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“I was actually in Monaco earlier this summer … and every other car there was an Italian supercar, like a Pagani, Bugatti, and they all had Ukraine plates … They didn't just all magically get $5million supercars. They're stealing that money and it's just one big corrupt scandal.” Donald Trump, Jnr over the weekend. Bucharest taxi drivers talk about the money Ukrainian refugees have and how expensive their cars they drive. It's not true of the ones who waited on me in hotels and ships.
"The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the United States, out of the tax bases of European countries through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security only. The goal is to have an endless war, not to be successful." Julian Assange in 2011
"There is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments." C.S. Lewis
"In fact, I’d even go as far as to say the Western world divides into two types of humans: shower people and bath people. The bathers are the red squirrels to the showering cross-patch greys. The former are bushier, beadier, brighter-tailed and far longer-established, but reduced to small colonies by the more aggressive invaders.
"Puritanical types are great proselytisers for showers on the grounds they’re quick, efficient and hygienic. Some rave about the benefits of cold showering, which I presume is a form of bromide to suppress libido. You never hear anyone talk of wallowing in a shower. Baths, on the other hand, were expressly designed for shameless luxuriating, with all the hedonistic pleasures of self-indulgence, time-wasting and horizontal relaxation: concepts which are fast going out of fashion, alongside snoozing, pottering and lunch-time drinking."
Rowan Pelling, Daily Telegraph today
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