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John O'Connell

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27 Dec

The four most famous (in America) “doctors” who are responsible for pushing Covid AntiVax conspiracy theories:

Dr Shaun Brooks, ‘PhD, Oxford’. His doctorate and PhD are in education, not medicine, and from an online company.

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@jdpoc He has never worked in any medical environment. When he says Oxford, he means Oxford, Ohio, not Oxford University.

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@jdpoc Dr Paul Kangas. His doctorate is in Natural Health, from a distance learning course company which has since folded for fraud. He has never worked in a medical environment or in research.

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John O'Connell

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24 Dec

https://twitter.com/TweetForTheMany/status/1474450710825689094

Bonehill was a Tory, then a Ukip member, then no party would have him.

He was jailed for multiple offences.

Many, including Far Right Watch, helped to put him there by ID'ing his social media posts and proving his authorship.

https://twitter.com/TweetForTheMany/status/1474450710825689094

Bonehill was a fantasist, and on the autistic scale somewhat, but he was dangerous nonetheless. He's now out of prison.

One of his tactics was to create multiple hoax posters and spread on soc med as real. These are three of his works. They were spread by thousands of people, even right wing politicians.

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John O'Connell

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29 Nov

THIS DAY in 1983, the nuclear early-warning radar of the Soviet Union reported the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile from USA, with 4 more missiles behind it.

Lt Col Stanislav Petrov, officer in command of the Soviet Air Defence Forces, decided against strict orders to wait for corroborating evidence — of which none arrived — rather than immediately relaying the warning up the chain-of-command as was procedure.

This decision is seen as having prevented a retaliatory nuclear attack against the United States and its NATO allies, which would likely have resulted in an escalation to a full-scale nuclear war.

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John O'Connell

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27 Nov

Best football banner ever.

But it needs explanation: Corinth is the #Tolworth’s Corinthian Casuals, founded 1939 by merger of the Corinthians (1882) and the Casuals (1883), two of Britain’s oldest football clubs.

Lefi is #Surbiton legend ‘Lefi the Goat Boy’.

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@jdpoc … Seething is a community in #Surbiton famed for its madcap festivals and charity sports events.

‘Torcida’ is South American slang for a group of football supporters: the Casuals have been hugely popular in South America for over a century.

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@jdpoc … and yes, the team play in those colours of Chocolate and Pink. And have done for 100 years.

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John O'Connell

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6 Nov

Today I learned this :

In 1962, John Glenn lifted off in Friendship 7 to become the first American to orbit the planet.

Here's a brilliant (and short) true story about something that happened a few days before.

Due to multiple computer problems with the (then) new IBM systems, Glenn demanded all the orbit calculations be recalculated by hand, by one person - a brilliant black female mathemetician called Katherine Johnson.

ONLY if Johnson's manual calculations matched those of the IBM, would Glenn trust the systems.

After a day and half of work, Johnson confirmed that the numbers were right, using a 44 ft wide blackboard and a stepladder.

(Image from the documentary 'Hidden Figures')

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John O'Connell

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14 Oct

THIS DAY in 2007, Andrée de Jongh died.

Let me tell you about this amazing woman.

In WWII, codenamed Dédée, and aged just 21, she created the famous Comet Evasion Line to get Allied soldiers and airmen back to England.

She set up safehouses along the route from Belgium to Spain, procured clothes and false IDs, and ran the entire operation.

She personally made about 24 round trips before 'handing off' to other trusted couriers.

Arrested by the Nazis in January 1943, she did not break.

Her deputy - aged just 18 - carried on her work, and De Jongh was eventually sent to Ravensbrück and then Mauthausen Concentration Camp.

She survived the Concentration Camps, survived the war, to work in hospitals in Africa, dying in 2007.

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