aw god Levy still there

 

Aw God Levy still there👹

Its been nearly two months since last BLOG 

I fear some may have perished from lack of intellectual stimulae,bon mots and insights into politics, economics, life and football

No  excuses; IRS audit[by mail]Euro 2020 and grandchildren not adequate reasons to let down my vast reading audience.

No point in trying to catch up with the ridiculousness of that happening  Mother Earth

• Trump increasingly bonkers.                                                                                                     
•  RUDY GIULIANI’S LEGAL DEFENSE FUND HAS RAISED $9,590 
• (JUST $4,990,410 TO GO!)
• Trump refuses to pay any of Rudy's Legal invoices
• Not taking his calls
• Pundits mind blown that  Weiselberger not yet flipped
• Ivanka next
• Wilbur Ross still unindicted
• Barr in hiding
• With Pompeo
• Liz Cheney, Democratic folk hero
• IFC Icon
• De Santis ducking Trumpfski
• Joe Manchin in search of the bipartisan grail
• Learned nothing from Church of Rome Mediaeval Schisms
• Do not study that in  Appalacia

                                                     etc  etc etc

So just   some   comments  on two issues de jour 

One serious ,one not so much

• Ransomware Hackers demand $70 million in bitcoin
• Russia-Linked Group Hacks 200 Businesses
• Hacking gang says it has locked a million devices
• Russia hacking claims pose challenge for Biden
• Russians Tried To Hack Republican National Committee

Ed:  What on earth for?    Cyclops: beats me

Anyway the talking heads love this stuff.

They paint a picture of  the Mighty Bear 

Toying with American Eagle 

A continuation of the cold war by digital hacking 

Us against Them     etc etc

Well obviously if Putin wanted to 

He could close down these hackers in minutes

Off to the Gulag

But instead he plays nonchalant  while preening on the discomfort of the mighty US

So why?  

There may be more wisdom gleaned by thinking of a school yard nerd in St Petersburg

Rather than a mighty  Russian Monarch

Russia is a third rate power economically

Totally dependent on exporting natural resources

A fraction of its Imperial size and might either under the Soviets or the Czars

Its attempts at projecting either hard or soft power an embarrasing failure.

In Syria, Iraq or Lebanon less influential than Iran

Irrelevant in its old ally Egypt

Bullying Georgia and Ukraine but then what

Haemoraging wealth and influence in occupying Crimea

Its offers of vaccine diplomacy totally ignored and untrusted in Africa

A derisory Vac rate in Russia itself because the people do not trust the government's propaganda

Continually locking up opponents  in fear of any actual elections

Russia is a busted flush. Putin a bully .

His forays into foreign adventures --however under resourced--and preening on the international stage are a cover for his weakness at home.

Pensions cut ,food subsidies needed but cut,

The vast Moscow hinterland totally impoverished.

Perhaps a few jolly hacks and tweaking the Americans will make him popular

Perhaps

But on to the SERIOUS STUFF

England play Denmark today hoping to capitalise on its soft draw and a series of home games at Wembley. Just like 1966.Declan rice playing really well so maybe West Ham will win this one too.

We shall see. Denmark do not have a Rattin to be sent off.

But while watching various games Cyclops thoughts have  been drawn back to the disasters at Tottenham under Dan [the man]Levy.

Levy is probably a great accountant [business man not so much] but does not understand football or footballers.

   The best team at this tournament is comprised of Players that Levy sold for less than they were worth within months at their new teams. 

Plus two current Spurs players.

                                                        Think not?

Goalkeeper:          LLoris of  France

Defence:

•    Kyle Walker &  Kieran Trippier--       England   
•    Toby Alderweild & Jan Vertongen     Belgium
•    Joe Rodon  &  Ben Davies-               Wales    
•   Sergio Reguilón                               Spain                           

  Mid Field:         

• Gareth Bale                                 Wales                       
• Luka Modric                                Croatia         
• Christian Eriksen                    Denmark               
• Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg                Denmark                
• Nacer Chadli                               Belgium                   
• Mousa Sissoko                           France                    
• Tanguy Ndombele                      France                      
• Steven Bergwijn                          Holland            

  Attack:   

                Harry Kane                        England 

That is   17 at the tournament 

Add in a few current Tottenham players not there.

Son Heung-Min                  Korea

Deli Alli & Eric Dyer         England [Mourinho victims]

Joe Hart back up goal keeper with 75 England caps

Matth  Doherty                   Ireland      [Mourinho victim]                                                  Lucas Moura                      Brazil                                                                              

Giovanni Lo Celso             Argentina

Last two will be playing against each other in Copa America final on Sunday

Tell Cyclops that this 24 squad is not as good as any squad at the tournament😡!!!

Pity Levy did not buy De Bruyner when he had the chance

Sadly no room for Aurier or Sanchez 😈  

Opposition would have to create their own chances👺

                                                                                         

        

     

  

                

Cheney Redux

 

"IFC Alumn  Dissed, Dumped, Defenestrated by Dastardly, Disingenuous Donald  Deifying Publicans"

                                                                                                          1818  World News

Democrat Demons Dance at Diminished Dimwits Debacle & Disarray.👊😎

Ed: enough with the D s already👿

 But wiser heads say "Beware Unexpected/Unintended/Unwanted/Uncontrolled Consequences"😂

They always say that👴

Ed: Now  U s 👿?

Disaffected "moderate" Publicans "plan" breakaway.

Pundits talk of emerging 3rd Party.

They always say that too 👴

footnotes:             

•               Its been over a month since last post.
•                Been distracted by continuing Spurs implosion.
•                Kane ,Son ,Alli and Bale will all leave cos Spurs fail to get into any Europe competition.
•               Much less the Super League.
•               Aurier & Sanchez will stay--no one else will pay their salaries
•               Levy still does not get IT
•                Its NOT solvency.
•                Its NOT shiny new stadium.
•               NOR  sponsorships
•               Its the GLORY mate, the GLORY ---CYCLOPS [ and                                           Danny Blanchflower] 1964.

 Labour Party in worse shape than Spurs--worse players, no strategy and no bench.

 Johnson WILL self destruct but Labour too weak to benefit--No Joe in the Wings

At least the grand kids give pleasure--smartest, prettiest, kindest, happiest etc, etc.

                 

Mourinho Blows

 

                       WHO WILL RID ME OFTHIS QUERELOUS COACH?

              

                      Mourinho blows yet another sure win

                                         Blames the players                                  'Same coach, different players'

           Newcastle score 2 goals while Sanchez was scratching his head           wondering where to stand. 

Same Newcastle that has scored 3 goals in last 6 games since mid  February ,a total of  11 in 15  games since Jan 1.

And still has only recognised striker injured .                                      

The only team to score fewer goals in 2021is Sheffield United😁

    

Mourinho is genius who all season kept playing Aurier and Sanchez-  sometimes together  😎

 While keeping Toby Alderweireld  and Eric Dier  on bench

The first an ever present centre back for Belgium[ranked #1]                             While Dier was a must pick in Southgate's England team until the                       "Special One" screwed up his confidence

                  Aurier worth one+  goal a game -against anybody😡

                  Sanchez nods off  for 25 minutes a game and has still                                          not learned where to stand in the penalty box💀

   Why on earth should Harry Kane,Son,Bale ,Rodon et al STAY -while Mourinho blows line ups, tactics ,tournaments and golden opportunities?

  The quality of  Spurs players roster would fetch £1.5 Billion  .

Would Daniel  Levy like to sell them all ,pay off the stadium debt ?

Then  keep Mourinho to try to get promoted back from the Championship?

Or sack Mourinho and go for GLORY? 

£7 million  compensation would be a bargain👀

Spurs need new chairman ,new manager, new attitude😀

Bring back Tim Sherwood  with the Blessed 'Arry to handle the transfers😋

CYCLOPS RETURNS : FOR IVANKA

 

                                                      Its been SIX WEEKS 😖👎

                                                           Many apologies😢

                            HRHKC has been overwhelmed by 

                                "Events dear Boy-Events"     😆

1.  Finally Sold the Palace at Grandes Chutes de Nombreuses Eglise
2. Moved to flat at secret location in Northern Virginia
3. Following interminable negotiations with nutso buyers--
4. AFTER price and dates agreed😦
5. King, Queen and loyal retainers have received both Pfizer shots
6. Been rivetted by success of Biden's first 60 days
7. Really smart ,knowledgeable and honest team around him
8. Very tactically astute in a situation of very tight political arithmetic                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Most importantly 

1. Cyclops was the indispensible link in birth of 5th grandchild
2. Six weeks ago
3. A boy
4. Declan Kennedy Ney,
5. Extraordinarily precocious and brilliant
6. Just like the other 4
7. Tottenham finally won two games in a row
8. Mourinho for the chop anyway
9. SOOOON

Trigger for getting out this new blog is news from Royal Sources

" DOJ has intensified its investigation of Ivanka's Tax Returns"

Dad is understood to be "person of interest"

• The particulars are a subset from  extensive investigation of Trump Inc 
• Tax evasion, credit fraud and money laundering shenanigans.
• Evidence is being corroborated with TRUMP INC. long time [40+years] controller/bookkeeper                                    
• Allen Weisselberg.
• It seems  he is not willing to "do time' for Drumpf after all

My lawyers tell me that unlike for most crimes:

"Ignorance of the law actually is a defence for tax crimes. 

Because the tax code is so complex" 

The Donald's case not helped by infamous 2016 campaign quote:

 “I know our complex tax laws better than anyone who has ever run for president and am the only one who can fix them,” 

 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/donald-trump-claims-he-ll-fix-tax-system-so-what-n658341

  CYCLOPS tax maeven judge Ivanka at serious risk of Jail Time

Even before formal investigation of  her role in Trump Towers Baku secretly built by Iranian Revolutionary Guard  General Soleimani 

                                                                                                                                                                                   

It is said that the betting at FBI HQ is that Ivanka will be the first family member to be indicted 

                                                      Watch this space

 posted november  5th 2020

  CYCLOPS grew up British and Jewish                               

                                                                    Appreciation of IRONY is therefore a dominant Trait

                                                         The Royal Court Rejoices in the Law of Unintended Consequences

                                                We have resisted posting on the bitterly disappointing election results until its over 

                                                Nor to mourn the fact that TRUMP will receive 5 million MORE votes than he got in 2016 

                                                On the day the Pandemic peaked[so far] over 100,000 new cases and  1,000 deaths

                                                But before noon  HRH must point to a small silver lining

  On Sunday CYCLOPS posted  :                                  WATCH GEORGIA

                                                            This puzzled a number of his most loyal interlocuters

Deep South Georgia?

Sherman's march to the sea Georgia?

Birthplace of Martin Luther King Georgia?

Ebineezer Baptist Church Georgia?

John Lewis's Georgia?

Mint Julips, Peaches and Plantations Georgia?

Klan Georgia?

Brown v. Board of Education, Georgia?

Augusta Golf Georgia?    

Capital of voter suppression Georgia?

                                     Top Georgia election official says he expects vote to be counted by midday Thursday

               Republican Secretary of State Raffensperger said officials were working to tally about 50,000 outstanding ballots as of Thursday morning.

CYCLOPS is waiting in anticipation  that Georgia will be the state that takes JOE to 270

As of 11 am   BIDEN has 254 electoral votes 

GEORGIA would bring 16 more

Trump leads Biden, 49.6 percent to 49.2 percent

95% of vote counted
Gap:                                              about    18,000 votes.

To be counted:                                           60,000 mail in ballots

                                                      Most located in ATLANTA suburbs

                                                 

                                                          NOW THAT WOULD BE IRONY

In 2018 Publican Pols and  Judges sole the governorship from Stacy Abrams

                                                                                            

 Since then she has led a dramatic drive to register new voters

 Despite 

• Georgia Republican effort at voter repression
• Reducing polling places in Democratic cities and towns 
• Hours long waits to vote in black neighbourhoods
• Evil Robocalls

Biden is within striking distance NOW

                                                                            AND 

There are TWO seats which together could decide control of Senate  

One has to go to a run off  in January

The second CYCLOPS has watched for two days.

It is on the cusp of dropping below 50% for the incumbent PUBLICAN nasty.

That would mean BOTH go to a runoff election.

                         This would be a total vindication for the Law of Unintended Consequences

                                                          COME ON ATLANTA 

                         The Reverend King, John Lewis and the Georgia Martyrs  are waiting.

Some observations: US Politics and other

posted november 24th 2020

 As I  started to draft this post I was intending to  touch only very lightly on the disappointing US Elections.

• Rather writing something jokey about the imbecilic Johnson at #10 in UK
• Perhaps something snide about the Labour Party expelling their last leader
• The anti semitic idiot Corbyn.
• Before readmitting him through a famously dysfunctional disciplinary process
• Allowing themselves to wallow in yet another factional fight 
• Rather than seeing off the most incompetent British government since the defence of  gold standard

• Alternatively HRH could revel in Tottenham Hotspur dominating the Premier League
• Changing my predictions from  Mourinho being sacked in the summer
• To the winner of Chelsea vs Spurs this coming w/e inevitably being crowned champs at the end of the season.
• The palace will wait until Christmas[ a term still used when discussing UK Football fixtures] before predicting 
• Spurs do the treble

  Or we could celebrate the rumoured "secret"  meeting in Jeddah of the three most moderate leaders of the Abrahamic Faiths.

•   The Wahhabist Saudi Mohammed bin Salman
•   The White Evangelical and Trump foreign policy enforcer Mike Pompeo
•   The  orthodox expander of West Bank settlements in pursuit of peace and justice

The subjects on their agenda have not been verified but 

• Peace with Iran,
• Creation of a Palestinian State or 
• Humanitarian Relief for the Yeminis                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     seems unlikely                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
• Armageddon, the Rapture, Saudi Caliphate or the Re-election of Binyamin                                                                                               
• would make for an  interesting chat       or
• 
  
• Perhaps the role of the journalist in paradise                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        There has been much speculation as to who chaired the meeting 

• Adramalech,  Ariman, Iblis and Satan have all been mentioned  
•                                                                                                                                                              
• Yahweh not                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
• The Vatican  denied attendance  [Ed: read that as you like]

• No communiqué has been issued 
• But it seems there was a consensus that Pompeo should run in 2024 
•  
• He would make  a President in the mould of the others present

                 Well HRHC  good intentions  alas failed him and he found himself writing  on the election

   Many had asked why CYCLOPS has not shared wisdom about  USA elections.

  Truth is: he was too ashamed.

Inter alia HRH is a US Citizen 

The electorate has yet again disgraced itself

The election of Uncle Joe and the defenestration of Herr Trumpfski is merely a silver lining.

• The Publicans lost ONE Senate Seat--ONE
• After 4 years of Trump and McConnel
• They gained 12 House seats
• They won every incumbent seat and 28 out of 29 competitive seats

• Democrats did not gain control in a single State legislative house or senate
• NONE
• Democrats now control both house and senate chambers in19 states.
• Publicans                                                                             in 32 states
• These include Georgia ,North Carolina, Florida and Texas
  
• All states where Publicans can legally redraw  district boundaries over the next two years
• Without ANY ability by Democrats to influence-let alone block -the outcome
• November 3rd Republicans had majorities in 59 chambers and Democrats in 39 .
  
• Now 63 to 37

                                The Publicans continue to control the redrawing of the map until the next census in 2030.

                         Gerrymandering and Voter suppression rule ---   NOT OK

•        Finger pointing within the Democatic Cognoscenti has begun.
•        Cyclops will not join in this.
•       Suffice to say Jim Clyburn, Joe Biden and Stacy Abrams  are in the clear.
•       I truly hope that young Bernie will gracefully accept Biden's letter and the Medal of Freedom "thanking him for his service"
•       He deserves a graceful and long lived retirement.
•       Chaver Bernie--greetings from the Hackney Workers Circle and Yiddisher arbeiter Bund -- geneig.

              Biden’s vote of  80 million is the largest in history.
                            Trumpfski's       73.9 million  is SECOND largest 
                                  Largest for any Publican
              Obama's  69.5  million in 2008 is third and
      4 1/2 million FEWER than the madman in the White House.

•  Have these 70+ million American citizens been observing anything these last 4 years ?
• 
  
•  The sad truth is that yes they have .
•  They are apparently happy for four more years
•  The lies, the theft, the cruelty ,the idiocy, the bigotry and the madness. 

                                                

 Hard not to conclude  that to vote for Trumpfski's Publican Party   [TPP has a nice fascist ring to it] you need to be bigoted or ignorant or stupid or greedy or in need of the Rapture

                 

      Mostly bigoted             In short ----deplorable.

 YES of course it is a relief to have the Decent Joe expel the Odious Donald   but.......