Odds and ends

Golden Oldie

Bali hai

https://youtu.be/-JoKlDMYACQ

Irish funeral

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7570263/Irish-funeral-bursts-laughter-pre-recorded-message-dead-man-played.html

Doctor with a handicap - Wish her well

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7572663/Britains-blind-deaf-medic-says-seeing-hearing-doesnt-make-better-doctor.html

Joking about  Leonardo de Vinci 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7517053/Renaissance-comic-strip-reveals-fellow-artists-mocked-Leonardo-da-Vinci-red-hair.html

Odds and ends

Tipperary Song

https://youtu.be/BP0LWMMpXvk

https://youtu.be/1auEzA1pUT0

Temples across Asia 

https://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=34060

Albert Einstein

https://www.thoughtco.com/things-you-dont-know-about-albert-einstein-1779800?utm_campaign=wilat&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cn_nl&utm_content=18361267&utm_term=

An Irish funeral

https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticle-7570263%2FIrish-funeral-bursts-laughter-pre-recorded-message-dead-man-played.html%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2u5v1MxiQ4MZH0CqI1Nc7rdXfbikBTqO2AnTHwXPTJKR9dXujoNIFm8Nk&h=AT2P8UOD4NwjWe1Dcg6MYpR7KEADn7VETVt5GXidDet08A9ZxmmnJUy9-MeFEmM2nJc4Ffu3RfN7vgeUgQfD8Bc66gDYbVGMXd9R0N-IYgzPACyAivVM4a53zfpytzcvMDkg

Odds and ends

Rum and Coca cola

https://youtu.be/zGxL2uNr7bk

Lee Kwan Yew

In 1960, a CIA officer was caught trying to buy information from a Singaporean intelligence officer.

Then the CIA made things worse by trying to bribe Lee with 3.3 million dollars to sweep the whole thing under the carpet. Remember, this was in 1960. That was a lot of money back then.

Lee refused and instead asked for 33.3 million dollars of official economic aid to Singapore. This was when the total official American economic aid to Malaysia (which Singapore was a part of at that time) was merely 1.5 million. And Lee also got a letter of apology from US Secretary of State, Dean Rusk.

So, in 1965, Lee revealed this episode in an interview with foreign media, which prompted denial from the US government. This angered Lee so much that he invited foreign correspondents to a meeting where he showed the apology letter from Rusk. The US government had to retract their denial.

In that meeting with foreign correspondents Lee also threatened to further disclose details of the case, “which may sound like James Bond and Goldfinger, only not as good but putrid and grotesque enough”.

Furthermore, Lee also made the following statement:

“The Americans should know the character of the men they are dealing with in Singapore and not get themselves further dragged into calumny…..They are not dealing with Ngo Dinh Diem or Syngman Rhee. You do not buy and sell this Government.”

Now, that's standing up to a bigger power.

U.S. AIDS CONFIRM SINGAPORE CHARGE OF 1960 CIA PLOT

Diabetes pill

https://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=33918

The over-use of statins

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7580627/Giving-healthy-people-statin-pills-benefits-marginal-best-researchers-warn.html

Odds and ends

Chattanooga choo choo

https://youtu.be/V2aj0zhXlLA


Cold War East Berlin Tunnel

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7515987/KGB-stood-Britain-dug-tunnel-East-Berlin-eavesdropped-Russias-military-secrets.html

PS

It was not all one-way. The Russians would have been tipped off about this phone tapping by the Master Spy Kim Philby who was a top ranker in the British Intelligence. The Russians used the tapped telephone line to give doctored information to the Americans, who believed that they had got a scoop.

Christine Keeler

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7571145/Unseen-topless-photos-Christine-Keeler-sparked-Profumo-affair.html

Head injuries and Trenexamic acid
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7570673/Tranexamic-acid-save-lives-people-head-injuries.html

Odds and ends

Golden oldie - The great pretender

https://youtu.be/IEzfhclKO8Q

Tamil – A Classical language

https://sangamtamilliterature.wordpress.com/dr-george-harts-letter-recommending-tamil-as-classical-language/

Straying in sex

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7555811/The-REAL-reason-fifth-women-affair-told-women-strayed.html

Texting more prevalent than phone calls

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7556573/Phone-calls-thing-past-new-research-shows-Britons-send-text.html

Odds and ends

Una Paloma Blanka

https://youtu.be/R36CixkIaIc

Video  addiction

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7546333/NHS-launches-clinic-children-addicted-video-games.html

Addicted to antidepressants
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7566063/How-help-youre-hooked-antidepressants.html

Pain of headache

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7522365/HOW-BEAT-PAIN-Brain-expert-PETER-GOADSBY-reveals-defeat-type-headache.html

Odds and ends

Golden oldie - Ghost riders in the sky

https://youtu.be/cK5aT07gOis

Motor neurone disease  to cyborg

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7562317/Doctor-diagnosed-terminal-motor-neurone-disease-hopes-worlds-cyborg.html

Treating Alzheimers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7558979/Alzheimers-halted-treatment-eliminates-immune-cells.html

Treating Cancer Prostate

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7565919/Why-wont-doctors-tell-prostate-cancer-cure-spare-mans-sex-life.html