Epstein.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

Re: Epstein.

Superb post TBG and I agree wholeheartedly. You must be well on your way to achieving your bucket list target of visiting every country in the World by now Shirley? After that, what next....the Moon?

It's not the ticking off of countries that counts but the education that we learn from visiting them, boning up on their history and culture and interacting with ordinary people (who are usually so very helpful and kind and make it so much easier to navigate geographically and culturally).
I have no interest in cruises, plush hotels and limos. I like to use local transport, local shops and have serendipitous conversations with people. I also get a kick from getting around on a tight budget when I don't really need to. I just feel that the experience is more genuine somehow.

The world is a most fascinating place and there's so much to learn about the spectrum of humanity that share it - and I feel obliged to educate myself thus (he says pompously and pretentiously) before I shed my mortal coil.
By the way, it's now dark here in the casbah area and I'm quaffing a bottle of Algerian red wine ( very difficult to source) whilst listening to the call to prayer through the open shutter door.
I often visit countries that hold no fascination for me and without any expectations - but I always leave with a feeling of gratitude, if that makes sense.

[Wales-Bales]

Re: Epstein.

It's not the ticking off of countries that counts but the education that we learn from visiting them, boning up on their history and culture and interacting with ordinary people (who are usually so very helpful and kind and make it so much easier to navigate geographically and culturally).
I have no interest in cruises, plush hotels and limos. I like to use local transport, local shops and have serendipitous conversations with people. I also get a kick from getting around on a tight budget when I don't really need to. I just feel that the experience is more genuine somehow.

The world is a most fascinating place and there's so much to learn about the spectrum of humanity that share it - and I feel obliged to educate myself thus (he says pompously and pretentiously) before I shed my mortal coil.
By the way, it's now dark here in the casbah area and I'm quaffing a bottle of Algerian red wine ( very difficult to source) whilst listening to the call to prayer through the open shutter door.
I often visit countries that hold no fascination for me and without any expectations - but I always leave with a feeling of gratitude, if that makes sense.

Thanks for the update, Judith. Wish I was there!

[Dorcus]

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It's not the ticking off of countries that counts but the education that we learn from visiting them, boning up on their history and culture and interacting with ordinary people (who are usually so very helpful and kind and make it so much easier to navigate geographically and culturally).
I have no interest in cruises, plush hotels and limos. I like to use local transport, local shops and have serendipitous conversations with people. I also get a kick from getting around on a tight budget when I don't really need to. I just feel that the experience is more genuine somehow.

The world is a most fascinating place and there's so much to learn about the spectrum of humanity that share it - and I feel obliged to educate myself thus (he says pompously and pretentiously) before I shed my mortal coil.
By the way, it's now dark here in the casbah area and I'm quaffing a bottle of Algerian red wine ( very difficult to source) whilst listening to the call to prayer through the open shutter door.
I often visit countries that hold no fascination for me and without any expectations - but I always leave with a feeling of gratitude, if that makes sense.

Fantastic! I love your posts! I was in Marrakech a couple of months ago, so near but I imagine so far in terms of infrastructure and ambience.

[cyril evans awaydays]

Re: Epstein.

Fantastic! I love your posts! I was in Marrakech a couple of months ago, so near but I imagine so far in terms of infrastructure and ambience.

It was quite entertaining watching TBG seeking the most tangential way of informing us he was in Algiers in three separate and very different threads I will grant you.

[Wales-Bales]

Re: Epstein.

Monologue from today’s Times at One with Andrew Neil:

BETRAYAL

And still the revelations about Peter Mandleson’s betrayals from the heart of government come, each one more jaw-dropping than the last.

We learned earlier this week that he’d tipped off his convicted pedophile mate about an imminent €500bn bailout of the Eurozone, advance information hugely useful to a financial fixer like Jeffrey Epstein.

Even more incredibly, we saw how he’d advised America’s most powerful banker, via Epstein, to threaten the British government over plans to tax bankers’ bonuses in the wake of the Great Financial Crash, caused by said bankers.

Which the powerful banker then did in an intimidating call to then Chancellor Alastair Darling. A call inspired by the government’s very own business secretary, one Peter Mandleson.

Now we learn that the moment Mandleson was given a note about a highly sensitive meeting between Darling and then US Treasury secretary Larry Summers in March 2010, our business secretary had whisked it to Epstein within five minutes. That’s right. Five. Minutes.

Mandleson then received a second confidential note on the Darling-Summers exchanges. It took him only two minutes to send that to his pedo mate.

The reality is that Epstein had his very own mole at the heart of the British government, sending him secret and confidential information which could profit Epstein and his billionaire banker friends. And that mole was our business secretary.

He even tipped Epstein off about the state of talks between Britain and America over a £10bn aerospace contract to provide the RAF with air-to-air refuelling tankers.

At one stage Mandleson opines to Epstein that the then PM needs to be confined to a sanatorium. Remember Mandleson is saying this of the man who’d revived his political career. It doesn’t get much lower than that. No wonder Brown is seething.

Let’s be blunt: the evidence is compelling that Mandleson betrayed himself, his department, his PM, his government, his country.

And let us not forget Mandleson had previously been bunged $75,000 by Epstein. He says he has no recollection of such payments though the bank statements are clear for all to see. But, hey, who hasn’t forgotten a $75,000 gift?

Mandleson’s partner also had his snout in the trough. We now learn he received three payments of £4,000 each from Epstein — this on top of £10,000 to take a course in osteopathy. Of course for Epstein it was all chicken feed. He must have been laughing all the way to his insider dealing.

Whether it’s for misconduct in public office, breaching the official secrets act or dealing in insider information, it’s only right that his former lordship be the subject of the most rigorous criminal investigation. And quickly. This should not be allowed to drag on.

But Keir Starmer has almost as many questions to answer as Mandleson. Just how was it that such a snake ended up as our man in Washington?

Starmer didn’t know what we now know about Mandleson. But he knew a lot. In a faltering performance at PMQs he’s just admitted he did know of Mandleson’s ongoing relationship with Epstein. But he still appointed him anyway.

Starmer now claims Mandleson lied and lied to him. But my understanding is that Mandleson was never properly quizzed about his links with Epstein, so anxious was Starmer and his chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, to shoe-horn him into our palatial embassy on Massachusetts Avenue.

The push is on in Parliament today for the government to reveal all the details of the vetting of Peter Mandleson.
At times like this the default of British governments is to stonewall.

But if Starmer truly regrets his Mandleson appointment, which has turned into a political catastrophe for him, he will sanction full disclosure of all relevant material, including who was involved in pressing Mandleson’s appointment.

Nothing less will suffice in what has become the greatest political scandal of our age.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

Re: Epstein.

Fantastic! I love your posts! I was in Marrakech a couple of months ago, so near but I imagine so far in terms of infrastructure and ambience.

One of them was about football and another about pigs though :-)

[Wales-Bales]

Re: Epstein.

One of them was about football and another about pigs though :-)

It must be boring as **** over there, as you've spent half the day on here! :hehe:

[Dorcus]

Re: Epstein.

It was quite entertaining watching TBG seeking the most tangential way of informing us he was in Algiers in three separate and very different threads I will grant you.

Man with a suitcase! Without Googling, do you remember his name?

[the other bob wilson]

Re: Epstein.

Reports now that the Republicans are trying to block the Clinton’s public testimony that they were ordered to attend by the Senate - they now think it should be held in private.

[Dorcus]

Re: Epstein.

Reports now that the Republicans are trying to block the Clinton’s public testimony that they were ordered to attend by the Senate - they now think it should be held in private.

Shirley even your thickest Maga fan can see through this obfuscation and chicanery? If not we're all doomed!

[stevo]

Re: Epstein.

Don’t hold your breath

[stevo]

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One for the critical thinkers on here...

[Wales-Bales]

Re: Epstein.

One for the critical thinkers on here...

Holy sh*t, Trump is innocent!

[Heathblue]

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Holy sh*t, Trump is innocent!

With another 3 million pages to go he might not be !! But with the scores on the doors at the moment the CCMB commie squad appear to be loosing the will to double down, it's not panning out as they anticipated, and the boomerang I predicted is currently in play. The stolen election is gathering more and more traction with evidence that even Cyril the squirrel 🐿️ is going to find hard to put aside his TDS. We got him this time. If Trump is genuinely serious about this it's about time some of the actors are perp walked, if nothing happens he's simply also an actor playing his part.

Too big to Rig
The sum of all fears
"Q"

[stevo]

Re: Epstein.

It’s panning out exactly as I had anticipated - more cover up.