The Dark Tower

"Minas Maril"

Or

"Barad-Marîl"

"In letters to Rayner Unwin Tolkien considered naming the two as Orthanc and Barad-dûr, Minas Tirith and Barad-dûr, or Orthanc and the Tower of Cirith Ungol.

However, a month later he wrote a note published at the end of The Fellowship of the Ring and later drew a cover illustration which both identified the pair as Minas Morgul and Orthanc."

Diana : Global Media Blackout

1 week ago, this story broke:

That the story broke on Associated Press and prompted a (terse) official statement by MPS (the Metropolitan Police Service) obliges the BBC to cover and report the story as news under its Charter.

It's ROYAL Charter.

The Corporation was obliged to give minimal, appropriate coverage to the story - the presentation of which, every hour, on the hour, on 24 hr rolling news channel News24 being probably best likened to the careful behaviour of someone who had recently swallowed a bottle and expects, presently, to very soon be shitting glass.

Notably, the OTHER Global News Wire Service agency, Reuters (which, I am told, is owned by the Rothschild family), didn't seem to cover this story AT ALL.

Diana's (half) brother, Ben Goldsmith, has just exited a failed marriage to Kate Rothschild.....

But I am certain those things are completely unconnected.

Police examining new information on Princess Diana's death from Spike1138 on Vimeo.

The Metropolitan Police is assessing new information it has recently received about the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed in 1997.

Scotland Yard said it was "scoping" the information and "assessing its relevance and credibility".

It said it was "not a re-investigation" into the deaths of the couple in a Paris car crash on 31 August 1997.

An inquest in 2008 found they had been unlawfully killed, partly due to the "gross negligence" of their driver.

In a statement on Saturday evening, the Metropolitan Police said the assessment would be carried out by officers from the specialist crime and operations command.

It added that the deaths had been "thoroughly investigated and examined" by the inquest held at the Royal Courts of Justice in London.

Reports in several British Sunday newspapers suggest there are allegations the military was involved and that information had been passed to the police by an Army source.

A Met Police spokesman said that the force would "not discuss the source of the information" it was assessing.

A royal spokeswoman also said there would be no comment on the matter from Prince William or Prince Harry, or from Clarence House.

A spokesman for Dodi's father Mohamed Al Fayed said he had no comment to make, but said he would be "interested in seeing the outcome", adding that he trusted the Met to investigate the information "with vigour".


Paparazzi on motorbikes
Scotland Yard said its assessmet did not come under Operation Paget - the police investigation into allegations that the princess and Mr Al Fayed, her boyfriend, were murdered.

The wreckage of the car after the crash which killed Princess Diana
The car carrying Princess Diana crashed in a tunnel
It was a theory endorsed at the time by Mohamed Al Fayed, the then owner of London store Harrods.

But in December 2006, the report into Operation Paget said it had found no evidence of murder and dismissed all conspiracy theories surrounding the deaths.

Operation Paget concluded, just like the French investigation in 1999, that driver Henri Paul had been drunk and driving at excessive speed.

Dai Davies, a former head of royal protection, told ITV news the deaths were "an accident by any definition, and three separate inquiries... have come to the same independent conclusion".

He added: "I am absolutely convinced this was an accident so I'm mystified, after 13 years, how any new information can possibly allege anything other than that this was a tragic accident."

Unlawful killing
Princess Diana, the former wife of the Prince of Wales and the mother of Princes William and Harry, was 36 when she died alongside Mr Al-Fayed, 42.

Mr Paul was driving when their hired Mercedes crashed into a pillar in Paris's Pont de l'Alma tunnel.

The crash happened after the couple had left the Ritz Hotel and were pursued by paparazzi on motorbikes. Mr Al-Fayed's bodyguard, Trevor Rees-Jones, was the only survivor.

At the inquest into their deaths, the jury found the couple had been unlawfully killed and the deaths were the result of "gross negligence" on the part of Mr Paul and the paparazzi.

The paparazzi pursuit, Mr Paul's drink-driving and a lack of seatbelts contributed to the deaths, the jury said.

The inquest lasted more than three months and heard from 250 witnesses.

After the hearing it was announced that its cost had reached £4.5m, with a further £8m spent on the Metropolitan Police investigation.

CCTV footage of Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed on the day before they died
Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed died after leaving the Ritz Hotel in Paris on 31 August 1997


A tragic end to a day in Paris
Al Fayed abandons Diana campaign
Diana inquiry costs exceed £12m

Do you see what they've done there...?

Look closely.

 

 

Syria: Pre-War Mass Ritual

"Of all the races in the Galaxy, only the English could possibly revive the memory of the most horrific wars ever to sunder the Universe and transform it into into what I'm afraid is generally regarded as an incomprehensibly dull and pointless game"

• Douglas Adams, Life the Universe and Everything (1982).

Just saw (and heard) this broadcast live on Channel 5:

And did those feet in ancient time.

Walk upon Englands mountains green:

And was the holy Lamb of God,

On Englands pleasant pastures seen!

And did the Countenance Divine,

Shine forth upon our clouded hills?

And was Jerusalem builded here,

Among these dark Satanic Mills?

Bring me my Bow of burning gold;

Bring me my Arrows of desire:

Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold!

Bring me my Chariot of fire!

I will not cease from Mental Fight,

Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand:

Till we have built Jerusalem,

In Englands green & pleasant Land

Holocaust = Burnt Offering

Burnt Offering = Ashes

Brockian Ultra-Cricket is described as "a curious game which involved suddenly hitting people for no readily apparent reason and then running away"

Rules of Brockian Ultra-Cricket

Rule One: Grow at least three extra legs. You won't need them, but it keeps the crowds amused.

Rule Two: Find one good Brockian Ultra-Cricket player and clone him off a few times. This saves an enormous amount of tedious selection and training.

Rule Three: Put your team and the opposing team in a large field and build a high wall round them.

The reason for this is that, though the game is a major spectator sport, the frustration experienced by the audience at not actually being able to see what's going on leads them to imagine that it's a lot more exciting than it actually is. A crowd that has just watched a rather humdrum game experiences far less life-affirmation than a crowd that believes it has just missed the most dramatic event in sporting history.

Rule Four: Throw lots of assorted items of sporting equipment over the walls for the players. Anything will do — cricket bats, basecube bats, tennis guns, skis, anything you can get a good swing with.

Rule Five: The players should now lay about themselves for all they are worth with whatever they find to hand. Whenever a player scores a 'hit' on another player, he should immediately run away and apologize from a safe distance.

Apologies should be concise, sincere and, for maximum clarity and points, delivered through a megaphone.

Rule Six: The winning team shall be the first team that wins.

Diana : Enemy of the (Apartheid) State (of Israel)

You Can't Build a false Clash of Civilisation narrative out of material like this: