>DOUGH
>Concord owner
>Robert and Kathie Durst
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/durst-indicted-murder-wife-kathie-1.6233308
>Beautiful night and no regrets
Elton John Singles Out Anti-Grooming Laws as Why He’s Done Performing in the US
https://www.theepochtimes.com/elton-john-singles-out-anti-grooming-laws-as-why-hes-done-performing-in-the-us_5348744.html
Elton John Singles Out Anti-Grooming Laws as Why He’s Done Performing in the US
As his farewell tour wraps up, pop singer Elton John said he has no plans to perform again in the United States due to the country’s “growing swell of anger and homophobia.”
That’s according to what the “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” musician said in an interview he gave Radio Times, where he noted what he described as a growing number of anti-grooming laws being passed in states, including Florida, Texas, Georgia, Tennessee, North Dakota, and South Dakota. He specifically singled out Florida’s laws, calling them “disgraceful.”
John, 76, who has been a fixture in the cultural lives of both Brits and Americans since the 1970s with his string of top 10 hits, which are still played over the radio airwaves today, had plenty to say on the topic.
“It’s all going pear-shaped in America,” John told Radio Times, as written about in a piece in The New York Times. “We seem to be going backwards. And that spreads. It’s like a virus that the LGBTQ+ movement is suffering.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/20/arts/music/elton-john-lgbtq-rights.html
Elton John Warns of ‘Growing Swell of Anger and Homophobia’ in U.S.
“We seem to be going backwards,” the pop superstar warned as he lamented the curtailing of L.G.B.T.Q. rights in the United States, particularly in Florida.
The British pop superstar Elton John lamented the “growing swell of anger and homophobia” in the United States and described several laws recently passed in Florida that curtail L.G.B.T.Q. rights as “disgraceful.”
“It’s all going pear-shaped in America,” John, a longtime leader for gay rights and visibility, said in an interview published Tuesday in Radio Times, in which he pointed to a rise in violent incidents and recent legislation curtailing rights. “We seem to be going backwards. And that spreads. It’s like a virus that the L.G.B.T.Q.+ movement is suffering.”
More than 520 pieces of such legislation have been introduced in over 40 states this year, a record, according to the Human Rights Campaign, an L.G.B.T.Q. advocacy group.
“I don’t like it at all,” John said, referring to the increasingly hostile climate. “It’s a growing swell of anger and homophobia that’s around America.”
John, 76, will headline Glastonbury, Britain’s biggest music festival, on Sunday, as his lengthy final tour, Farewell Yellow Brick Road, heads toward its finale in Stockholm on July 8. The tour, which will have had over 330 dates, began in 2018 but was interrupted by the pandemic as well as John’s hip surgery.
As he prepared to perform at Glastonbury, the last British date on the tour, John said that he did not know if the rising anti-L.G.B.T.Q. sentiment is as prevalent in Britain. “I don’t know if it’s around Britain, because I haven’t been here that much,” he said.
But he called the scandal around the prominent British news anchor Phillip Schofield — who recently resigned after admitting he had a relationship with a younger man — “totally homophobic.”
“If it was a straight guy in a fling with a young woman, it wouldn’t even make the papers,” John said.
In the interview with Radio Times, John said he might eventually be open to doing a residency after his farewell tour ends, “but not in America.” That, his representatives said, is for the same reason that he had decided to stop touring: He wants to spend more time with his husband and children, who live in Britain.
Last year, John — who objected to his songs being played at rallies for former President Donald J. Trump — performed at the Biden White House. “I just wish America could be more bipartisan,” John said as he sat at his piano. After his set, President Biden awarded John the National Humanities Medal.
>Syria and Belarus as examples of successful defense against Western attempts to topple a government
>BIDEN WILL HOST OBAMA FOR LUNCH TODAY
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/ezra-miller-has-now-been-accused-of-grooming-minors-and-leading-a-cult
Ezra Miller Has Now Been Accused of Grooming Minors and Leading a Cult
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1673691159288332295
MSNBC’s @morningmika: “How doe the Biden W.H. [explain Hunter @ the state dinner] that cuts through to people that are being, honestly, misled?”
@jrpsaki: “What we saw with Hunter appearing at the state dinner was, in my suspicion, was the president, his son wanted to come, so his son is coming to the dinner … The president want[s] to show that he loves his son and that he’s standing by him.”
There's ways to draw the contrast without getting into the specifics.
>https://www.dailydot.com/debug/mel-gibson-human-trafficking-documentary-conspiracy-theory/
The claim is straight from the QAnon textbook, a conspiracy theory that claims former President Donald Trump and a team of secret government insiders are working to topple such rings run by child-eating Democrats.
The Utah-based organization, known as Operation Underground Railroad, has been criticized for not only exaggerating its successes in battling human-trafficking but for appearing to support the QAnon conspiracy theory.
The QAnon conspiracy theory is now central to modern Republican politics, leading many conservatives to blindly believe any claims regarding the topic.
that is one attractive info-graphic
Charlie don't surf?
>the sniffer
Speaking of radical Islam, how's the hammering of Idlib going?
https://syria.liveuamap.com/