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    Re: The payback - The Grayzone live .. now on Archived Message

    Posted by Ken Waldron on April 16, 2024, 4:23 pm, in reply to "Re: The payback - The Grayzone live .. now on"

    "One would have thought that people in these 'circles' would have more 'class' and commission someone like .. I don't know .. Andy Warhol or whoever is the contemporary Michelangelo, and pay some serious dosh. "

    As I recall I think it might have painted by Alison Watt...who had just done the Queen-mother for the National Potrait Gallery beforehand... so the price wouldn't have been negligable.

    "Kind of explains that relationship between Jordan and Israel and shooting down of drones and missiles by Jordan aimed at Israel..."

    -That's why I posted the anecdote: things are not as people assume via a vis Jordan-Israel as Matte and Blumenthal point out above.


    "Interesting about the Ortega .."

    -Lol!
    There was a lot of pro-Sandinista sentiment in Glasgow at the time...lots of sympathisers and what might now be called "activists". One of my friends who used to refer proudly to Scottish Nicaraguan sympathisers as "The Jockinistas" herded us all to go to a Nicaraguan Solidarity Campaign talk on the Contras being given in a marquee on Glasgow Green by the Nicaraguan Consul.
    ...Lo and behold the Consul arrived and excitedly announced we had a "Very Special Guest" No less that the now President of Nicaragua...who had flown over to thank the citizens of Glasgow for many years firm support.

    So there you are: he appeared, gave a speech in the little tent on the Green and we all got to meet Ortaga who stood proudly in his semi-military duds and shook hands with us all.

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