Investigators of organized crime in Italy are stepping up their efforts against the Mafia, as the mob becomes more and more involved in the smuggling of migrants across the Mediterranean. The trafficking of migrants into Italy increased 17% last year.
In other news, the gunman who killed 39 people in the Reina nightclub in Istanbul is still at large, as of this writing.
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Chicago Records 762 Homicides in 2016, Up 57 Percent From Previous Year
The city of Chicago recorded 762 homicides in 2016 — an average of two murders per day, the most killings in the city for two decades and more than New York and Los Angeles combined.
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Christians Elect Stupid People Then Expect Them to Do Good Works
The church has been absent in its mandated role in our political arena. I know that many will cry separation of church and state, the church isn’t supposed to be involved in the political arena.
To those who claim this I will ask you to read the Constitution again AND the 1801 letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptist Association when they wrote him because they feared the federal government would do what England had done and that was establish a national church, tax the people to support it and govern what the church taught. You will see in that letter that the only separation of church and state the Founders called for was to keep the federal government out of the operations of the church and the actions of the individuals concerning their religious beliefs. We are instructed by scripture to put godly men in places of authority: Exodus 18:21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. We no longer do this and haven’t for decades. We stopped doing this long before the Johnson Gag Order of 1954.
We continually put ungodly men in office and then pray they do godly things. Stupid on steroids! We not only have the right but an obligation, mandate if you will, to put godly men and women in positions of authority. Our Founders did. The Evers vs Board of Education decision of 1947 that began to take our Christian influence out of the public arena is NOT what the Founders intended. In fact the federal government has no Constitutional authority to restrict prays in schools, public meetings or public displays of our Christian faith. Many of the progressive fools that believe that there can be no Christian influence in our halls of government and use only five words out of Thomas Jefferson’s response to the Danbury Baptist association need to hear his comments concerning this subject: “[No] power over the freedom of religion . . . [is] delegated to the United States by the Constitution.” “In matters of religion I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the general [federal] government.” “[O}ur excellent Constitution . . . has not placed our religious rights under the power of any public functionary.” “I consider the government of the United States as interdicted [prohibited] by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions . . . of exercises.” Jefferson had witnessed the government’s intrusion into the religious practices of the people and believed it to be an unhealthy aspect to liberty.
He elaborated on this in a letter to Noah Webster:…
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Let us be totally clear; Islam is not a religion qualifying for religious exemptions including Freedom of Religion. It is instead, a violent political ideology with the goal of taking over the world. Islam teaches its followers to murder any and all “infidels,” meaning those who do not accept their manifesto of hate.
They are taught, not to become better people with integrity, but to lie in order to further their ideology. They are taught in their “holy book” The Koran, to kill innocent people in cold blood, plus, they are taught that raping children, including toddlers, is perfectly OK. Indeed they can sexually abuse anyone without consequences. That brutal ideology does not consider these violent sexual assaults illegal or sinful, but indeed permissible. The founder of Islam, Muhammad, married a 7 year old girl.
The most disturbing fact of the followers of that false religion is that they are all pedophiles and are justified by their own (Sharia) laws, the same as NAMBLA, the North American Man/Boy Love Association to make acceptable the rape of boy children, while most of the Muslims are after little girls.
And they are absolutely uncontrollable in their lusts. Obama has thrown open the borders of America to any and all of his fellow Muslims who want to come in as “refugees.” Following their entry, violent rapes have been brought in with them as well as Jihad murders of our citizens, all from within.
In Twin Falls, Idaho, these ‘migrants’ have been forced in by the Obama Administration, allowing them to live in that state, where they all receive welfare, free housing, medical benefits and food stamps.
One family moved into an apartment building. Shortly after moving in, two young Muslims in that family stalked and raped a little five year old girl who lived in that complex, not only brutally tearing her little vagina which would be exceedingly painful, but then had to further abuse that innocent child by urinating on her. These people are sub-human.
And who is protecting those Muslim savages? The Obama appointed U.S.Attorney for Idaho Wendy J. Olson, who has threatened prosecution against anyone in that town who speaks badly of that Muslim family. WHAT?? So this horrific rape of a little girl was set in place by the actions of Obama. The people, however, ran those Islamic thugs out of that apartment building. They probably are still in the U.S. where they will rape again.
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Provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos Was the Speaker Most Likely to be Disinvited to Colleges in 2016
The number of serious attempts to keep speakers off college campuses because of their politics doubled this year, according to the year-end report by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. One quarter of the disinvitations were aimed at Milo Yiannopoulos, a provocative British writer for Breitbart.com, who crisscrossed the country this year on his Dangerous Faggot Tour of colleges.
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Trump on Hacking: ‘I Know Things Other People Don’t’
Trump raises doubts over Russian hacking, says ‘it could be someone else’ and promises he will reveal more as he rings in the New Year
Donald Trump has promised to reveal new information after Russia’s alleged hacking during the election on Tuesday or Wednesday next week.
The president-elect made the remark when pressed by reporters after he arrived at his New Year’s Ever bash at the Mar-a-Lago resort.
‘I think it’s unfair if they don’t know. And I know a lot about hacking. And hacking is a very hard thing to prove. So it could be someone else. And I also know things that other people don’t know, and so they cannot be sure of the situation,’ Trump said.
When asked by the reporter what the president-elect knows that others do not, he said: ‘You’ll find out on Tuesday or Wednesday.’
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As Hundreds Detained in Cologne, Germany, Police Chief Dismisses Racial Profiling Accusations
BERLIN — Cologne’s chief of police dismissed claims of racial profiling Sunday after officers detained hundreds of North African men in an effort to prevent a repeat of sexual assaults during New Year’s festivities in the German city a year ago.
The men had gathered late Saturday at Cologne’s main train station and in the Deutz district, across the Rhine river. In an overnight tweet, police had described them as being “seemingly of African descent,” prompting online criticism that people were being detained based on their appearance alone.
“I reject this negative criticism,” Police Chief Juergen Mathies told reporters. “The clear aim was to prevent similar events to previous year.”
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‘EU Starting to Resemble Old Soviet Union With Its Imposed Rules and Values’ — Ad Guru
The European Union has been likened to the Soviet Union by an advertising guru
Advertising guru Alexander Segert said the EU elite were operating like the old Soviet politburo imposing centralized one-size-fits-all rules and values on everyone in the community.
He added: “They are trying to bring different mentalities and cultures under one roof and level them. And people don’t like that.”
Segert is a deeply divisive figure who has produced some of the most jaw-dropping political and anti-migrant ad campaigns seen in Switzerland in decades — yet the former journalist insists he has a vital role to play in current politics…
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‘Fake News’ Causing Populism, Must be Censored, Says Italy’s Antitrust Chief
European Union (EU) nations must set up a network of public agencies to remove ‘fake news’ from circulation and impose fines, Italy’s antitrust chief has said.
Asserting that ‘fake news’ is driving populism, Giovanni Pitruzzella told the Financial Times the internet must not be allowed to remain a “wild west”.
The head of Italy’s competition body since 2011, he said the speed at which so-called fake news is censored “is a critical element”, and argued that such a task should be tackled by the state, and not be left to social media companies.
Mr. Pitruzzella said countries in Europe should set up independent bodies which could quickly remove ‘fake news’ and impose fines. These would be coordinated by Brussels, and modeled on how the EU regulates competition.
“Post-truth in politics is one of the drivers of populism and it is one of the threats to our democracies,” Mr. Pitruzzella said.
[Comment: REAL news and the truth is reaching the population and is causing populism. Populations are realizing that mainstream media have been lying to them for decades in the form of “fake news”. Gloablists are using to fake news lie to maintain the status quo of globalist propaganda via their mainstream media outlets.]
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German Intelligence Agent Drove Alleged Perpetrator in Christmas Market Attack to Berlin
On Friday evening, the ARD television program “Focus” (“Brennpunkt”) cited a file according to which an “informant” (“VP”) for the North Rhine-Westphalian state criminal office had already made contact with Amri at the end of 2015. “In the ensuing days, Amri stated that he wanted to carry out attacks in Germany using weapons of war (AK 47s, explosives),” the notation reads.
Between February and March of 2016, Amri was driven from Dortmund to Berlin by a “secret informant for the Intelligence Service” to whom he related his plans. The note in the file adds: “He was driven by VP and stated that his mission was to kill on behalf of Allah.”
According to the Süddeutsche Zeitung, at about the same time, the state criminal agency of North Rhine-Westphalia sent a report on the Islamic network in which Amri was active to the prosecutor’s office in Karlsruhe. The top German criminal prosecutor commenced investigations into Amri on suspicion of support for and membership in a terrorist group. In November, he ordered the arrest of the head of the group, Abu Walaa, as well as other hard-core members.
Amri, however, remained free. Apparently, shortly after Amri had moved to Berlin with the help of agents of the state, the prosecutor’s office handed over his case to the Berlin judiciary and encouraged it to investigate him on suspicion of preparing a major state-threatening act of violence-a lesser form of terrorism. The Berlin public prosecutor’s office then began its own investigation on the suspicion that Amri was merely planning a burglary to obtain money for the purpose of buying weapons.
Amri was subsequently supervised and monitored by the Berlin security authorities until September. Then the surveillance was reportedly stopped, supposedly because there was no evidence pointing to an imminent offence. The authorities in Berlin refrained from arresting him, although they had ample legal authority given the fact that Amri was an asylum-seeker whose application had been rejected and who was suspected of terrorism.
It is totally beyond belief that the failure to arrest Amri was an “accident,” or was due to a lack of legal authority to take him into custody. Even Heribert Prantl, a lawyer who heads the internal affairs department of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, presumed on Friday that Amri was intentionally left alone.
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German Ifo Think Tank Chief Says Italy Risks Quitting Euro Zone
The head of Germany’s Ifo economic institute believes Italians will eventually want to quit the euro currency area if their standard of living does not improve, he told German daily Tagesspiegel.
“The standard of living in Italy is at the same level as in 2000. If that does not change, the Italians will at some stage say: ‘We don’t want this euro zone any more’,” Ifo chief Clemens Fuest told the newspaper.
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Italy Bomb Squad Expert Loses Eye, Hand to Exploding Package
ROME — Police in Florence say a bomb squad officer lost an eye and had to have a hand amputated after a suspicious package he was examining exploded before dawn Sunday.
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Le Pen: ‘After Trump, Brexit, The French Want Independence’
François Hollande denounced populism and nationalism ahead of upcoming French presidential elections, but Marine Le Pen hit back saying after Trump and Brexit, the French share the worldwide “aspiration for independence” in the fight against globalism.
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Merkel Mocked for Urging Germans to Beat Terror With Love and Compassion
ANGELA Merkel was branded “mad” and “off her rocker” today after giving a bizarre New Year’s Eve speech telling Germans to fight the bombs and guns of Islamic State with love and compassion.
The embattled Chancellor, who is surrounded by armed guards around the clock and travels everywhere in a bullet-proof car, said terrified citizens should meet the ISIS terror threat with “openness”.
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Pedophilia is Disgustingly Widespread Among Those in Positions of Power
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The British security services allegedly helped to cover up widespread pedophelia in Britain. Indeed, a whistleblower alleges that the British security services supported and funded pedophile rings as a way to blackmail establishment figures.
The Express reported in 2014:
British security services infiltrated and funded the notorious Paedophile Information Exchange in a covert operation to identify and possibly blackmail establishment figures, a Home Office whistleblower alleges.
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Whistleblower Mr X, whose identity we have agreed to protect, became a very senior figure in local government before retiring a few years ago.
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He has given a formal statement to that effect to detectives from Operation Fernbridge …
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“And he said [the pedophile group] was being funded at the request of Special Branch which found it politically useful to identify people who were paedophiles…”
Something similar may have happened in the U.S. Yahoo News reported in 2010:
A 2006 Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigation into the purchase of child pornography online turned up more than 250 civilian and military employees of the Defense Department — including some with the highest available security clearance — who used credit cards or PayPal to purchase images of children in sexual situations. But the Pentagon investigated only a handful of the cases, Defense Department records show.
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The European Union Wants to Identify Bitcoin Users
The European Parliament and the Council of the European Union have proposed amending a directive on preventing money laundering and terrorist financing that will require cryptocurrency exchanges and wallets to identify suspicious activity, a directive that would include identifying bitcoin users.
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Why You Should Really Think Twice About Eating GMO Corn
New Study Shows Major Molecular Differences between GMO and Non-GMO Corn
A unique new study published Monday in the scientific journal Nature has used molecular profiles to reveal major differences in composition between a GMO corn and its non-GMO parent. These findings question industry and regulatory position of “substantial equivalence” and have serious safety implications.
The new peer-reviewed study led by Dr Michael Antoniou at King’s College London describes the effects of the process of genetic engineering on the composition of a genetically modified Roundup-resistant GMO corn variety, NK603.
“Our study clearly shows that the GM transformation process results in profound compositional differences in NK603, demonstrating that this GMO corn is not substantially equivalent to its non-GMO counterpart. The marked increase in putrescine and especially cadaverine is a concern since these substances are potentially toxic, being reported as enhancers of the effects of histamine, thus heightening allergic reactions, and both have been implicated in the formation of carcinogenic nitrosamines with nitrite in meat products. Our results call for a more thorough evaluation of the safety of NK603 corn consumption on a long-term basis.” Dr. Antoniou stated.
In-depth analysis of types of proteins (“proteomics”) and small biochemical molecules (“metabolomics”) revealed major compositional differences between NK603 and its non-GMO parent. The results obtained show not only disturbances in energy utilisation and oxidative stress (damage to cells and tissues by reactive oxygen), but worryingly large increases in certain substances (polyamines).
Polyamines found to be present in increased amounts in GMO NK603 corn include putrescine and cadaverine, which can produce various toxic effects. For example, they enhance the effects of histamine, thus heightening allergic reactions, and both have been implicated in the formation of carcinogenic substances called nitrosamines.
Overall, the findings of this study disprove industry and regulatory agency claims that NK603 is ‘substantially equivalent’ to its non-GMO counterpart and suggest that a more thorough evaluation of the safety of consuming products derived from this GMO corn on a long term basis should be undertaken.
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Two dozen foreign nationals celebrating the start of the new year in Istanbul were among the victims of a shooting spree at a popular nightclub that left 39 dead and dozens wounded.
Turkish police were on Sunday hunting an unidentified gunman who opened fire in the early hours of 2017 in the Reina club, one of the city’s most famous venues.
The attacker left his gun before “taking advantage of the chaos” and fleeing the scene, Binali Yildirim, Turkey’s prime minister, said.
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More “Fake News” Photos “From Aleppo” Proven False, Poorly Executed Propaganda
The Fake News just keeps on coming as the NATO imperialists realize they are losing control in Syria and their plans to destroy the secular and democratically-elected government of Bashar al-Assad. From “Russia did it!!!” (whatever the “it” might be), to mass civilian suicide in East Aleppo, the mainstream corporate press is deconstructing right in front of our eyes. It doesn’t help the MSM’s case that every time one of their “journalists” tries to confront legitimate alt media researchers, activists, or journalists, they are humiliated on live television. Still, we have to give them credit for remaining committed no matter how embarrassing the fight gets for them.
This embarrassment includes the continued use of photographs alleging to show the “crimes against humanity” committed by the “brutal dictator” Bashar al-Assad that turn out to be photos of other countries, carefully clipped scenes, and even images from music videos. To a completely zombified and somnambulant public, the images show what they are purported to show. To anyone who can use the internet, however, they are simply fake photos and the last few nails in the coffin of mainstream media.
Take the most recent, posted on Twitter by a Muslim Brotherhood-aligned former employee of Al-Jazeera, Dr.Tareq Al-Suwaidan, allegedly showing a young girl, wearing tattered clothes, running through the streets of Aleppo. The picture allegedly shows the grueling conditions of children in Aleppo as a result of the disproven “brutality of Assad’s forces.” The reality, however, is the picture was nothing more than a still from a music video by Lebanese singer Hiba Tiwaji for her song “Al Rabih Al Arabi.” That did not stop the tweet from going viral, however. It was at least stopped before the mainstream media could make it a symbol worthy of World War Three. The origins of the use of this photo for propaganda purposes are unknown.
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Austria: Migrant Stabs Christian Woman Because She Was Reading Bible
There have been numerous incidents of Christians coming under attack in migrant centres across Europe
An Afghan migrant attacked a woman at an asylum centre in Austria because she was reading a bible.
The attack took place in the town on Timelkam in the state of Upper Austria. The attacker was a 22-year-old migrant from Afghanistan who became annoyed that the 50-year-old woman had been invited by Christian residents to read the bible.
Austrian paper Kronen Zeitung says he ran into the kitchen where the woman was talking and attempted to stab her in her upper body. Her thick winter coat protected from serious harm, however she fell and injured her ear due the force of the blow.
Police arrived at the scene and arrested the migrant. He admitted he had overreacted, although he told police this was due to “personal problems”. He also stated that he had never seen the woman before the attack.
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Braunchweig, Northern Germany, Uncovers 300 Cases of Welfare Fraud
The northern German city of Braunschweig has launched a special commission investigating more than 300 cases of welfare fraud by asylum seekers. One fraudster is believed to have used as many as 12 different identities.
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Italy’s Anti-Mafia Squad in Overdrive as Asylum Seekers Flood Into Europe
Italy’s investigators are ramping up their efforts to stop organised criminal gangs — including the mafia — from smuggling people into the country, in the face of record asylum seeker arrivals.
The number of people who made the hazardous boat journey across Mediterranean Sea from Africa to Italy increased by 17 per cent in 2016.
A record-breaking 180,746 people arrived in the Italian regions of Sicily, Calabria, Apulia and Campania, up from 153,842 in 2015.
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More Than 1,100 Migrants Fight Riot Police as They Storm Spanish Border
RIOT police fought running battles with a mob of more than a thousand migrants who tried to storm Europe’s borders and force their way into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta today.
At least 1,100 asylum seekers rushed the barbed wire fence protecting the tiny north African enclave, which is surrounded on all sides by Morocco, in a desperate bid to reach the EU.
Spanish and Moroccan authorities desperately fought to restore order as the migrants, most from sub-Saharan Africa, scaled the border barrier and brawled with police.
Once inside the miniscule Spanish territory they would be able to claim asylum in Spain or travel onwards towards the promised lands of Germany and Sweden.
The migrants used rocks and metal bars as they battled with police officers from Spain and Morocco, who joined forces to defend the border.
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Norway’s Migrant Crackdown: Record Numbers Deported
NORWAY’S vow to crackdown on illegal immigrants has resulted in a record number of deportations amid calls to halt the influx of foreigners.
In September the Norwegian government announced plans to grant the police an additional £10million to forcibly remove failed asylum seekers by the end of 2017.
The grant came after police were tasked with removing 9,000 migrants by the end of 2016 as the country deals with the deepening crisis.
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Revealed: Figures Show 465 ‘Child Refugees’ Were Over Age and Lied to Gain Entry Into UK
A STAGGERING 465 “child refugees” who were granted entry to Britain lied to officials to gain entry into the country, official figures have revealed.
A 29-year-old was among the dozens of “child refugees” who were taken given asylum in Britain after migrants lied to officials and posed as youngsters to gain entry to Britain, official figures have shown.
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Spain: 1,100 Migrants Try to Breach Border Fence
BARCELONA, Spain — More than 50 Moroccan and Spanish border guards were injured repelling around 1,100 African migrants who attempted to storm a border fence and enter Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta, Spanish authorities said Sunday.
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Sweden: Fury as Sick Migrant Rapist Gang Escapes Deportation Because Court Cannot Verify Ages
SWEDEN’S Interior Minister has called stricter age tests after five Afghan teenagers who gang-raped a boy escaped deportation.
Fury erupted in the Scandinavian country after it emerged the gang, who filmed themselves assaulting the minor for over an hour, had only been sentenced to juvenile detention, in addition to being ordered to pay damage of 250,000 kronor to their victim.
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Satellite Spots Massive Object Hidden Under the Frozen Wastes of Antarctica
Scientists baffled by bizarre observations of gigantic ‘anomaly’ buried beneath polar icecap
SCIENTISTS believe a massive object which could change our understanding of history is hidden beneath the Antarctic ice.
The huge and mysterious “anomaly” is thought to be lurking beneath the frozen wastes of an area called Wilkes Land.
It stretches for a distance of 151 miles across and has a maximum depth of about 848 metres.
Some researchers believe it is the remains of a truly massive asteroid which was more than twice the size of the Chicxulub space rock which wiped out the dinosaurs.
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Either that or the threat encountered by Howard Hawks and James Arness in 1951. https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2robymIWw5I/hqdefault.jpg?custom=true&w=336&h=188&stc=true&jpg444=true&jpgq=90&sp=68&sigh=DGUaACiOYREKXwHwU2UOnpsshx0
So they find the Clinton-Kerry-Obama bunker?
Isn’t that a BOC bootleg …?
http://vivalesbootlegs.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/blue-oyster-cult-thing-new-york-usa.html
no, it’s a nazi base in Antartica!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG2utrMwTyY
and according to another trizillion fancy stories..
Or where the Old Ones live, according to Lovecraft (At the Mountains of Madness).
Anyway, Happy New Year to Everyone at Gates of Vienna
Bloavez Mad
Bonne année à tous
Wow, hi Nathalie! Long time no see.
Hullo Baron,
I hadn’t gone away, just being quiet!
Still available for proof-reading and translating, if my help is needed..
Take care and best wishes to you and Dymphna,
Meilleurs Vœux pour l’année qui s’annonce
BBC Radio serialised the Lovecraft a few years ago- worth the licence fee!
There are some awesome dramatisations on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2iSmE129uQ
Librivox recordings have some lovely readings.
I love Arthur Machen and August Derleth and Algernon Blackwood, and William Hope Hodgson, all read when I was in my teens…in their French translation, mind you, except for Hodgson.
I start to sound like Lovecraft after just a few hours listening to his stories being read online. ..
Square in central Malmö, former Sweden
The rabble celebrates new year’s eve.
http://youtu.be/d1KzCa7E7hk