, and two MP's are reported to have responded by sending images of themselves"...a few of the details...emerging 'sexting' scandal...in the UK... "Stay away so you won't get hurt" The message from Iran to the US ahead of...attacks on Israeli targets... ...messaging from Joe Biden today...Israel is doing what he wants... ...Russian UN Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia calling for sanctions on Israel... In the African nation of Zimbabwe a new "structured currency" launched amidst rampant inflation... The Dutch naval support ship "Karel Doorman"...
  • For Fans for Downton Abbey- Interview With Julian Fellowes

    01/16/2012 1:19:51 PM PST · by Steelfish · 16 replies · 1+ views
    LATimes ^ | January 16, 2012
    JANUARY 2012 Julian Fellowes is as English as Earl Grey and clotted cream. As an actor, director and writer, he has continually peeked under the petticoats of British mores and conveyed the details with relish to audiences. His writing of the upstairs-downstairs whodunit Gosford Park won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2002, and his subsequent films Vanity Fair and The Young Victoria established Fellowes as the class-fixated Anglophile’s Anglophile. His two novels, Snobs and Past Imperfect, mined the same dishy blueblood vein, and both were Sunday Times bestsellers. A lifelong Conservative, Fellowes was made a Peer of...
  • Roger Ebert: Alice in Wonderland

    03/05/2010 12:41:49 PM PST · by EveningStar · 69 replies · 2,117+ views
    Chicago Sun-Times ^ | March 3, 2010 | Roger Ebert
    ...This has never been a children's story. There's even a little sadism embedded in Carroll's fantasy. It reminds me of uncles who tickle their nieces until they scream...
  • Sidney Blumenthal abridged (The Clinton Wars, summarized)

    05/27/2003 4:31:10 AM PDT · by Cincinatus · 37 replies · 376+ views
    The Weekly Standard ^ | May 27, 2003 | Editorial Staff (uncredited)
    Annals of Sid Sidney Blumenthal, the Erich von Stroheim of the Clinton administration, has published a memoir of his White House days--to generally poor reviews, most of them from newspapers and magazines ordinarily sympathetic to the author's politics. Of course, no such book should be assumed useless simply because its notices are stinko. Very often, in fact, it's the "worst" first-person accounts of recent political history that provide the best sort of fun: unintentionally embarrassing anecdotes that the clueless writer imagines are worth boasting about. Alas, however, even on these ironic terms, "The Clinton Wars" turns out to be an...