Many with an interest in numerology have been locked in anticipation of 8/8/08, because of the store managers of this world, otherwise known as the global elite/Illuminati's obsession with numerology, astrology, and the occult. According to People magazine, several presidents, including Teddy Roosevelt, the founding fathers of the USA, the wives of Gerald Ford and Warren G. Harding consulted astrologers and based their major life decisions off of their conversations with them. The article goes on to reveal that several astrologers noticed uncanny parallels between several decisions Reagan made, including whether or not to seek a second term, his authorization to bomb Libya, and certain celestial configurations. Him and his wife Nancy Reagan had regular meetings with the astrologer, Joan Quigley, which is also in the People article.

Another example of this obsession broke the surface in Britain with Cherie and Tony Blair, the former first family over there. Click to enlarge.

Numerology is an extremely tricky subject. So much so that I prefer to stick to only the most blatant examples of this Illuminati obsession with numerology. Like this.

Adding to that, the Carter assassination scare which involved two men named Lee Harvey Raymond and Osvaldo Espinoza Ortiz. I could go on and on all day about the 9/11 numerology blatancy, the Madrid bombings in 2003 happening 911 days after 9/11, but my main is really about the Ossetia conflict, so....

On 8/8/08, Georgia invaded its Russian-backed separatist spinoff neighbor South Ossetia in a vicious attempt to regain control of it, and captured the capital, Tskhinvali, killing Russian peacekeepers that were in there. Russia, in response, went in there with tanks and are just slaughtering the Georgian military. The Georgian President, Mikhail Saakasvili complained, saying that the Russians are attacking them in their own territory. South Ossetia, in a hard war with Georgia, won semi-independence from Georgia sixteen years ago, so that claim is weightless. Ethnic cleansing has been reported by the Russians and Georgians, and certainly, the Georgians have been brutal, dropping grenades in starving people's houses and running women over with their tanks. I'll just report their claim and leave it at that till something more solid than that pops up.

The Russians have the nuts to say they have liberated the South Ossetians when everyone who could fled the country and those who haven't have hardly any food or electricity. And all the buildings are smashed. Bush must be doing his ventriloquist act again. The mainstream media, for the most part, is giving marginal attention to this, continuing to show the usual cartoons, the Olympics, and some fluff john Edwards scandal, like all this is dust in the wind. This could turn into World War friggin 3, and FOX is debating whether or not John Edwards is the father of some kid. Just like during the Depression. The networks then wouldn't show all the bank run riots, but they showed instead ostrich races. All by design. The mainstream media is always right on time when they want to manipulate the public. Just remember Iraq and Afghanistan. They are attempting to carefully stage and steer the thinking of the public to their owners' benefit, with only Russia's war crimes and outright thuggishness as its focus, and even jumping on the harmless little things like them recognizing South Ossetia and Abkhazia. They want to be free of Georgia, and the world heads of state dare to say Georgia's territorial integrity must be respected, these two countries' having no say whatsoever, like the people are a group of slaves on the auction block. This is from Fox's website, which actually is fair and balanced, compared to what you see on TV.

Witnesses said the South Ossetian capital, Tskhinvali, was devastated.

"We lost our city ... The Georgians are like Nazis, they are killing civilians, women and children with heavy artillery and rockets," said 28-year-old Sarmat Laliyev, a Tskhinvali resident who had fled to Dzhava, a village near the border with Russia.

The fighting broke out as much of the world's attention was focused on the start of the Olympic Games and many leaders, including Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Bush, were in Beijing.

And Mikhail Saakashvili, does he have any remorse or guilt about any of this?

The fighting broke out as much of the world's attention was focused on the start of the Olympic Games and many leaders, including Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Bush, were in Beijing.

The timing suggests Saakashvili may have been counting on surprise to fulfill his longtime pledge to wrest back control of South Ossetia — a key to his hold on power.

Saakashvili agreed the timing was not coincidental, but accused Russia of being the aggressor. "Most decision makers have gone for the holidays," he said in an interview. "Brilliant moment to attack a small country."

Did Brzezinski mentor him too?

The Georgians have exited the South Ossetian capital, but with the understanding that South Ossetia has been doing its thing since breaking fully away from Georgia in 1992 and being left alone militarily for all the years between then and 2008, the next question should be who or what made Georgia go in there now?

The LA Times has reported that Joseph R. Wood, Cheney's deputy assistant for national security affairs visited Georgia right before the war began. Dick Cheney's Georgia visit announcement was the reason given for this. Someone that high up reduced to errand boy? I don't think so. This matches with a New York Times report where the Bush crew was more upfront about things: "Senior members of the Bush administration met several times in recent months with leaders of a coalition that ousted the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, for two days last weekend, and agreed with them that he should be removed from office, administration officials said today."

2002. The new war on freedom arrives in Georgia. The cover story was that the Al-Qaeda fighters who were causing trouble in Chechnya decided to stay in Georgia for a while. Even the Georgian Defense Minister, whose country recieved enourmous benefit from this in terms of $64 million in military aid and weapons, had this to say: "For me personally, it is very difficult to believe in that [al Qaeda is in the Gorge]," commented Tevzadze, "because to come from Afghanistan to that part of Georgia, they need to [cross] at least six or seven countries, including [the] Caspian Sea... No, al Qaeda influence can't be in the country."

Magic carpets, man. You forgot about the magic carpets and the genies! How do you think they toppled World Trade Center Building 7 without even touching it with a plane? So thickheaded.

This aid has also come in the form of elite Green Beret training:

President George Bush called the May deployment of some 150 U.S. advisers to Georgia the latest front in the U.S. war on terrorism. Much like their fellow soldiers in the Philippines, U.S. Special Forces are teaching Georgian soldiers how to better fight Muslim extremists within their country. Also, as in the Philippines, U.S. troops are not permitted to engage in combat.

Plus, Israel is also providing training. The International Herald Tribune provides some details:

In addition to the spy drones, Israel has also been supplying Georgia with infantry weapons and electronics for artillery systems, and has helped upgrade Soviet-designed Su-25 ground attack jets assembled in Georgia, according to Koba Liklikadze, an independent military expert based in Tbilisi. Former Israeli generals also serve as advisers to the Georgian military.

It's even deeper than that. From the Israeli DEBKA.com:

Last year, the Georgian president commissioned from private Israeli security firms several hundred military advisers, estimated at up to 1,000, to train the Georgian armed forces in commando, air, sea, armored and artillery combat tactics. They also offer instruction on military intelligence and security for the central regime. Tbilisi also purchased weapons, intelligence and electronic warfare systems from Israel.

These advisers were undoubtedly deeply involved in the Georgian army’s preparations to conquer the South Ossetian capital Friday.

Oh indeed. Wired.com Danger Room writer Nathan Hodge gives a definitive answer to the Georgia question.

As Sergei Shamba, the foreign affairs minister of Abkhazia, told me in 2006: “The Georgians are euphoric because they have been equipped, trained, that they have gained military experience in Iraq. It feeds this revanchist mood… How can South Ossetia be demilitarized, when all of Georgia is bristling with weaponry, and it’s only an hour’s ride by tank from Tbilisi to Tskhinvali?”

One of the U.S. military trainers put it to me a bit more bluntly. “We’re giving them the knife,” he said. “Will they use it?”

Feeding the Georgians! But then this leads to the next question. Why are Israel and the US working together? To answer that, I have to bring up a subject that few really think to tread down, and if not brought up, also can bring a debate to a dead stop when someone says, "Well since Israel and the US are against Chavez, Putin and Ahmadinejad, they must be good". No they must and are damn not. They are all dictators to one degree or another and are no better than Western "democratic" dictators, a subject which I cover in Hugo Chavez: The Rising Neosocialist Face of the South American Union.

The planet, from my research, is ruled by a group of families or factions, all sharing the same goal to create a world government with the continents as states making up an Earth Union. It would have a world central bank, world army, microchipped population, and a cashless electronic credit type currency, but since each one of them has been programmed from childhood to do their absolute best to dominate everything in their sight, each family-faction wants to be world king.

I can hardly believe this every day of my life, but the facts are there in front of me. The Bank of International Settlements has called for all global currencies to be ditched in favor of a small block of currencies like the euro or the dollar. And The Independent reported two years ago that the UN called for:

The most potent threats to life on earth - global warming, health pandemics, poverty and armed conflict - could be ended by moves that would unlock $7 trillion - $7,000,000,000,000 (£3.9trn) - of previously untapped wealth, the United Nations claims today.

The price? An admission that the nation-state is an old-fashioned concept that has no role to play in a modern globalised world where financial markets have to be harnessed rather than simply condemned.

Sacrifice sovereignty to a pack of rapists and criminals? Screw that. With Timothy Geithner, the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, calling for a global banking regulatory framework, and all the continent-wide unions such as the EU, African Union, the new Mediterranean and South American Unions, anyone with eyes can see that we are going into this fast. From what I've looked at, the Rothschilds, the chiefs of the central bank tribe are one of them, controlling Israel, the Zionists, and much of Europe, and having tremendous world influence. David Icke has well documented how the Rothschilds have been the guiding dark in Israel since the early kibbutz work farm days there. Another is the Windsors, which control the US, China of and much of Africa, also having much influence. Stewart Swerdlow, who claims that he was mind controlled and in secret government projects, says that there are at least two others. A Romanov line which controls Russia, Iran, parts of Europe and the Middle East, and a Yakuza and North Korea controlling Yamato family based in Japan.

My personal opinion on the Benjamin Fulford situation. To me it seems that he has stepped in a swamp he has no bearings on. The high ranking members of the notorious and ruthless Triads and Tongs who run the drug trade in the region and in the Chinatowns of the world are these Chinese secret societies he talks about who instigated the Boxer Rebellion. I'm sure some reading here have come across how they put the fear of god into their fellow Chinese and rule with iron fists wherever they are found. They could do so much for China to stop the out of control Chinese government. But they fatten themselves up at the expense of the Chinese people the same as the government does and use the same tactics because they are the Chinese branch of the Illuminati. The same Japanese royal family who Fulford says that he is in contact with are total scum who think of the Japanese people as roaches and sacrifice them without hesitation the same as any Rothschild or Windsor would in their attempts to gain more territory and control through imposing ritualistic trash beliefs such as kamikaze. The head of the Japan faction, Emperor Hirohito, why didn't he keep to the Japanese tradition of seppuku and kill himself after Japan lost WWII? Wasn't what happened to Japan the ultimate shame? Of course not, because it's one rule to control the slaves, another for the royal bloodlines who rule this world. These people will hang Fulford out to dry in a minute and they will never help him if the going gets tough for him.

Most may not agree with everything Stewart Swerdlow says, but what is for sure is that the official story we are told about the American Revolutionary War is 100% bull. Yes, I understand, the colonists were innovators with the guerilla warfare tactics, the redcoats never encountered the style before, etc. Britain is notorious in history for being the most ruthless, greedy, money and resource hungry colonial power ever. Which is why it had the most territory of all of them. I liken the American Revolution to a battle against a vicious, greedy, hungry, nasty enemy for years who will do anything to win and get money. And then one day just gives up and says "Ok, it's all yours, guys!" The people on the opposing side would naturally get suspicious and wonder what was up their sleeve. This is exactly the story we are told to believe as historical fact in the history books.

Harold Brooks-Baker, the publishing director of Burke’s Peerage, the encyclopedic bible of aristocratic genealogy, said in 2004 that every single president from Washington and beyond has been closely related to European royalty, and that Kerry and Bush were related to every European monarch on and off the throne, with Kerry having the most royal relatives in history. Obama is a 10th cousin once removed of George W. Bush, and McCain is the 6th cousin of Laura Bush. George W. Bush is the 13th cousin once removed of Queen Lizard II of England. George W’s mom’s maiden name was Barbara Pierce, as in President Franklin Pierce. A direct descendent. How and why is this? Because the "exit" by the colonial powers was a con job to fool the disgruntled public while they left the royal bloodlines (Washington and Bolivar and Mandela) as viceroys and the secret society networks behind as their eyes, ears, and hands to manipulate these bloodlines into power and carry out other aspects of the agenda. That’s why you see the top dogs in banking, politics, the military, and entertainment all can claim close blood links with European royalty, and why there is such a high ratio of people in these top positions that are secret society initiates compared to those who aren’t.

Working with this understanding that there are factions who all want a global government, but also fight amongst themselves for the king of the ring title, you can understand then why Putin and Chavez, who are clearly dictators when you see who they call friends and ally themselves with, are being attacked by the West. They are just getting in the way of Windsor or Rothschild power grabs. The media, controlled in areas by all factions, then issue certain nationalistic or whatever lie is necessary to cover up what is really going on behind the scenes.

Every single nation that is called a hostile or rogue state by Bush & Co. all were countries, at the time the Project for the New American Century document, Rebuilding America's Defenses was written, that did not have US military bases on them. Burma is also a country without one of them. It is a highly strategic point because it is the center of Southeast Asia which would offer easy access to China and other Asian nations militarily in a future conflict with them that is planned. The Middle East is also right near China and it is essential that they be taken to choke China like a noose. The same idea in Eastern Europe with Russia. Radical Islam was created through the Western intelligence agencies to provide justification for getting these countries under control.

Russia and China are the two most poweful nations in the East, and they are rapidly making alliances all over the place, and gathering up natural resources in Eastern Europe and Africa to further these goals. Recently, in a deal by state owned natural gas company Gazprom with Turkmenistan, Russia has gained control over the much desired Turkmen natural gas deposits, the fifth largest in the world. Putin has already announced that he wants the former Soviet Union reunited, and this is the reason you see why Russia has such a possessive attitude in regard to neighboring countries. And why the factions controlling the US and Israel are working together in this situation and have been fueling up Georgia to block them. A member of Rice's Georgian "diplomatic" delegation said about Russia:

On board of Condoleezza Rice's airplane one of the members of the US delegation said something even more explicit than what Secretary Rice had said. The member wished to remain anonymous.

"Russia needs to realize that the empire is gone. Austro-Hungarian Empire is not coming back. The Ottoman Empire is not coming back and nor is the Soviet empire," Reuters quoted the US official as saying.

The U.S. official traveling with Rice to Tbilisi said a simmering confrontation between Georgia and Russia over two breakaway regions could lead to a catastrophe, and that Moscow should realize it is no longer Georgia's imperial master.

These are the countries Russia has already allied themselves with.

• South Ossetia - Already wanted to join up with Russia before all this started. Most of its people now have Russian citizenship. South Ossetian and Russian presidents have announced that within years, South Ossetia will merge with Russia.
• Abkhazia - Another territory that split off from Georgia that also is been fighting the Georgians with Russia.
• Tajikistan - Russia is its primary economic and security partner
• Kyrgyzstan - Bending over backwards to be in Club Russia.
• Uzbekistan - Things are looking up economically between the two countries.
• Moldova - An economic takeover it looks to be. They are already majority owner of Moldovagaz, their big natural gas company.
• Armenia - The Armenian president says the country needs to develop a deeper relationship with Russia.
• Belarus - The Belarus President has named Putin the leader of the Russia- Belarus alliance.
• Brazil, Russia, India, and China, the BRIC nations, hosted an independent meeting in Yekaterinburg to discuss a new alliance between the nations. All were in sympathy towards each other's growing separatist movements.

• Iran - Ahmadinejad and Medvedev called for strong Tehran-Moscow ties just two weeks ago. This was obvious but I'll just put it here again just to show the raw extent of Russia's alliances and influence in the region.

Russia is a member of the UN Security Council, which means it can veto any Iran resolution. It is also Iran's ally now, so you can see how that'd go. Already the US, Britain, and other nations are trying to get together to put out independent sanctions on Iran. Even though they always end up hurting only the common people. That's freedom.

Russia already has gained through that big deal with the Turkmen gas, which must have been devastating to the plans of the Rothschild-Israel and Windsor-Uk-US factions. Most of Asia and Eastern Europe is now on the Russia-China team. They had to move fast and stop Russia from gaining any more ground and put a stop to Russia's aggression so they can snatch up the remaining Eastern European countries into NATO and the EU. Russia's already threatened to nuke Ukraine and other countries around it if they joined NATO. Therefore team Israel and USA create a problem by arming up Georgia, giving them the knife to go in. Which they have. They knew Russia wouldn't stand for what happened over there, and that they'd attack. Now the perfect justification has been created for NATO and the UN to curb Russia's violent growth, in my view.

The above is where I ended the original version of this article, and as the days pass by, I see the confirmation of more and more of what I said. Because it's what they the Illuminati have said. David Miliband, the UK Foriegn Minister says that this is all to stop Russia from gaining territory. The Guardian article astonishingly admits that the world was cut up into regions with each of the leading world powers given their own territory. Miliband said: "Britain will not accept the redrawing of Europe into spheres of influence, the foreign secretary said today, as he kept the diplomatic pressure on Russia after its recognition of Georgia's breakaway provinces." At least not when Russia is getting in the way of our faction's control desires Britain won't. And the confirmation providing warning: "The statement, described as an "unprecedented step" by the Foreign Office, followed a warning from Miliband delivered in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, to the Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, that he bore a "big responsibility" not to provoke a new cold war." The former Georgian president Eduard Shevarnazde, in an interview with Bild.de said that the US has been plotting for years to start up a new Cold War through the missile defense shield set up in Poland and the Czech Republic.

Earlier in this work, I said that NATO and the UN now have the justification to curb Russia's territorial expansion. There is a strong case that NATO was even created with just this scenario in mind. In Miliband's statement, he added that special type of reversespeak denial which is so common while there's a plan in the works: "Miliband said Russia's approach was "anathema" and belonged to the second world war era of Yalta. He rejected the argument that Nato was an offensive alliance seeking to encircle Russia." Another Guardian article, called The week that buried the new world order, shows that the history negates all that.

Into this was interposed the issue of Nato expansion up to Russia's very borders, sold first by President Bill Clinton and then George Bush, as a mechanism for 'democratisation' that would guarantee security. Gaddy says: 'That push was counter-productive and largely responsible for what is happening today. If we push harder, [as Gordon Brown suggests] it will confirm Russia's worst fear over what Nato is about. That is what I am afraid of - by pushing ever-harder we end up in a dangerous place.'

Indeed NATO looks like it's going to do something. They have caused the Russians considerable alarm because the latest addition to their number of warships off the coast of Georgia now means that they outnumber Russia's. Sarkozy, now EU president, also has said to Russia to pack it up, because "no one wants a new Cold War." And of course, Russia issued threats, one being their ambassador to NATO growling out that any NATO interference meant war. Doubly chilling in its implications, the Chief of the Russian General staff warning the West that to defend Russia's territories, they are ready to go nuclear, even going so far as to engage in American style preemptive strikes. Preemptive nuking. I still can't believe all this manuevering is going on and the networks are still devoting airtime to cartoons. This time though, the West is going for broke and wants to do this domino style, Russia->China->Iran->allies. I know it looks that everything is pointing to Iran because of the threats, but Iran is too expected. I said that the China Olympics would be uneventful and I was dead on. Why? The Illuminati operate on a "shock and awe" doctrine where they use the same old techniques but always do it in an unexpected way or moment. Everyone expects a terror strike on American soil to justify a war with Iran. Everyone expects the US and/or Israel to go directly into Iran. Basically, the way this game works is to introduce an out of the blue, traumatic shock. After this happens the mind enters a sort of "out", ungrounded state where it is terribly susceptible to outside influences or commands and thus can be controlled at that time. It is textbook Tavistock technique. Did you or anyone you know expect 9/11 on a conscious level in the way that it happened? Or any of the other controlled terror attacks? Diana? Unless you did you homework, probably not, right?. This is one of the finest tools in the Illuminati arsenal that is so essential to understand when researching the overall plan.

All this has to be done very delicately because Russia supplies most of Europe's oil and natural gas.I saw that David Icke's newsletter that just came out today where he gives an update current eventswise about a traffic cop that told him about a secret plan by the UK government to use CCTV operators, private security guards, traffic cops, and other people to act as military style enforcers in the aftermath of a war where the people would be rioting. With the info I've gone over I certainly agree with David Icke that the deliberately manipulated into war involving China is definitely the war they are prepping for with this. Icke has a scan in his article of a Daily Mail article where citizens can take a course and get police abilities. I include a link to that at the end of this article. Now the only reason why citizens would mass riot is if something really extreme happened, even worse than a new war with just one Middle East country. It couldn't be just Iran because look at Iraq. It was a major oil supplier and prices didn't surge up that much. So something bigger, something involving a war with Russia the major European energy supplier which would send oil and as a consequence, food prices through the roof. And the British people aren't like Americans, programmed through that box to think that standing up for your rights is insane and criminal. If they will riot over something like a genetically modified food trial, they sure will over that. Not meaning to tear down my fellow Americans, but the truth is the truth.

To me this possible WW3 situation looks not like an unavoidable inevitability, but an ultimate opportunity for humanity to firmly stand up and stop bucking responsibility for everything we see around us. A reader sent me an email with an article about the 545 members of Congress...just 545 people who are the source of all our problems, we can do it. No. Just 7 billion people, we can do it. Soldiers need to come through the fear of being jailed and act like the real heroes we are told they are. Military men and women, is it really so bad to sit in the brig when you know that you aren't going to earn your pay by coldly shooting or bombing people with families who love them, that you've never seen in your life? Contrary to popular belief, the infantry hold the greatest power in the military because through them and their deciding whether or not to follow orders, bloody massacres can happen without a hitch or never make it past the planning stages.The power to create a warless world are the youth who refuse military service. Albert Einstein. Utterly simple and utterly profound. The same principle we need to use in our daily lives. Stop giving in to the Illuminati created gangsta rap and TV news bombardments of all the 6 or so that happen in a year "race" violence occurences meant to incite racism, come together, and nonviolently choose not to participate with any police state type law that is passed. If we close our egos and open our hearts, we will know this way is the simplest, the cleanest, and the most favorable for humanity. In other words, it's make or break time.

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Tony! The Blair Musical

Queen Dome @ Pleasance Dome, Sunday 3rd August 5.30pm

This was kind of a disappointment. An apparent hit from last year, it's back for a limited run this year alongside the sequel, Tony of Arabia.

It's a musical covering Tony Blair's ten years in power. The songs are OK - some are pretty good - but the writing doesn't seem that great, and it's not as funny as it tries to be. The performers all put in a decent effort, but particularly Lady Cast Member (pictured) who briefly appeared as both Cherie Blair and Princess Diana - she put her back into it, and it would have been good to see more of her.

It just felt very lightweight. The writers seemed to want to hit all the big beats of Blair's premiership, but without investing them with any real drama - you just had to remember why you cared about them at the time, assuming you did. This left the show feeling like a weirdly disconnected sequence of skits, which would be fine if it had been funnier, or had amazing songs.

Maybe I was just expecting a different beast, but I'd have loved it to have been set on a single, crucial day of Blair's time in power - the day of the landslide election, the day the government decided to go to war, the day Labour turned on Blair... any of them.

Instead, there was a very thin throughline about Blair repeatedly betraying those who helped him gain power, which regardless of your feelings towards the former PM seemed to bear little resemblance to reality. The tales of Blair reneging on his deal with Brown are well-known, but did he really turn on Peter Mandelson? I'd say he was pretty generous to him, given the risks of bringing him back into the cabinet after a fairly dodgy departure. And John Prescott, Alistair Campbell and Cherie felt sidelined and betrayed as well?

I know it's just a musical, but here's the weird thing: the relationship between messianic Blair and bitter, scheming Brown has always been positively Shakespearean in nature. Why not focus entirely on that? Why invent convenient plots when plenty of them actually happened?

It wasn't great, but I did basically enjoy it, and I've still got one of the songs stuck in my head. Maybe my expectations were too high. And at the end of the day, I haven't written a musical about Tony Blair, even though I secretly want to. So what do I know? Nothing, is what.

I've never had a resistance to super hero movies. I can remember the first time I saw Superman as a kid sitting transfixed, wide eyed and amazed as Christopher Reeve, god rest his soul, went about his daily business in a rather gawky manner whilst saving the world in his spare time. Not only saving the world of course but reversing time. I've never once heard Steven Hawkings disprove that the Superman method wouldn't actually work.

On growing a little older the genre lost its charm for me. Example after example of comic book adaptation was pumped into cinemaplexes with huge promises of never seen before action. It all came crashing to hard nosed conclusion for me on release of HULK.... I was a great lover of David Banner as a kid, this was the "you won't like me when I'm angry" TV David Banner of course, played wonderfully by Bill Bixby with Lou Ferringo as the frightening yet lovable monster. The movie was, and I'm an admirer of Ang Lee, HORRIFIC.

My good friend and workplace adversary Matt Etheridge (He loves his Blu-Ray) convinced me, through his relentless enthusiasm for the release of THE DARK KNIGHT to revisit the superhero movie and, as much as I hate to admit it, he's right.

Christopher Nolan's reinvention of this particular character is bursting with depth, conflict and, most importantly, bloody good storytelling and filmmaking. It's not often you get such a cast fitting so well together to make what should be a formula Hollywood film, but is anything but. Christian Bale is fantastic, if you haven't seen RESCUE DAWN, then do. Herzog and Bale seem like perfect collaborators considering their collective fondness of the physical extreme.

Liam Neeson, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman and Gary Oldman also feature prominently and to great effect, Kate Holmes manages to keep her face looking not too weird by resisting that Cherie Blair thing that she sometimes does but the one appearance that REALLY floated my boat was Tim Booth of Indie legends JAMES fame as a villain who turns up a few times in the picture but says NOTHING... He looks the part, granted, but I don't know if Gotham City was frequented by mancunian indie frontmen which was maybe a reason for having him mute. By the way, as I was googling Tim, I for some reason put an "e" at the end of his christian name and ended up at, what is probably the most boring website in the world..... see it here.

The scene below is one of my favourites in the film and really gives a sense of what I'm talking about in terms of craft. Bruce Wayne meets Ducard for the first time which proves to be a turning point that will change Wayne's life forever.

Roll on Dark Knight........

Over on our Facebook group, Louis P. Burns posted his thoughts on the wall:

"Mark Johnson’s point, made in the Guardian, will also be debated. He asked if “a bunch of middle class people” were qualified to talk about and potentially solve a problem they “can’t understand”. Is that a fair criticism of the Disarming Britain season?"

Can't it be argued that as long as it's being discussed, people from all 'classes' (I hate that word) are getting their minds opened up to other ways of looking at life? Still very poignant to me from the series was what the A&E doctor said about the trauma victims in the last moments of life go through. How the hell does anyone deliver that kind of news to someone fading out senselessly?

"Is the Disarming Britain season encouraging positive debate on the issue of gun and knife crime, or does it run the risk of glamourising the possession of weapons to impressionable youths?"

You'd need to be a sad case to be inspired violently by the Disarming Britain series. I've found it a highly informative expose on gun and knife culture.

And just like Rebecca Monique Williams, he had praise for Fallout:

To cap all of that, the movie last night; Fallout should be nominated for several awards. It was perfectly acted, held a gripping pace, addressed all angles caught up in gun culture and delivered a damn fine bit of new drama. Powerful stuff (thumb's up) - On a par with Nil By Mouth and A Sense of Freedom. Pure excellence...

Remember, if you want to get your thoughts heard, or maybe even join the studio audience in tomorrow's programme, which goes out at 4.10pm, send a message to thetvshow@princesstv.com

The wife of a warmongering liar, responsible for the death of tens of thousands of Iraqi and Afghan children, fears for her ofspring.

The other half of an evil warmongering piece of trash who brought about the destruction of two ancient cultures fears for the violence she helped to make glamorous now that it starts to haunt her own country. I'm speechless.

At least Hitler had the decency to remain childless and commit suicide after all the destruction he had  wrought.

God damn her and her offspring for all eternity.

Cherie Blair admitted yesterday that she fears for the safety of her children when they go out on the streets. She also claimed that government figures drastically underestimate the scale of knife crime among children in Britain.

In a dramatic intervention, the wife of the former prime minister told MPs that while chairing a "street weapons commission" she found alarming evidence of rising violence involving knives among children.

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I find this picture staggeringly distressing, and I can't fugure out why. Perhaps the poor terrified bird has just shat on the Headette-of-State's hand?

If you've been a regular visitor here, you should be used to these kind of coincidences. My fiance's family lost someone; he was a son, a brother, a husband, a father, an uncle and a grandfather - and he was just 58 years old. That makes his wife a widow.

He was buried on saturday and I kept staring at his wife (widow) every chance I got. She was beautiful and stately and carried herself with a lot of courage. The thought kept popping up in my mind that this woman was now a widow and that got me thinking about the widows in my life. I suppose every family has some right?

Anyway, I thought the international widow's day would be a perfect time to write this tribute to all the widows in my life who have contributed one way or the other to my life.

To my grandmother, Mrs Felicia Famonure... if a price tag could be placed on wisdom, the legacy I've received from you would make me the world's richest woman. You have enriched my life in ways you cannot even begin to imagine; you have been an example of what love can accomplish. Thank you for the strict discipline, the dedicated prayers and unwavering belief in me... your gift of the wisdom of my people... you are one woman in a millon!

Mrs Shola Durojaiye: If you happen to come across this and read it, I know you would be surprised to see you name here. But you have been an inspiration to me. The way you have valiantly fought loneliness and have found the courage to be the mainstay of your family is nothing short of inspiring. You extended the umbrella of your love and gave me shelter as an undergrad far far away from home...it's not something one can easily forget. You are a wonderful woman!
Mrs margaret Adinga - who is almost a perfect look alike of my mum (being her sister and all that)... I watched as you struggled to pull yourself after the loss of your husband. It was harder for you because he was your everything...but you came through for your sons and for those of us who were watching you. Even after you lost one of your two sons, you valiantly faced the anguish and heart break and allowed it to make you a stronger woman. My aunt, my friend, my role model...you are multifaceted.

Mrs Adeline Denni Fiberesima. The true and quintessential African mother...caring without being intrusive with a surplus of love for all those around you. When your son brought me home to you, he did not have to explain what role I play in his life, you just welcomed me with open arms. In the one year that I have known you, I have come to the conclusion that you are one of the strongest, bravest, most courageous women I've ever been privileged to know. You are one of those unsung heroes of life. It takes an amazing woman to achieve all that you have since you lost your husband. Single handedly trained 3 children, rallied up took over the management of your husband's hospital without any previous training in management or even medicine..and you made a success of it too! If I keep writing I will not stop. That is how much there is to you. Thank you for your love and acceptance - even though I'm not yet married to your son, you have accepted me as a daughter; you have no idea how much you mean to me.

Do you have anyone in your family or amongst your friends who is a widow? They face a lot of hardship - mostly emotional. Except they are African widows then in addition to the loneliness and emotional hardship, they also have to deal with financial hardship and sometimes, cruelty from their late husband's family; the tales will make your hair stand!

I know for certain that in some parts on Nigeria, when a man dies, his body is given a bath and his widow is forced to drink the water...(Gross I know!). The idea is that if she was in some way responsible for his death, then after drinking the water she will also die. I mean really.......! dysentery, typhoid...hello?! Those are enough to finish anybody off. But that's tradition for you!

In most cases (like that of my aunt, Mrs Margaret Adinga), the relatives strip the widow off everything and anything they can get their hands on leaving her destitute. If she's lucky, they leave the children for her. It's terrible! One would think that with democracy and law courts things should be different... but the problem is a lot of the men here die without leaving wills. When there is no last will and testament, the native law and custom comes to play. And if they were married under native law and custom....God help that woman!

You can make a difference in the life of that widow around you. You can offer support in so many ways; pray, visit, run errands...anything! No one can really fill the emptiness caused by the loss of a loved one, especially a life partner, but we can make the emptiness a little less hollow.

To find out more about the plight of African widows, click here.

Fuel prices at the moment are something that get everyone wound up. Everyone except the fat cats in government who know that they can claim their fuel back on expenses using tax payers money.

There have been many protests and slow moving convoys set out to show how upset people are by the soaring costs of fuel and members of the public just don't know why Gordon Brown can't show a bit of balls for once and say enough is enough, we're going to do something about this!

You see this country, behind the scenes, is in a real mess. Give it another 25 years and we could quite realistically become a third world country. We no longer produce anything. So we have no value economically to the rest of the world.

Not only that but we have nothing to bail us out of our problems.
All of our gold reserves have been sold off, probably to make a nice pair of cuff-links and ear rings for the Blairs.
All of our national assets have been privatised. Sold off to the highest bidder in ebay fashion.

I remember when labour came to power and there where several millionaires and celebrities thinking they'd be forced to quit the country. That never happened because Labour rewrote the books and decided it was better to destroy the average worker rather than the wealthy who might invite them to the odd party or two!

A Labour government has not actually existed for some years now and quite seriously I think we as British citizens could probably sue the government under the trade descriptions act. This labour government is more conservative than the last Conservative run government ever was.

I read this week that the USA is in uproar as some fuel stations there have raised the cost of fuel to 60p a litre. In Venezuala they pay less than 3p a litre!!! When the government went to rise it the people rioted and burnt the streets!
What do we do? we all get together and drive slowly down a motorway!

I'm not suggesting we riot and burn things but I am suggesting we let our government know that we could if we wanted turn this country black and blue!

It does all make me wonder what the hell is the Iraq thing all about?
It seems Blair did some kind of deal there with Bush that went along the lines of:

In the event of the the USA and the UK invading Iraq:

• the USA have the right to claim all oil and first dibs on which prisoners to smack about.
• the uk have the right to help us and keep as much sand as they like

When Blair saw this he convinced his cabinet that they could sell all the gold reserves for billions because the golden looking sand could be made into gold bars. The rest is history.

It makes me laugh, well nearly cry actually that someone like Mugabe can maim and kill and starve thousands upon thousands of the Zimbabwean people. But because their land does not consist of rich pickings like oil wells and ore rich mines our governments deem them as not worth paying any attention too!

Well that's rant number one over with!

Since I arrived 3 weeks ago, the weather has been dire with only infrequent patches of sun and I've hardly had the chance to peel of the jeans and bare a leg.  Over the Bank Holiday weekend at the end of May, many of the festivities such as the Hay Festival were miserable, rain-drenched, thundery affairs.

And just before the Bank Holiday, I read in The Independent that 18 million cars were due on the roads and more than 30 sets of engineering works were expected on the railways. Nothing changes.....

And if you do manage to pick a road that is not grid-locked with traffic, there's the problem of soaring petrol and diesel prices to deal with.  The cost of filling a Renault Espace with diesel now costs £23 more than it did a year ago.

Rising petrol and food prices are all part of the 'Credit Crunch': a much-used phrase in the press and everyday conversation.  It's probably biting harder in the North than in the affluent South East - in the small Nottinghamshire town of Retford, one shop was advertising a special 50% off 'credit crunch ' sale.  I have experienced severe bladder crunch at several railway stations. You can't have a pee for less than 30p nowadays and so it's bad luck if you don't have the right change.

Terry Wogan is still hosting the Eurovision Song Contest - although apparently the voting is heavily rigged - and Cherie Blair has washed her dirty linen in public by publishing her memoirs with the me, me, me title of 'Speaking for Myself.'  Broadcast on Book of the Week on Radio 4 (what were they thinking?), she reveals when and how baby Leo was conceived. She left her contraceptive equipment at home on a visit to Balmoral to avoid embarrassment. She goes on to explain that when the royal valets unpack 'one's' suitcase, they lay out all 'one's' belongings. But she and Tone nevertheless decided to rock the castle - as if we want to know.....

The papers have also been full of the dodgy deal made by Peter Phillips (Princess Anne's son) and his Canadian bride, Autumn Kelly. They negotiated a £500,000 deal with Hello magazine to feature their wedding. Many think their sell-out to the airbrushed world of the celebrity magazine was very vulgar and that the Queen was an unwitting victim of the deal. Who knows - maybe the Queen is feeling the Credit Crunch and needed some extra funds!

Επιτέλους! Το μεγάλο βιβλίο της χρονιάς, εδώ και κάτι μέρες βρίσκεται σε όλα τα βιβλιοπωλεία της Αγγλίας.

Η γυναίκα του τέως βρετανού Πρωθυπουργού Cherie Blair, στο αποκαλυπτικό αυτοβιογραφικό της βιβλίο "Speaking for Myself" φώτισε τις απορίες που σύσσωμος ο βρετανικός λαός είχε και ο σοβαρός τύπος της χώρας έθετε εδω και καιρό με εμμονή.

Το βιβλίο, που αναμένεται να χαρίσει στην χαρισματική (!) κυρία Μπλερ, κάτι παραπάνω μηδενικά στον ήδη παχουλό λογαριασμό της, αποκαλύπτει ότι

1. Γνώρισε τον Τόνι σε ένα λεωφορείο. Ήταν βράδυ, επέστρεφαν και οι δύο σπίτι μετά από ένα πάρτυ, της άρεσε, της μίλησε και.. το ίδιο βράδυ "γνωρίστηκαν καλύτερα!"

2. Ο Τόνι της έκανε πρόταση γάμου δύο χρόνια αργότερα, τη στιγμή που η ίδια καθάριζε τη τουαλέτα...!

Η στιγμή περιγράφεται ως εξής : (θα παραμείνω πιστός στη μετάφραση!)

"Ήμουν στην τουαλέττα και έσκυβα να την καθαρίσω.

-Cherie!, μου φώναξε.

Γύρισα προς το μέρος του.

-Cherie, θέλω να γίνεις η γυναίκα μου!

Δε μπορούσα να το πιστέψω! Ήμουν τόσο συγκινημένη...!"

3. Ο Τόνι δεν ξεχνούσε να πίνει την ασπιρίνη του, που τον συμβούλευσε ο γιατρός.

4. Η ίδια τα πήγαινε καλύτερα με τη Λόρα Μπους παρά με τη Χίλαρι. Όπως γράφει η Cherie, μπορούσε να μιλήσει πιο άνετα "για θέματα που λέει κάθε γυναίκα σε μια φίλη της" στη Λόρα.

5. Η Cherie θεωρεί τον Μπιλ Κλίντον πιο έξυπνο από τον άντρα της. Για να το τεκμηριώσει παραθέτει και το εξής περιστατικό:

"Βρισκόμασταν στην Ιαπωνία, σε ένα από αυτά τα συνέδρια , και εκεί ήταν και ο Τόνι με τον Μπιλ. Στο δωμάτιο του ξενοδοχείου, μας είχαν αφήσει κάτι άθλια μπλουζάκια για να τα φορούμε τις μέρες του συνεδρίου. Ο Τόνι, που δεν του άρεσε κανένα, αποφάσισε να φορέσει το λιγότερο άσχημο,.

Την επόμενη μέρα με έκπληξή του πρόσεξε ότι ο Μπιλ φορούσε το πιο γελοίο μπλουζάκι.

-Ξέρεις Τόνι, του είπε ο Μπιλ, σε αυτά τα συνέδρια όταν έχω να αντιμετωπίσω τέτοιες καταστάσεις βρίσκομαι σε πολύ δύσκολη θέση. Εαν δεν φορέσεις αυτό που σου προσφέρουν θίγεις αυτούς που σε φιλοξενούν. Από την άλλη, αν τα φορέσεις είναι σχεδόν βέβαιο ότι θα γίνεις περίγελο στη χώρα σου.

Και συνέχισε:

-Εσυ, με το λιγότερο άσχημο μπλουζάκι που φοράς, στέλλεις το μήνυμα στη χώρα σου πως το φοράς με δική σου επιλογή. Ενω εγώ, με την άθλια επιλογή μου, στέλνω το μήνυμα στους αμερικανούς πως "για δες ο Πρόεδρος, είναι τόσο άσχημο το μπλουζάκι που φορά, που σίγουρα δεν το επέλεξε ο ίδιος αλλά του το έδωσαν εκεί στην Ιαπωνία για το συνέδριο...! Τι καλός που είναι!"

Ενδιαφέρον έχει και η εξήγησή ( ; ) της για τις διακοπές της οικογένειας Μπλερ στη θαλαμηγό Μπερλουσκόνι προ 3ετίας, αφού κατά την ίδια ήταν αναγκασμένοι να το κάνουν, προκειμένου "να κερδίσει τις ιταλικές ψήφους η υποψηφιότητα του Λονδίνου για τους Ολυμπιακούς του 2012"

Συγκλονιστικές οι αποκαλύψεις από μια γυναίκα που ένα χρόνο πριν, έβγαζε την κακία της στους δημοσιογράφους, αποχαιρετώντας τους για τελευταία φορά από την οικία του πρωθυπουργού με την ατάκα: "Δε θα μου λείψετε καθόλου!"

Για όσους φίλους επιμένουν να μάθουν το πόσο πολύ η Cherie απεχθάνεται τον διάδοχο του άντρα της στη Downing Street, το πώς ένιωσε για την απαγόρευση του κυνηγιού της αλεπούς στη χώρα και τι σχέση είχε η δημοσιοποίηση της αποβολής που είχε με τον πόλεμο στο Ιρακ, μπορούν να προμηθευτούν το πόνημα της κυρίας Μπλερ.

Μπρ!

[Ottawa Citizen] Mrs. Blair, who is also an accomplished barrister specializing in human rights law and member of Britain's Queen's Counsel, is being criticized as "cash-hungry," "opportunistic," and for providing too much personal information.

The rest.

In aid of Rights and Humanity
Registered UK Charity No: 1001555

This event takes place at The Vice Chancellor's Dining Room, Hope Park, Childwall, Liverpool L16 9JD

Wednesday 4 June 2008
9.00 a.m

Full English or Continental Breakfast

£45 per person

Hosted by:
Mrs Cherie Blair, Patron Rights and Humanity
Ms Julia Häusermann, MBE, Founder and President
HRH Prince Frederick von Saxe-Lauenberg, Trustee

RSVP on the attached registration form [PDF]

Caroline Moss email:  office@rightsandhumanity.org Tel: +44 (0)1473 286565

[CTV] "I'm surprised he's upset [about my memoir]," said Blair, a human rights lawyer. "His job wasn't to look out for me or the family, his job was to ensure the government's business was put over."

The rest.

Hace unos minutos nada más, el viento soplaba tan fuerte, golpeaba con tanta osadía las paredes de la carpa, que no dejaba oír a la ex primera dama de Inglaterra. La esposa de Blair, que extrañamente ahora ha recuperado su apellido de soltera, Booth (será pariente de Richard?), hablaba como sabe hacerlo: entre seria y firme, determinante, pretendidamente profunda pero con chistes frívolos y de los otros. La gente la interrumpía (de la manera que un inglés puede interrumpir) para aplaudirla con la misma energía o reírse de sus ocurrencias. En la primera parte de la intervención, habló de la situación de las mujeres en el mundo, de la equidad como desafío. Leyó el discurso con elegancia de abogada (vestida a la usanza: traje sastre en marrón oscuro, collar de corales), y a más de uno le daban ganas de votarla, sobre todo en estos boring times de Brown. Luego, participó de una entrevista donde comentó su vida “poco común” en la residencia oficial, bromeando otra vez. Una gran anécdota: debía tener listo el traje negro por si se moría la reina madre. Allí también fue madre, recordó. La gente la seguía en el auditorio y en los bares de alrededor, por el circuito cerrado de televisión. “Definitivamente, es la mejor de la casa”, dice una señora a mi lado, sándwich bio en una mano, y la autobiografía (recién publicada) en la otra.

Bogotá 39 en Gales

Al costado de la granja ecológica, en una sala repleta con 500 personas, los Bogotá 39 Santiago Roncagliolo, Juan Gabriel Vásquez y Guadalupe Nettel se presentaron ante el público inglés (y en inglés). Jason Wilson, el hispanista con acento porteño, elogió la obra de cada uno de ellos y los introdujo ante un público que los seguía atento y curioso. Cómo es escribir bajo la sombra de García Márquez, Vargas Llosa o Paz, cómo es escribir sobre Latinoamérica desde España, preguntas manidas pero interesantes para un público que aún está despegándose de los clichés sobre la literatura latinoamericana y ya no les exige ni poncho ni huipil a ningún escritor. De todas maneras, a este grupo (Andrés Neuman estaba allí también) estos asuntos parece tenerlos sin cuidado, y así se mueven. A la salida, Juan Gabriel Vásquez firmó hasta agotar los 50 ejemplares de The informers, su novela traducida y publicada por Bloomsbury, que el mismo día el suplemento Review de The Guardian elogió.

Humoristas

Mientras Salman Rushdie, Eric Hobsbawm, Christopher Hitchens se paseaban por la sala de los escritores, bebiendo té unos, copas de vino, otros, un Gore Vidal a la vuelta de todo entusiasmaba en la carpa principal a un público entregado. Con cada una de sus respuestas, cortas cínicas y contundentes, se colocó como el líder del deporte preferido de los ingleses: mofarse de los estadounidenses. Y la era Bush da para esto y más. A la misma altura humorística estuvo Will Self, que en medio de su show presentó el libroThe Butt, con el que ganó el premio Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction al mejor novela cómica.

Recently I've been so distraught over the Sichuan earthquake that I haven't been able to post any trivial rants about cars, the Hong Kong government or any other things I hate or detest.

But this morning I went into the screaming, ten-people-shouting-at-once over the loudspeakers-hellhole that is Wellcome, Hong Kong's leading supermarket, where things are only 30% more expensive than in normal shops.

Above is the photo they've got hanging over the banana section in that shop. And here are the bananas they dare to sell to people:

My humble camera doesn't do justice to the irridescent greenness of these rawer than raw parodies of a fruit. You think eating lots of fruits and vegetables is healthy? Think again. These babies are snatched from the tree before they've even had time to develop 10% of the nutrients a real banana should have.

To make a profit the banana companies, aided and abetted by Wellcome, Park'n'Shop and others like them around the world, won't allow the fruit to ripen naturally but rely on the customers, old muggins, to let them slowly turn yellow in the comfort of people's own home. If the fruit was picked when ripe, there would be untold wastage as the bananas would be soft and subject to squeezeage. The skin would have brown spots and customers wouldn't buy them. Therefore we are left to eat what's in effect a piece of fruit with no nutrition at all.

That was what I wanted to write about today, but then I came across a little snippet in Time Magazine. It was Tony Blair's wife, Cherie, uttering in the "Verbatim" section: "It's fair to say that our hearts sank when the result was finally ratified" (about the couple's reaction to the 2000 election of George W. Bush.)

Oh really? Is that why Tony spent the rest of his political life lapping up every drop of spittle the W. spat, hanging on his every word and joyfully joining in his every war? Because his heart had sunk ... so low?

It's funny with these politicians - they only seem to tell the truth after they're booted out of office.

"Banana" is a term for a Chinese person who's "yellow on the outside, white on the inside." What do you call the likes of T. Blair I wonder? A bin liner - white on the outside, full of crap on the inside?

Qui és Cherie Blair? La dona d'un ex-primer ministre britànic. A què es dedica? És barrister, nom que reben a Anglaterra un tipus concret d'advocats (la resta són advocates), i té aspiracions per a esdevenir jutge. La seva carrera acadèmica i laboral és brillant, és tota una experta del ram.

Seran estudiants de Dret els que compraran Speaking for Myself, per a adquirir els coneixements jurídics que tant domina? No ho crec. El llibre consisteix, bàsicament, a furgar en la relació entre Tony Blair i Gordon Brown, el devaluat primer ministre actual, i a oferir aspectes ben banals de la relació del matrimoni Blair -des de el seu tòrrid inici fins a la concepció d'un dels seus fills-.

Un dels llibres més venuts per Sant Jordi? La biografia de Carles Reixach, exentrenador del Barça -durant un sol any, per cert-. També podem fer-nos amb les biografies de personatges com Jaime Peñafiel, per citar-ne un.

Tothom té dret a unes memòries? Si hi ha algú disposat a publicar-les, segur. Però, interessa la vida de qualsevol persona, com per què surtin memòries com bolets? Potser un dia d'aquests em poso a escriure les meves. Tenint en compte que les de Javier Saviola van sortir amb l'SPORT quan ell tenia 20 anys, ja va sent hora.

So, the little girl in Losey and Pinter's ACCIDENT appears to be this person, Carole Caplin, daffy new ager and style adviser to Cherie Blair, wife of our former prime minister. Their friendship came under fire after it emerged that Caplin's partner was a convicted conman and had had financial dealings with Mrs Prime Minister.

And Nicholas Mosley, who wrote the novel Pinter adapted, and later screenwriter of THE ASSASSINATION OF TROTSKY, is notable for being the son of British fascist leader Oswald Mosley. His younger brother Max, president of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, having successfully lived down the fascist family connection for decades, was recently involved in a nazi sex-tape scandal. Oops.

Joseph Losey week: END.

“Entonces Tony y yo cogimos el autobús…. Era un autobús de dos pisos y fuimos arriba. Estaba completamente vacío y para cuando nos apeamos, nos conocíamos el uno al otro mejor que cuando habíamos subido. Y mucho mejor la mañana siguiente”
Hoy ya no se puede hacer el amor en el transporte público, todos los autobuses tienen cámaras de seguridad. Imposible recrear ese "momento mágico

Más información sobre "the magic moment"

• Isn't she a Catholic?  
• What did she worry that the household staff would think of her, that she was a married woman going to bed with her husband and that they may have sex but that she wasn't planning to have any more children?  
• What is the equipment she uses? Is there a Hieronymus Bosch method?  Isn't 'equipment' a strange word to use?  Especially as no word at all was required, surely 'contraceptives' would have done the job.
• Why didn't they name Leo Balmoral Blair à la Brooklyn Beckham?