Grenfell Tower

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcJPlkqOYX0

Love this guy!

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This will be next: http://metro.co.uk/2017/04/16/every-flat-in-new-london-estate-has-been-sold-to-foreign-investors-6577715/

Looks like another episode of London Eye is in the pipeline here.

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Moved in case it isn't for this thread, but this is the link:

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King's Field IV (4):









https://www.ribaj.com/intelligence/gren ... te-london/

This is extremely weird:

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The story of Grenfell Tower is in many ways a timeline to tragedy. According to his widow Pauline, architect Clifford Wearden never wanted Grenfell Tower to be built as part of his post-war masterplan for Notting Dale, west London. His disgust for it was such that he later pretended to his family that it had been demolished, though it was in plain sight when they drove over the Westway.

Grenfell Tower is part of the Lancaster West estate built between 1972 and 1981 on a 28 acre plot behind Latimer Road Station. The area had a turbulent history. In the early 19th century it was infamous as a shanty town of shed housing and piggeries built amid stagnant water. After the bombing of the Second World War, the 1860s terraced housing became slums and in 1958 it was the locus of the Notting Hill race riots.

In the 1960s, Kensington & Chelsea commissioned the Lancaster West development to replace these Victorian streets that were deemed ‘rank with decay’. It was seen as an opportunity to replace them with something cleaner, better and more spacious. Clifford Wearden & Associates, a small private practice, was appointed in 1963.
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https://tribunemag.co.uk/2022/09/grenfe ... ish-empire

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Named for a colonial leader and built under the same deregulatory drive imposed on newly independent nations, the Grenfell Tower fire wasn't solely a disaster of the present – it was proof of empire's long and continuing shadow.
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Field Marshall Francis Grenfell served in the British Army for almost fifty years. In that time, his service took him across Africa, where he led troops to fight native populations in the countries Britain had colonised. Grenfell led British soldiers armed with machine guns against Zulu forces armed with spears and a few muskets in South Africa in the 1870s, and helped Britain invade and conquer Egypt in 1882, eventually becoming commander of the Egyptian army after they were defeated.

He died in 1925, aged 83, and—considered a war hero—his memory was preserved by the naming of several streets around the UK in his honour. These included Tooting, Leicester, Maidenhead, and a small back road in North Kensington, West London. In the second half of the twentieth century, this street would become part of a new housing estate, and one of the towers built on the estate would take its name: Grenfell Tower.

As the tower which took Field Marshall Grenfell’s name was being completed in 1974, the empire he had helped build was in the final stages of its collapse. The countries where he had served, fought, and killed to enforce British control were finally freeing themselves of their colonisers and becoming independent nations.

Many did not merely want political independence from Britain, but economic independence from the institutions and corporations which extracted their resources and sold them at a profit. They began to pass laws and attempt to nationalise their economies to ensure the companies which had robbed their nations for centuries would no longer do so now they were free.

This led to a global clash of economic interests: between those from the newly independent states who wanted great state control of businesses, and those from the former colonial masters who wanted to ensure these new governments could not disrupt the flow of goods and profits along the old imperial lines.

In the 1980s, with Margaret Thatcher taking power in the UK and Ronald Reagan in the US, this clash was decisively won by the old guard. The new global economy was deregulated, and a new philosophy took control: states should not interfere in the market; they must remove regulation and allow business to thrive.
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As silly and even inconsiderate as it may sound, the sorts of weird things that play out in these old games tend to have versions occur in real life among the people interacting and their lives, like in the real Grenfell Tower even before it fell, and the fall was built into it and the name, even in theway the architect supposedly spoke of it, it was ominously forecast for disaster and was playing out so many disturbing things in the area, even before it was built. People just hyperfocus on a climactic event, but that was the least of it really, the creeping horror in the area had existed there for a very long time, it was the King's Field of Misery, and the Cursed Crown's Legacy.



This guy does so much work with seemingly very little reward compared to others.



The miserable life of poverty under the typical system trapping the world now is a cult.



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The beep is so troubling.

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This video is pretty tedious and long winded I suppose, but it does have little tidbits that I found significant, at least symbolicslly, as well as some technical things that were useful in several areas, one of which was how they translated a document in another language using something called, who knows, now everything crashed because I turned on the headphones, to hell with modern garbage.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow_of_the_Tower

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A slum in Kensington? Jennings' Buildings consisted of 81 two-story wooden tenements rammed with over 1,000 Irish immigrants living in accommodation meant for 200 with only 49 toilets for all the inhabitants. Not surprisingly, its death rate was twice that of the surrounding area.

The industrial revolution had pulled thousands from the poverty-stricken countryside into the city in search of work but, with nowhere for them to live, the result was a gigantic growth in slum housing and the infamous rookeries described by Dickens and appalled 19th century social reformers.

Meanwhile, over in the East End, things were even worse. Halfway up Commercial Street, one block away from Spitalfields Market, lies an anonymous service road. The average pedestrian wouldn’t even notice it existed. But unlikely though it may seem, this characterless, 400ft strip of tarmac was once Dorset Street – the most notorious thoroughfare in the Capital.
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https://victorianweb.org/history/slums.html

These systems and places are prisons for the unconvicted and so-called "free".

https://www.historyextra.com/period/vic ... from-hell/

https://www.city-journal.org/article/a- ... d-the-poor

A slow death in an oppressive hell dungeon.

https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/factual/ ... 79.article



https://www.walks.com/blog/slums-of-victorian-london/

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/sites/ba ... inar-1.pdf

https://branchesofmytree.weebly.com/100 ... on-in-1914

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Kensington



This may be a spoiler for 28 Years Later:



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicker_man



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The "largest bonfire" depends on the measurement, but recent contenders for the tallest include a 205-foot pyre in Larne, Northern Ireland (2024) and the annual Slinningsbålet in Ålesund, Norway (reaching 155 ft in 2016). For volume, the largest was a massive structure built in Scheveningen, Netherlands (2015).
Tallest Bonfire Records (Height)

2024 (Unofficial): A 205-foot bonfire in Craigyhill, Northern Ireland was built for the Eleventh Night celebrations, awaiting Guinness World Record confirmation.
2019 (Official): Hofstalder Funkenzunft Lustenau in Lustenau, Austria, built a 60.64-meter (198 ft 11 in) bonfire.
2016 (Official): The Slinningsbålet in Ålesund, Norway, achieved 47.4 meters (155 ft).

Largest Bonfire (Volume)

2015 (Official): Vreugdevuur Scheveningen in the Netherlands built a bonfire measuring 8,695 cubic meters.
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https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/07/11 ... 720718276/

The Grenfell fire happened right around the time that these huge tower fires are held.

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June 21
On the first day of Summer (which normally occurs on or near this date), the Summer Solstice Sabbat is celebrated by Wiccans and Witches throughout the world. Summer Solstice (which is also known as Midsummer, Alban hefin, and Litha) marks the longest day of the year when the Sun is at its zenith. In certain Wiccan traditions, the Summer Solstice symbolizes the end of the reign of the waxing year’s Oak-King, who is now replaced by his successor, the Holly-King of the waning year. (The Holly-King will rule until the Winter Solstice.) It is the ideal time for divinations, healing rituals, and the cutting of divining rods and wands.
On Midsummer Day, the people of ancient Russia worshiped the fertility goddess Kupala. To ensure female fertility and abundant crops, she was honored with bonfires, sacrifices of cockarels, and special wreaths that were cast into the rivers.
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The majority of the names, and in actually all of the people, are victims of "The (Accursed) Crown", even ancestrally, these were prisoners.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9

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The concept of the Crown developed first in England as a separation of the physical crown and property of the kingdom from the person and personal property of the monarch. As the kingdom merged with those in Scotland and Ireland, the concept extended to the legal lexicons of not only the United Kingdom but its dependencies and overseas territories, as well as several now independent Commonwealth Realms.

There are, as a result, many distinct Crowns – of Canada, Australia and other countries (realms) where King Charles III is head of state – all connected via the “personal union” of the current monarch, who succeeded to the throne in September 2022.

The terms “the sovereign” or “monarch” and “the Crown” are related but have separate meanings. The Crown encompasses both the monarch and the government. It is vested in the King, but in general its functions are exercised by Ministers of the Crown accountable to the UK Parliament or the three devolved legislatures.
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https://monarchies.fandom.com/wiki/The_Crown

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The Crown is a political concept used in Commonwealth realms, analogous to the concept of the state in legal systems influenced by Roman civil law.[1]

English common law never developed a concept of the state and left supreme executive power with the monarch.[1] The concept of the Crown as a corporation sole developed in the Kingdom of England as a separation of the physical crown and property of the kingdom from the person and personal property of the monarch. It spread through English and later British colonisation, becoming embedded in the legal lexicon of the British dominions. As the dominions gained control over the royal prerogative in the 1930s, the concept evolved such that 'the Crown in right of' each realm and territory acts independently of the other realms and territories.[2]

Depending on the context, it may refer to the entirety of the state, the executive government specifically (either of a realm or one of its provinces, states or territories) or only to the monarch and their direct representatives.[1] The Crown as a political concept should not be confused with physical crowns, such as those of the British regalia.
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https://www.thegns.org/blog/coronation

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/lea ... n-history/

https://firstthings.com/the-ancient-roy ... oronation/

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But by the High Middle Ages, a rite designed to draw kings into Christian loyalty was beginning to seem too much like the anointing and consecration of priests and bishops. Debate raged about whether anointed kings were in some sense ordained; to this day, Britain’s monarchs are clothed in priestly vestments. Yet the rite persisted, justified by the biblical precedent of Zadok and Nathan’s anointing of David, commemorated in Handel’s famous anthem sung at every British coronation since that of George II. The oil for King Charles III’s anointing was consecrated by the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem.

The “magicalization” of the coronation rite intensified in the reign of Edward I, who captured the Stone of Destiny (also called the Stone of Scone), used in the coronation of Scottish monarchs, and had it built into St. Edward’s Chair, the throne used only for coronations. According to legend, the Stone of Destiny was the very stone on which Jacob laid his head when he dreamt of the angelic ladder. The Stone is in reality a pre-Christian object that probably played a part in the investitures of pagan kings. As kingship became ever more closely associated with King Solomon, celebrated for his wisdom and alleged magical skill, Edward III had leopards added to St. Edward’s Chair in imitation of Solomon’s throne, and commissioned a Cosmatesque pavement on the floor beneath it that was designed to function as an astrological talisman, drawing down positive heavenly influences on the king.

England’s first Protestant coronation did not occur until 1603, for James I (Elizabeth’s had still been Catholic), yet the Protestant rite largely retained its Catholic form. The Reformation abolished anointing with (and blessing of) oil, yet the coronation was an exception. The coronation thus acquired a uniquely numinous quality in post-Reformation England, not only because kings and queens were now deemed supreme governors of the Church, but because the coronation showcased forms of Catholic ceremonial outlawed elsewhere. Then, as Britain’s empire expanded, the spoils of empire joined the crown jewels: The world’s largest diamond, the Great Star of Africa, was set in the sovereign’s scepter, and the Kohinoor diamond from India in the queen consort’s crown.

By the coronation of Edward VII in 1902, after a period of Victorian restraint that followed the gargantuan expenditure and lavish ceremonial of George IV, ritual was back in fashion, even with the Church of England. But the sheer color, grandeur, and pageantry of Elizabeth II’s coronation in 1953 was such a contrast with the drabness of post-war Britain that it indelibly marked the memories of those who watched it on television—Britain’s equivalent of the moon landings. Whether Charles III’s coronation will acquire the same iconic cultural status remains to be seen, but this ancient ceremony continues to be an enduring source of fascination.
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They supposedly also killed animals such such fires, and most likely many animals were also killed in this incident.

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The story of
King's Field centers on the dark fantasy land of Verdite, plagued by evil forces, where the hero, Jean Alfred Forester, enters a haunted monastery catacomb to find his missing father, uncovering a dark conspiracy involving a corrupt king, ancient magic, and the legendary Dragon hero, ultimately leading him to wield the powerful Moonlight Sword to save the kingdom and claim the throne. The narrative unfolds through cryptic dialogue and exploration as players delve deeper, revealing familial betrayal and a recurring evil that predates the current king, setting a precedent for FromSoftware's later Souls series.
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Within the week, news had made it to London of the massacre. This event led to the mounting of the Punitive Expedition.[12][13]

As a result of this attack, the Foreign Office authorized military action, leading to the "punitive expedition", the purported intention by Moor: »It is imperative that a most severe lesson be given the Kings, Chiefs, and JuJu men of all surrounding countries, that white men cannot be killed with impunity, and that human sacrifices, with the oppression of the weak and poor, must cease.« According to historian Philip Igbafe, the humanitarian and punitive justifications given by Moor ran counter to the economic justifications for military action that he and other members of the Protectorate administration promoted in the months and years before the events of February 1897.[4]
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After serving as aide-de-camp to the Commander-in-Chief, South Africa, he fought in the 9th Xhosa War, the Anglo-Zulu War and then the Anglo-Egyptian War. He went on to become Sirdar (Commander-in-Chief) of the Egyptian Army and commanded the forces at the Battle of Suakin in December 1888 and at the Battle of Toski in August 1889 during the Mahdist War. After that he became Governor of Malta and then Commander-in-Chief, Ireland before retiring in 1908.[2]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascoe_Grenfell

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He was born at Marazion, in Cornwall. His father, Pascoe Grenfell (1729–1810), and uncle were merchants in the tin and copper business.
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He killed so many of the kinds of people that Grenfell Tower killed. What is that all about?

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