Interesting to me. I played in a band called the Eastside Torpedeos. We were briefly managed and produced by ex-Animals Hilton Valentine and Chas Chandler. I knew Chas quite well. While we recorded our one and only album - a badly produced flop - at his IBC studios, he told me that in the 60s he had received an anonymous 'slightly threatening' phone call telling him that he was no longer managing Jimi Hendrix.
Mike Jeffery was moved in, Chas played a peripheral role and was gradually marginalised. According to Chas, Jeffery openly boasted about his documented intelligence services connections. He also suspected American manager Bob Levine, but was vague about why. Jeffery had been a student at Newcastle University and opened the Club A'Go-Go with local 'businessman' Ray Grehan. Chas said that Jeffery was keeping an eye on burgeoning talent and was always interested in their 'politics'.
Jimi Hendrix was politicised after MLK's murder in 1968. Chas said that he planned to hook up with European left-wing filmmakers and establish a company turning out civil rights material. He was a fit, active young man who didn't do half the drink or drugs the media claimed. In 1970 he died in bed after choking on his own vomit. That's all I know. Make of it what you will.
Jimi Hendrix's manager, Mike Jeffery, was an ex-MI6 agent w/ ties to the CIA. Intelligence targeted Hendrix for his political activism, with Jeffery served as the operative, using bogus arrests & drug pushing to neutralize him. Within 48h of Hendrix firing him, Hendrix was dead.
The Met investigation into Peter Mandelson is on the brink. They asked the Americans for the unredacted Epstein files. The ones that appear to show him forwarding market sensitive government material to a convicted child sex offender while he was Business Secretary in the middle of the financial crash. Bailout details. Asset sales. Bankers’ bonuses. No reply from the DoJ or the FBI. Formal legal process could take years. Sources say the reluctance is partly about protecting Trump’s reputation and stopping the whole scandal reigniting.
Starmer still appointed him Ambassador. Failed vetting. Deeper ties lied about. The scandal helped end that premiership.
Now the man who allegedly fed government secrets to Epstein while people were losing homes and jobs may walk because the evidence stays locked across the Atlantic. Ordinary people get the book thrown at them for less. The connected get silence and delay.
This is how the system works.
Academic freedom does not mean the right to spout discredited or fraudulent claims, quite the contrary. You don't have academic freedom to insist on flat earth. It also doesn't authorise breaking contractual agreements re. agreed research which in this case was not 'race science'
Elon Musk now piling in to threaten anyone who questions Cofnas. It seems having failed to whip up race riots this summer in the UK, he’s backing the main figure behind the reputational lynching of Jason Arday. The dark enlightenment is here and spreading
NEW: I can't get this story out of my head. And I know I'm not alone. The attempt to cover up the complicity of the UK media's role in Jason Arday's death may be its sickest move yet.
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The 6 richest men in America-Elon Musk, Larry Page, Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin, Michael Dell & Larry Ellison-got $977 billion richer since Trump’s election.
These 6 men are now worth $2.1 trillion, while Trump took food away from 4 million hungry Americans.
That’s oligarchy.
The white liberal is […] the worst enemy to the Black man." - Malcolm X
Anyone can wear radicalism when it’s safe, fashionable and festive. The test is what remains when the streets turn hostile and solidarity costs you something. History remembers who stood up, and who stood aside.
Dawkins only got a 2:1 in his undergraduate degree, did a PhD in counting chicken's pecking, and got a professorship from writing more or less the same popular science book about ten times with a different cover. I'd sit this one out if I was him.
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If you are trans or a trans ally, DO NOT visit the UK. It is now operating Trans Apartheid.
While you are a woman / man in the rest of the western world, Britain will treat you as the opposite.
Hence why the UK is now officially ranked alongside Russia on trans rights.
Spread the word
The UK is not safe for LGBTQIA+ people any more.
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In Africa, we contribute only 4% of global emissions, but we suffer 80% of the consequences. That's not just climate change, that's climate injustice. #ClimateJustice#LossAndDamage
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Grief is not enough. Rage is not enough. Sign the petition for Arday’s Law and share it everywhere. Demand accountability from a media culture that must never be allowed to weaponise harassment against another human being. 10,000 signatures, one law, make it impossible to ignore. ⤵️
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God we really do live in the time of abject morons.
Women do not have a superior right to life than men.
My brothers deserve safety & freedom as much as me.
The women & children deserve to live with their husbands & fathers.
And even if it wasn’t disgusting, horrific & abhorrent to talk about returning men to face torture, persecution & death merely because of their gender - which is what denying them asylum means -
It would also OBVIOUSLY be impossible to prevent men from seeking life opportunity & safety just as much as anyone else. People move. Because we have to. And we always will.
I literally beg of everyone to get a fucking grip of reality & seek solutions to the world AS IT IS, not as some racist idiot (who is invariably a man projecting his self-loathing feelings of masculine inadequacy onto this whole debate) tells you it could be.