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A Young John Lennon!

UK: Gimme Some Truth – an Interesting John Lennon Album, Documentary & Documents! (25.8.2026)

This is why I admire the genius-structure of “Taxman” – but thoroughly reject the underlying selfishness that informed its production. As for ideology – The Beatles were all over the place. I think “money” was their god – and the transcending freedom this gave them from the cycle manual labour, paying bills, and being in debt – enabled them to take drugs, reads books and explore different realities – realities not normally open to the British workers of the day. John Lennon was did flirt with Maoism (and had an affair with his “Chinese” Secretary) – and they all wore Lenin-type hats from time to time (I do not think Lennon knew anything about Maoism). But this does not amount to Revolutionary action. According to the US government – Lennon was a “Trotskyite” – but I doubt his ideological development had progressed to him taking sides in the unfolding of the Soviet Revolution. He once said the the Socialist had messed-up the world as much as the capitalists – and this was to a group of UK students! Perhaps we expect too much from our millionaires as the game they play is designed to enrich and then move privilege away from the path of Revolution (keeping them firmly ensconced within reaction).

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Holland Withdraws from Bias "Eurovision"!

Netherlands Declare Eurovision “No Longer” Neutral – & Withdraws from 2027 Contest! (25.8.2026)

Eurovision is a joke. In fact, it has been viewed as a joke in the UK for decades and reached its peak of irony under the commentary of Terry Wogan. We watched it because it was bias, anti-British, and pro-war when the war suited the political purposes of the EU (such as Eurovision’s supporting of Neo-Nazi Ukraine and its opposing of Russia for confronting Ukraine’s Neo-Nazi). Then there’s the issue of various countries (such as Germany and Austria) voting along ethnic-lines and supporting other countries containing the same (apparent) race – regardless of merit or quality. Israel, which is essentially a terrorist State committing genocide in Gaza according to the UN, ICC, and ICJ, as well as a host of human rights organisations. Add to this the 1975 UN Resolution declaring Zionism to be a form of “White Supremacy” (formulated by White, middle-class Jews) in 1975 – and the crime-scene is set. Israel is NOT in Europe – but represents a White settler country in another (non-White) part of the world – it is only permitted into Eurovision (since the early 1970s) because most of its population is from Europe and its murderous policies are viewed as pushing the “White” agenda in the Middle-East. The secret formula (hidden in plane sight) always pushes the inverted agenda that “Israel is the victim”! Think for yourself.

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Childhood trauma affects brain pathways linked to adult anhedonia

US: Childhood Trauma Affects Brain Pathways Linked to “Adult Anhedonia”! (21.8.2026)

Experiencing trauma in childhood can lead to a lack of motivation and less pleasure from rewards-or anhedonia-later in life. In humans, childhood trauma is linked to changes in the activity of reward-related brain pathways stemming from an area called the hippocampus. Preclinical work in animals suggests that hippocampal changes may contribute to anhedonia. But do hippocampal changes linked to childhood trauma make people more vulnerable to developing anhedonia? New in JNeurosci, a research team led by Kathleen O’Brien at Temple University and Vishnu Murty at the University of Oregon sought to answer this question.

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Spectres of Marx - Jacques Derrida - Deconstruction

UK: Arday – Who Art in Heaven – Hallowed Be Thy Name! (21.8.2026)

I respect Dawn Butler, and have listened to her opinion over the years, but I was forwarded a video of a speech she made at a pro-Arday rally recently, where she firmly mounted the bandwagon and claimed that the act of “unmasking dishonesty” amounted to a “racist attack” – on the grounds that the right supported the exposure. Who cares what the right thinks? It is this kind of flawed logic that permits corruption to become normalised and whistle-blowers to live in fear. If this bourgeois game is all about “equality” – then surely “equality of accountability” is a part of this process? As you can see, the days of a united front between Black and non-Black people has not existed for sometime. Just as long as Black people align themselves with establishmentarian capitalism – then these sociological ruptures are bound to happen. There is no point digging the hole you fall into – and then blaming “Whitey” for inventing the shovel. You are being manipulated by a ruthless class-system. It is designed to make us hate and fight one another. Toughen-up, sort your life out, and get your mind straight.

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Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong

DPRK: Trump Cancels “Aggressive” War Games – Decadent ROK Left-Reeling! (20.8.2026)

The ROK cannot let out a single word of protest at the GIs leaving without any mutual coordination at the U.S. chief executive’s unilateral order. This is the inevitable fate of the puppet army, whose right to command has been left in the hands of the U.S., and the true situation of the ROK, whose security has been placed at stake due to a reduction of the joint military drill and who brags about its “enough capability for self-defence” despite its defence and security being under the care of outsiders.

The plight of the ROK, which is compelled to stop the “war games” it liked very much, is visualizing the structure of the relation between master and servant called the “U.S.-ROK blood alliance” of which they have boasted.

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A protest against AI outside OpenAI headquarters in San Francisco, California, on 11 July. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

US: Trump Vows to “Break Wynd” Over AI Row! (17.8.2026)

She said that when she was found guilty, she was “hit with a wave of grief” because she realised her peers “just didn’t get” the danger she believes is posed by the race to superintelligence. But she was beginning to feel “vindicated” as more prominent figures like Sanders were speaking out. She is now braced for the prison experience of an orange jump suit, “horrible food, dirt [and] you can’t sleep”. She has been previously jailed for short periods related to her decades of political activism over causes including Nicaragua, nuclear disarmament, western Sahara and Palestine.

Her message to the chief executives of OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta, which also reported a security incident with its model, was “regain your humanity”. Kaufmyn said her target audience was ordinary people “and the message being: stop the progress of this technology. Let’s get a global ban on the race to superintelligence.”

Prof Stuart Russell, a leading AI academic at the University of California at Berkeley and president of the International Association for Safe and Ethical AI, gave evidence in Kaufmyn’s defence. He claimed OpenAI’s activities “pose an unacceptable risk”, alleging it had deployed AI systems with inadequate safeguards. He said that further development of these systems “must be conditioned on rigorous guarantees of safety, which are currently unavailable”.

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