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It might be a few years since I have watched it.

But back in the day I thought it was the work of geniuses.

Full text of the poem:

The Hills of Bastogne

The crops should be full in Belgium this year,
The soil should be fertile, but the price has been dear,
The wheat should be red on the hills of Bastogne
For its roots have been soaked by the blood of our own.
Battered and reeling we stand in their way,
Its here we are, and here we will stay.
Embittered, wrathful, we watch our pals fall,
God, wheres the end, the end of it all?
Confident and powerful, they strike at our lines,
But we beat them back, fighting for time.
Berserk with fury, they are hitting us now,
Flesh against steel, we hold, but how?
For each day that we stay, more mothers must grieve.
For each hill that we hold more men must we leave.
Yes, honor the men who will some day come home,
But pray for the men 'neath the hills of Bastongne.
-Bernard J. McKearney
101st Airborne

Certainly bad if you are in or near Rwanda.

Sorry to hear this. I met Prof. Reddaway in 1984 when he was a guest lecturer at Carleton University. His research into the workings of KGB’s Third Directorate back then was groundbreaking. A fine scholar and gentleman.

@Mik

Pivovarov and Yashin are both determined dissident politicians. Not far removed at all from the exiled Kasparov, Khodorkovsky or Yulia Navalnaya. They know they cannot return so long as Putin remains in power. Still, they are determined to keep
up the fight from abroad. Besides, the FSB confiscated their Russian foreign travel passports prior to their arrival in Ankara last week. All they have are temporary travel documents in lieu of passports. The only way for them to return to Russia is to be smuggled there.

At the same time though, they will remain targets for FSB intimidation, coercion and assassination.

Did the same thing with his paintings it appears.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/22/damien-hirst-artworks-painted-years-later-currency-artist

At least 1,000 paintings that the artist Damien Hirst said were “made in 2016” were created several years later, the Guardian can reveal.

...five sources familiar with the creation of the works, including some of the painters who put the dots to paper, told the Guardian many of them were mass-produced in 2018 and 2019.

Their accounts suggest at least 1,000 – and possibly several thousand – paintings in The Currency series were made during the two-year period. They were produced by dozens of painters hired at Hirst’s company Science Ltd at two studios, in Gloucestershire and London, in what one source described as a “Henry Ford production line”.

Not only a matter of size, but also resolution and speed of rendering a page.
A large but low resolution screen will likely be uncomfortable to read.
Low page rendering speed may adversely affect reading after a page turn.
Size, resolution, and speed all cost money.
Good luck with your search.

Implausible deniability.

If what’s coming out now about Bojo’s time as PM is at all true, I wouldn’t doubt it. He was a looser cannon than I imagined at the time. Dr. Phibes was quite right about Bojo’s ineptitude as a PM.

Wasn't random: was targeting Swedes because of korzans being burnt in Sweden.
Victims were easy to recognise because they wore t-shirts when attending a football match involving the Swedish team.

@Copper I don't know whether this is true, but back then we were told that tower control heard everything during the crash via headphone. Apparently the report you provided doesn't mention this.

Could be.