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chronology: 'Enter the Team Leader' President Biden widely praised for his inclusive and cooperation attitude towards other nations leaders.

Today President Biden has been enjoying a cup of tea with Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth at Windsor Castle. Mr Biden and his wife were personally welcomed by Her Majesty to the Castle where he and Jill have been sitting with the Queen enjoying a cup of tea.

It is a important custom in England, even for the world's most powerful leaders to just stop their hectic schedules and relax with a nice cup of tea with the Queen.

The Summit in Cornwall is being seen as a success but there have been differences of opinion among some leaders. Mr Macron pointedly brought up Northern Ireland and repeated a number of times that the boarder problems in Northern Ireland are between the EU and England not between France and Great Britain. We have not and do not question the sovereignty claimed by Great Britain over Northern Ireland said Mr Macron. The problems of boarder at the moment in Ireland are the result of Brexit, it was Great Britain that chose Brexit, and Great Britain that signed the Brexit Agreement.

Mr Biden referred briefly to the confusion in Irelands boarders earlier in the summit but only to repeat the concern Washington has that the process for peace security and prosperity for all people in Ireland continues.

But the real star of the summit was President Biden. After Mr Trumps disruptive years at summit meetings, Mr Biden is seen as a Team leader.
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chronology: Tim chases Aliens.

A year before the horrific bombing of Oklahoma City, Tim MacVeigh decided to check out Area 51.

It is not clear if Tim was looking for Aliens or just curious to see inside the Restricted Area personally. He was definitely a rubber neck for in the news places. He had personally walked around Ruby Ridge and Waco Cult Fire site. But Area 51 does seem an choice for Tim.
Anyhow he drove out to the Base and after parking his car walked off into the secure Area carrying a rifle and rucksack. At one point he considered spraying a Government helicopter with rifle fire just for the fun of it. But he decided not to.

Tim only spent a few hours at Area 51. He returned to his car and drove back to his home. At the time he was said to be using methamphetamine so goodness knows what his reasons were for visiting the Top Security Base.

But Government helicopter pilots who patrolled Area 51 at the time probably have no idea how close they came to having their aircraft riddled with automatic rifle fire. Creepy.
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chronology: An American Dream becomes a nightmare.

We don't know if Dr Sam Shepherd was dreaming in the early hours of Independence Day 1954. But if he was he woke up to a nightmare.

He had drifted off into a pleasant sleep on a sofa after entertaining friends with his wife. His wife had shown the friends out, and gone up to bed. Dr Sam snoozed on the sofa. But in the early hours he heard his wife call out in distress. He stumbled upstairs and found a shocking scene with blood splattered all over the bedroom walls and his wife lieing dead on the floor. A husky man turned and attacked him. Sam was knocked out but struggled up and fought with the attacker. The attacker fled and Sam was after him. Outside he caught up with the murderer and the two brawled on the beach of a lake.

But he was knocked out again and the killer escaped. An American Tragedy. But the tragedy was just beginning for Sam. Right from the get go the police did not believe his story. How come his son, and even the family dog had not heard anything? The dog never barked and the child slept through the attack.

His life and the murder of his wife became a American sensation with Americans taking sides on whether he was guilty or innocent. The good Doctors 'Apple pie and White Picket Fence' life was demolished as revelations of suspected sex affairs of both he and wife were exposed in court. Across America the case became a carnival.

'Guilty' said the jury, and Sam went to prison. But 10 years later he was found innocent after an appeal against the guilty verdict.

'Quite a story' most Americans concluded. The case became the inspiration for the TV Show 'The Fugitive'.

But was Sam innocent? Truth is we will never know. The Appeal Court said he was, but many Americans had their own opinion.

But one thing was certain, for anyone, that was one heck of a way to wake up on Independence Day.
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chronology: President Biden, visit to the Queen was relaxed and informative.

President Biden and his wife Jill had a relaxed and successful visit with Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth yesterday. The last President to visit with Her Majesty was President Trump. There were said to be some surprised officials during Mr Trumps visit to the Queen as he was said to break normal protocol and not Bow his head to the Queen . But some prominent American Press member's said that this was just not true. Mr Trump was polite and respectful to the Queen and did in fact bow his head when approaching Her Majesty. Milenia was also said to have been perfectly well versed in political protocol when approaching the Queen.
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chronology: A presidential chat.

Perhaps Mr Obama may have had a curious chat with the Queen when he visited Her Majesty. Mr Obama's family of course were from Kenya. It was during a visit to Kenya that Her Majesty was informed she was now Queen as Her Father had died.

Her Majesty may have described to Mr Obama how She was up a tree when She was told She had become Queen. The Princess had spent Her time in Kenya visiting Charity Hospitals and schools for Kenyan children, but the Princess took a break from duties and spent a day filming wild animals with a cine camera. In the evening the Princess and Her husband spent the night in a tree house surrounded by wild animals and snakes. It was in the morning that the Princess was informed She was now Queen.

If the Queen told Mr Obama the story he may even have asked for copies of the Queen's movie film's She made during Her visit to Kenya back then.
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chronology: Kamala faces the heat and the cold.

Madam Vice President Kamala Harris is being blasted with love and resentment in waves at the moment.

With her husband she marched in the Washington DC Pride Parade yesterday. She was the first Vice President to join in the Gay Pride Marches. Naturally Gays have been sending her Media messages gushing with love and thanks for her support. But today her Aircraft touched down in South Carolina as Kamala flew to the South to support Democrats and explain Government Bills. Kamala has been hit with angry messages from GOP supporter's still devoted to Mr Trump.
Southern Democrats have rallied to support Kamala insisting that Democrats recovery Bills are working and getting America back to work and assisting Americans hurt by the shutdown. But for Kamala it's hard work.

But for now the Gays are ahead in sending Kamala love and support messages 'thank you Kamala we love you' are sent every hour. Hate mail from Mr Trump supporters are less in number but filled with hate.
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chronology: QAnon Cultists heckle Vice President in Greenville South Carolina.

Ms Harris has discovered that the QAnon Cultists live on. A small band of reported QAnon Cultists stood alongside the motorcade route through the South Carolina town holding up sign's with slogans like Trump is President, and Go back to Texas, and other slogans.
Small groups of Democrats kept Southern Gentility and hospitality alive by holding up welcome signs with 'We love you' on .

Some people are wondering if many Americans will ever break away from the QAnon Cult. 'Mr Trump is not President, he never will be again. Why don't these people just accept reality' ? Said one local.
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chronology: The Cold War is back. But driven by dollar's not politics.

For decade's America led the world unchallenged by Cryogenics. Seen by many Americans as a joke, the business none the less has gone on up to the present day. But America was the only player, and if you wanted to be frozen into the future you had only one destination on earth, America.

But Russia has now joined the Big Freeze Business, and the race to Absolute Zero is now a two horse race. It is more now than just a curiosity to see if people can be frozen. It has become a battle of Business Credibility to demonstrate national economic proficiency and competence. And Russia want's to be seen as a rock solid society worthy of long term investment.
At the moment America is the country with the most credibility in Cryogenics. But Russia is determined to be at least considered a real player in long term Cryogenics.

Russia is undervalued in terms of technology. While America probably leads the world in science of all kinds, despite what people who put Russia down may suggest, Russia is never far behind America.

And seems determined to not just challenge America in Cryogenics, but leave America behind. Russia plans to store cryogenically frozen people in Space.
Once people have been frozen they will be launched into orbit around the earth for future recovery. The cost of space launches fall every year, and the number of super rich people grow every year.

Russia is hoping to add confidence, trust and credibility to it's economy as a whole with the fledgling business of cryogenics.

But can people be returned to life in the future? Whether in Russia or America or brought down from space? Well the world will be very different a hundred years from today. Possibly they could recover people from deep freeze.
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chronology: Gays in England celebrating Pride Month, but are still dismayed at no ban on Conversion Therapy py.

The weather in England has been unusually pleasant this Gay Pride Month. But Gays are disappointed with the failure of the UK Government to Ban Conversion Therapy.

The Conservative Government had promised to ban the practice offered by people to turn Gay people into hetro people. Usually it is offered by churches. But the practice was widely criticised after many stories in the media of Gay people being shocked and alarmed by the methods of conversion therapists. Gays were describing being served by people who appeared to be unbalanced and unsuitable to deal with their enquiries into the therapy.

While the Church of England has been widely praised for it's therapy offered to Gays, other groups have been just as widely criticised for what was considered unhelpful services.

The trouble with a legal ban on conversion therapy is it would have banned the Church of England as well as what many were calling Quack Healers. So for now, Conversion Therapy is still available.

Only around 2pc of Gays are said to have tried Conversion Therapy, around 5pc have been offered the Therapy.
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chronology: GOP showing rock solid unity these days.

America's Republican Party has unity that most leading political parties around the world would find enviable.

Not one GOP politician voted for a living wage for American's. Every GOP Politician voted in favour of Tax Cuts for the top 2pc of Americans.

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chronology: 5 year's on, and Washington DC Police praised for preventing another Jo Cox incident.

During the Capital Hill invasion a few months back, for a brief time it was feared VP Harris had suffered a similar fate to Jo Cox the English MP who had been brutally stabbed and beaten to death by a crazed Ultra Nationalist. There were stories of the VP being dragged through Government buildings and being lynched by Right Wing fanatics. After Jo Cox murder people could not be surprised at another Far Right delusion driven murder of politicians.

5 year's ago Jo was murdered as she carried out the heavy work load of traveling to meetings to meet with constituents to listen to their problems and concerns. Witnesses say her last actions just before she died was to reach out and try to help an injured pensioner who had also been stabbed trying to help her.

Remembering the fate of Jo and her heroic old pensioner friend, we can be grateful that the Capital Police in Washington DC were able to prevent similar distressing scenes in DC.

The motive for Jo Cox sad murder appears to have been Turner Diaries like fantasies which her killer is said obsessed about. Some Congressmen in the United States say the Turner Diaries is book that should be banned.
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chronology: Mr Biden and Mr Putin end meeting in Switzerland on business like and pragmatic terms.

The meeting of the two VIP Statesmen went well according to Press comments. But neither the American team or the Russian team seemed enthusiastic about their relationship. It was as if the two great leaders were saying ' we agree to different outlooks but there is no real problems between us.
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chronology: San Francisco here we come.

For many Americans life during the pandemic has actually been a break from having millions of tourists descend on them every year. But the peace and quiet will be gone soon as fleets of huge passenger jets begin ferrying millions of globe trotters around world.

Lawmakers are easing travellers restrictions which will probably be gone altogether by the end of the year.

For some folks, travelling is not just a fun thing to do. Places like Las Vegas and San Francisco are virtual homes now to many regular long distance flyers. There are also places like Rome which are considered places of deep spiritual meaning. Canterbury England also has it's loyal regular religious visitors.

So if you live in places like Las Vegas or San Francisco, or New York City, enjoy your peace and quiet, because people are already on their way to your home town.
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chronology: Gays probably going over holiday options for Canada.

With travel restrictions ending, Gays like everyone else will probably be going over the list of countries for their holiday destinations. Unlike most folks however, Gays often have to take personal safety into mind when traveling. Countries like Poland, Hungary, Russia and other countries have recently enacted some pretty hostile public bills against gay people. But Canada remains the world's leading Gay friendly country.
California and Nevada are not far behind Canada in the Gay approval league, but most Arab countries are definitely still recommended as being off limits to Gay people.
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chronology: Yeah Vegas Baby.

Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery would be proud of Las Vegas over the last few weeks.

After a year of deserted streets and darkness around the world, Vegas is out to kick Covid and have fun again.

The City is more or less fully open again. Around 40 million people visit Vegas on a normal year, 6 million of the visitors are from outside the USA.

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chronology: This date in 1900, China in Crisis.

Chinese Fortes open fire on Foreign Navies in support of the Boxer Rebellion.

Officially Chinese Authorities had remained neutral in the fighting between the Boxer Patriots and the occupation forces of the European powers, but with the attack on the foreign navies China officially became a ally of 6 Boxer Cult.

But many of China's Establishment saw the Boxers as more harmful to China than the European Empires. The Boxers were trying to drag China back into the Dark Ages the Establishment insisted.
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chronology: This date in 1940, Britain's worst ever maritime disaster when the civilian liner RMS Lancastria is bombed by the Luftwaffe off the Coast of France.

Sir Winston Churchill ordered a news block on the story. But at the time the USA was neutral in WW2 and American newspapers were shocked at the loss of life. Around 4000 civilians had been killed by the bombing and sinking of the ship. So American newspapers ran the story.

Some have speculated that the real loss of life was around 5000 people. There are rumours of treasure sunk with the wreck as many passengers were carrying all their valuables at the time they died.
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chronology: People just like American's, and Democrats.

In the list of top liked Tweets of all time American politicians, all of them Democrats, come out on top. Barack Obama is most liked of all, followed by Joe Biden. VP Kamala Harris is also up there in the Top Ten slot.

Hey this is no mean feat in this day and age when folks just seem angry about everything.

Ariana Grande was also at the top of the list for a short time after the Manchester bombing. Her mom had been helping rescue survivors and she tweeted how sad she was.

The most liked tweet in history was of a young actor who died of cancer.
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chronology: 'AI and Public Opinion'

It was during the liberation of Iraq that President George W Bush once reflected that 'you know all this would be easier if I were a Dictator'. The President was joking of course, but for the Democracies 'Public Opinion' when influenced in unhelpful ways can create major problems for Governments struggling with important issues. With the support of most countries at the time, the USA could have restored Iraq to normalsy rapidly and the Iraqi people benefitted far more quickly from American peace efforts. But the public around the world was divided in its opinion. Such is the power of 'Public Opinion.

Public Opinion has also pitted Americans against each other in recent times over President Trump. Some seeing Mr Trump as a kind of Messiah like leader, others as a harmful influence.

One point no one disputes is the power of Public Opinion. Public Opinion is generated in a number of ways. From emotional Right Wing Talk Radio hosts like Alex Jones, to Left Wing demonstrations about issues like Global Warming.

But what if AI could be created to control and direct Public Opinion? It may sound far fetched, even like an episode of the X Files, but some insist such a AI Programme, running in Super Computers linked to Mass Media is one day possible. By monitoring how the Public React on a minute by minute basis, the AI could manipulate the direction and nature political and social life in not just some countries, but every country.

The idea of the global population being manipulated to such an extent may seem impossible. But even countries like the USA suspect their infrastructure Computers have been hacked by foreign powers. What if America's TV, Radio, and Newspapers could be taken over remotely without the owners even being aware?

Sounds like something out of George Orwell, but there are some Tech Experts who insist this is possible. And some comedians may joke 'if you hear a wave of Media reporters ridiculing such a AI take over of American Media, well maybe it has already happened, and it is the AI doing the ridiculing'.
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chronology: WTC mystery continues despite endless conspiracy theories.

There are endless conspiracy theories about 911. But none of the passionate supporter's of the United States Government Report, or the often weird conspiracy theories can answer a simple question, 'where did all the thousands of steel girders that held up the WTC vanish to during the collapse' ?

Conspiracy theorists often claim Secret Agent's sneaked around the WTC planting explosives and blew up the WTC. Fair enough if you want to believe that. But ask them where the thousands of Carbon Steel girders , which were virtually indestructible, vanished to as they fell to the ground and they have no answers. You cannot blow steel like that to dust without using huge amounts of explosives for each girder. Some claim that the girders were thrown about Manhattan as the WTC came down. But none were found, and if that happened Manhattan would have been shredded. Some claim the girders were never there to begin with. But you can see them being set in place during construction. And how could such a huge structure have stood up in New York City for decades without the steel support girders?

Even James Randi could not perform such a bewildering disapearing trick.
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chronology: Yikes.

Mr Biden now in trouble with the Catholic Church after Mr Johnson has been.

In England a few weeks back, Prime Minister Johnson found himself facing a storm of anger from Catholic Church members after details of his married life were made public. But now it is the Official Catholic Church that is turning its sights on President Biden for his support of women's Rights to seek Abortion.

While Great Britain politicians regarded the fury aimed at the Prime Minister a matter of his private life and nothing to do with them, Americans are likely to become annoyed at what they will see as religion interfering in government. Putting emotional pressure on Mr Biden is likely to be offensive to many Americans as they will respond that they elected the Government not the Catholic Church.

In some ways the recent conference by high ranking Catholic Bishops about whether to ban Mr Biden from receiving Church Sacraments during Mass is reminder of the fears many Americans had when John Kennedy was running for President.

Back then, Americans who were not Catholic said that the Vatican would be running Washington, not the Congress. But JFK and the Catholic Bishops managed to avoid rousing suspicion among Main Street America. The recent Catholic Bishops plans to put pressure on Mr Biden over the abortion issue is likely to cause Washington even more work at a time when Lawmakers are snowed under with work due to the economic crisis and the capital invasion etc.

Perhaps one compromise would be for the President to suspend his membership of the Church while in the White House.

Let's just hope Americans can solve this problem without more division. But American women's groups are likely to be furious religious interference, as they see it, in Public Office work.
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chronology: Wireclubbers in the Northern Hemisphere enjoy the longest day of the year today.

It is the Summer Solstice today. So enjoy those few extra hours of daylight wireclubbers in the Northern half of the planet.

Folks down in Argentina and Austria and South Africa and New Zealand and everyone else down South. Don't worry, you will get your long day in six months.
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chronology: This date 2009, Tu dies and there is a mass riot in Shishou Central China.

Tu, a Chef at a Hotel in Shishou was found dead at the gates leading to the hotel where he worked.

But when local police concluded it was suicide people began gathering in groups discussing the death. Pretty soon clashes broke out between local people and the police. Then there was a full on riot.

Authorities later carried out a autopsy on Tu and confirmed he committed suicide. But the gossip in the town had speculated all kinds stories as to how he died.
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chronology: 'That's our Oil, no it's not it is ours'.

Tensions begin to rise between Kuwait and Iraq after Kuwait completes a 'Side Angle oil Drilling' project on the boarder with Iraq, this date 1990.

Iraq protests that Kuwait is tapping into its Oil Wells and siphoning off oil. The dispute will escalate in months into full scale War as the United States is forced to restore peace to the district.
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chronology: It's not the Catholic Church in America, it's QAnon in the Catholic Church.

With so many moderate catholics offended at the disrespect being shown to Mr Biden by some American Bishops in the American Catholic Church, and even the Vatican said to be unsettled at the move to ban President Biden from the wafer service at Catholic Mass in America, conspiracy theorists are finding the 'real' culprits harassing the President 'QAnon'.

Well certainly almost as many catholics as evangelicals are QAnon believers, so it would not be a stretch to think that the real motive for the banning of the President from the wafer eating is political not theological.

Still it is a little creepy to think that the Catholic Church is being over run by a Cult that believes the world is run by blood drinking cannibals. No doubt now there will be people looking for catholics at their church services flashing secret Q signals to fellow Q believers.

Well who knows wireclubers, maybe there is a Catholic Church somewhere in America where a huge lifelike statue of Mr Trump is surrounded by glowing candles and Catholic Q believer's praying to Mr Trump.

'Strange Days indeed' as John Lennon would sing.
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