NEWS w/e 25/10/26
IS TRUMP A RUSSIAN ASSET - SCROLL DOWN
Why UK businesses are urging customers to pay by cash
Consumer Behavior: 54% of UK consumers visited businesses encouraging cash payments in the past eight weeks, including cafes, restaurants, shops, barbers, markets, and pubs.
Compliance & Regional Differences: Three-quarters of customers paid in cash when asked, with the highest compliance in Northern Ireland (88%).
Future Outlook: Despite current usage, cash payments are declining, expected to account for just 4% of all UK payments by 2
035, as some small businesses go cashless due to fraud and security concerns.
David Lloyd sparks equality row by banning men from spa areas because some women feel uncomfortable
David Lloyd Clubs has become embroiled in an equality row after it began excluding men from spa areas because some women said they felt uncomfortable.
The exclusive gym group has introduced weekly women-only spa sessions in several of its branches due to what it described as 'significant feedback' from female members.
In correspondence to customers, David Lloyd said some women felt unable to use the shared spa facilities while men were present for a variety of reasons, including 'religious beliefs'.
Monster Gary Glitter is deaf and on his 'last legs' behind bars – 'his body is packing up'
Monster Gary Glitter is getting so old and frail that he can barely walk around inside his cell. Convicted paedophile Glitter, whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd, is currently locked up in HMP Channings Wood in Devon where lags say he is “deaf” and on his “last legs”. The disgraced 82-year-old is under a number of alerts by prison guards who believe he is going to see out his days behind bars. One of these is a PEEP alert, which is created for those inmates who are very poorly behind bars. The Personal Emergency Evacuation Plan (PEEP) is a written, bespoke emergency escape procedure for prisoners who cannot use standard emergency exits unaided due to old age, disability, mobility impairments or sensory loss.
Trump’s suggestion to rename an entire ocean after himself instantly slammed
Bold Suggestion: Donald Trump suggested renaming either the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean to “Trump Ocean” or “Ocean of the Americas” during a speech in Clarksville, Tennessee. Public Reaction: Critics on social media mocked the idea, highlighting that Americans are more concerned about gas prices, inflation, and healthcare than renaming oceans. Pattern of Renaming: This follows previous attempts by Trump to rename places and concepts, including the Gulf of Mexico → Gulf of America, the Strait of Hormuz, and coining terms like “super intelligence” and “artificial media”.
JFK had a gay best friend who had his own bedroom at the White House
When stories about John F. Kennedy’s personal life are told, they often focus on his ravenous womanizing and promiscuity. The centerpiece of Camelot allegedly courted multiple women in addition to his wife, Jackie Onassis, including Marilyn Monroe. But there was one person always around Kennedy with whom the magnetic president carried on a deep male friendship. Kennedy met Lem Billings when they were classmates at Choate, an elite prep school in bucolic Connecticut.
The pair quickly became inseparable, traveling Europe together as graduates and forming an unbreakable bond. In the subsequent years, Billings worked on JFK’s first congressional campaign, was an usher at his wedding; and eventually, worked on his 1960 presidential run.
Kindergarten operator given life in prison after 200 pupils poisoned
Severe Sentences: Li Huifang, operator of Heshi Peixin Kindergarten in Gansu, was sentenced to life in prison and had ¥500,000 confiscated. Executive principal Zhu Jinglin received 15 years and a ¥300,000 fine, while four kitchen staff got 6–8 years. Tainted Food: The court found that Li and Zhu instructed staff to add toxic lead-containing pigments to meals, affecting over 200 students and 20 staff members in July 2025. Health Risks: Lead exposure can harm children’s brain and nervous system, causing symptoms like irritability, abdominal pain, vomiting, hearing problems, and developmental delays, while adults may experience memory issues, joint pain, and pregnancy complications.
Serial killer Rose West on her last legs as evacuation plan put in place
One of Britain's most notorious serial killers "does not have long left" after a dramatic deterioration in her health.
Rose West received 10 life sentences in 1995 after she was found guilty of murdering 10 young girls and women with her husband, Fred West. Following more than a decade incarcerated at Low Newton Prison, Durham, Rose was moved to HMP New Hall, near Wakefield, in the summer of 2019 after fellow inmate Joanna Dennehy plotted to kill her.
Why would Canadians care what the USA thinks of them? Not many countries do. The USA is ‘yesterday's power’ no longer trusted, no longer respected. It's ruled by a corrupt mentally ill leader who has destroyed any standing it may have had in the world. It will soon be isolated with no friends whatsoever if that hasn't already happened.
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I don’t think for a moment that Trump thinks he’s messed up ANYTHING! His agenda is unknown at present, and we can only guess what the end game is. He hasn’t shown one IOTA of concern for the welfare of the people of the country. Instead it has been about the ballroom, reflecting pool, stolen elections, Nobel Prize, gifts from foreign dignitaries, golf courses, golden anything and everything plastered in the White House, MAKING MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF MONEY THROUGH HIS POSITION and by manipulation of the markets, etc. etc. He doesn’t even PRETEND to actually be an acting President. What’s to mess up? He believes he is above the law, rules do not apply to him and he can do anything he wants. And he DOES.
Perhaps his goals are slowly being achieved. Money and power and dictatorship.
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The United States was advised by the British to not get involved in a war in Vietnam. It was the United Kingdom that retrieved Vietnam from the Communists and returned it to France. American troops were chased out of Mogadishu by the city's inhabitants. They United States ran away in Afghanistan as well. The United States of America would have bombed the crap out of Port Stanley , shot up dozens of its own troop's and would have given and gone home when it started raining and they realised they had killed all of the islanders during their bombing raids on the Islands. They would then remind the world for the next thousand years how great the United States of America is.
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Because none of that happened. Joe Biden was not President in 2020. He could not have rigged the election. The American people chose Joe Biden and Trump did not like that.
Donald Trump lost the election. Donald Trump urged the Georgia Secretary of State to find him more votes. Donald Trump tried to send fake electors to Congress. Donald Trump tried to get his Vice President to declare the election void. Donald Trump called for his followers to come to the Capitol on January 6. Donald Trump exhorted his followers to attack the Capitol on January 6. Donald Trump spent hours watching the result on television. If there were FBI agents in the crowd on January 6, Donald Trump was the one controlling them. Joe Biden was not President on January 6.
Donald Trump lied to you. For four years, Donald Trump said he had a better, cheaper healthcare plan that was just two weeks away. For four years it was two weeks away. Where is that plan? When asked about the plan in 2024, Trump said he had a concept of a plan. Where is that plan now? Trump lies. Trump is a liar. Why do you believe his lies?
Trump is a petty, vindictive bully with a fragile ego. He is a malignant narcissist with no concern for anyone but himself. Trump cheated on all three of his wives. Trump cheated on the mistresses he cheated on his wives with. He even cheats at golf. You don’t think Trump would cheat on America ?
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The US has warned Europe that it will no longer permit it to give weapons it buys from the US to Ukraine unless Ukraine stops targeting Russian oil refineries. Does this mean that the US is now a Russian ally?
I think we need to be careful to establish who is the US (American people), and who is DJT. They are NOT the same.
According to a YouGov poll, 62% of Americans sympathize with Ukraine, a piddling 2% sympathize with Putin and his Orcs. So, no, the US is NOT a Russian ally. Further, according to Cygnal, 91% of Americans agree that Ukraine is justified in defending itself.
Yes, I know people will say, “Well, Americans voted for him, so they must agree with what he’s doing.” Americans voted for him because they wanted no more wars—Trump has given us more wars. They voted for Trump because they wanted food prices to go down—food prices are climbing. They voted for Trump because they wanted gas prices to go down—they are skyrocketing. In short, Trump isn’t doing what he promised voters. He lied to the American people, and now his polling numbers are sinking faster than a Russian cruiser in the Black Sea.
I know people expect the citizenry to follow in lockstep with leadership, but that just doesn’t work for ANY country. Just because a national leader is an idiot, it doesn’t mean that everybody in that nation thinks identically. To believe so is the pinnacle of naivete. It has never worked that way and it never will.
Pay close attention to the US mid-terms coming up November 4, just a few weeks away. Trump has made the Republican Party positively toxic among American voters. So, if you see a huge number of congressional seats turning blue (going to the Democratic Party), then you will have a good gauge of the US’s mindset. Watch that, and then get back to me.
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WEell I like your sense of humour in asking this comical question. The question really ought to read “ How high will the United States of America jump when they finally rid themselves of Donald Trump and his orcs and realise the only friends they have are Russia , North Korea and Israel. “
That is the reality of the situation. The United States might still be a NATO member country but they won't be trusted or liked because they, or at least half of the people who voted decided to vote for a sex offending , lying , cheating grifter who insulted and threatened his country's millitary allies , neighbours and the countries that used to be their friends.
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