"I do not think therefore I am a moustache"
Sartre, La Nausée, 1938
Interests:
art, art history, culture, film/photography, history, music, science, sociology, comparative religion, technology, current affairs.
* adferoafferro.wordpress.com
#The_Rest_Is_Politics
#BillBrowder
The great Sir Bill Browder tells in fascinating, rapid-fire detail, his own story and what led to the Magnitsky Act named in honour of Browder's employee [tax lawyer], Sergei Magnitsky who died while in Russian custody.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkE6...
48 mins
#The_Rest_Is_Politics
#BillBrowder
The great Sir Bill Browder tells in fascinating, rapid-fire detail, his own story and what led to the Magnitsky Act named in honour of Browder's employee [tax lawyer], Sergei Magnitsky who died while in Russian custody.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkE6...
48 mins
#Epstein
#BillGates
#RichardBranson
Is This proof Epstein blackmailed Bill Gates?
Novara Media, 3 Jan 2036
34 mins
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdR7...
⚪ Mini-forensic on Epstein emails re Gates, Melinda divorce, some conjecture on Branson.
Title a tad dramatic but that's what was chosen
#Epstein
#BillGates
#RichardBranson
Is This proof Epstein blackmailed Bill Gates?
Novara Media, 3 Jan 2036
34 mins
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdR7...
⚪ Mini-forensic on Epstein emails re Gates, Melinda divorce, some conjecture on Branson.
Title a tad dramatic but that's what was chosen
#Mandelson
🎵 Mandy🎵 has got other stuff.
Do Lords get pensions?
There his EU pension (considerable) and his MP and ministerial pensions.
At a minimum his ministers' pensions should go. Though no doubt it won't because of some sort of contractual arrangement that allows him to keep it.
#Mandelson
🎵 Mandy🎵 has got other stuff.
Do Lords get pensions?
There his EU pension (considerable) and his MP and ministerial pensions.
At a minimum his ministers' pensions should go. Though no doubt it won't because of some sort of contractual arrangement that allows him to keep it.
Here, the author lays out all the culprits ⤵️
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social
Old Barry Manilow smash-hit chart rise in UK and US
Old Barry Manilow smash-hit chart rise in UK and US
🎵 Oh Mandy
🎵 Oh Mandy
🎵 Oh Mandy
Hard to recall a worse public scandal than a cabinet minister allegedly colluding with foreign bankers to share market sensitive info and encourage threats against Chancellor
🎵 Oh Mandy
#Gaza
Aaron Bastani talks to Oborne about his book:
'Complicit: Britain's Role in the Destruction of Gaza'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5m-...
⚪ 1 hr 12 mins
#Gaza
Aaron Bastani talks to Oborne about his book:
'Complicit: Britain's Role in the Destruction of Gaza'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5m-...
⚪ 1 hr 12 mins
#moneylaundering
#Oliver_Bullough
From author of Moneyland & Butler to the World, new anatomy of global money laundering, Everybody Loves Our Dollars. On Audible read by author Oliver Bullough.
Bicester, Oxon., enters the story. And in a, What? Shakes head amazing way.
#moneylaundering
#Oliver_Bullough
From author of Moneyland & Butler to the World, new anatomy of global money laundering, Everybody Loves Our Dollars. On Audible read by author Oliver Bullough.
Bicester, Oxon., enters the story. And in a, What? Shakes head amazing way.
#Gaza
Petraeus, ex-Iraq surge, ex-CIA, is getting
carried away saying the lessons he learned from defeating Falluja insurgency, a Sunni uprising against US occupation of Iraq, has lessons for Gaza.
Iraq was a state, Gaza a territory settler colonial Israel has hemmed in.
tinyurl.com/zdd5b5ja
#Gaza
Petraeus, ex-Iraq surge, ex-CIA, is getting
carried away saying the lessons he learned from defeating Falluja insurgency, a Sunni uprising against US occupation of Iraq, has lessons for Gaza.
Iraq was a state, Gaza a territory settler colonial Israel has hemmed in.
tinyurl.com/zdd5b5ja
#CH4
#TheChelseaDetective
Part 1 Series 1
www.channel4.com/programmes/t...
⚪ Might well be a cut above the normal detective series.
Was attracted to it with its Chelsea specific policing. Just read William Boyd's, Ordinary Thunderstorms, which centres on Chelsea, where also Boyd lives.
#CH4
#TheChelseaDetective
Part 1 Series 1
www.channel4.com/programmes/t...
⚪ Might well be a cut above the normal detective series.
Was attracted to it with its Chelsea specific policing. Just read William Boyd's, Ordinary Thunderstorms, which centres on Chelsea, where also Boyd lives.
#NeilKinnock
2 hours. 82 yrs old. Still sharp as a button. Memory of an elephant. Feel free to suggest other superlatives.
No mention of, "The best PM we never had". Though it probably wouldn't have been an easy ride.
Riveting for those who lived through it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNQn...
#NeilKinnock
2 hours. 82 yrs old. Still sharp as a button. Memory of an elephant. Feel free to suggest other superlatives.
No mention of, "The best PM we never had". Though it probably wouldn't have been an easy ride.
Riveting for those who lived through it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNQn...
#collapse_of_compassion
LLMS are good at neologism German compounds.
So: awareness of terrible things in the world while telling a joke.
Katastrophenkomikschuld (Katastrophe – catastrophe
- Komik – comedy - Schuld – guilt )
⚪ There is a psychological phenomenon termed collapse of compassion:
#collapse_of_compassion
LLMS are good at neologism German compounds.
So: awareness of terrible things in the world while telling a joke.
Katastrophenkomikschuld (Katastrophe – catastrophe
- Komik – comedy - Schuld – guilt )
⚪ There is a psychological phenomenon termed collapse of compassion:
#ICE
Antifa used to unmask neo-Nazis, now it’s exposing ICE: ‘Predators don’t get anonymity’
Christopher Mathias, Guardian, 30 Jan 2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
⚪ Perhaps that's where Homan got the idea to post up pics of members of the public protesting ICE
#ICE
Antifa used to unmask neo-Nazis, now it’s exposing ICE: ‘Predators don’t get anonymity’
Christopher Mathias, Guardian, 30 Jan 2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
⚪ Perhaps that's where Homan got the idea to post up pics of members of the public protesting ICE
Folks. it’s time to delete your data, delete your TikTok accounts, and delete the TikTok app.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4OC...
Folks. it’s time to delete your data, delete your TikTok accounts, and delete the TikTok app.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4OC...
👉 bylinetimes.com/2026/01/29/d...
"Agents are tapping into a database, built by the data analytics company Palantir, that combines government and commercial data to identify real-time locations for individuals they are pursuing"
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
👉 bylinetimes.com/2026/01/29/d...
"Agents are tapping into a database, built by the data analytics company Palantir, that combines government and commercial data to identify real-time locations for individuals they are pursuing"
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
#ICE
The Vast, Terrifying Scale of Trump’s Detention State
With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.
Ian Gordon, Mother Jones, Nov-Dec 2025
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
#ICE
The Vast, Terrifying Scale of Trump’s Detention State
With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.
Ian Gordon, Mother Jones, Nov-Dec 2025
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
#ICE
#ErnstFraenkel
#DualState
The Nazi Political Theory That Explains ICE’s Impunity
Trump’s Immigration & Customs Enforcement has become the violent face of the country’s transformation into a new 21st c. dual state.
Bill Blum, Truthdig, 23 Jan, 2026
www.commondreams.org/opinion/ice-...
#ICE
#ErnstFraenkel
#DualState
The Nazi Political Theory That Explains ICE’s Impunity
Trump’s Immigration & Customs Enforcement has become the violent face of the country’s transformation into a new 21st c. dual state.
Bill Blum, Truthdig, 23 Jan, 2026
www.commondreams.org/opinion/ice-...
youtu.be/BRHxXHZmVAM
youtu.be/BRHxXHZmVAM
#Palantir
#PalantirUK
Revealed: Palantir deals with UK government amount to at least £670m – including £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency
The Nerve, 27 Jan 2026
www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
⚪ How *would* a govt. divest itself Palantir with such a toe-hold in many areas of govt.?
#Palantir
#PalantirUK
Revealed: Palantir deals with UK government amount to at least £670m – including £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency
The Nerve, 27 Jan 2026
www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
⚪ How *would* a govt. divest itself Palantir with such a toe-hold in many areas of govt.?
#Reform
#MatthewGoodwin
Perhaps do a 6 degrees of separation between Goodwin and Hitler by way of James Orr [National Conservatism, Ed. Burke Foundation] and J D Vance [says Orr is his British Sherpa] .
Recall Orr attended Vance's shindig in Cotswolds Aug 2025. ↙️
↘️ Cotswolds symbolism?
#Reform
#MatthewGoodwin
Perhaps do a 6 degrees of separation between Goodwin and Hitler by way of James Orr [National Conservatism, Ed. Burke Foundation] and J D Vance [says Orr is his British Sherpa] .
Recall Orr attended Vance's shindig in Cotswolds Aug 2025. ↙️
↘️ Cotswolds symbolism?
It's how we save ourselves from Labour.
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It's how we save ourselves from Labour.
“This is a Marxist—this is the red-green alliance coming together to try to take down the American republic.... It’s a domestic terrorist mob.”
Steve Bannon
⚪ Coming from a man who was convicted and served a 4 month sentence for not turning up to the House January 6 Committee
“This is a Marxist—this is the red-green alliance coming together to try to take down the American republic.... It’s a domestic terrorist mob.”
Steve Bannon
⚪ Coming from a man who was convicted and served a 4 month sentence for not turning up to the House January 6 Committee