It takes a Frenchman Louis Malle in 1958 with The Lovers to give the viewer a sensual experience. In beautiful black and white.. the scene in the boat is amazing in its beauty.

And what did Clinton know about these six?

An Egyptian magazine claims that six American Islamist activists who work with the Obama administration are Muslim Brotherhood operatives who enjoy strong influence over U.S. policy...

Do alarm bells go off anymore? Swap MB for KGB.

And this skullduggery..

It's three am and someone is calling The White House.. Benghazi calling.. The call that won't go away.

..from this day to the end of the world that we in it shall be remembered.. well perhaps not in modern wishy washy Britain.. maybe Britain has finally met its cultural Waterloo and defeated itself.. not a place for the shy or the coy.

... Till Gabriel blows his horn.. Judgement Day!

The Eye of O is upon you..

I meant detained until a court hearing decides one way or the other.

Like Assange. An attention seeker in need of some serious detention.

Two doc O or not two doc O, that is the question?

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life; etc etc etc..

 Uh O!

The big whopper bubba daddy.. and Bill Clinton's big Israeli payday

John Barry takes some beating the film soundtrack dept.. The Ipcress File for a really cool sixties spy flick Caine as Harry Palmer with those glasses.

He did Bond themes, Zulu, Midnight Cowboy and many more..

Democracy? It was better under apartheid, says Helen Suzman

"Around the study, photographs of her with Mr Mandela, Hillary Clinton and parliamentary colleagues jostle with family snapshots. Like many other white South Africans, Mrs Suzman has seen her two children move overseas. A system of positive discrimination and labour laws that impose strict quota systems on employers have led thousands of skilled whites to pursue their careers elsewhere.
"The employment laws are completely unrealistic," she said. The previous education system, she said, left a generation of black children without the skills for the jobs into which they are now being pushed.

Perhaps conscious that she might be misconstrued, she added firmly: "For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one. I don't think we will ever go the way of Zimbabwe, but people are entitled to be concerned. I am hopeful about any future for whites in this country - but not entirely optimistic."

Not the Gandhi of Sth Africa

"Yet he is still elevated to near sainthood by a largely unquestioning West, an icon carried aloft on the idealism of the young and the shoulders of those who hate racism. 
Because of the reverence in which he is held, few in the media ask him why it is that he has made a profession of befriending and supporting those dictators who are the declared enemies of the West. 
During his time as president, Mandela was a strong supporter of Uganda's insane dictator Idi Amin, of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, of Hafez al-Assad of Syria, of Muammar Gaddafi of Libya, of Fidel Castro of Cuba, of the theocratic leaders of Iran, and many other dictators. This may be viewed as guilt by association, but when he became president and apartheid was demolished as an instrument of government, Mandela rarely publicly acknowledged that it was the sanctions and disinvestment by Western governments and corporations, and the voices of men and women of conscience in the West, who had been largely responsible for the overthrow of white rule." 

flownover- I started my itunes list by finding all the music that has played a part in my sixty years. And it began with 'I'm beginning to see the light' Della Reese. Then June Christy and so on. Try Pink Martini doing Tea for Two and Rachael Price. Alice Ricciardi for the best take on Give Me the Simple Life.. Italian Jazz singers are great. itunes unlocks music and allows us hear retakes in all their glorious variations. Here is the complete Liszt movie A Song Without End with Bogarde playing him. Great stuff..