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Rumored to be written above the gates of Hell: ‘Abandon all hope ye who enter here’. Was this the greeting heralding in the 3rd milennium? I just hope not, but sometimes it seems that way.

Go back to the mid-20th Century, in the years following the Second World War. A third of the world seemed to be marching triumphantly towards a Communist utopia after much of it was liberated from Fascism, in Britain and other countries we had our own version of Socialism and a better world ahead with the new Welfare State and nationalized industries to serve the public not private profit, the economy was improving, nuclear energy promised an almost unlimited source of power, technology leaping ahead with new labor-saving devices, the Soviet Sputnik heralded the new Space Age with journeys to other planets, campaigns started up to get rid of nuclear weapons and were supported by hundreds of thousands if not millions around the world, the European Coal and Steel Community developed into the European Common Market – making war between European states, which twice developed into World Wars, very unlikely.

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I attended my first Rockabilly Rave at Pontins Holiday Center, Camber Sands, East Sussex last weekend. I had to be persuaded to go as, while I love first rate rockabilly from the American greats like Carl Perkins, Billy Lee Riley, Sonny Burgess, Warren Smith, Johnny Burnette Trio, etc. I’m not so keen on neo-rockabilly and obscure 1950s rockabilly from equally obscure artists.

I decided to go because I wanted to see the great Sleepy La Beef and Jack Scott once again. In fact I enjoyed much more than these two, though they were superb.

Sleepy La Beef went well over his allotted 45 minutes playing for an hour 20 or 25 minutes. Not for nothing is he called ‘the human jukebox’ as he treated us to a mixture of rock’n'roll, rockabilly and Country music, some complete songs, some medleys.

Diana  has recorded a new podcast on her site DianaSpeaks.info/

The URL follows: http://www.dianaspeaks.info/CurrentMessages.html 

Scroll down to June 2010 podcast, Titles and Hospitals, and click on arrow to hear the podcast.

I won’t reveal the contents, except to say Diana’s return is obviously  via  her voice channel, Andrew Russell-Davis.

Occasionally people ask me how I’m coping with retirement. One thing I can say is that I don’t do all the things I expected to do. This is not so much because I don’t find the time to do them, as I’m not often in the mood to do so.

I have a pile of DVDs and CDs to wade thru on my coffee table, some given to me on retiring 3 years ago. I’ve watched bits of some of them, and now can’t remember which episodes of TV programs, etc. I’ve watched and which I haven’t.

I also had a project for transferring concerts and music clips from my old VHS cassettes on to DVD. Haven’t done any of this for months.

What do I do with my free time? Well this computer takes up most of my spare time, when not watching the soaps, etc. on TV. There’s so much you can do on a computer linked to the Internet.

….on the two main TV channels that is. In this day and age of multi-channel TV there’s absolutely no need for football, Wimbledon, the Olympics, etc. to disrupt the regular programs on BBC1 and ITV1 in the UK.

Both the BBC and ITV need one or two sports channels each for these things, which often over-run. Why should the rest of us with no interest whatsoever in silly, overpaid people kicking or batting a ball about have all our favorite programs disrupted when most channels are full of a load of old crap which nobody would miss anyway?

There’s Sky Sports, and if BBC or ITV want to get in on the act they should start their own Sports channels and leave the main ones free for scheduled programming.

I couldn’t give a tinker’s cuss whether England is knocked out of the World Cup in the first game, or goes on to win it. Nor do I care a damn who wins Wimbledon.

Red line is Greater London boundary, built up areas in mauve (click on map to enlarge.)

London is in a mess. It has always been in a mess as long as I can remember. For instance, I grew up from the age of 6 in the now extinct county of Middlesex, came under the Middlesex County Council education board, but we had the London postal address of Wood Green, London, N22.

To this day there’s a village in Essex, Sewardstone, which has the London postal district of E4.

Conversely many areas of Greater London do not include the city in their postal addresses. Many people still insist on including the non-existant County of Middlesex (e.g. Wembley, Middlesex) in the postal address. In outlying London boroughs many people still include the name of the old county before Greater London was created, so we get incorrect addresses like Croydon, Surrey; Ilford, Essex; Barnet, Herts.; Bromley, Kent.

Anybody who doubts the existence of UFOs is simply ignorant of the facts and have allowed themselves to be hoodwinked by the massive debunking and cover-up by governments around the world.

The late U.S. Major Donald E. Keyhoe  revealed the truth in his books, quoting official documents and USAF personnel, none of whom sued him which is what would have been expected had Keyhoe made it all up. From one of his books:

On January 7th, 1948 a large round machine descended over Kentucky, seen by the commanding officer and others at Godman Air Force Base, by state police and thousands of citizens. As it hovered above Godman an interception was attempted  by Capt. Thomas Mantell, a World War II ace, and two other fighter pilots. The wingmen lost contact in the broken clouds, but Mantell climbed out on top.

The upshot of this chase was that Mantell radioed that he had sighted the UFO, that it looked metallic and was huge.

There are loads of them, some old, some newer. The USA, Australia, the Falkland Islands, Israel – even the UK. Invaders have colonized all these places at one time or another, displacing, killing and subjugating the indigenous population.

It is usually impossible to turn the clock back. When it has been tried you get situations like that existing in Israel/Palestine/Gaza today, two peoples claiming the same land, one group saying they were evicted thousands of years ago and the other just in the past 52 years. However it still sticks in my gullet when I see a so-called ‘Israeli’ government official stand up and speak with an American accent. It just doesn’t seem right, and the same would apply if he or she had a British, French, Russian or any other accent gained outside the Middle East. It smacks of old-fashioned colonialism.