Sunday [8 to 19]

(1446) Afternoon all. Jazz will be late, frenetic here just now. (1522)

 

19. Moosh corner


18. First one down soon?


17. Theatre or civil war not far away?


16. Best run another of these (four more after this one)

… this one is from Svali’s Oct 2000 radio interview with Centrex in Toronto:


15. USA Russia


14. No deviation


13. As it says in red letters (TDS)


12. New England


11. Steve and his three gfs

Why does “she was into Humble Pie” remind me of this:

Sunday [6 and 7]

(1058) Frightening the way time flues by … truly … can’t it slow down just a bit? (1200)

 

7. The mood of Heroes

Now, though I liked the Stranglers a lot, not sure No more heroes is the Sunday mood I’d like to project … maybe on Mondays. As for Bowie … never liked him, esp. his lifestyle (ugh). On the other hand, he was quite fair about this song in saying it wasn’t him with a girl in his arms, it was his producer. Wiki:

“An art rock song that builds throughout its run time, “‘Heroes'” concerns two lovers, one from East Berlin and the other from the West. Under constant fear of death, they dream they are free, swimming with dolphins. Bowie placed the title in quotation marks as an expression of irony on the otherwise romantic or triumphant words and music. Directly inspired by Bowie witnessing a kiss between Visconti and singer Antonia Maass next to the Berlin Wall, other inspirations included a painting by Otto Mueller and a short story by Alberto Denti di Pirajno.”

The main thing for me is that this is classic Brit rock from one of its strongest periods … you can say many things about the British, mostly true, but you’d probably need to concede that they do good comedy, good music.

I have two stories of my own. In the first, I was beside the wall myself one day, near Checkpoint Charlie, having been given a hard time by East German officials on the way into Berlin and later on the way out.

The second story, later than that, was being on a train from Helsinki to the north one late evening, via the lakes which went close to the Russian border … was with an American girl or eight, fell asleep, awoke near the Russian border … I saw them over there, the Russki guards … real Russians, everyone was looking from the carriage (thinking Nikita). I thought then I want one of those girls … there’s mystery there. Ended up in Rovaniemi with an Australian couple, met a Finnish girl from Helsinki, we got close, then broke my arm on bobsleigh.

Then I met some Russian girls in London, took them to Greenwich Park to see the deer, ended up invited by one. I wrote about the plane flight in the long saga (Masquerade) … I call it semi-fictional in that no one actually knocked my cabin bag in RL … Ms Melancholy Eyes was actually waiting thousands of km away at the other end … all the rest was true:

“In the slow moving Aeroflot queue at Heathrow, about the only excitement, Hugh felt, was when a young lady accidentally fell against him, knocking his cabin bag to the ground just as he was opening it to get a mini-Toblerone, spilling all the documents, photos, mini-Toblerones and bits and pieces over the concourse floor.

…

All through that flight, her eyes remained on his mind. Did they all have those melancholy eyes? He wondered if they cloned them over there – sculpted face, athletic figure, high cheek bones and blue-grey, melancholy eyes.  And stunning.

…

Over Russia proper, he looked down from the cabin window onto the forest below – he could make out, through the cumulus, a long straight road with bumper to bumper traffic – there was a cruise ship on the meandering river. That might be something nice to try out one day, he thought, as the last of the whisky in the plastic beaker went down the throat neatly.”

Some years later, with that particular young lady in RL, not the character in the book, I was in St Petersburg, at Peterhof, we walked to the front sea balustrade, by the gulf (we actually did) … the exact location is on the map below … Monplaisir … and the semi-fictional Masquerade takes over from there.

Point is, we were gazing across the gulf waters at the very Finland I’d gazed from the opposite way years before, at Russia.


Heady days back then. Another time, another place.

It was a brilliant move imho for Hitchcock to make Scudder in The 39 Steps into a femme fatale … it worked far better but once she ended up knifed, he had to bring in a second and to my mind, the second was not as mysterious and alluring. Have another look at the movie below, coming in at about 6m 30s, no later.

11. Steve B and his chart

Zoomed in here immediately on No more heroes and Heroes. Second half of the 70s I’d say.

Sunday [1 to 5]

(0708) Long sleep, wow, rarity. Not bad out there. (0948)

 

5. Maybe a good plan for Sunday


4. Over at OoL

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2025/10/this-aston-villa-maccabi-thing.html

3. Op ed on bona fides

There are variations of Kevin Sorbo’s repeated dictum that people do not want to hear your opinion … they want to hear their opinion through your mouth. An extension of that is wanting to find corroboration for what they’ve found … or not finding it (sort of debunking).

There are also people in fulltime work who hear/see none of this, ditto with prolific pundits with very little time to think … just running the online publication soaks up nearly all the time, leaving little for further reading.

There are those of us who flatly refuse to look at anything Woke, for example … and coloured hair college misses who are completely brainwashed by the Woke orthodoxy, inc. within the Christian religion … bible not good enough for them, thus demon-overcome pastors preach Woke versions of all scripture.

At nourishing unherdables, we get around that by regulars reading it for us, inc. Julia at OoL. We have avid Wail readers here, they sometimes write. GB News is au fait with what the orthodox, legacy media is saying, also Guido.

If I say that much of what Svali and pundits of 2002 to 2005 contains many morsels of truth, even more so as time goes on … and there is masses of it … you’ll either trust my judgment on that or else, to varying degrees … won’t. I reply that that’s because you’re unread on those matters. Can you tell me the Kalergi plan’s 11 points right now? Or why there’s an objection to the Temple Mount being in the wrong place (think underground spring)?

Revolution Harry can, IYE can. But can they tell me about the significance of the 6th trump, or the characteristics of the endtimes antiChrist … I mentioned some of those yesterday, here. More today. For that, you do need to be biblically well read and onside … even the devil is perfectly well read on scripture. But can you retain a basically onside, learning mode? In this, I’m so lucky to have some very well read Christians to draw on.

Why Abrahamic? Because that’s where so many scholars, across many faiths, inc. the Illumined, say it will kick off … in the middle-east, in the Jerusalem to Megiddo region. What’s my advice? Well obviously to choose our combined contributions across the haven’s various sites, plus blogrolls, plus our guys’ and gals’ own further reading … jacks and jills for all seasons, generalists … everything goes on the table in a civil way. Every one of you has trusted sources, IYE has MM and others.

What of China? Global, yes, e.g. in Canada, London … but the cradle of civilisation is where it’s going to come to a head. Does Donny ustd deeply? Either he does, being of the other side … or he doesn’t really, thinking it’s all about “the art of the deal”. Plus his appalling advisers he keeps close.

Why my own utter rejection of Woke? Answer is it depends what that means to you. To me, being a non-denominational Christian who incorporates RC venial and mortal sin, the efficacy of the eucharist plus a Christian plus Jewish eschatology in the overview, rather than just political correctness, then of course I buy an ultimate source of evil. SF fans can see it as extraterrestrials, maybe warriors from Krikkit, others might see it simply as shaitan, the serpent … whatever, whichever, it’s an entity or force which we can personify or not. It’s certainly there and can turn humans. Therefore, there must exist an opposite.

One only need look at a CK clip where a young kid of maybe 20 actually debates, plus learns … that last bit was vital … CK was quite a phenomenon and I suspect the betrayal came from within the camp. Someone heard/saw him move in a certain direction, did not like, end of story.

I never said I was wise, just experienced and well read … much of that well read bit comes from you … why do you think comments are high in the sidebar? We need angles here, people, serious angles, plus light relief now and then. We’re here to find out, are we not?

2. Steve at 1176

  • Trump Deploys Army’s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment ‘Night Stalkers’ to the Caribbean for the Siege of Venezuela
  • Portugal Bans Burqas, Niqabs and Other Religious Face Veils
  • Church of England Splits, Losing 40 Million Members (JH: post item later)
  • Trump-Zelensky Was Reportedly a ‘Tough’, ‘Bad’ Meeting That ‘Ended Abruptly’….
  • Greg Gutfeld Dumps Cold Water on the ‘No Kings’ Protests: ‘An Imaginary Solution for an Imaginary Problem’ (JH: Post item later in which I partly disagree 😳)
  • Zelensky’s Bad Day: US No To Missiles (JH: For now)
  • UN relentlessly propagates fear about man-made climate change to grasp control
  • China intends to build a spy centre beneath proposed super embassy in London (JH: Only with Starmer’s collusion)
  • Much more.

1. DAD at 1176

a) France: after the euphoria of defeating the two votes to censure of the government, the squabbling begins for the Socialist Party.

b) Political Leaders are accused of making up their “foreign policy insignificance with negligent checkbook diplomacy.” As if to make up for the fact they had little-to-nothing to do with Donald Trump’s Middle East peace deal….

c) …..also France’s development agency is coming under fire for providing €65 million to finance an urban mobility programme in Cameroon’s capital Yaoundé….

d) The Tories have given ex-Reform MP Rupert Lowe one of their seats on the Public Accounts Committee – the Parliamentary committee overseeing government spending. No doubt he’ll have a few ideas….

Saturday [11 till close of play]

(1630) Nearing evening, troops.

 

19. Moosh corner


18. Svali again


17. Oh dear … never mind


16. There are core mindsets wanting Russia harmed

… they have their reasons, I call them bad reasons.


15. Steve at 1176

War Room snippets…

  • Dave Walsh: AI Runs On 24/7 Baseload Power Just Like Cement, Steel, And Semiconductor Plants. Renewables Can’t Provide That Reliability
  • Steve Cortes: Populism Isn’t A Passing Trend; It’s The New Political Reality In America. We’re Not Going Back To The “Free Trade” Era That Sold Out American Workers To Foreign Interests
  • German academic argues “centrist” intransigence on immigration led to emergence of “far right”
  • Authors of French bestseller show how advancements in scientific knowledge point to God’s existence

14. Go for it, Karoline

13. Following on from the “Wills” post item


12. Callous Kallas


11. The shutdown

Saturday [7 to 10]

(1256) Afternoon all. How did we make it to lunchtime? (1328)

 

10. What type of utter stoopidity are they up to now?


9. About time for the next instalment

This, by the way, is not Svali per se … this is part of the other collected bits and pieces from 2002 till about 2004 or so.


8. Cotswold tatties, anyone?


7. Now & Next with PMQs report

HERE. Excerpt:

“In the first place his policies appear chaotic. He has said he wants to help ‘working people’ defined by him as those who do not have savings, yet the public sector employees who have been awarded pay rises also tend to have generous final salary pension schemes, a gold-plated form of savings for old age increasingly unavailable to those in the private sector. Also the pensioners who were to be hit worst by the withdrawal of the Winter Fuel Allowance are retired workers on a low income and with little or no savings.”

Essentially, Rolf was asking … what gives with this Starmer?

Saturday [6]

(1054) Just had a delivery, had to do some kitchen chores after it, back now, copied Penseivat’s comment to OoL, now to what should have been just a regulation short feature youtube … and it turned out to be much more.

 

The one I had was how cardboard boxes are recycled. Uh huh, it showed different parts of it … commenters were unimpressed:


Alas, yes … had to drop the video and go to the next of the 24 (remember) … why do they call jeans “jeans”? Good topic … same ML (AI) bilge. Had to delete it.

The next we’ll run below … chap looked fine in the corner, expounding … until I looked at comments and there was a double whammy, which means I have to explain comments below YTs for those who’ve not noticed … there is always one comment only … in this case, a good’un about it not being Hwy 90 at all but Hwy 190 … commenter was peeved.

Uh huh … to copy and paste it here, I had to click on the comment below the YT. Like a genie, it simply disappeared … it was not at the head of comments in the least. Quick look at how many comments … well over 700 to wade through. Sigh. Fortunately, there was a similar comment visible in the thread:


So the presenter could not even get the Hwy name right, interstate, motorway, whatever. I agree it’s not critical to our understanding of the aircrash. But how the crash occurred IS critical, as the video is all about that and if the video is long (over five minutes), then I’d like to know it’s worth it.

Apparently, he is claiming the doors and windows blew open but commenters cried out:

Not as important to us as the myriad other issues which could soon sink us … plus this was in the mail this morning:


They want us to go to a site and register … uh huh. Or phone. Threatening us, plus reducing the declaration now to 6 months, whereas it had alwys been two years and indefintely before that.

I’m not fussed, nor about the way WP have stopped opening sentences here with capitals … minor again but still annoying … nor about the bombardment by the “health practice with empty waiting room” urging me to get the death jab now. Two days later … same.

Which reminded me of this sshot I took months ago:


Truly our enemy, the lot of em.

Saturday [2 to 5]

(0656) Reasonable sleep … hoping yours was satisfactory too. (0931)

 

5. Steve at 1175

  • Trump Warns Hamas to Stop Murdering Gazans – ‘We Will Have No Choice But … to Kill Them’
  • Maccabi Tel Aviv Soccer Fans Informed They Are Not Allowed to Attend Europa League Game in Birmingham, England 
  • Prince Andrew Had Multiple Meetings With Chinese Spymaster
  • Upcoming Trump-Putin Meeting in Hungary Pulls the Rug From Under Zelensky’s Ambitions
  • Bolton Indicted on 18 Counts Under Espionage Act – Shared More Than 1,000 Pages of Highly Classified Information
  • Budapest summit. Putin’s risky travel route to Hungary.
  • Putin Warns Trump On Tomahawks
  • UK energy costs: We face an existential threat; it is either us or the Green Blob
  • The public is being psychologically prepared for a great and terrible war
  • Much more.

4. My main post of the day

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-main-purposes-of-this-random.html

3. DAD at 1175

a) Politics in France rather quieter after all the excitment of the last few days, but the financial markets are keeping a sharp eye on Paris.

b) Image of the week: Macron humiliated internationally. Discomfort is what the meeting between Emmanuel Macron and Donald Trump inspires in us.

c) The French Chief of the office for immigration and integration (OFII), Guillaume Larrivé, has resigned due to the “lack of ambition” to “reduce immigration by the new government”.

d) [Recently I read Alex Belfield’s book ‘Serviving the Slammer’ on the prison system in England. All the problems therein seem to be replicated in France. Young and inexperienced prison guards are controlled by the prisoners.]

2. When politics rules and ruins sport