Hi, all you wonderful people.

Always great to be here, always great to be connected to all of you

as we try together to find a way through the dark cloud

in which we seem to be living at the moment.

And for all the regulars who tune in to this channel every week,

yes, you'll see from the background that I am not at home, I'm out and about, taking the temperature, hearing what people are concerned about beyond my own front door.

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Okay, now time to dive into the issue of the

day with today's monologue. Here's my question this week. Are we being annoyed on purpose by those

with the means to annoy us? Is enraging us the point now as far as the

powerful and influential are concerned. In all seriousness I ask now is the latest

objective of the would-be totalitarians and their lackeys about deliberately

winding us up a 100 times a day,

if not more.

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