Tuesday 13th June 2023

As a bit of a sleuth I suspect Mr Gates has been ravaged by the zany threesome of Marjorie Taylor-Greene, Stephen Bannon and Representative McCarthy… Cwoaoarh that 1950s Yankee Doodle Dandy name..

Or he’s neurodegeneratively indisposed like all the mates Branson, Bezos, the remaining Koch brother, Jerome Powell and the world’s fave Renaissance Warrior-prince². To get a steely grip on the ideological basis of this post 1509 ‘Hernan Cortes on a Peak in Darien’ Romance Era bulls… see our Footnote, courtesy Wikepedia & the Global Commons

+ a special thank you to to the very special Masha Gessen, a Russian-American journalist, author, translator and [“]activist[“] who has been an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia… Gessen is the author of eleven books, including “Surviving Autocracy” and “The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia”

John Blundell

Philosophy of Science, Australian

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²Peter I (Russian: Пётр I Алексеевич, romanized: Pyotr I Alekseyevich, IPA: [ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ]; 9 June [O.S. 30 May] 1672 – 8 February [O.S. 28 January] 1725), commonly known as Peter the Great,^{[pron 1]}was Tsar of all Russia from 1682, and the first Emperor of all Russia from 1721 until his death in 1725. He jointly ruled with his elder half-brother, Ivan V, until 1696. He is primarily credited with the modernisation of the country, transforming it into a major European power.