Thursday [16 till close of play]

(1612) Almost evening all.

 

21. Big Tech + Big Govt + WEF


20. It’s not just the NHS here you know

… there’s a westwide collective insanity going on.


19. Moosh corner


18. Wind dies, sun sets … renewables disappear


17. Steve corner

a. Under the cover of darkness:

The Home Office moved the first batch of illegals into Crowborough Training Camp this morning – a full police escort woke local community. This historic camp has been involved in the training of our troops since before the Great War. Thanks to this socialist regime it’s reputation has now been flushed down the toilet. As for the illegals we know what to expect – that applies to the women and girls of Crowborough the most. Do Not Vote For People That Hate You.

b. War room at 1271:

  • Dr Bradley Thayer: Davos Is Dead. Fink Is Recognizing That It’s Over. It’s Time To Get Out Of Town Whether It’s Dublin, Or Detroit, Or Jakarta. They’re Gonna Try To Keep The Circus Going
  • Jenny Holland: more Protestant churches closed than opened in 2024 due to “brutality of secularism”
  • Frank Walker: TDS Episcopalian bishop tells clergy to fight ICE — and embrace “new era of martyrdom”
  • Former atheist Leah Sargeant now recognizes the two biological genders are ordered for salvation

16. IYE corner

a. There’s a lot of “ifs” in this:

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/01/22/wef-finance-banking-panel-if-independent-national-economies-continue-rising-global-trade-drops-and-we-lose-control/#more-279981

b. London’s secret tunnels:

Reader drops [1271]

Interesting around 15 min mark is the proximity to Chinatown.

Thursday [11 to 15]

(1249) Afternoon all … juss thinkin’ … looking at film around 1400, a bit more politics now. (1340)

 

15. East and West Germany again?

With the East being the goodies?

Screenshot

14. This was a comment under a reaction video


… that video being HERE. It was a young lass listening (or watching) Blondie when they went commercial and it’s interesting, generations apart, how it can still appeal.

13. Whatever was she thinking

… having it away with a satyr and thinking she could hide it?


12. The quite illegal things being done by the Uniparty


11. I need to put out a generic warning about things to come

… but in our own corner of the sphere.

a. Apple:

We were given zero warning about this new, horrible update requiring our bank details … they can go to hell:


b. X is also giving us grief:

Clearly, Elon has no idea how we’re being treated … his Wokeleft myrmidons obviously keep it from him, how they tweak the algorithm. A close friend and I just had a conversation about it. I don’t mind them doing it over political views … the cut and thrust of war … but stopping friends communicating?

c. Ggl:

They’re at it again. While we comply with all legalities and adhere to only what is true … in other words, on specific points where we’re wrong, we insta-tweak it to reflect what did happen … they’ve chosen not to specify but to delete.

They’ve now chosen to threaten the whole blog in one case, so readers do need to be aware of that. While we do have an alt-site already set up, I’m thinking it might be better to construct our own from scratch … we’ll need to discuss this, the three of us, after the weekend.

At the same time, I’d best get my books into word format soon.

Where’s this Haydn been hidin’?

 

You’ll of course see, dear reader, that the composer is clearly listed as Hob … and as you also know, Dearieme calls me Hob when he’s in a good mood (Higham old boy). So this piece of music I clearly composed mesel’ and Hidin’ would be payin’ royalties from beyond the Styx, all things bein’ equal, which they ain’t. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Thursday [6 to 10]

(1008) As of the start of this post … morning all by the way … there are exactly 30 post items ready to publish … that’s many for one day … let alone any more non-sshot through the day. I’ll make a start on them now, just in order of redacting, not under subheadings. (1029)

 

10. Moosh corner


9. The windmills of their minds


8. And then they pretend the opposite is true


7. Ghost hotel


6. Wise words

Thursday [2 to 5]

(0856) Well, not exactly the mooted 0700 restart but there we go. (1001)

 

5. Steve at 1270

  • “I’ve Come with Truly Phenomenal News” – Trump Brings the House Down in Davos, Shreds Unrecognizable European Countries for Mass Migration
  • President Trump Issues Warning to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney: “Canada Lives Because of the United States. Remember that Mark”
  • House Oversight Committee Votes to Charge Clintons with Criminal Contempt For Defying Congressional Subpoenas (JH: Life in prison, is it?)
  • Trump in Davos. Witkoff confirms Putin meeting. Carney Rules Based Order dead. Rutte focus on Russia
  • Kiev Blackout Crisis Deepens; 600K Kievans Leave; Zelensky Cancels Davos Trip; More Oreshniks; Davos
  • Hate speech” laws aren’t about safety; they’re about contro
  • Rare Earth Wars – US National Security, and the Burning of Penco Chile
  • Seven MPs Leave Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom After Internal Dispute (JH: Kassandra has much on Wilders … controlled, pretend opposition)
  • Much more.

4. Andy at HQ

Good morning all. This Mercator thing that has been talked about here does show me me countries much larger than others. Visual Capitalist gives us this.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/true-size-of-greenland-map-mercator-projection

3. DAD at 1270

a) France. Macron insists that the Euthansia Bill is debated. Senator Dominique de Legge (LR) is astonished: “I want to express my astonishment, my stupéfaction….”

b) Howard Lutnick just walked into the lion’s den — and told the World Economic Forum exactly what they didn’t want to hear. “Globalism has failed.”

c) The European Parliament has voted to refer the European Union-Mercosur trade agreement to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for an opinion on its compatibility with EU treaties.

d) Bigamy charges next? Polish rule-of-law dispute creates chaos in family courts.

e) Europol’s major crackdown on synthetic drug trafficking in Europe: 24 laboratories dismantled, 85 arrests, and seizure of nearly 1,000 tons of chemicals.

2. At TDS today

HERE

When the history of the great Net Zero climate hoax comes to be written, pride of place will be given to the terrifying sixth mass extinction scare. Mainstream media barely question the idea that human-controlled climate is wreaking havoc with the life chances of millions of animal and plant species around the world. In November 2024, the Guardian reported that “as the planet warms up, scientists predict a series of ‘extinction cliffs’”. We are in danger of forgetting what the climate crisis means: extinction, was the cheerful article headline. But a recent bombshell report from the UK Royal Society has knocked seven bells out of all this nonsense by showing that species-level extinctions related to climate change “have not significantly increased over the last approximately 200 years”.

Wednesday [16 till close of play]

(1659) Almost evening all.

 

20. Was waylaid again

Just ran out of time. Think that might be my epitaph as well, hopefully much later. Have a good one.

19. Moosh corner


18. A different message starting to come through now


17. For Woodsy


16. Steve at 1270 and war room on the Davos Dross

  • Cleo Paskal: The UK Isn’t Just Handing Diego Garcia To Mauritius; They’re Paying Them To Take It! This Is A Deliberate Trap To Isolate And Betray US Strategic Interests In The Indian Ocean!
  • Tom Fitton: They Swore Off Gain-Of-Function Research, But Got Caught Red-Handed Under Obama And Trump. That’s Straight-Up Fraud. Everyone Involved, Including Fauci, Needs A Criminal Investigation. Why Isn’t The DOJ Prioritizing This?
  • Noor Bin Ladin: Larry Fink Is A Total Hypocrite. He’s Trying To Somehow Appease America-First President Trump While Still Kowtowing To The Davos Elite
  • Noor Bin Ladin: The EU Is Being Forced To Choose a Side With Either The US And The Tech Oligarchs Or China. What Mark Carney Clearly Signaled Was He Was Choosing China Over The US
  • Rep. Keith Self: Sharia Is A Law, A Culture, A Civilization. It Takes Precedence Over Whatever Law You Have In Your Country. It Is The Supreme Law, It’s Not A Religion It’s A Law
  • Lynn Davenport: The Privatization Agenda Has Actually Opened Up The Door For The Islamification Of Texas

Silence

 

Just before launching into the evening’s items, one song. Why would I run this as a reaction, not the original? Well, you can easily click out and find the original if not happy. Besides, I already know the song by heart, I need no convincing, it was from my day.

The buzz is in hearing a young person talk about it … it also helps me see which songs from our day were classics, and then those which don’t (cough) really hold up as well now. Plus I’ve watched this lady growing up from her earliest listens to this one … and I’m thinking a lady of 30+ is far more of a catch than 20+ … juss my opinion … there’s a fullness to her now. At 40+, I venture to say she’ll be even better, like Jed Bila.

Plus, confession, she spoke the magic word “monotone”, which is not far away from “drone” … which is me hooked. Whole clip is a sensory experience. I was never crazy for them as a kid … way too young, immature … but now I’m about ready.

Wed Mat too

 

Spoilers below:

“John Payne stars in “Kansas City Confidential,” a 1952 noir also starring Preston Foster, Colleen Gray, Jack Elam, Neville Brand and Lee Van Cleef.

Payne is Joe Rolfe, a WW II vet who delivers flowers for a living. He finds himself accused of a spectacular robbery of $1.2 million because the thieves used a truck like his as their escape vehicle.

With the help of a buddy, he finds out that a criminal has split town suddenly for Mexico, and he goes there to locate the man and hopefully clear his own name.

What he doesn’t realize is that there were four thieves, and all of them wore masks to shield their identities from one another. When the man he’s tracking is killed, Joe assumes his identity and goes to the place where the other thieves are supposed to await further instructions from their boss.

Phil Karlson directed this good noir, which has an excellent cast that includes a favorite actress of mine, the lovely Coleen Gray as an ex-cop’s daughter. She shows up at the locale to surprise her dad (Preston Foster), who is actually the mastermind of the heist.

Like any actor who worked for 20th Century Fox, John Payne had to be versatile, and he was. Here he plays a rough-around-the-edges war hero who has to survive among thieves by being tougher than they are. The man known as “The Singing Tyrone Power” at Fox pulls it off.

A handsome leading man, here Payne steps into John Garfield territory with ease. Elam, van Cleef and Brand are as mean and low-down as you can get, and the film gets quite violent at times.

The print I saw was very grainy; this wasn’t a studio B movie but one made on the cheap, though the film was distributed by UA. However, it stands up very well next to other noirs of that era.”