Waylander

Erdogan is Machiavellian for sure. I would not expect any relation to necessarily stay in place for long. Working with Russia to get grain supplies out of Ukraine will win him favour in the Islamic world. The 12m Kurds in Eastern Turkey remain a threat if any super power decides to support them. Close to 3m Syrians living in Turkish camps near the Syrian border will probably guarantee him a spot at any international brokered Syrian peace plan. Syria will only fall if Russia fails, though there may come a point when the Syrians want to end the fighting. About 18 months ago the Russians advised the Syrians to forget about regaining the Kurdish part of Syria, Assad disagreed. I think that view has now accepted Kurdish control and may even be thinking of making concessions in parts of the north where Turkish backed forces remain. The Ukraine conflict continues with both draining Russian forces and Ukrainian forces while both inflation in the West and especially the US and UK threatens political instability. The Great Game is in full swing with no end in sight.

Rick De Santis, Governor of Florida https://www.bitchute.com/video/NB8Smjpd9iNW/

Cold Pursuit 2019 Saw on a Virgin channel yet don't remember this coming out. Liam Neeson as a snow plough driver keeping the roads clear in Kehoe, he does such a good job he gets a citizens award yet on this night his son working in a warehouse is murdered. The police say it is a drugs killing, adding his son was involved in drugs, he does not agree and his wife played by Laura Dern is more inclined to believe the police. She wants to talk about grief he wants to know what happened so she leaves him. He goes I think to his son's warehouse and decides to end it all using his hunting rifle, when from behind the boxes a battered friend of his late son comes out asking for money. Neeson's character changes from self pity to revenge as he discovers his son was murdered. What starts to proceed is like a number of revenge movies as Neeson without finger cutting gets the men that had a hand in his sons demise yet he is not satisfied with that yet wants the top man who is well protected. Mean while the gang has noticed some of their man have gone missing and using logic 2+2=5, decide it is the other reasonably local gang moving in on them and whack their gang member and publicly display his murdered body which crosses cultural sensitivities as they are not your usual drugs gang. So they plan revenge. Neeson starts making plans too. There are some funny moments, dark humour some say. There are some touching moments. Stylised killings as the gangs names are displayed as the body count goes up. A strange yet unclear ending. People say it is like Fargo or a Tarantino film, it has elements of this and a lot more influences too. I would give it a 7/10.

@Tommy Ouch, Arsenal there yet no Spurs..........

Very surprised yesterday to see both Eriksen and Fernandes starting yet nothing to do with De Gea on those first two goals

Ended up watching Crimson Tide due to company I was with. Assumed it was a Chuck Norris movie yet was not, it starred Denzil Washington, Gene Hackham, with supporting roles including James Gandolfini and Viggo Mortensen. It was a cold war movie about a US submarine in a tricky situation. The tension was superb as the story lines played out and it is one cold war film that is worth a look if you normally like me don't go there. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112740/

I don't believe Trump would order assassinations, he had too many leaks as it was. Epstein was a financier before providing girls so had many contacts even Bill Gates wanted to meet him, don't know why a billionaire wants more power yet according to his wife there it is. Epstein was probably told in prison that it was over he was being thrown to the wolves, nothing to do with Trump yet others, there are globalist vs nationalist factions running through the agencies and there are those in positions of power in different agencies who probably knew and were implicated in Epstein's intrigues. Trump knew him when he was younger yet did not associate with him later. Epstein I believe took his life and this was why Maxwell was then subjected to onerous conditions in prison of being woken every 15 minutes which must be contra to normal conditions of being in prison and must certainly have broken her will power and made her more compliant. In any other country that would be considered torture. On the Ted Cruz video near the end he questions the FBI director Christopher Wray asking why he is heading up the Jan 6th Capitol investigation with an officer who has been badly damaged by recent inept handling of another case. I actually believe the FBI leadership is too close to the Dems and wants to tie Trump up legally so he cannot run again. They are scared if he does he might win again due to the Democrats poor handling of things.

This is very interesting as Senator Cruz questions the FBI director on politicisation of the FBI. They come out looking very bad.

Well the pilot of Epstein said they had Prince Andrew on board once and nothing to his knowledge happened in flight. He did acknowledge making regular trips to Clinton and taking several women at a time. The FBI were out to get Trump from the start so I don't think he had any means to assassinate Epstein unless he was going to use his secret service detail or the military. Trump at his inauguration talked about draining the swamp which put him at war from day one with the FBI who tried to tar him with Russia collusion while refusing to investigate Biden's son and his dealings in Ukraine. Just like Hilary Clinton had no action taken against her for using her private email to conduct state business. Seems to me like double standards because Trump was a business man gate crashing politics.

Strange times at Chelsea, seems looking to get rid of one set of old guard only to bring in others like Silva, Koulibally and now Aubameyang if media reports are accurate.

I doubt Trump wanted Epstein dead, Bill Clinton seems to have the most to lose. Also it now seems Maxwell is in a nice prison under Biden which suggests she is going to play ball and not reveal names. Musk has been making noises about knowing who Epstein's clients were. That may go nowhere yet it seems this has all been brushed under the carpet. Remember Monica Lewinsky?

Fair points and look forward to seeing how it plays out, great for the neutral that City have gone for him.

Thinking on Haaland, he looked good at a weakened West Ham. Against Liverpool looked ordinary. Always difficult to say with certainty so early in the season yet possibly he is going to struggle against the better teams as they cut out his supply.

@Spike That is some story and I think your grandfather was on the level rather than trying to be funny, there is an alternative school of thought on the benefits of urine therapy. I tried it once when fasting by putting a couple of drops of urine into a cup of water and drinking it. I did not feel better yet got a groan from my digestion. Never tried it again. I also saw saw psychotherapist in my 20's, one helped though he said I was fencing with him. I wasn't yet I realised something and I could move on. I also found when younger I was getting facial spots and found it was bacon, if I cut that out the spots went. Though I was only eating bacon because the milk tasted funny and that was because the milk companies had done a deal to use a bovine growth hormone in the milk. Most people could not taste though I asked the milkman who I knew from five-a-side football and he said loads were complaining.

Good luck hope he has a good time there. I remember those couple of seasons at Villa where he was incredible think it was injury that stopped him being one of the world's great strikers,

Really dry in South London and muggy too. Plenty of cloud just no rain.

John Wark, I recognised though could not name him. Strachan aha, I knew Gordon was part of the name. You missed the chap between Strachan and Beardsley? So just two left to uncover.

Some old faces here and I recall just a handful, Lee Sharp - Utd, Tony Daly - Villa, Vinnie Jones - CFC, Mark Wright - Liverpool, Gordon Durie - Spurs, John Salako - Palace and Peter Beardsley at Everton. Who are the rest? The Scots chap wearing Leeds shirt, i should know yet............

I don't think it is that simple China were allegedly upset by the prospect of Pelosi visiting Taiwan and I don't think that has anything to do with her 'inside trading' activities more because they think Taiwan belongs to the PRC.

Either regularly or every time they find themselves going behind.

A story I heard was that in WWII in Burma the Brits had massive condoms made to protect mortars and other military equipment from the damp conditions in the jungles, it also had the effect of unsettling the Japanese troops that found them thinking what type of man wore a condom that big!

It is a massive gamble if I understand correctly and they need to win and hope that their international following can afford the tv coverage and merchandise to support the club. Remember we are in some tricky economic times around the globe. I think they will get through this season it will be next season if the tv revenues cannot be sustained thst we will see the fireworks.

Interesting, makes me think who is on their way out.

It certainly raises questions of ethics.

Late last night watched Transsiberian 2008. Never heard of it before and actually thought it was good keeping you guessing until the end. Guess the politics even then kept it from mainstream. Woody Harreslson, Ben Kingsley, Emily Mortimer and Kate Mara. Basically two US tourists get talking to other travellers on the train and get mixed up in some dodgy stuff and then things get really dangerous. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800241/