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#PostOfficeScandal Arise.... Sir Alan Bates🎖️ A Huge Congratulations🙂 There cannot be a more deserving person in the country of this award. For over two decades Alan has led the JFSA (Justice for Sub Postmasters Alliance) in a constant David vs Goliath battle against the Post Office and their shareholder... the government. Against all odds as both the Post Office and the Department for Business threw everything at the High Court GLO (as well as over £100m over taxpayer cash) and then attempting to recuse Justice Fraser for apparent bias, two landmark Judgements were handed down. These are known as the Common Issues Judgement and the Horizon Issues Judgement. Emma Simpson reporting for BBC News (UK) wrote :- Bates learned of knighthood at Post Office inquiry‼️ The campaigner and former sub-postmaster, Alan Bates, was at the public inquiry into the Post Office scandal when he received the news that he was to be knighted in the King's Birthday Honours. He had travelled from his home in Llandudno to hear former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells give evidence, breaking her near-decade long silence. “It was all a bit of a surprise,” Sir Alan, as he is now known, told the BBC. He was told that he had to let the Honours Committee know by the end of the day whether he would accept. For the last 15 years, Sir Alan has campaigned for justice for hundreds of sub-postmasters who were wrongfully prosecuted for theft and false accounting, when faulty software called Horizon made it look like money was missing from their accounts. He had already rejected the offer of an OBE last year, telling the Honours Committee that it would be inappropriate to accept it whilst Ms Vennells kept hold of her CBE for services to the Post Office and many victims continued to suffer. Ms Vennells handed back her CBE earlier this year amid mounting pressure in the aftermath of the ITV drama in January which sparked national outrage over the scandal. “I went and had a confidential talk with somebody who knows what’s gone on over the years and they said to me, 'well you’ve done the heavy lifting, others are doing the rest now.' And on reflection, I knew so many people who were keen for me to actually receive something, I felt I would be insulting them as much as anyone else if I refused it at this time," Sir Alan said. He insisted the honour was not just for him but also for his group, the Justice for Sub-Postmasters Alliance, which he started in 2009. “I think it’s another string to my bow to try and drive the rest of the campaign home. We have got to get funding for everybody. And that’s been my priority now for some time. And if it helps there, then great. It’s wonderful.” Sir Alan said his work was far from finished, adding that he would pursue court action, if necessary, to get financial redress for the victims who took part in the original High Court action that helped expose the Horizon IT scandal. “I think the nation will support us if we have to go ahead with another case,” he said. The former sub-postmaster's dogged pursuit of the truth began after refusing to accept losses at his own post office which he took over in 1998. Had he ever thought about giving up and letting it go? “I could never do that. We’ve all seen the horror stories, and there are so many. I keep hearing from so many more these days who are coming out of the woodwork and stories that have never been told. I mean, they’re absolutely diabolical. What’s happened to people is very sad but at least they’re now starting to see some light at the end of the tunnel for themselves.” He described his work as the best unpaid job he’d ever had and said he was looking forward to having a holiday this summer. Read the piece here⏬ #MrBatesVsThePostOffice #MrBates #MrBatesVsPostOffice #MrBatesPBS #PostOfficeInquiry #SirAlanBatesshow more

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Jamesy2 years ago

One of life’s good guys. In stark contrast to the parade of over-paid amnesic shysters at the Inquiry.

Chris2 years ago

Entirely agree; albeit his wife equally deserves a Damehood.

☀️ Maddie Please Author☀️2 years ago

Now what about Jason Beer, JustinBlake, @edwardhenry1 and SamStein? They and their teams have been majestic.

David Wild2 years ago

If only we had more people like Alan and Kevin Sinfield in the House of Lords rather than @ShaunBaileyUK and Charlotte Owen

WDM2 years ago

Remarkable achievement and a suitable honour well earned - congrats from me.

🙈🙉🙊2 years ago

That's what honours are for. Well used in this instance.

LizzieS2 years ago

Poetic justice if ever there was! So richly deserved. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Sarah Berkoff2 years ago

So very well deserved

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#PostOfficeScandal This morning on Sky News hosted by Gareth Barlow he was joined for an exclusive from Mark Kleinman Wish Alan all the best and glad after so many years he has been able to settle his claim with the Government, the process has been a complete disgrace, the battles painstaking but finally some justice prevails. Without the JFSA led by Sir Alan, there would have been no High Court action and we would not be seeing the vindication we are seeing today, slowly justice being delivered and those so badly affected, rightly compensated (ongoing mess) and we await those responsible to be held to account. Post Office hero Bates lands seven-figure Horizon Payout‼️ Sky News has learnt that the government has agreed a deal with the former sub-postmaster after handing him what he described as a "take it or leave it" offer during the spring. Sir Alan has previously said publicly that that proposal amounted to 49.2% of his original claim. One source suggested that his final settlement may have been worth between £4m and £5m, implying that Sir Alan's claim could have been in the region of £10m, although those figures could not be corroborated on Tuesday morning. A government spokesperson said: "We pay tribute to Sir Alan Bates for his long record of campaigning on behalf of victims and have now paid out over £1.2bn to more than 9,000 victims. Sky News has attempted to reach Sir Alan for comment about the settlement of his claim. Sir Alan led efforts over many years to prove that the Horizon software system supplied by Fujitsu, the Japanese technology company, was faulty. Hundreds of sub-postmasters were wrongly prosecuted between 1999 and 2015, with scores of people either ending their own lives or making attempts to do so. However, it was only after ITV turned their fight for justice into a drama, Mr Bates vs The Post Office, that the government accelerated plans to deliver redress to victims. Even so, the compensation scheme set up to administer redress has been mired in controversy. Writing in The Sunday Times in May, Sir Alan described the process as "quasi-kangaroo courts in which the Department for Business and Trade sits in judgement of the claims and alters the goalposts as and when it chooses". "Claims are, and have been, knocked back on the basis that legally you would not be able to make them, or that the parameters of the scheme do not extend to certain items." Sir Alan had previously been made compensation offers worth just one-sixth of his claim - which he had labelled "derisory", with a second offer amounting to a third of the sum he was seeking. Sir Ross Cranston, a former High Court judge, adjudicates on cases where a claimant disputes a compensation offer from the government and then objects to the results of a review by an independent panel. In 2017, Sir Alan and a group of 555 sub-postmasters sued the Post Office in the High Court, ultimately winning a £58m settlement. However, swingeing legal fees left the group with just £12m of that sum, prompting ministers to establish a separate compensation scheme amid a growing outcry. A significant number of other sub-postmasters have also complained publicly about the pace, and outcome, of the compensation process. The first volume of Sir Wyn Williams's public inquiry into the Horizon scandal was published in July, and concluded that at least 13 people may have taken their own lives after being accused of wrongdoing, even though the Post Office and Fujitsu knew the Horizon system was flawed. The miscarriage of justice left the Post Office's reputation, and that of former bosses including chief executive Paula Vennells, in tatters. A subsequent corporate governance mess under the last government further dragged the Post Office's name through the mud, with the then chief executive, Nick Read, accused of being absorbed by his own remuneration. Read the full piece here👇

#PostOfficeScandal This morning on Sky News hosted by Gareth Barlow he was joined for an exclusive from Mark Kleinman Wish Alan all the best and glad after so many years he has been able to settle his claim with the Government, the process has been a complete disgrace, the battles painstaking but finally some justice prevails. Without the JFSA led by Sir Alan, there would have been no High Court action and we would not be seeing the vindication we are seeing today, slowly justice being delivered and those so badly affected, rightly compensated (ongoing mess) and we await those responsible to be held to account. Post Office hero Bates lands seven-figure Horizon Payout‼️ Sky News has learnt that the government has agreed a deal with the former sub-postmaster after handing him what he described as a "take it or leave it" offer during the spring. Sir Alan has previously said publicly that that proposal amounted to 49.2% of his original claim. One source suggested that his final settlement may have been worth between £4m and £5m, implying that Sir Alan's claim could have been in the region of £10m, although those figures could not be corroborated on Tuesday morning. A government spokesperson said: "We pay tribute to Sir Alan Bates for his long record of campaigning on behalf of victims and have now paid out over £1.2bn to more than 9,000 victims. Sky News has attempted to reach Sir Alan for comment about the settlement of his claim. Sir Alan led efforts over many years to prove that the Horizon software system supplied by Fujitsu, the Japanese technology company, was faulty. Hundreds of sub-postmasters were wrongly prosecuted between 1999 and 2015, with scores of people either ending their own lives or making attempts to do so. However, it was only after ITV turned their fight for justice into a drama, Mr Bates vs The Post Office, that the government accelerated plans to deliver redress to victims. Even so, the compensation scheme set up to administer redress has been mired in controversy. Writing in The Sunday Times in May, Sir Alan described the process as "quasi-kangaroo courts in which the Department for Business and Trade sits in judgement of the claims and alters the goalposts as and when it chooses". "Claims are, and have been, knocked back on the basis that legally you would not be able to make them, or that the parameters of the scheme do not extend to certain items." Sir Alan had previously been made compensation offers worth just one-sixth of his claim - which he had labelled "derisory", with a second offer amounting to a third of the sum he was seeking. Sir Ross Cranston, a former High Court judge, adjudicates on cases where a claimant disputes a compensation offer from the government and then objects to the results of a review by an independent panel. In 2017, Sir Alan and a group of 555 sub-postmasters sued the Post Office in the High Court, ultimately winning a £58m settlement. However, swingeing legal fees left the group with just £12m of that sum, prompting ministers to establish a separate compensation scheme amid a growing outcry. A significant number of other sub-postmasters have also complained publicly about the pace, and outcome, of the compensation process. The first volume of Sir Wyn Williams's public inquiry into the Horizon scandal was published in July, and concluded that at least 13 people may have taken their own lives after being accused of wrongdoing, even though the Post Office and Fujitsu knew the Horizon system was flawed. The miscarriage of justice left the Post Office's reputation, and that of former bosses including chief executive Paula Vennells, in tatters. A subsequent corporate governance mess under the last government further dragged the Post Office's name through the mud, with the then chief executive, Nick Read, accused of being absorbed by his own remuneration. Read the full piece here👇

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THE POST OFFICE DESTROYED HUNDREDS OF LIVES. DID IT ALSO PUT AN INNOCENT MAN AWAY FOR MURDER? Paul Bourne from Linkedin brought this story to me this week. Paul, I owe you one for this. Robin Garbutt woke up on 23 March 2010 and went to open his Post Office like any other morning. By the end of that day, his wife Diana was dead. He was a suspect. Within a year, he was in prison for life. He has been there ever since. Robin says what happened that morning was this. An armed man broke in. Forced him at gunpoint to open the safe and hand over £16,000. Robin was powerless. He ran upstairs after the man left and found Diana bludgeoned to death in their bed. The police did not believe him. Prosecutors built a case around one central idea. Robin had been stealing from the Post Office. Diana found out. He killed her to keep her quiet and staged the robbery to cover his tracks. The theft evidence came from Horizon. The same IT system that fabricated shortfalls in hundreds of Post Office branches across the country. The same system that saw innocent sub-postmasters prosecuted, bankrupted, and driven to suicide. The system that the courts have since described as one of the worst miscarriages of justice in British legal history. Robin was never actually charged with theft. Not once. A former Fujitsu employee has since come forward and confirmed the Horizon data used at his trial had been compromised. The Post Office knew it. There was no DNA on the murder weapon. A clump of unidentified hair found at the scene was never tested. It disappeared. Police admitted that was a serious professional failure. The pathology evidence on the time of death has been challenged by independent experts. What the prosecution had was a theory. Built on a broken computer. Presented to a jury who had no reason to doubt the Post Office. Robin has appealed four times. The CCRC has said no four times. A Sky documentary aired Christmas 2025. Former sub-postmasters who were themselves destroyed by Horizon are now publicly demanding he gets a retrial. Lee Castleton OBE is one of them. Empowering the Innocent (ETI) and The Justice Gap @justicegap.bsky.social have both covered this case in depth. A new CCRC case manager has been appointed. Robin is 60 years old. He has been inside for 15 years. His family have spent 15 years fighting for him. His sister says he does not want early release. He wants to stand in court, face the evidence, and prove he is innocent. That is not what a guilty man asks for. The Post Office corrupted evidence. The prosecution used that evidence to convict a man of murder. The body that is supposed to correct miscarriages of justice has blocked him at every turn. If the system was this broken for hundreds of financial cases, what makes anyone confident it worked properly in this one?

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#PostOfficeScandal Latest piece for Sky News by Sky NewsAdele This story is just so heart-breaking, yet another former Postmaster taken too soon. Hundreds have now died waiting for financial redress. It must STOP. The 40 working day target is misleading because the clock resets every time an RFI request is made, and then when they finally deliver the offer in the latest reset of that clock it goes into their targets met bracket. Waiting until days after his death to deliver his offer is nothing short of an utter disgrace as his widow Janet says in the article. It shows that when adverse media coverage is about to come they turn things around in days. It can be done if they want to. As I have said many times before this continues to be a PR exercise for the Post Office and the Government, and trying to reduce their liability. RIP Terry🙏 sending my condolences to Janet and the rest of the family😢 Post Office scandal victim died days before compensation letter arrived - as widow says offer an 'utter disgrace' The widow of a Post Office scandal victim, who received a compensation offer days after his death, has described the situation as an "utter disgrace". Janet Walters, 68, lost her husband Terry in February - a week before a letter arrived offering "less than half" of his original claim for financial redress. Terry Walters - whose funeral is taking place today - was one of 555 sub-postmasters who won a legal battle against the Post Office in 2019. Janet has described the length of time many victims have had to wait for offers of compensation as another "scandal". "I've told them I will not accept [the offer]," Janet tells Sky News. "I think it's an utter disgrace. "Not when I look at him and I think, no, what you've been through - I won't just take anything and go away. "It's a scandal what they did with the Horizon system, it's a scandal now because of the length of time it's taken [on redress]." Terry, who died aged 74, was part of the GLO (Group Litigation Order) Scheme established after the 2019 High Court win. Its aim is to restore sub-postmasters to the financial position they would have been in had they not become victims of faulty Horizon software which caused false accounting shortfalls. Terry had his Post Office contract terminated in 2008. He and Janet lost their business and then their family home. They moved in to rented accommodation where they lived for the past 15 years. Janet said Terry's claim was put forward in February 2024 and it has taken a year to receive an offer for redress from the government. "It should have been a 40-day turnaround of an offer," she says. "And it's taken 12 months to receive an offer, an offer which came after Terry had passed away. "They wanted a stroke report back in September to drag it out a bit more, to see if it's being caused by all the stress from the Post Office." "I think it contributed considerably to the whole state of him," she added. Lord Beamish (Kevan Jones ), a prominent campaigner for justice for Post Office victims, says the redress offer process should "err on the side of the postmaster rather than the Post Office". "I think it has been bureaucratic in the past, and I think it's been trying to get information which is difficult to actually obtain," he says. "I think in those cases the benefit of the doubt should be put on the postmaster." Lord Beamish is also critical of the 40-working-day turnaround for offers. "I think individual cases should be dealt with on an individual basis," he says. "That 40 days shouldn't be sacrosanct. If you think it can be turned around within two days or a day, do it." He also says "getting people around a table and trying to get a resolution should be the main aim… If it's questioning about more information - that shouldn't be a reason for undue delay." Lord Beamish also highlights concerns over the fact more than 60 victims are yet to submit any claims for redress because they are "very damaged by this process". The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) said: "We are sorry to hear of Terry's death and our thoughts are with Janet and the rest of his family and friends." They added they have now issued 407 offers to the 425 GLO claimants "who have submitted full claims" and are "making offers to 89% of GLO claimants within 40 working days of receipt of a full claim, with over half of eligible claimants having now settled their claim." The DBT also said it has "doubled" the amount of payments under the Labour government to "provide postmasters with full and fair redress". The latest government data shows that out of the 425 GLO claimants, 265 have had their claims paid, with 160 waiting. According to the figures for the HSS (Horizon Shortfall Scheme), 2,090 out of 2,417 eligible claims made before their original deadline in 2020 have been paid - leaving over 300 still waiting. Out of the 4,665 "late" claims, 1,260 have been paid, with more than 3,400 now waiting. Read the full piece here👇 #MrBatesVsThePostOffice #MrBates #MrBatesVsPostOffice #MrBatesPBS #PostOfficeInquiry #Redress #Ripple House of Lords UK House of Commons Prem Sikka Dan Neidle Kate Osborne Gareth Thomas MP Jonathan Reynolds Keir Starmer Liam Byrne MP Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry Post Office News Business and Trade Committee Sarah Ludford 🇬🇧 🇮🇪🇪🇺 🇺🇦 BBC News (UK) ITV News alex thomson Peter Stefanovic

#PostOfficeScandal Latest piece for Sky News by Sky NewsAdele This story is just so heart-breaking, yet another former Postmaster taken too soon. Hundreds have now died waiting for financial redress. It must STOP. The 40 working day target is misleading because the clock resets every time an RFI request is made, and then when they finally deliver the offer in the latest reset of that clock it goes into their targets met bracket. Waiting until days after his death to deliver his offer is nothing short of an utter disgrace as his widow Janet says in the article. It shows that when adverse media coverage is about to come they turn things around in days. It can be done if they want to. As I have said many times before this continues to be a PR exercise for the Post Office and the Government, and trying to reduce their liability. 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"It's a scandal what they did with the Horizon system, it's a scandal now because of the length of time it's taken [on redress]." Terry, who died aged 74, was part of the GLO (Group Litigation Order) Scheme established after the 2019 High Court win. Its aim is to restore sub-postmasters to the financial position they would have been in had they not become victims of faulty Horizon software which caused false accounting shortfalls. Terry had his Post Office contract terminated in 2008. He and Janet lost their business and then their family home. They moved in to rented accommodation where they lived for the past 15 years. Janet said Terry's claim was put forward in February 2024 and it has taken a year to receive an offer for redress from the government. "It should have been a 40-day turnaround of an offer," she says. "And it's taken 12 months to receive an offer, an offer which came after Terry had passed away. "They wanted a stroke report back in September to drag it out a bit more, to see if it's being caused by all the stress from the Post Office." "I think it contributed considerably to the whole state of him," she added. Lord Beamish (Kevan Jones ), a prominent campaigner for justice for Post Office victims, says the redress offer process should "err on the side of the postmaster rather than the Post Office". "I think it has been bureaucratic in the past, and I think it's been trying to get information which is difficult to actually obtain," he says. "I think in those cases the benefit of the doubt should be put on the postmaster." Lord Beamish is also critical of the 40-working-day turnaround for offers. "I think individual cases should be dealt with on an individual basis," he says. "That 40 days shouldn't be sacrosanct. If you think it can be turned around within two days or a day, do it." He also says "getting people around a table and trying to get a resolution should be the main aim… If it's questioning about more information - that shouldn't be a reason for undue delay." Lord Beamish also highlights concerns over the fact more than 60 victims are yet to submit any claims for redress because they are "very damaged by this process". The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) said: "We are sorry to hear of Terry's death and our thoughts are with Janet and the rest of his family and friends." They added they have now issued 407 offers to the 425 GLO claimants "who have submitted full claims" and are "making offers to 89% of GLO claimants within 40 working days of receipt of a full claim, with over half of eligible claimants having now settled their claim." The DBT also said it has "doubled" the amount of payments under the Labour government to "provide postmasters with full and fair redress". The latest government data shows that out of the 425 GLO claimants, 265 have had their claims paid, with 160 waiting. According to the figures for the HSS (Horizon Shortfall Scheme), 2,090 out of 2,417 eligible claims made before their original deadline in 2020 have been paid - leaving over 300 still waiting. Out of the 4,665 "late" claims, 1,260 have been paid, with more than 3,400 now waiting. Read the full piece here👇 #MrBatesVsThePostOffice #MrBates #MrBatesVsPostOffice #MrBatesPBS #PostOfficeInquiry #Redress #Ripple House of Lords UK House of Commons Prem Sikka Dan Neidle Kate Osborne Gareth Thomas MP Jonathan Reynolds Keir Starmer Liam Byrne MP Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry Post Office News Business and Trade Committee Sarah Ludford 🇬🇧 🇮🇪🇪🇺 🇺🇦 BBC News (UK) ITV News alex thomson Peter Stefanovic

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71,387 views • 1 year ago

Quentin Taratino said Lawrence Fishburne’s performance in King of New York was so incredible he thought - “he could be the greatest actor of his generation”. He explains: "As great as Christopher Walken is in this movie. To me, it's Larry Fishburne's movie - it was the rock that becomes a diamond aspect of the movie. It's why I could defend this movie against all comers, because to me, Fish's performance in this movie was comparable to a young Brando. It was the most exciting performance by an actor of his generation that I'd seen in a movie of that time. And I thought, well, that's it. There is a new Marlon Brando, and his name is Larry Fishburne - it was amazing, it was mesmerizing… He is the first hip hop gangster in movie history. That character had never been done before this. He invented that character. And he invented it as something to do. It wasn't in the original script. He came up with that himself… The three big Fishburne moments to me, is his opening sequence with…Tito. That's it, with Tito - black glove dude. And his reunion with Frank. And then it's the chicken scene (see below). Those are his three big arias. Not only that though - expressions that I would later hear for the rest of the decade, I actually heard for the first time in that scene. I'd never heard the expression; “I'll slap the black off you” before. That was the first time I heard it when Fish says it to Snipes. I've since heard it many times… And that was actually the first time I ever heard, “fuck you very much”. And I would proceed to hear that for the rest of the 90s. But those were the first times I'd ever heard those expressions… As terrific as he has been in other things - the level of excitement that I had over him when this movie was over, I have never had that excitement again. I thought, with this, he could be the greatest actor of his generation. That was an actual, real fucking thing. He could be the greatest actor of his generation after seeing this." Quote comes from The Rewatchables podcast

Quentin Taratino said Lawrence Fishburne’s performance in King of New York was so incredible he thought - “he could be the greatest actor of his generation”. He explains: "As great as Christopher Walken is in this movie. To me, it's Larry Fishburne's movie - it was the rock that becomes a diamond aspect of the movie. It's why I could defend this movie against all comers, because to me, Fish's performance in this movie was comparable to a young Brando. It was the most exciting performance by an actor of his generation that I'd seen in a movie of that time. And I thought, well, that's it. There is a new Marlon Brando, and his name is Larry Fishburne - it was amazing, it was mesmerizing… He is the first hip hop gangster in movie history. That character had never been done before this. He invented that character. And he invented it as something to do. It wasn't in the original script. He came up with that himself… The three big Fishburne moments to me, is his opening sequence with…Tito. That's it, with Tito - black glove dude. And his reunion with Frank. And then it's the chicken scene (see below). Those are his three big arias. Not only that though - expressions that I would later hear for the rest of the decade, I actually heard for the first time in that scene. I'd never heard the expression; “I'll slap the black off you” before. That was the first time I heard it when Fish says it to Snipes. I've since heard it many times… And that was actually the first time I ever heard, “fuck you very much”. And I would proceed to hear that for the rest of the 90s. But those were the first times I'd ever heard those expressions… As terrific as he has been in other things - the level of excitement that I had over him when this movie was over, I have never had that excitement again. I thought, with this, he could be the greatest actor of his generation. That was an actual, real fucking thing. He could be the greatest actor of his generation after seeing this." Quote comes from The Rewatchables podcast

Gangster Cinema Central

653,152 views • 23 days ago

BREAKING: Sir Alan Bates, the leading campaigner for sub-postmasters in the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, received his knighthood at Windsor Castle this afternoon. 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

BREAKING: Sir Alan Bates, the leading campaigner for sub-postmasters in the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, received his knighthood at Windsor Castle this afternoon. 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

Sky News

167,071 views • 1 year ago

RFK Jr. on psychedelics and how his son’s ayahuasca experience opened his mind to legalization “My inclination would be to make them available, at least in therapeutic settings and maybe more generally, but in ways that would discourage the corporate control and exploitation of it. My wife in 2012 took her own life… and one of [my kids] was worrying to me because he never processed his mom’s death in a way that I could observe. About five years ago… he went to Patagonia to kayak a white water river that I kayaked for many, many years… The night my son arrived there, the guy [he stayed with] said to him ‘I’m doing an ayahuasca trip tonight’… so my kid ended up doing this. After he drank the ayahuasca… he felt himself sinking through all the geological strata of the Earth, and he told me… he had a total understanding of all of the processes that had laid them out through the eons. He ended up being propelled out the other side of the Earth and then floating through space for what he experienced as hundreds of years. He would focus on a distant planet and be transported there, and on each planet he would have an adventure and at the end there would be a lesson that he was supposed to remember. The last planet he visited, his mother was there. And she started passing through him, in and out of him again and again and every time she did that, he felt all these experiences of forgiveness, of love, of understanding, of comprehension, of empathy and compassion. When he came back from that trip, he was completely changed. He was very open about talking about his feelings, [but] the reason I really know that it changed him is he started taking out the garbage and doing the dishes. I have a friend who’s a Navy SEAL who had severe PTSD and he went to Costa Rica and had the same kind of experience. I have a couple of other friends who are in the NFL and they also had severe brain injuries and depression, and the same thing happened. So, my mind is open to the idea that there may be things that I don’t know about and that people ought to have the freedom and liberty to experiment with these things.”

RFK Jr. on psychedelics and how his son’s ayahuasca experience opened his mind to legalization “My inclination would be to make them available, at least in therapeutic settings and maybe more generally, but in ways that would discourage the corporate control and exploitation of it. My wife in 2012 took her own life… and one of [my kids] was worrying to me because he never processed his mom’s death in a way that I could observe. About five years ago… he went to Patagonia to kayak a white water river that I kayaked for many, many years… The night my son arrived there, the guy [he stayed with] said to him ‘I’m doing an ayahuasca trip tonight’… so my kid ended up doing this. After he drank the ayahuasca… he felt himself sinking through all the geological strata of the Earth, and he told me… he had a total understanding of all of the processes that had laid them out through the eons. He ended up being propelled out the other side of the Earth and then floating through space for what he experienced as hundreds of years. He would focus on a distant planet and be transported there, and on each planet he would have an adventure and at the end there would be a lesson that he was supposed to remember. The last planet he visited, his mother was there. And she started passing through him, in and out of him again and again and every time she did that, he felt all these experiences of forgiveness, of love, of understanding, of comprehension, of empathy and compassion. When he came back from that trip, he was completely changed. He was very open about talking about his feelings, [but] the reason I really know that it changed him is he started taking out the garbage and doing the dishes. I have a friend who’s a Navy SEAL who had severe PTSD and he went to Costa Rica and had the same kind of experience. I have a couple of other friends who are in the NFL and they also had severe brain injuries and depression, and the same thing happened. So, my mind is open to the idea that there may be things that I don’t know about and that people ought to have the freedom and liberty to experiment with these things.”

Holden Culotta

345,968 views • 2 years ago

#PostOfficeScandal The former General Counsel at the Post Office 'Jane Macleod' who refuses to co-operate with the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry is challenged by BBC reporters Katy Watson & @esylltcarr BBC challenges ex-Post Office lawyer in Australia ‼️ The Post Office’s most senior in-house lawyer when it fought the landmark case brought by Alan Bates and other sub-postmasters has been challenged by BBC News in Australia (BBCaustralia ), after she refused to appear before the public inquiry into the Horizon scandal. A BBC team questioned Jane MacLeod, who was the Post Office’s General Counsel between 2015 and 2019, while she was walking her dog outside her home in Sydney. She replied with “no comment” when asked why she wasn’t attending. She had been due to give evidence this week. “It’s unsurprising, but it speaks volumes,” says Jo Hamilton (Jo Hamilton ), one of the wrongly convicted former sub-postmasters. “If she was determined to help the inquiry, she’d be there,” she added. 'An important witness' Born in Australia, Jane MacLeod returned to live there in 2020. Last month Sir Wyn Williams, chair of the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry (Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry ), revealed that while Ms MacLeod had submitted a witness statement, she had decided not to give oral evidence, despite being asked to do so. The inquiry heard that the reason, offered by Ms MacLeod’s lawyers, was that given the passage of time, she considered her written statement was the best evidence she could offer. Since then, Ms MacLeod has not responded to BBC requests for comment. Sir Wyn said that even before seeing her written evidence, he’d decided that Ms MacLeod was “an important witness” from whom he wished to hear in person. He added that despite the offer to have her travel and accommodation expenses covered, Ms MacLeod “has made it clear that she will not co-operate with the inquiry by providing oral evidence”, either in person or via video-link. However, Sir Wyn explained that his options to force her to attend were limited because she lived abroad. Under the Inquiries Act 2005, witnesses can be legally compelled to give evidence – but this only applies to UK nationals. In her written statement to the inquiry, Ms MacLeod says: “I am very aware that the decisions in which I was involved during my time at Post Office Limited regarding the group litigation and the investigation of Horizon's performance and robustness have had implications for many sub-postmasters and their families.” She adds: “I regret that this has happened and apologise to those so affected for the adverse outcomes they have suffered.” She is so sorry, that she cannot be bothered to attend and face the music🎶 #MrBatesVsThePostOffice #MrBates #MrBatesVsPostOffice #MrBatesPBS #PostOfficeInquiry #MacLeod #JaneMacleod #awol Nick Wallis @GouldsBlog Rosie Brocklehurst Kate Osborne Marion Fellows Kevan Jones Darren Jones MP Jonathan Reynolds Prem Sikka Dan Neidle

#PostOfficeScandal The former General Counsel at the Post Office 'Jane Macleod' who refuses to co-operate with the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry is challenged by BBC reporters Katy Watson & @esylltcarr BBC challenges ex-Post Office lawyer in Australia ‼️ The Post Office’s most senior in-house lawyer when it fought the landmark case brought by Alan Bates and other sub-postmasters has been challenged by BBC News in Australia (BBCaustralia ), after she refused to appear before the public inquiry into the Horizon scandal. A BBC team questioned Jane MacLeod, who was the Post Office’s General Counsel between 2015 and 2019, while she was walking her dog outside her home in Sydney. She replied with “no comment” when asked why she wasn’t attending. She had been due to give evidence this week. “It’s unsurprising, but it speaks volumes,” says Jo Hamilton (Jo Hamilton ), one of the wrongly convicted former sub-postmasters. “If she was determined to help the inquiry, she’d be there,” she added. 'An important witness' Born in Australia, Jane MacLeod returned to live there in 2020. Last month Sir Wyn Williams, chair of the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry (Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry ), revealed that while Ms MacLeod had submitted a witness statement, she had decided not to give oral evidence, despite being asked to do so. The inquiry heard that the reason, offered by Ms MacLeod’s lawyers, was that given the passage of time, she considered her written statement was the best evidence she could offer. Since then, Ms MacLeod has not responded to BBC requests for comment. Sir Wyn said that even before seeing her written evidence, he’d decided that Ms MacLeod was “an important witness” from whom he wished to hear in person. He added that despite the offer to have her travel and accommodation expenses covered, Ms MacLeod “has made it clear that she will not co-operate with the inquiry by providing oral evidence”, either in person or via video-link. However, Sir Wyn explained that his options to force her to attend were limited because she lived abroad. Under the Inquiries Act 2005, witnesses can be legally compelled to give evidence – but this only applies to UK nationals. In her written statement to the inquiry, Ms MacLeod says: “I am very aware that the decisions in which I was involved during my time at Post Office Limited regarding the group litigation and the investigation of Horizon's performance and robustness have had implications for many sub-postmasters and their families.” She adds: “I regret that this has happened and apologise to those so affected for the adverse outcomes they have suffered.” She is so sorry, that she cannot be bothered to attend and face the music🎶 #MrBatesVsThePostOffice #MrBates #MrBatesVsPostOffice #MrBatesPBS #PostOfficeInquiry #MacLeod #JaneMacleod #awol Nick Wallis @GouldsBlog Rosie Brocklehurst Kate Osborne Marion Fellows Kevan Jones Darren Jones MP Jonathan Reynolds Prem Sikka Dan Neidle

Christopher Head OBE

41,615 views • 2 years ago

#WATCH | Chandigarh | Jaswinder Kaur Bath, wife of Colonel Pushpinder Singh Bath, who was allegedly assaulted by Punjab Police personnel in Patiala, says, "We went to meet DGP Gaurav Yadav, but he was busy. We waited for one and a half hours, but then he left without meeting us. He is an army officer's son, but he still did so... I am raising my voice just because my son said that he would not stay in this country as it is not worth staying. I had to prove to him that justice would be given... Then, we went to meet the governor, and he had tears in his eyes when I spoke to him and when I showed him the pictures and the brutality. He called the DGP and told him that FIR is my right with all the names and to please do what is needed. The governor then told us that if the FIR is not registered, we should get back to him. I want to thank the governor for standing up with us. I came to know through the media that SSP Nanak Singh had said that a magisterial inquiry had been set up, but the FIR could not be changed... Today, when everyone was standing up with me, all the politicians started calling me, but I didn't pick up a single call as this was not a political fight. They cannot say that we were under the influence of alcohol as it is there in the (medical) report of a government hospital... A police inspector told me that we cannot add the names of some police personnel in the FIR as they have been awarded as encounter specialists by the DIG and are about to be promoted. They said that police will do the needful but cannot name them in FIR ..." (21/03)

#WATCH | Chandigarh | Jaswinder Kaur Bath, wife of Colonel Pushpinder Singh Bath, who was allegedly assaulted by Punjab Police personnel in Patiala, says, "We went to meet DGP Gaurav Yadav, but he was busy. We waited for one and a half hours, but then he left without meeting us. He is an army officer's son, but he still did so... I am raising my voice just because my son said that he would not stay in this country as it is not worth staying. I had to prove to him that justice would be given... Then, we went to meet the governor, and he had tears in his eyes when I spoke to him and when I showed him the pictures and the brutality. He called the DGP and told him that FIR is my right with all the names and to please do what is needed. The governor then told us that if the FIR is not registered, we should get back to him. I want to thank the governor for standing up with us. I came to know through the media that SSP Nanak Singh had said that a magisterial inquiry had been set up, but the FIR could not be changed... Today, when everyone was standing up with me, all the politicians started calling me, but I didn't pick up a single call as this was not a political fight. They cannot say that we were under the influence of alcohol as it is there in the (medical) report of a government hospital... A police inspector told me that we cannot add the names of some police personnel in the FIR as they have been awarded as encounter specialists by the DIG and are about to be promoted. They said that police will do the needful but cannot name them in FIR ..." (21/03)

ANI

196,217 views • 1 year ago

Issues of paternity have shaped our society for generations, especially in Zimbabwe. They did not start today. I remember going to a funeral with my father in the 1990s, and as we sat around the fire the men began sharing stories. One of them has stayed with me ever since. A Zimbabwean doctor had married a nurse, and they struggled to have children. As usual, when there is no child, the blame was placed on the woman. She went to see her own doctor, who told her plainly that she was not the problem, and advised her to bring her husband for testing. The husband refused, as many Zimbabwean men tend to do. Their marriage eventually collapsed, with the man insisting he could not be the problem because he had a child with another woman before marrying the nurse. That woman, he said, was also a doctor, and he was raising that child. After the divorce, the nurse remarried another doctor, and she immediately fell pregnant. Because it was a tight medical community, the whole situation became a talking point. The ex-husband had loudly declared that his former wife was barren, yet here she was having one child after another, three in total, with her new husband. Meanwhile, the ex-husband remarried, and again there were no children. One day the ex-husband and his former wife met at a gathering. During a casual conversation, as people who once knew each other, she told him directly that he was raising a child who was not his. She told him that he had no capacity to father a child and that if he finally went for tests, he would discover the truth. She reminded him how he had insulted her and her parents, and how he had refused to listen. The revelation shook him. He went for tests, and it was confirmed that he was the problem. He had spent seventeen years looking after a child who was not his. The moral of the story is simple, and I always stress this when mentoring young people. When in doubt, check. In fact, even without doubt, check. A DNA test at birth saves you from future heartbreak. Many men are raising children who are not theirs. Some women know exactly what they are doing. Others genuinely do not know because their relationships overlapped before they settled down. In those cases, even the woman cannot be sure who the father is. So when you have a child, get a DNA test. If you ask for one and a woman becomes defensive or resistant, that is a major red flag. At that point, the test is no longer optional, it is necessary. That is the reality of life today. As they say, trust is beautiful, but DNA is confirmation. In this life we live, hope is not a strategy when it comes to your children, so test your child and protect your future, as the saying goes. I have DNA stories that I could share for a whole year. If compulsory DNA testing was demanded of all of us today, you will be shocked by what will come out. This brother in the video is now going through denial. He has been told the truth, but he is still in shock, which is why he is asking for silly things from this woman. It is hard for any man to discover that the child he believed was his belongs to another man. That is why DNA testing is a necessity and why it should be compulsory.

Issues of paternity have shaped our society for generations, especially in Zimbabwe. They did not start today. I remember going to a funeral with my father in the 1990s, and as we sat around the fire the men began sharing stories. One of them has stayed with me ever since. A Zimbabwean doctor had married a nurse, and they struggled to have children. As usual, when there is no child, the blame was placed on the woman. She went to see her own doctor, who told her plainly that she was not the problem, and advised her to bring her husband for testing. The husband refused, as many Zimbabwean men tend to do. Their marriage eventually collapsed, with the man insisting he could not be the problem because he had a child with another woman before marrying the nurse. That woman, he said, was also a doctor, and he was raising that child. After the divorce, the nurse remarried another doctor, and she immediately fell pregnant. Because it was a tight medical community, the whole situation became a talking point. The ex-husband had loudly declared that his former wife was barren, yet here she was having one child after another, three in total, with her new husband. Meanwhile, the ex-husband remarried, and again there were no children. One day the ex-husband and his former wife met at a gathering. During a casual conversation, as people who once knew each other, she told him directly that he was raising a child who was not his. She told him that he had no capacity to father a child and that if he finally went for tests, he would discover the truth. She reminded him how he had insulted her and her parents, and how he had refused to listen. The revelation shook him. He went for tests, and it was confirmed that he was the problem. He had spent seventeen years looking after a child who was not his. The moral of the story is simple, and I always stress this when mentoring young people. When in doubt, check. In fact, even without doubt, check. A DNA test at birth saves you from future heartbreak. Many men are raising children who are not theirs. Some women know exactly what they are doing. Others genuinely do not know because their relationships overlapped before they settled down. In those cases, even the woman cannot be sure who the father is. So when you have a child, get a DNA test. If you ask for one and a woman becomes defensive or resistant, that is a major red flag. At that point, the test is no longer optional, it is necessary. That is the reality of life today. As they say, trust is beautiful, but DNA is confirmation. In this life we live, hope is not a strategy when it comes to your children, so test your child and protect your future, as the saying goes. I have DNA stories that I could share for a whole year. If compulsory DNA testing was demanded of all of us today, you will be shocked by what will come out. This brother in the video is now going through denial. He has been told the truth, but he is still in shock, which is why he is asking for silly things from this woman. It is hard for any man to discover that the child he believed was his belongs to another man. That is why DNA testing is a necessity and why it should be compulsory.

Hopewell Chin’ono

67,842 views • 7 months ago

Roughly thirty minutes later, it happened. President Trump and President Putin stepped onto the stage…together. Putin spoke first. He began with a word of thanks to Trump, then drifted briefly into a history of Russian-Alaskan relations, as only Putin would. But he quickly got to the point. He said progress had been made. An agreement of some kind had been reached. And without Trump, he added, none of it would have been possible. “I would like to thank President Trump for our joint work, for the well-wishing and trustworthy tone of our conversation,” he said. He praised Trump’s clarity, saying the U.S. president “sincerely cares about the prosperity of his nation,” while still recognizing Russia’s own national interests. Putin said the day’s talks could serve as a starting point…not just for Ukraine, but for rebuilding practical, ‘businesslike’ relations between Russia and the United States. Then came a jab at the Biden administration. He recalled warning America in 2022 that things were spiraling toward a point of no return. His warning, he said, was ignored. “I said it quite directly back then that it’s a big mistake.” And that is when he dropped a NUKE. It was the moment that would make headlines around the world and INFURIATE the mainstream media. Their narrative was dead. “Today, when President Trump was saying that if he was the president back then, there would be no war—and I’m quite sure that it would indeed be so. I can confirm that.” It was a public validation of something Trump had been saying for years. Putin ended on a hopeful note. “I think that overall, me and President Trump have built a very good, businesslike and trustworthy contact. And I have every reason to believe that moving down this path, we can come—to the end of the conflict in Ukraine.”

Roughly thirty minutes later, it happened. President Trump and President Putin stepped onto the stage…together. Putin spoke first. He began with a word of thanks to Trump, then drifted briefly into a history of Russian-Alaskan relations, as only Putin would. But he quickly got to the point. He said progress had been made. An agreement of some kind had been reached. And without Trump, he added, none of it would have been possible. “I would like to thank President Trump for our joint work, for the well-wishing and trustworthy tone of our conversation,” he said. He praised Trump’s clarity, saying the U.S. president “sincerely cares about the prosperity of his nation,” while still recognizing Russia’s own national interests. Putin said the day’s talks could serve as a starting point…not just for Ukraine, but for rebuilding practical, ‘businesslike’ relations between Russia and the United States. Then came a jab at the Biden administration. He recalled warning America in 2022 that things were spiraling toward a point of no return. His warning, he said, was ignored. “I said it quite directly back then that it’s a big mistake.” And that is when he dropped a NUKE. It was the moment that would make headlines around the world and INFURIATE the mainstream media. Their narrative was dead. “Today, when President Trump was saying that if he was the president back then, there would be no war—and I’m quite sure that it would indeed be so. I can confirm that.” It was a public validation of something Trump had been saying for years. Putin ended on a hopeful note. “I think that overall, me and President Trump have built a very good, businesslike and trustworthy contact. And I have every reason to believe that moving down this path, we can come—to the end of the conflict in Ukraine.”

The Vigilant Fox 🦊

48,859 views • 10 months ago

I remember I had asked Brandon Aiyuk in the offseason if he would be down to do a YouTube live interview and he said that it wasn’t a good time and he’d let me know if something worked out. Naturally I just thought he was good off doing the interview which is perfectly fine but right after the 49ers lost to Philly in the NFCCG, he reached out and dm’d me if I wanted to setup an interview. I thought that was so cool that he really reached back out to set up the interview with me like he said he would. We did the interview, he was great, laid back, we talked ball, the chat was absolutely electric. My favorite interview I’ve ever done. I know BA has done a lot of extremely questionable things as of late but I genuinely miss this dude who just chopped it up with me on stream for over an hour and was super generous with his time.

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I remember I had asked Brandon Aiyuk in the offseason if he would be down to do a YouTube live interview and he said that it wasn’t a good time and he’d let me know if something worked out. Naturally I just thought he was good off doing the interview which is perfectly fine but right after the 49ers lost to Philly in the NFCCG, he reached out and dm’d me if I wanted to setup an interview. I thought that was so cool that he really reached back out to set up the interview with me like he said he would. We did the interview, he was great, laid back, we talked ball, the chat was absolutely electric. My favorite interview I’ve ever done. I know BA has done a lot of extremely questionable things as of late but I genuinely miss this dude who just chopped it up with me on stream for over an hour and was super generous with his time.

Brad

625,527 views • 4 months ago

Beethoven could not hear the music he wrote. At the age of 28, he realized he was no longer able to listen to a flute being played in the distance, and he spent the rest of his life composing the most enduring music in Western history in almost complete silence... He had been a working musician since childhood. His ears were everything. In 1798, in the middle of a heated argument with a singer, he noticed for the first time that something was wrong. The sound was thinning at the edges. He could hear voices, but high frequencies were beginning to disappear. He told no one for years. By 1802, the truth was no longer deniable. On his doctor's advice he moved to Heiligenstadt, a quiet village outside Vienna, hoping the country air would help. It did not. There, alone and surrounded by farmland, he wrote a letter to his two brothers that he never sent. It was found among his papers after his death. We now call it the Heiligenstadt Testament, and it is one of the most devastating documents ever written by an artist about himself: "You men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the cause of my seeming so... what a humiliation, when one stood beside me and heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone heard the shepherd singing, and again I heard nothing." He wrote, in the same letter, that he had thought of ending his life. And then he wrote the line that explains everything that followed: "Only my art held me back. It seemed impossible to me to leave the world before I had produced everything I felt called upon to produce." He went back to Vienna. He went on composing. Over the next two decades his hearing continued to fade. Friends began writing their words down in small notebooks instead of speaking them aloud, and waiting while he read. Modern scholars call these the conversation books. Around four hundred of them survive. To compose, he developed his own methods. He bit one end of a wooden rod and pressed the other against the soundboard of his piano, letting the vibrations travel through his jaw to his inner ear. He had stumbled, through trial and error, onto the principle that modern science calls bone conduction. The cause of his deafness has never been settled. What we do know is this: he realized he was losing his hearing at twenty-eight, and he could have stopped. He wrote the letter, he held the thought of dying in his hand, and then he put down the pen and went back to work. Most of what he is remembered for was composed after that moment: The Fifth Symphony. The Seventh. The Ninth. The Missa Solemnis. The late quartets. All of it was made by a man who could no longer hear most of what he was writing. There are people who give the world what they receive, and there are people who give the world what they were never able to receive. The most enduring beauty in human history has almost always come from the second kind... -- -- -- If you enjoyed this, I write a weekly newsletter read by over 50,000 people who love rediscovering the beauty of the past. You can join us here: I write about beauty in all its forms. If you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible.

Beethoven could not hear the music he wrote. At the age of 28, he realized he was no longer able to listen to a flute being played in the distance, and he spent the rest of his life composing the most enduring music in Western history in almost complete silence... He had been a working musician since childhood. His ears were everything. In 1798, in the middle of a heated argument with a singer, he noticed for the first time that something was wrong. The sound was thinning at the edges. He could hear voices, but high frequencies were beginning to disappear. He told no one for years. By 1802, the truth was no longer deniable. On his doctor's advice he moved to Heiligenstadt, a quiet village outside Vienna, hoping the country air would help. It did not. There, alone and surrounded by farmland, he wrote a letter to his two brothers that he never sent. It was found among his papers after his death. We now call it the Heiligenstadt Testament, and it is one of the most devastating documents ever written by an artist about himself: "You men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the cause of my seeming so... what a humiliation, when one stood beside me and heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone heard the shepherd singing, and again I heard nothing." He wrote, in the same letter, that he had thought of ending his life. And then he wrote the line that explains everything that followed: "Only my art held me back. It seemed impossible to me to leave the world before I had produced everything I felt called upon to produce." He went back to Vienna. He went on composing. Over the next two decades his hearing continued to fade. Friends began writing their words down in small notebooks instead of speaking them aloud, and waiting while he read. Modern scholars call these the conversation books. Around four hundred of them survive. To compose, he developed his own methods. He bit one end of a wooden rod and pressed the other against the soundboard of his piano, letting the vibrations travel through his jaw to his inner ear. He had stumbled, through trial and error, onto the principle that modern science calls bone conduction. The cause of his deafness has never been settled. What we do know is this: he realized he was losing his hearing at twenty-eight, and he could have stopped. He wrote the letter, he held the thought of dying in his hand, and then he put down the pen and went back to work. Most of what he is remembered for was composed after that moment: The Fifth Symphony. The Seventh. The Ninth. The Missa Solemnis. The late quartets. All of it was made by a man who could no longer hear most of what he was writing. There are people who give the world what they receive, and there are people who give the world what they were never able to receive. The most enduring beauty in human history has almost always come from the second kind... -- -- -- If you enjoyed this, I write a weekly newsletter read by over 50,000 people who love rediscovering the beauty of the past. You can join us here: I write about beauty in all its forms. If you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible.

James Lucas

153,280 views • 1 month ago

Julius Erving talking about playing with Charles Barkley: “I kept seeing his upside. He was hard-headed. He had something to say about everything. If he didn’t play as good as he can and well as he was capable of playing or whatever, then some of the things he did wouldn’t be tolerated. But they were tolerated because, you know, he was exceptional, man. He could rebound it, take it coast to coast, make play. And for his height to rebound the way that he did, it was incredible. It was kind of disruptive because we had won the championship the year before he got there. Then the year that he got there. We had to make room for him and he almost killed Marc Iavaroni cuz he was playing the four, Charles was like that’s my spot right there. This going back to violence in the game because the next man up. Me and you man. He get Iavaroni at his back. He back him all the way out to the top of the key” (Via All the Smoke)

Julius Erving talking about playing with Charles Barkley: “I kept seeing his upside. He was hard-headed. He had something to say about everything. If he didn’t play as good as he can and well as he was capable of playing or whatever, then some of the things he did wouldn’t be tolerated. But they were tolerated because, you know, he was exceptional, man. He could rebound it, take it coast to coast, make play. And for his height to rebound the way that he did, it was incredible. It was kind of disruptive because we had won the championship the year before he got there. Then the year that he got there. We had to make room for him and he almost killed Marc Iavaroni cuz he was playing the four, Charles was like that’s my spot right there. This going back to violence in the game because the next man up. Me and you man. He get Iavaroni at his back. He back him all the way out to the top of the key” (Via All the Smoke)

NBA Courtside

38,407 views • 4 months ago

This weekend sees the last ever episode of Football Focus broadcast on the BBC. One of my colleagues sent me this earlier this week. A montage of some of the stuff we did on the show and it brought back so many lovely memories ❤️ I can tell you exact spot where I was standing on the old runway at Turnberry golf club when I got the call to see if I wanted to become the presenter of Football Focus. I was covering The Open in 2009 and it was one of the best conversations I have ever had. For a kid who had grown up watching the show every week with my dad it was an amazing privilege to know that I would be hosting a programme which had always been such a big part of my weekend. I called my dad immediately and he was just as pleased as I was. When the news was announced I had a phone call from the one and only Bob Wilson. He was so warm and encouraging, as he always is, and said “Dan, you are gonna love this job. There is nothing like it… make sure you take care of it”. I hope I did. As a former custodian of the couch, Bob knew how special it was and I felt the same way when I handed over the reins to the brilliant Alex Scott when I left Focus after 12 seasons. People still talk to me about the show all the time. Focus is stitched into my life and I know there are still so many fans who really care about it which is why it’s such a crazy decision to get rid of it. Move it to Saturday morning, tinker with the format but, in a world where there is such a premium on reliable and trusted brands, why would you throw away over 50 years of hard work and history? It carries weight. I remember interviewing Pele years ago and I told him I was from Football Focus and he said “I know all about Football Focus” with a big smile. When we were filming a show about the history of Barcelona at the Nou Camp we were about to sit down to talk to Eusebio and Johan Cryuff (I had to pinch myself about that one) and Sir Bobby Charlton walked over and said to them, “You can tell this is important gentlemen… the team from Football Focus are here”. When I called Noel Gallagher to talk about an idea we had to get him to interview Mario Ballotelli at Manchester City he rearranged his world tour to be there. Obviously Balotelli was a draw but Noel said “I’d do anything for Football Focus”. When I interviewed Jurgen Klopp in the tearoom at Exeter City before an FA cup tie the lovely ladies serving brews were wedged into the corner while we spoke. I introduced them to Mr Klopp afterwards and he apologised for stealing their space; “Don’t worry about that” they said. “We’ve just been on Football Focus! Wait until we tell the family about this!”. I know the game has changed and the way we consume it has changed but there is still an audience there if you find the right place for it, promote it, ‘take care of it’ and give fans the chance to be part of the conversation on an informed, thoughtful and entertaining show about the sport we all love. I am gutted it’s going but also so thankful for all the amazing people I got to work with over the years. They remain life-long friends and I still can’t quite believe I got to sit alongside the people I grew up watching play the game at the highest level. I remember when Alan Shearer called me “Dan” on one of the first shows I worked on. The little kid inside me thought “Alan Shearer knows my name!”. It was a pleasure to work with so many brilliant pundits and it was great to watch Alex develop on Focus and then go on to host the programme so well. I was asked this week to pick a favourite moment from my 12 years on the show. It’s a very hard question because I have a huge catalogue of wonderful memories. I always look back on our on-the-road shows because we were taking Focus out to the fans; their club was the canvas and we got to paint a beautiful picture together each week about what the place meant to the community, the history, the culture and all the things that were part of that.

This weekend sees the last ever episode of Football Focus broadcast on the BBC. One of my colleagues sent me this earlier this week. A montage of some of the stuff we did on the show and it brought back so many lovely memories ❤️ I can tell you exact spot where I was standing on the old runway at Turnberry golf club when I got the call to see if I wanted to become the presenter of Football Focus. I was covering The Open in 2009 and it was one of the best conversations I have ever had. For a kid who had grown up watching the show every week with my dad it was an amazing privilege to know that I would be hosting a programme which had always been such a big part of my weekend. I called my dad immediately and he was just as pleased as I was. When the news was announced I had a phone call from the one and only Bob Wilson. He was so warm and encouraging, as he always is, and said “Dan, you are gonna love this job. There is nothing like it… make sure you take care of it”. I hope I did. As a former custodian of the couch, Bob knew how special it was and I felt the same way when I handed over the reins to the brilliant Alex Scott when I left Focus after 12 seasons. People still talk to me about the show all the time. Focus is stitched into my life and I know there are still so many fans who really care about it which is why it’s such a crazy decision to get rid of it. Move it to Saturday morning, tinker with the format but, in a world where there is such a premium on reliable and trusted brands, why would you throw away over 50 years of hard work and history? It carries weight. I remember interviewing Pele years ago and I told him I was from Football Focus and he said “I know all about Football Focus” with a big smile. When we were filming a show about the history of Barcelona at the Nou Camp we were about to sit down to talk to Eusebio and Johan Cryuff (I had to pinch myself about that one) and Sir Bobby Charlton walked over and said to them, “You can tell this is important gentlemen… the team from Football Focus are here”. When I called Noel Gallagher to talk about an idea we had to get him to interview Mario Ballotelli at Manchester City he rearranged his world tour to be there. Obviously Balotelli was a draw but Noel said “I’d do anything for Football Focus”. When I interviewed Jurgen Klopp in the tearoom at Exeter City before an FA cup tie the lovely ladies serving brews were wedged into the corner while we spoke. I introduced them to Mr Klopp afterwards and he apologised for stealing their space; “Don’t worry about that” they said. “We’ve just been on Football Focus! Wait until we tell the family about this!”. I know the game has changed and the way we consume it has changed but there is still an audience there if you find the right place for it, promote it, ‘take care of it’ and give fans the chance to be part of the conversation on an informed, thoughtful and entertaining show about the sport we all love. I am gutted it’s going but also so thankful for all the amazing people I got to work with over the years. They remain life-long friends and I still can’t quite believe I got to sit alongside the people I grew up watching play the game at the highest level. I remember when Alan Shearer called me “Dan” on one of the first shows I worked on. The little kid inside me thought “Alan Shearer knows my name!”. It was a pleasure to work with so many brilliant pundits and it was great to watch Alex develop on Focus and then go on to host the programme so well. I was asked this week to pick a favourite moment from my 12 years on the show. It’s a very hard question because I have a huge catalogue of wonderful memories. I always look back on our on-the-road shows because we were taking Focus out to the fans; their club was the canvas and we got to paint a beautiful picture together each week about what the place meant to the community, the history, the culture and all the things that were part of that.

Dan Walker

159,606 views • 1 month ago

Jess Kaur, a former sub-postmaster, was a victim of the Post Office scandal and has been depicted in the new ITV drama 'Mr Bates vs The Post Office'. She was relentlessly pursued by the Post Office for theft which led her to suffer a complete mental breakdown.

Jess Kaur, a former sub-postmaster, was a victim of the Post Office scandal and has been depicted in the new ITV drama 'Mr Bates vs The Post Office'. She was relentlessly pursued by the Post Office for theft which led her to suffer a complete mental breakdown.

Good Morning Britain

132,357 views • 2 years ago

David Lean on how to direct actors & shares a funny story that happened during the filming of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' (1957) "Interviewer: Could you talk about how you work with your actors? Lean: Dangerous subject. Well, it’s intensely personal. I always try not to speak in a loud voice when I’m talking to an actor on the set. I gently take them aside, and I whisper because I don’t want to give the impression, for their sake, that they are being told to do this or that by a teacher. I try as hard as I can to make them suggest something that I want them to think of. The trouble with actors is that it’s a very di cult job with this damned glass eye looking at them all the time. It’s quite di cult talking to all of you here, but I’d rather talk to all of you than I would have a hundred-millimeter lens pointing at me. It’s so concentrated. It’s part of a director’s job, I think, to get the actor to give as good a performance on the stage as he gave to himself in the bath in the morning. So I try to relieve them of their inhibitions. It doesn’t help if you talk from a great height, from a megaphone, as it were. I try to get their confidence. I try to give them confidence. I can’t bear some actors, the rambunctious types who think they know everything. You’ve got to knock them down and make them realize they don’t know everything. If you’ve really done your homework on the script, you, the director, know the part better than any damned actor because you’ve been at it for months. I’ve had lots of actors who want to change dialogue. I see them doing it. I won’t have it. They took on the script and they’ll stick to it. I’m terribly tempted to tell you a rather long story about Sessue Hayakawa. You know, I nd constantly that actors really are not interested in anything but their own parts. We had a scene in 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' (1957) where they had all the troops lined up, and Sessue gets up on the soapbox and talks. We went through a rehearsal, and I said, “What’s wrong?” Because it was the speech and yet it wasn’t the speech. What Sessue had done was to learn all the lines that were only his. He had cut out all the lines that were anybody else’s. The main script was about that thick, and his script was only that thick. He marked only the pages in which he spoke. He had thrown out the rest and bound it together. Now, we came to the scene at the end of the picture. Alec Guinness is looking over the edge of the bridge and he thinks he sees some wires. He goes up to Hayakawa and says, “Colonel Saito, there’s something rather peculiar going on. I think we better go and have a look.” Guinness walked o the bridge, which leads down to the rocks, and Sessue stayed there like a rock. I said, “Go on, Sessue, follow him.” He said, “I follow him?” I said, “Sessue, this is where you nd the wires and where you get killed.” He said, “I get killed?” He had thrown the page away because he had no dialogue. I’ll tell you another story about an actor, though I won’t tell you who it was. He was damn good, but I was kind of dissatisfied. I said, “Look, I understand that an actor is projecting ninety percent to the person he’s playing with, and ten percent is going out toward the camera. I’ve only just realized that you’re putting ninety percent out to the camera, and ten to whom you’re playing with.” It changed his performance immediately." (David Lean's interview to AFI, 1984)

David Lean on how to direct actors & shares a funny story that happened during the filming of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' (1957) "Interviewer: Could you talk about how you work with your actors? Lean: Dangerous subject. Well, it’s intensely personal. I always try not to speak in a loud voice when I’m talking to an actor on the set. I gently take them aside, and I whisper because I don’t want to give the impression, for their sake, that they are being told to do this or that by a teacher. I try as hard as I can to make them suggest something that I want them to think of. The trouble with actors is that it’s a very di cult job with this damned glass eye looking at them all the time. It’s quite di cult talking to all of you here, but I’d rather talk to all of you than I would have a hundred-millimeter lens pointing at me. It’s so concentrated. It’s part of a director’s job, I think, to get the actor to give as good a performance on the stage as he gave to himself in the bath in the morning. So I try to relieve them of their inhibitions. It doesn’t help if you talk from a great height, from a megaphone, as it were. I try to get their confidence. I try to give them confidence. I can’t bear some actors, the rambunctious types who think they know everything. You’ve got to knock them down and make them realize they don’t know everything. If you’ve really done your homework on the script, you, the director, know the part better than any damned actor because you’ve been at it for months. I’ve had lots of actors who want to change dialogue. I see them doing it. I won’t have it. They took on the script and they’ll stick to it. I’m terribly tempted to tell you a rather long story about Sessue Hayakawa. You know, I nd constantly that actors really are not interested in anything but their own parts. We had a scene in 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' (1957) where they had all the troops lined up, and Sessue gets up on the soapbox and talks. We went through a rehearsal, and I said, “What’s wrong?” Because it was the speech and yet it wasn’t the speech. What Sessue had done was to learn all the lines that were only his. He had cut out all the lines that were anybody else’s. The main script was about that thick, and his script was only that thick. He marked only the pages in which he spoke. He had thrown out the rest and bound it together. Now, we came to the scene at the end of the picture. Alec Guinness is looking over the edge of the bridge and he thinks he sees some wires. He goes up to Hayakawa and says, “Colonel Saito, there’s something rather peculiar going on. I think we better go and have a look.” Guinness walked o the bridge, which leads down to the rocks, and Sessue stayed there like a rock. I said, “Go on, Sessue, follow him.” He said, “I follow him?” I said, “Sessue, this is where you nd the wires and where you get killed.” He said, “I get killed?” He had thrown the page away because he had no dialogue. I’ll tell you another story about an actor, though I won’t tell you who it was. He was damn good, but I was kind of dissatisfied. I said, “Look, I understand that an actor is projecting ninety percent to the person he’s playing with, and ten percent is going out toward the camera. I’ve only just realized that you’re putting ninety percent out to the camera, and ten to whom you’re playing with.” It changed his performance immediately." (David Lean's interview to AFI, 1984)

DepressedBergman

36,391 views • 4 months ago

Tucker Carlson: Remembering Charlie Kirk - A Life of Faith and Courage "Quickly about Charlie, I've known him since he was a teenager, and just an amazing person, but the two things that stick out, he's a Christian man. We talked about that a lot, including, you know, just the other day. There's a lot of pressure on public people, people who run huge, you know, hundred million dollar a year non-profits, and there are a lot of pitfalls and traps." "That's why so many of them are destroyed, and Charlie really did, without, you know, betraying details, like he walked the line for real. It was the topic of many conversations between us, because I've seen so many people destroyed. You know, most people are destroyed by power, and he wasn't, and I just really admire that." "I mean, to his last moments, you know, in order, he cared about God, his wife, and his children, and then his country. So, and that was totally real, completely real. I can affirm that, because I just talked to him about it so much, and I admire that, and he's a model, really." "I mean, he didn't have hate in his heart, and it was funny, and again, it's one of the reasons I couldn't stop looking at these videos last night. People were describing the opposite of what he was. He was filled with hate." "No, and if you talked to him about people who had attacked him, or who were truly his enemies, up to, and I think including the people who assassinated him yesterday, he would never, ever express hate, ever. He would always turn to, no, this person has been led astray. This person is clearly possessed by dark forces." "This person is a perpetrator, but also a victim of evil. I mean, that really was his worldview. That's the Christian worldview, and he expressed that in public, and especially in private, and I think that faith, which was completely real, not the fake faith that you see on display so often, but a real one, that was the root of his courage, and he had real courage." "He loved being with people who disagreed with him, not theoretically with them, but physically with them, you know, like close enough to smell. He would wait right in the middle of everything. I mean, I could tell you a million stories that I saw, but that was absolutely real." "Like, he loved people, even people who hated him, and people he loved, he was the rare person who was willing to tell them what he thought was true. I mean, he really believed, as a political matter, by the way, that, you know, I don't think he had animus toward anybody in no other country, but he really believed in his own country, and the obligation of his government to stand behind his country. He was truly America first in the nicest, most decent, non-ideological, but sincere way." "He was one of the only people, I mean, truly one of the only people to go to the president, whom he loved. He loved Donald Trump, like, personally as well, and I think the president really loved him in a real way, but he was one of the only people to go to the Oval Office and say, sir, I totally understand, and think Iran's really bad, but a war with Iran is not, you know, is something that could really hurt our country. I mean, boy, that was an unpopular position." "He didn't need to express it. Oh, of course, and he did it again. He didn't have some weird agenda. He wasn't mad at anybody. He was for his country, and he was for doing the right and wise and difficult thing, and he said that. He went to the Oval Office to say that." "He took massive, massive abuse from his own donors, which is also something that you don't see. He was one of the very few people, very few people I have met who combined a, like, a love for everyone involved with strong views. So, again, he was not animated by anything creepy or weird." "I mean, you knew him intimately, so you know this is true. If you talked to him off camera, he would say, you know, I really, like, I love whoever I'm talking about, but I think this is wrong. It's immoral." "It's bad for everybody involved, both sides, and he would say that, and he could say that because it was sincere. It was completely sincere, but I cannot overstate the amount of attacks he took privately over this, like, absolutely for real, and having lived in Washington most of my life and seen people run non-profits, I've never met one who was willing, stand up is too strong. He wasn't confrontational, but he would just say, no, I'm sorry that you feel that way, but I think this is the right thing." "The people we represent, which is mostly young people, they believe this, and I believe it also. It was brave, but loving at the same time, and I'm not sure he made a lot of headway, by the way. I mean, I think he made real enemies in doing that, but his view didn't change." "Anyway, he's just a wonderfully decent, loving man. That is true."

Tucker Carlson: Remembering Charlie Kirk - A Life of Faith and Courage "Quickly about Charlie, I've known him since he was a teenager, and just an amazing person, but the two things that stick out, he's a Christian man. We talked about that a lot, including, you know, just the other day. There's a lot of pressure on public people, people who run huge, you know, hundred million dollar a year non-profits, and there are a lot of pitfalls and traps." "That's why so many of them are destroyed, and Charlie really did, without, you know, betraying details, like he walked the line for real. It was the topic of many conversations between us, because I've seen so many people destroyed. You know, most people are destroyed by power, and he wasn't, and I just really admire that." "I mean, to his last moments, you know, in order, he cared about God, his wife, and his children, and then his country. So, and that was totally real, completely real. I can affirm that, because I just talked to him about it so much, and I admire that, and he's a model, really." "I mean, he didn't have hate in his heart, and it was funny, and again, it's one of the reasons I couldn't stop looking at these videos last night. People were describing the opposite of what he was. He was filled with hate." "No, and if you talked to him about people who had attacked him, or who were truly his enemies, up to, and I think including the people who assassinated him yesterday, he would never, ever express hate, ever. He would always turn to, no, this person has been led astray. This person is clearly possessed by dark forces." "This person is a perpetrator, but also a victim of evil. I mean, that really was his worldview. That's the Christian worldview, and he expressed that in public, and especially in private, and I think that faith, which was completely real, not the fake faith that you see on display so often, but a real one, that was the root of his courage, and he had real courage." "He loved being with people who disagreed with him, not theoretically with them, but physically with them, you know, like close enough to smell. He would wait right in the middle of everything. I mean, I could tell you a million stories that I saw, but that was absolutely real." "Like, he loved people, even people who hated him, and people he loved, he was the rare person who was willing to tell them what he thought was true. I mean, he really believed, as a political matter, by the way, that, you know, I don't think he had animus toward anybody in no other country, but he really believed in his own country, and the obligation of his government to stand behind his country. He was truly America first in the nicest, most decent, non-ideological, but sincere way." "He was one of the only people, I mean, truly one of the only people to go to the president, whom he loved. He loved Donald Trump, like, personally as well, and I think the president really loved him in a real way, but he was one of the only people to go to the Oval Office and say, sir, I totally understand, and think Iran's really bad, but a war with Iran is not, you know, is something that could really hurt our country. I mean, boy, that was an unpopular position." "He didn't need to express it. Oh, of course, and he did it again. He didn't have some weird agenda. He wasn't mad at anybody. He was for his country, and he was for doing the right and wise and difficult thing, and he said that. He went to the Oval Office to say that." "He took massive, massive abuse from his own donors, which is also something that you don't see. He was one of the very few people, very few people I have met who combined a, like, a love for everyone involved with strong views. So, again, he was not animated by anything creepy or weird." "I mean, you knew him intimately, so you know this is true. If you talked to him off camera, he would say, you know, I really, like, I love whoever I'm talking about, but I think this is wrong. It's immoral." "It's bad for everybody involved, both sides, and he would say that, and he could say that because it was sincere. It was completely sincere, but I cannot overstate the amount of attacks he took privately over this, like, absolutely for real, and having lived in Washington most of my life and seen people run non-profits, I've never met one who was willing, stand up is too strong. He wasn't confrontational, but he would just say, no, I'm sorry that you feel that way, but I think this is the right thing." "The people we represent, which is mostly young people, they believe this, and I believe it also. It was brave, but loving at the same time, and I'm not sure he made a lot of headway, by the way. I mean, I think he made real enemies in doing that, but his view didn't change." "Anyway, he's just a wonderfully decent, loving man. That is true."

Camus

41,966 views • 9 months ago

Jason Beer lists a number of post masters who were acquitted by a jury and then asks, "Why were you telling these parliamentarians that every prosecution involving the Horizon system had been successful and had found in favour of the Post Office?" Paula Vennells pauses "I fully accept now" pauses again "that the Post Office" pauses and reaches for a tissue, wipes away tears, pauses, "the Post Office knew that. I completely accept it. Personally, I didn't know that. And I'm incredibly sorry that that happened to those people. And to so many others" #PostOfficeInquiry

Jason Beer lists a number of post masters who were acquitted by a jury and then asks, "Why were you telling these parliamentarians that every prosecution involving the Horizon system had been successful and had found in favour of the Post Office?" Paula Vennells pauses "I fully accept now" pauses again "that the Post Office" pauses and reaches for a tissue, wipes away tears, pauses, "the Post Office knew that. I completely accept it. Personally, I didn't know that. And I'm incredibly sorry that that happened to those people. And to so many others" #PostOfficeInquiry

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1,116,077 views • 2 years ago