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43 years ago today, THE THE released 𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑙 𝑀𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔.
Featuring ‘This Is The Day’, ‘Uncertain Smile’, ‘Perfect’ and ‘GIANT’, the album was released on 21st October 1983.
Which track from the album still means the most to you?
#thethe #mattjohnson #mattjohnsonthethe #soulmining
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The great Zen teacher and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh would have been 100 today. His immortal wisdom on true love and the 5 rivers of self-knowledge: themarginalian.org/2024/02/0…
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New essay in @WSJ today
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Bitcoin is the monetary foundation of the sovereign civilization. It provides it with its preserved capital, its common settlement layer and much of its constitutional logic. However, the civilization still has to be built.
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”The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely.”
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Two months left before the UK government requires all content on British citizens' mobile devices to be scanned.
Piccadilly Circus, London: Nineteen Eighty-Four was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual.
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London Underground. VPN restrictions are still on the table in the UK. Much of it depends on the next Prime Minister. Hopefully, that question mark won't turn into a full stop.
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Two weeks ago I booked tickets to see @CountBinface performing live in London, which seemed like a quirky fun thing to do 🗑️
Then Nigel Farage and the media furore happened, and somehow I randomly ended up being the only journalist in the audience last night at the sold-out gig (many journalists had begged to attend to no avail, apparently) 😅
The veteran journalist John Sweeney @johnsweeneyroar interviewed him live on stage in the style of Jeremy Paxman and then it was opened up to the floor.
Overall, it was a very funny gig - John Harvey seemed to view the whole week is rather surreal. I think some of the best material he’d planned for the gig he’d already used on air, so he was literally ad-libbing satire on the spot based on what questions he was asked, which is pretty impressive given that the room was also not air-conditioned and so we were all sweating in close quarters for an hour and 20 minutes.
I also met one of his supposed supporters, who has been funding him at the rate of £3 a month for the last 15 years 💷 (in answer to the, “who is funding him?” question)
Here are some gems from the night 💎:
- Count Binface clearly really detests Nigel Farage
- Count Binface pledges to put David Attenborough on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square
- On the topic of AI stealing creative content and taking over our jobs, Count Binface wants to “stop the bots!” and thinks we should break into OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman’s house in the middle of the night steal his DNA to create a “Sam Altman AI”
- Count Binface admits he is “weak on uncontrolled immigration” given that he is an alien that travelled to Earth to stand as a joke candidate, but he says that he is holding back the rest of the spaceships from invading Earth 🚀
- However he did admit that he is an intergalactic space warrior who is bent on dominating mankind (I’m kind of up in the air about whether Clacton should vote for him now)
- The Count Binface helmet does come with some sort of cooling device, but sadly he left it in the dressing room last night before the gig 🫠
- Overall Count Binface said that he just really cares about democracy, and he doesn’t think we should count on him to become a member of Parliament or any other kind of statesmen. In fact, he would like to get only *just* enough votes to prevent Farafe from being elected.
- He just feels it’s important for the public to have the option to spoil their vote in order to express displeasure at current policies and politicians
- And John Sweeney has challenged Nigel Farage to submit for a live onstage interview (highly unlikely, methinks)
P.S. Do get in contact if you would like to use any of the images and videos that I captured last night. Yes, I do need to be paid, legal action will be taken if you use it without permission 😊
#CountBinface #JohnHarvey #NigelFarage #JohnSweeney #Clactonbyelection #UKpolitics
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BREAKING: "Greater Israel" is now marketed in London. Like in Montreal and in New York.
Apartheid without borders.
P.S. This explains why criticism of Israel is being restricted (and "anti-antisemitism" laws keep appearing). Apartheid is not only a crime. It is a business model.
URGENT: On 14 June, a "Great Israeli Real Estate" event in London will market properties in illegal Israeli settlements — including Gush Etzion, Ma'ale Adumim, Negohot.
@ICJP, @PILC and @ELSC have just written to the Met Police War Crimes Team & the Home Secretary and Business and Trade Secretary.
This event needs to be cancelled immediately.
Here's why it matters 🧵
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Gary’s Economics breaking down the UK local elections
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I'm glad it can finally be reported that Rajiv Menon KC, lead defence barrister in my daughter's (Filton 6) trial, is being *prosecuted*
Judge 'Injustice' Johnson is trying to punish Rajiv for a brilliant speech in the 1st trial because it led to the jury refusing to convict.
One of my most popular articles ever included a long extract from a powerful closing speech by barrister Rajiv Menon during a Palestine Action trial in January. In the end, the jury refused to convict the six defendants.
Menon is now on trial for that closing speech – for reminding the jury that they had a 350-year-old right in law to follow their conscience in reaching a verdict, even if it meant defying a direction from the judge to convict.
Paradoxically, Menon joked in his speech that, because of that earlier legal principle, the judge, unlike his counterpart in 1670, could not lock them, the jurors, up were they to choose to follow their consciences.
Instead, the judge is seeking to lock up the barrister. Does 2026 qualify as an improvement on 1670?
It is believed that this is the first time a barrister has been tried for comments made to a jury in his closing speech. That should serve as a potent reminder of just us how authoritarian the current political moment is, and of how quickly long-established legal rights are being dismantled to protect British collusion in genocide.
Read my article – and the part of the speech for which Menon is being tried – here: jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-…
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If you are in Islington Green between now and 4pm . I am the guy on the bench holding back tears, and a laptop, reading heartbreakingly beautiful new testimonies from tellmesomething.family . They come in day and night.
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African countries are now 6x more indebted to the IMF than when this person took over as director of the Africa department
I would say he did his job very well
As I prepare to hang up my boots as director of the IMF’s African Department, I can’t help but reflect… and a set of abiding lessons recurs…
I remain optimistic about the regions prospects. Indeed, this will be the African Century. But only… giftarticle.ft.com/giftartic…
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Zoom in on the light to see the messages around the world. To contribute a message click on "Take Part". There is no data collection. The site is pure. It is my art work. You can upload photographs too if you like.
It will be live for 31 days from today. It is the month of my birthday. Opening this site for this month is my birthday present and so is every one of your entries.
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