Scout ID: df6f51 March 1, 2021, 5:14 p.m. No.43160   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3200

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Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy sentenced to jail for corruption

 

A court has found Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of corruption and influence peddling and sentenced the former French president to three years in prison with two of them suspended.

 

France’s president from 2007 to 2012 was accused of forging a “corruption pact” with his lawyer and a senior magistrate. Judges said there was “serious evidence” of collaboration between the three men to break the law.

 

The court had heard how Sarkozy instructed his lawyer, Thierry Herzog, to offer the magistrate a cushy job on the Côte d’Azur in return for information on a separate investigation centred on the rightwing politician.

 

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/former-french-president-nicolas-sarkozy-sentenced-to-jail-for-corruption/ar-BB1e7Dwz

https://archive.ph/dBAGE

Scout ID: df6f51 March 1, 2021, 5:23 p.m. No.43161   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3200

Dark side of wonderland: ahead of V&A show, book explores Alice’s occult link

As museum prepares to celebrate Lewis Carroll’s heroine, ties to mysticism and magical societies have come to light in a new work, Through a Looking Glass Darkly

 

Great art spawns imitation. And great weird art, it seems, spawns still weirder flights of fancy. Lewis Carroll’s twin children’s fantasies, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There have both inspired a string of adaptations, artistic and musical responses down the generations.

 

Now, as the Victoria & Albert Museum prepares to celebrate Alice and her cultural influence in Curiouser & Curiouser, a landmark exhibition next month, a new book containing unseen original images is to expose the secrets behind the darker world of the second Alice story.

 

“Together these books are really the first psychedelic texts and I like them because there’s no moral lesson. They actually parody authority, like the judiciary and the monarchy, rather than supporting them,” said Jake Fior, an Alice expert and author of Through a Looking Glass Darkly.

 

“Carroll had a definite interest in the esoteric. I have a catalogue of his possessions, including his library, and he had lots of books on the supernatural,” he told the Observer.

Fior’s fresh version of Alice’s journey attempts to elaborate and even improve upon Carroll’s difficult follow-up work, 150 years on from its publication.

 

“If you think about the structure of Through the Looking Glass, it’s very weird and I always felt it could be improved. The idea of going through a mirror into a reflected dimension is fine, but then suddenly there is this Jabberwocky epic poem and the Vorpal sword and these mythical beasts which are never mentioned again. It is framed as a chess game in which Alice goes from pawn to queen in eight chapters, but it doesn’t run in a fluid way like Wonderland. It is a more flawed book, yet some of the moments are better, so I kept those in my version.” During the author’s research for his new approach to the story he discovered images that will now go on public display for the first time in the V&A show.

 

Fior discovered that he had formed the secret magical society known as The Golden Dawn, patronised by major literary figures such as Bram Stoker, E Nesbit and Arthur Conan Doyle, and also by the notorious occultist Aleister Crowley.

 

“There is no evidence that Carroll was practising magic, but he was interested in telepathy and was a member of the Society of Psychical Research. He also had a well known obsession with wordplay and especially acrostics, and these come from Hebrew mysticism, which he would probably have known,” said Fior.

 

While working on the book he found that although Carroll was not a Freemason, the Liddell family were very involved in the organisation.

 

The V&A exhibition, Fior suggests, will be a good opportunity for fans to go back to the darker side of the stories, something that the Disney cartoon version has almost obliterated.

 

“The Disney image has become so strong, it has almost effaced Tenniel. But I find the animated visuals a bit saccharine. I always think of the phrase from Anthony Burgess’s Clockwork Orange “weak tea, new brewed” as opposed to the Tenniel which is full strength, with no sugar.”

 

https://amp.theguardian.com/culture/2021/feb/28/dark-side-of-wonderland-ahead-of-va-show-book-explores-alices-occult-link

 

https://archive.ph/NQO7e

Scout ID: df6f51 March 1, 2021, 5:37 p.m. No.43162   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3163 >>3200

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9297449/amp/Drug-used-treat-lice-scabies-drug-cut-Covid-deaths-75-research-suggests.html

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9313253/amp/Daily-Covid-cases-HALVE-week-lowest-level-September.html

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/flu-cases-covid-england-phe-latest-b1805124.html

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamhaseltine/2021/02/27/the-california-variant-is-more-transmissible-evokes-worse-symptoms-and-may-resist-vaccines

 

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-single-dose-johnson-johnson-coronavirus-vaccine-cleared-in-the-us-12231345

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna125903

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9305833/amp/Dont-force-primary-school-pupils-wear-masks-says-Public-Health-England-adviser.html

 

https://www.statnews.com/2021/02/23/federal-law-prohibits-employers-and-others-from-requiring-vaccination-with-a-covid-19-vaccine-distributed-under-an-eua/

Scout ID: df6f51 March 1, 2021, 5:40 p.m. No.43163   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3200

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Bahhhh sorry sent without being ready to send lol. Obviously links are Covid related. Just passing along info I’ve found useful the last week regarding the Influenza C.