This article examines the songs of Cream that showcased Eric Clapton’s voice prominently, moments where his singing complemented the searing guitar work that defined the band’s sound. While Jack Bruce carried much of the vocal load and Ginger Baker occasionally stepped forward on lead, Clapton’s turns at the microphone gave Cream a different character, one that blended the vulnerability of the blues with the raw power of late 1960s rock. Cream was a British rock trio formed in London in 1966, a supergroup that brought together Eric Clapton on guitar and vocals, Jack Bruce on bass and vocals, and Ginger The post Top 10 Cream Songs With Eric Clapton On Lead Vocals appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

He was the same height as his kindergarten teacher and had eclipsed seven-feet-tall by the time he entered seventh grade. And now—standing at 7’9”—Olivier Rioux from Quebec has ascended into sports history by becoming the tallest person to ever play in a college basketball game. As the minutes ticked away in the second half of […] The post Giant 7’9” French Canadian is Tallest Player in College Basketball History, Dunking Without Jumping (WATCH) appeared first on Good News Network.

Fox News host Laura Ingraham asked President Donald Trump this week if the affordability issue was a factor in the elections in Virginia, New Jersey, and New York City. “More than anything else, it’s a con job by the Democrats,” Trump said, before going on to harangue the media and instruct the GOP to tell voters prices are down. Now, I stand behind few in my contempt for legacy media, but it’s far more likely that the average voter thinks prices are high because they’ve actually been in a supermarket during the past year. Yet, Trump officials have apparently landed on a strategy of gaslighting consumers. This was tried not very long ago. The Biden administration constantly waved away “transitory” inflation. No issue did more damage to the administration. “Grocery prices are actually down significantly under Trump,” National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said on CBS News last weekend. Inflation, as Hassett knows, has been tempered but is still compounding. We’re doing better than the historic 9% year-to-year increases we saw during the Democrats’ self-destructive mishandling of the post-COVID-19 economy. But 3%-plus on top of those spikes isn’t going to placate many. Trump averaged 2.46% inflation during his first term, when prices had been relatively stable for years. Back in 2022, Democrats let their ideological preferences trump political prudence by ignoring warnings from economists about pushing through the Inflation Reduction Act during a hot economy. Indeed, former President Joe Biden told Americans that the price tag for the bill was “zero.” His advisers, when they weren’t mocking inflation worries as a “high-class problem,” made the preposterous case that more spending would mitigate the problem. It didn’t. One MIT Sloan study found that government spending was responsible for 42% of the 2022 inflation spike. Biden never recovered. Hitting consumers with billions in sales tax increases in the guise of tariffs over the last year isn’t a much better strategy for Trump. Most economists predicted that tariffs would contribute to price hikes, and yet Trump’s love of protectionism trumped pragmatism. The president has been pulling back on his historic tariffs since Liberation Day, though plenty have already contributed to economic uncertainty and inflation. “You’re going to see some substantial announcements over the next couple days, in terms of things we don’t grow here in the United States,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who also claimed prices were down, promised on “Fox & Friends” this week. Wait, did the administration just learn about comparative advantage? Because tariffs were allegedly instituted to help American workers and industry. Fruit prices have gone up. Ground beef prices have spiked 13%. Coffee has jumped 19%—66% higher than in 2019. Americans like these things. Rather than admit it was a mistake, Trump has taken a page from Biden by blaming “gouging” and big greedy corporations for inflation. This strategy never works, either. Remember that one of the other arguments for tariffs was that revenue would bring down the debt. The United States federal debt accelerated to its highest level ever last quarter, reaching $38 trillion. Trump has not cut any spending. That also threatens inflation. At the same time, Trump has launched a relentless campaign to convince the Federal Reserve to keep cutting interest rates for more easy money. On top of that, the president wants to dump billions of tax revenues from tariffs back into the economy via $2,000 checks to middle- and low-income Americans—even as Washington keeps borrowing. Some people might fall for this kind of populist ruse. It’s short-sighted economically, as we know from the last time Washington helped spike inflation by mailing out checks. There’s no magic bullet to bring down prices. The president can only do so much. One thing he can do is no harm. But even if voters are wrong, no politician has ever convinced the electorate to change their minds about the economy. Wide majorities in virtually every poll now say their grocery, utility, health care, housing, and fuel costs have all gone up during the past year. Most of them are feeling the aggregate cost of inflation. Gaslighting them is political suicide. COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Gaslighting Americans on Inflation Is a Bad Idea appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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President Trump’s declaration that the U.S. would not attend the G20 summit in South Africa, citing the killing of white Afrikan farmers, inspired a furious reaction to the supposed slander, by NPR’s Kate Bartlett on Monday’s All Things Considered, in a piece to accompany her broadcast report: “Prominent Afrikaners refuse to be 'pawns,' and hit back at Trump's claims about South Africa.” Trump has been relentlessly critical of South Africa since his return to office. He ambushed the country's president Cyril Ramaphosa during a White House visit in May falsely accusing his government of seizing white-owned land; cut aid to South Africa; his administration expelled the South African ambassador to Washington; slapped the country with 30 percent tariffs; repeated debunked far-right claims about a white genocide -- and as a result prioritized Afrikaners for fast-track refugee status in the U.S. (while stopping refugee admissions from most other countries). South Africa, now ruled by black South Africans after decades of apartheid, in fact recently enshrined a white-owned land confiscation policy -- nothing “false” about that. It’s interesting that NPR finally found some migrants they didn’t want admitted to America, while quibbling over the use of the term “genocide,” a term which NPR is fine with when it’s applied to Israel’s war in Gaza. The South African government has repeatedly tried to correct the White House, providing statistics that disprove these claims – for example the fact that Black people are by far the worst affected by violent crime and that whites still own the majority of commercial farmland – to no avail. Now, some white Afrikaners themselves, as well as Afrikaans groups, are calling out what they say are the U.S. administration's "lies" and "falsehoods" in their name. The group included writers, journalists, musicians, university lecturers and Christian clergy. Under the subhead 'Please stop lying', Bartlett quoted Afrikaner journalist Max du Preez, one of the signatories of the letter, who complained to her of the White House’s "abuse of our ethnic identity to further the MAGA movement's interests." du Preez’s X feed is a painfully predictable mix of anti-Israel, anti-Trump, and pro-BBC reposts, which makes him an ideal voice for NPR. "There is no genocide in South Africa, there's absolutely no persecution of anyone based on race. Our constitution has iron-clad protection of every citizen's human rights," he said. "Not a single square inch of white-owned land has been confiscated since we became a democracy in 1994," du Preez added. "Please stop lying about us and using us as pawns." Trump has repeatedly said he particularly wants to help white Afrikaans farmers. But some agricultural organizations that represent them have stressed their businesses will be hurt too if the US sanctions South Africa. Christo van der Rheede represented white farmers for years as head of the biggest agricultural organization in South Africa. He now leads the FW De Klerk Foundation, named for the former Afrikaans president who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela for their roles in ending apartheid. "It is now very important for all South Africans to unite and refute the statements by President Donald Trump…that Afrikaners are being killed and slaughtered and their land and farms are being illegally confiscated. This is simply not true," van der Rheede said after Trump's G20 announcement. Bartlett’s description of Afrikaners who actually agree with Trump was distinctly frostier. Despite the pushback from some segments of Afrikaans society, there are others who are fierce supporters of Trump and have welcomed his position on South Africa. For years some Afrikaner groups have been travelling to the US pushing the "white genocide" narrative and lobbying lawmakers on Capitol Hill. NPR’s Bartlett also accused Trump of spreading falsehoods on the subject during Ramaphosa's White House visit in May, while portraying South Africa's president as a pitiable victim of Trump. The rest of the press also considers it very important to deny anti-white bias in South Africa.

Maximum FilmGilda Radner died young, and many believe that her death could have been prevented. From the moment Saturday Night Live debuted in 1975, Gilda Radner delighted audience with her array of zany characters. Warm, silly, and magnetic, Radner was a fan favorite until she left the show until 1980. But everything changed for the comedian when her health declined in the 1980s, leading to a diagnosis of aggressive ovarian cancer in 1986. Just two and a half years later, Gilda Radner died at the age of just 42. The world reacted with shock and sadness to her passing — but her husband Gene Wilder reacted with bewilderment and anger. He and Radner had spent months trying to find a doctor to take her seriously, as Radner suffered from severe fatigue, bloating, and abdominal pain. Precious time was lost as doctors dismissed Radner’s symptoms, to the point when she was finally diagnosed with ovarian cancer, Radner expressed genuine relief. But by then, it was too late. Despite treatment and the removal of a tumor, Gilda Radner died in 1989. This is the sad story of her death, which Wilder has claimed could have been prevented. Gilda Radner’s Rise In The World Of Comedy Born on June 28, 1946, in Detroit, Michigan, Gilda Radner credited much of her comedic leanings to her father. Not only did he frequently take her to the theater, but he also owned a hotel where entertainers often stayed. “My father had a hotel,” she once recalled, according to her New York Times obituary, “and people in show business used to stay there. He loved performers and entertainment, and I grew up knowing that. Some of his spunk must have come out in me, because he used to love to perform, too. He was funny, he could tell a good story, he could do magic tricks.” Gilda Radner EstateGilda Radner as a child. Though Radner’s father sadly died of a brain tumor when she was just 12 years old, Radner remained interested in entertainment. She majored in drama at the University of Michigan and, after following a boyfriend to Toronto, became involved in the Canadian comedy scene. She snagged a role in Godspell alongside Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Victor Garber, Martin Short, and Paul Shaffer, and later joined the comedy troupe Second City, where she performed alongside Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi. Then, shortly after moving to New York City in 1974, Gilda Radner was cast in Saturday Night Live. When the show premiered in 1975, Radner quickly became a fan favorite because of her characters Roseanne Roseannadanna, Lisa Loopner, Emily Litella, and Baba Wawa. She stayed on the show for five years, until her contract expired, and then left to pursue a career in film. At that point, Gilda Radner met actor Gene Wilder on the set of Hanky Panky. The two fell in love and married in 1984. United Archives GmbHGilda Radner and Gene Wilder on the set of Hanky Panky , where they met and fell in love. But the couple only had a few years together before Gilda Radner’s death. Shortly after they got married, Radner began to experience a series of alarming health issues. Ten Frustrating Months Of Misdiagnoses Three years before Gilda Radner died, the actress started to experience some troubling symptoms. In 1985, after taking great steps to get pregnant, Radner suffered a miscarriage and then contracted the flu. She started feeling run-down into 1986, which she thought was just everything catching up with her. But as Wilder later wrote in a 1991 essay for People Magazine, things changed dramatically for the couple starting that year. “For us, it all started on the first Sunday in January 1986,” Wilder recalled in the essay. “We were driving to play tennis in Los Angeles at a friend’s house. Gilda began to feel what she described as a fog rolling in. She said, ‘I can’t keep my eyes open. I think I’m going to fall asleep.’ She lay back and looked like she had taken a sleeping pill.” Radner and Wilder started seeing doctors as they tried to cure her chronic fatigue. Initially, Radner was diagnosed with Epstein-Barr and told to rest. But she also started to suffer from severe bloating, stomach cramps, and shooting pain in her legs. Meanwhile, doctors who examined Radner found that nothing was wrong, blamed her problems on ovulation, or suggested that Radner was a “high-strung person” who simply needed to relax. Love Gilda/Magnolia PicturesGilda Radner and Gene Wilder in Stamford, Connecticut, in the early 1980s. Ten months after Radner’s first symptoms appeared, she was finally given a diagnosis: ovarian cancer. Radner had sought answers for so long that the diagnosis almost came as a relief. According to Wilder, she cried: “Thank God, finally someone believes me!” But it was too late to prevent Gilda Radner’s death. A doctor even quietly told Wilder, “She doesn’t have much chance.” The Sad ‘Preventable’ Death Of Gilda Radner Just 36 hours after Gilda Radner’s diagnosis, doctors operated on her, removed a grapefruit-sized tumor, and determined that Gilda Radner had Stage IV ovarian cancer. Radner was then prescribed chemotherapy treatment, which caused her to lose her hair and feel sick. But Wilder remained optimistic that Radner would make it through. “Until three weeks before Gilda died, I believed she would make it,” Wilder wrote in People Magazine. But on May 17, 1989, Radner was taken to a Los Angeles hospital for a CAT scan. In Wilder’s recollection, she was frantic and raving, scared that the doctors would give her morphine and that she wouldn’t wake up again. Wilder reassured her that everything would be alright. But after Radner was sedated, she never regained consciousness. Three days later, on May 20, 1989, Gilda Radner died at the age of 42. Across the country, Radner’s friend, the actor Steve Martin, was preparing to host Saturday Night Live when he heard about Gilda Radner’s death. He and others at the show were shocked — Radner was among the first of the original Saturday Night Live cast to die. According to NBC News, Martin dedicated his monologue to her, and played a clip of sketch they were in together in 1978, called “Dancing in the Dark.” NBCGilda Radner and Steve Martin on Saturday Night Live. “I’ve been coming here to do Saturday Night Live since 1976, and the thing that brings you back to the show is the people you get to work with,” Martin told the audience. “You know, when I look at that tape, I can’t help but think how great she was, and how young I looked. Gilda, we miss you.” How Gene Wilder Became An Advocate For Women’s Health After Gilda Radner’s Death In the aftermath of Gilda Radner’s death, Gene Wilder was stunned — and angry. “For weeks after Gilda died, I was shouting at the walls. I kept thinking to myself, ‘This doesn’t make sense,'” Wilder wrote. “The fact is, Gilda didn’t have to die. But I was ignorant, Gilda was ignorant – the doctors were ignorant.” He continued: “She could be alive today if I knew then what I know now. Gilda might have been caught at a less-advanced stage if two things had been done: if she had been given a CA 125 blood test as soon as she described her symptoms to the doctors instead of 10 months later, and if the doctors had known the significance of asking her about her family’s history of ovarian cancer. But they didn’t. So Gilda went through the tortures of the damned and at the end, I felt robbed.” Wikimedia CommonsAfter Gilda Radner’s death, her widower Gene Wilder became an advocate for women’s health. Wilder went on to establish “Gilda’s Club,” which aimed to support cancer patients. He testified before Congress in 1991 to explain the urgency of early testing and to advocate for better diagnostic tests. And he worked with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center to develop the Gilda Radner Ovarian Cancer Detection Program. In other words, Wilder dedicated his life to “save the Gildas out there that still have a chance,” as he said before Congress in 1991. In that way, Gilda Radner’s death was certainly tragic, but Wilder ensured it wasn’t in vain. After reading about the tragic death of Gilda Radner, learn about the tragic death of Saturday Night Live cast member Chris Farley, who died at just 33. Or, discover the disturbing story behind the death of Saturday Night Live cast member Phil Hartman, who was killed by his wife in a murder-suicide. The post Inside The Heartbreaking Death Of Gilda Radner, The SNL Comedian Who Died Of Ovarian Cancer At 42 appeared first on All That's Interesting.

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Healing, Purification and Holiness: How Ancient Cultures Used Olive Oil Tamara Lewit/The ConversationToday, olive oil is often hailed as helping to protect against disease, but beliefs in its medicinal or even sacred properties date back millennia.Olive oil was used for healing and purification and associated with important rituals from at least the second millennium BC, in ways which still influence practices today.A Holy LiquidMid-2nd millennium BC texts from the capital of the Hittite empire (in what is now Turkey) describe the anointing of a newborn child and the mother to ward off the dangers of birth.In ancient Syria the high priestess of the god Baal was initiated with an anointing of “fine oil of the temple”.Mycenaean Bronze Age tablets from the palace of Pylos in what is now Greece record the making of special scented oil to be offered to the gods.In the Hebrew scriptures, oil is used to initiate priests and kings such as David and Solomon, and to sanctify ritual objects. ancient-origins 15 November, 2025 - 05:01 Section News History & Archaeology History Ancient Traditions