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ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITS MICHELANGELO, DA VINCI and RAPHAEL

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ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITS MICHELANGELO, DA VINCI AND RAPHAEL ALONG WITH OTHER GREATS OF THAT ERA. (1500’s) UP TO FEBRUARY 16 2025 Now you can venture to see a collection of originals which includes a large collection of pen and ink drawings covering figures looking lithe and toned, as well as horses imaginatively finely sketched to the hilt. Also included in the relatively small (for the Royal Academy) exhibition  are awe inspiring oils framed in breathtaking magnificent  frames of the Virgin and Child, the Virgin with Saint Anne and child and Saint John the Baptist – spend some time taking in how wonderfully … Continue reading ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITS MICHELANGELO, DA VINCI and RAPHAEL

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Homeless man froze to death after sleeping bin shelter

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A homeless man dies after freezing nights sleeping in a bin shelter. Maria Celia Salgado, a residents on the South End Close Estate alerted on December 12th 2024 to Camden Council about a man staying in one of the bin sheds over the past couple of months when temperature plummeted to -3°C.  Camden Council’s social services visited him but no action was taken as he refused help. On Saturday 11th January 2025, morning, one resident checked on him to discover that he  was “frozen”  and unresponsive, and soon called Ambulance, the paramedic s treated him at the scene and rushed to Royal Free Hospital, where … Continue reading Homeless man froze to death after sleeping bin shelter

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Wealth Transfer

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The superrich wanted Great Wealth Transfer, by becoming philanthropist effectively means transfer of family wealth from the Baby Boomer generation to their children. Vanguard estimated that by 2030, around $10.6 trillion will have been transferred between generations in the United States, $.35 trillion in Europe, and $2.8 trillion in Asia. These are enormous figures, but globally, the private equity industry had $8.2 trillion of assets under management at the end of 2023. There is great wealth transfer happening every day that has contributed to this enormous accumulation of wealth: the monopolization of the economy.  Wealth transfer emerges from the pocketbooks … Continue reading Wealth Transfer

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Google’s search dominance under UK watchdog investigation

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Google accounts for 90 per cent of all UK web searches – the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is looking whether it is using that dominant position to harm competition or choice for users. CMA, the UK’s competition watchdog has launched an investigation to find out if Google has too much power in online search. The CMA says it wants to ensure the tech giant is “delivering good outcomes for people and businesses” and that there is a “level playing field” for rivals. Google says it will cooperate with the investigation but has warned against what it calls “overly prescriptive … Continue reading Google’s search dominance under UK watchdog investigation

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Game of Cat and Mouse, addictively suspenseful

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David McCloskey, a former CIA officer, whose thriller Damascus Station, one of the best spy thrillers in years, this time “ The Seventh Floor” has become addictively suspenseful and espionage thriller. A Russian arrives in Singapore with a secret to sell. But when the Russian is killed and Sam Joseph, the CIA officer dispatched for the meet, goes missing, Artemis Procter is made a scapegoat and run out of the service. Traded back in a spy swap, Sam appears at Procter’s central Florida doorstep months later with an explosive secret, there is a Russian mole hidden deep within the upper … Continue reading Game of Cat and Mouse, addictively suspenseful

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Drug addict in Harlem rubble, surviving miraculously

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Richard Price, American author and screenwriter write crime fiction with a social conscience giving us razor-sharp anatomy of an ever-changing Harlem. In Lazarus Man, Richard Price, creates intertwining portraits of a group of compelling and singular characters whose lives are permanently impacted by the disaster. East Harlem, in 2008, a five-storey tenement collapses into a fuming hill of rubble, pancaking the cars parked in front and coating the street with a thick layer of ash, resulting in several deaths. Anthony Carter, a recovering drug addict is retrieved from the rubble buried for days beneath tons of brick and stone, some … Continue reading Drug addict in Harlem rubble, surviving miraculously

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Global web of power

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This is the untold story of the mysterious Chinese telecom company that shook the world from the coast of southern China, eccentric entrepreneur spent three decades  since its founding in 1987 in Shenzhen, shaping one of the world’s most powerful technological empires without anyone noticing. But December 2018, when the detention of Meng Wanzhou, Huawei Technologies’ female scion, sparked an international hostage standoff, poured fuel on the US-China trade war, and suddenly thrust the mysterious company into the international spotlight. In House of Huawei, Washington Post technology reporter  and former China correspondent Eva Dou, writes an authoritative and remarkable portrait of Huawei’s … Continue reading Global web of power

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Born in Pharmacist’s backyard

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Did you know how Coca-Cola was created in 1886 Atlanta Georgia, by a pharmacist named Dr. John Stith Pemberton, who was wounded in the American Civil War and addicted to morphine, began a quest to find a substitute for the problematic drug and started experimenting with flavoured syrup in his backyard to create a cure for headaches and a refreshing drink. He stirs coca leaves with kola nuts and voila caramel coloured drink. He takes his syrup to Jacob’s pharmacy add carbonated water and give the village people to try it, who declared as a magical drink. Pemberton starts selling … Continue reading Born in Pharmacist’s backyard

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Pound falls to its lowest level as borrowing costs hit their highest in 16 years

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The Sterling pound had fallen to its lowest level while UK borrowing costs hit their highest in 16 years since 2008. Prices are rising at their fastest pace since March. In December, the Bank of England said the economy was likely to have performed worse than expected in the last three months of 2024, having held the interest rates at 4.75 per cent. Governments generally spend more than they rise in tax so they borrow money to fill the gap, usually by selling bonds  known as Gilts to investors. The pound has fallen in value against the dollar over the last … Continue reading Pound falls to its lowest level as borrowing costs hit their highest in 16 years

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Opioid overdoses quadrupled in the US

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Greed to Do Good, is the untold story of Centre for Disease Control and Prevention’s disastrous war on opioids, as CDC announced that overdose deaths had quadrupled in ten years, hitting a record high of 90, 000 in 2020, but overdose deaths rocketed to 100,000 in 2021 and 110, 000 in 2022.  Between 2006-2012, Purdue Pharma, which promoted OxyContin along with other Big Pharma companies, sold 76 billion opioid doses. Overdoses shot up almost in parallel manner. In 2022, the death toll from overdoses exceeded auto and firearms deaths combined. To stem the tide, the CDC decided to focus on … Continue reading Opioid overdoses quadrupled in the US