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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Peel Port hammered in the post-Panamax port extension Liverpool 2 with no plan on how to deal with the extra traffic generated, they just punter the problem over to Highways England. Their solution was to bang a road through a park hoping that it being a former tip would make people not care so much. As the area has some of the worst health outcomes in the UK it was a pretty disastrous scheme. Good to see it knocked on the head and now Peel will have to clean their own mess up.





























  • The original thread the Telegraph draws from (why the article is rather “bitty”) and that has more photographs.

    It has more weird information:

    Soldatov attributes the ROC’s slide away from Orthodox tradition to the personal worldview of Patriarch Kirill, the church’s leader. He notes that Kirill was strongly influenced by esotericism in the 1960s and 1970s.

    Kirill was friends with Russian faith healer Juna (Eugenia Davitashvili), who claimed to be able to cure cancer, heal broken bones, and prolong life beyond 100 years. He participated with Juna in spiritualistic sessions where she supposedly moved objects with her mind.

    As Soldatov notes, Kirill’s decidedly heterodox influences have imprinted on the ROC “a peculiar mix of some Soviet ideas, late Soviet esotericism and individual elements of Christian rhetoric.”

    So perhaps he’s been recruiting Librarians and other sanctioned psykers.

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