(1553) Approaching rainy, haily, snowy evening, dear reader. Lost six hours (or much blogging) today, still jobs to be done here at the humble abode.
13. Old and Peculier writes
12. Deep, heartfelt apologies to IYE, Steve
… AKH is also behind today and I need to get over to Leggy who’s just reappeared. It’s just one of those days. There’s a lady too you see and we’ve just been discussing motorbikes. Saw war room, saw the China-M thing in comments … will have to be tomorrow morning, chaps, sorry.
11. Allison gets around
10. Twofer on Vzla
9. So much on Venezuela today in screenshots
… all basically saying the same thing:
đ¨BREAKING: While leftists are crying, more than 65,000 proud Venezuelans celebrate in Buenos Aires
… plus things went technically awry … pity but no point fashin’ m’sel aboot it. Tried to get Steve not to put “rum” links at HQ but he obviously missed that post. There’s one at 1252, should you care to go over there.
That was just one of many obstacles today. Had no film, had no jazz, no baroque, no documentary short. Found an IYE Bergerac episode … it stopped working. Found some Baroque … not very good. Then a house issue arose, more time out.
So, just jazz and this final post for the day I’m afraid.
(1049) comment on the sky now and last night is in Sun 6. Good reader, I crashed and awoke around 1050, i.e. four hours behind. Thus everything today is four hours behind, which might mean no baroque, no film, and at this point … only one jazz number … the others vanished from YT two days ago. Not even going to wonder why. (1509)
7. Recent comments under Wolf Moon Night [16 till end]
… also under Sun 11 to 15, are links to badlands, justicedotgov, an Engdahl youtube, plus someone called danny thommo who virtually replies to dearieme’s contention. See for yourself.
Now, putting my admin hat on … there are just a few things we can’t run in an HQ post. One is any “rum” link which had us lose the site and posts temporarily a long time back. Thus we do NOT experiment with that at HQ … every evening I do not run the links in a certain summary, but they are still there in the 1251 post and similar. There is zero (military) percentage in doing that, strategically, provided we still give an access route.
Also, there are times we can put YTs and times we can’t … I’ve done it myself by running a YT at NOWP, where it expanded when it would not at HQ … sometimes only UHC-WP works, sometimes Jstack. For those who want everything on a platter, all this must seem “unnecessarily convoluted”. My reply is “necessarily” … I’m the one here with the overview, the one who gets the threats I speak not of. Not complaining but please … get wise on what’s happening in 2025/6.
6. The sky last night … the sky today
a. Last night’s moon:
It did some very weird things last night, vis-a-vis my house windows. Trying to explain this to you needs a model in words. Try the model of a clock face, but in three dimensions.
Imagine you have a clockface, the type a nursery teacher used to teach chn time with, with hands pinned on. Now go to a coffee table (horizontal), and set it down at 60 degrees, 6 touching a coffee table and any 3D directions meaning perpendicular to the coffee table, not the angled clockface.
Set the table in your hall, so that you, on knees are at 6, looking over towards the street (behind you being just house, walls). A short distance away are your three windows … on the left, but waist high, say at 8, is a large window, in one room … in the next room is a narrow window (taller than wide) … ditto in the kitchen, over at 4.
Imagine the windows superimposed on the clockface, size adjusted. Again … one is at 8, next is on an arc from there, just down from the centre of the clock, also on an axis 9 to 3 … the last kitchen window is at 4. All windows are sufficiently tall as to enable a good view of the night sky “ceiling”. Were you to move head up to window, looking up, you can almost see straight up.
All right … I often watch the moon, esp. with the dark nights, do not howl at it, promise, and it never rises at 8 … I often do see it “having risen” (don’t get ideas) about top half of the kitchen window. It then heads up and to the right, until it goes out of frame, up in the night sky.
All right … I saw that moon last evening, about 1750, come out above a rooftop and from behind a chimney, at 8, in the distance from the window, heading the usual up and right. What’s the moon doing over there? Went to the middle window … no sign but the glow was clear over to my left and high up, the moon itself out of frame.
I waited some hours for it to go sufficiently to the right to be seen in the second window and finally framed in the kitchen window. Never happened.
Instead, it must have gone like half a parabola, medium speed right, not far upwards, then more suddenly upwards but never over to the other two windows. Weird.
So I went to that middle window on the arc, where it meets the 9-3 axis, put my eye close and gazed upwards … not to 12 on the clock but in 3D, perpendicular to the coffee table. Thar was the lil varmint, high in the sky, to the left, doubling back over our own rooftop, no longer in the night sky before me.
Weird. Also, did not see any of those other mentioned phenomena … light display etc.
b. The overnight snow:
c. There was one other phenomenon yesterday:
I’d posted here that there was no Gates sky, it was regular, with clouds. Had to go downstairs. Looking ESE, over farming land, were planes doing that zigzagging, crisscrossing high in the sky and trails were certainly coming out of them … but not long like chemtrails we know and despise. These did look like regular trails, just a few plane lengths long.
That was as it may have been but by the same token … why? Cropdusting that high? And they were crisscrossing with purposeful trajectories. Hours later, Gates cloud filled the day sky.
(0527) Early posts at OoL and here up, going back to bed, not 100%. (0552)
5. Interesting guessing game
… who would actually “win” such a brawl, or would both lots be damaged?
4. Steve at 1252
Armada Like Nobodyâs Ever Seen Beforeâ: Trump Says US Was Prepared for Second Strike as Maduro Was âBum Rushedâ and Taken Via Helicopter onto Ship â Mexico Put on Notice
Germanyâs Conservative AfD Party Smashes the Global âFirewallâ
Russian Army Is About To Overrun Ukrainian Defenses Between Slovyansk And Kostiantynivka
France threatens to arrest British activists who are stopping the illegal boats
âThen It Is Warâ: Elon Musk Responds After Somali TikToker Threatens His Life
The frozen larder: Why winter foraging is a test of planning, not plenty
Much more.
3. And don’t forget the Wolf Moon etc.
2. DAD at 1252
a) In the renewable frenzy of the early 2020s Ÿnsect raised âŹ600 million to âReinvent the food chainâ and pioneer alternative foods that ârespect the planetâs boundariesâ. Some $200 million of their funding came from hapless taxpayers somewhere. But in record time, seemingly before it began, it has already gone. Bankrupted.
b) European leaders meeting in Paris â on January 6 will make firm commitments towards protecting Ukraine after any peace deal with Russia is brokered, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday during his New Year Eveâs âspeech.
c) While it is true that some major media outlets reported truncated statements by LFI [Neo-communist] MP Carlos Bilongo, the racist nature of his remarks remains undeniable. Our complaint is proceeding, and this man will be convicted of inciting racial hatred.
d) How can a French speaking Belgium couple fail a French Language Test? After initially being refused naturalization due to their failure to pass a proper language test, this Belgian couple, both fluent in French, were finally granted citizenship after years of legal proceedings. But no one had warned them!
(1649) Night falls, Wolf Moon rises, filling my humble abode with bright light. That Moon is really shifting (or rather the earth is, mainly) … it rose above a far rooftop, then went up and right behind a chimney, will emerge soon. (1752) It’s now gone completely around the house, leaving me with one more vantage point before it finally disappears for the night. (1733)
23. The astronomical show this evening
Screenshot
22. With one eye on the politics
… Maduro, Iran etc. … the other eye is following the moon across the sky. This was minutes ago … were you aware there are two moons up there?
21. Recap
pic.twitter.com/7KFU3UFBm7 In a historic celebratory development, millions of Venezuelans are jubilantly celebrating as socialism's grip ends after decades of oppression. The Maduro regime has collapsed in a U.S.-led operation, freeing millions from hyperinflation, starvation andâŚ
“When regime change occurred in Iraq we werenât entirely convinced of the WMD excuse. We were pretty sure of the reasons given for regime change in Libya. Although it increased sub Saharan migration when Gaddafi lost control of his southern border. Regime change in Syria used a few excuses to get our nod of approval, chemical weapons and close ties to Russia were but two. Venezuela, drugs and close ties to Russia. Iran, nuclear weapons. Russia, the mighty bear, provoked into retaliatory defence projected as expansionism. Common denominator, black gold. Whatever excuses are used I remain sceptical when a âdemon dictatorâ is being targeted.”
Mike Davis: Jack Smith’s Testimony Proves That Joe Biden And Merrick Garland Picked The Right Prosecutor To Try To Take Out President Trump. This Guy Is A Rabid Left-Wing Ideologue; His Legal Career Should Have Been Long Finished
Julie Kelly: Holding Jack Smith And His Thugs Accountable Should Take Priority Even Over Russiagate
Todd Wood: The Youth In Iran Have Nothing To Lose; That’s Why They’re Demonstrating In The Streets At The Risk Of Death
Glenn And Jenny Story On Why We Canât Let Islam Get A Foothold in Texas Like It Already Has A Foothold In NYC With Mamdani
Ben Harnwell: the âIsrael Firstâ crowd just need to let the Iranians deal with the mullahs themselves
Epic Natalie Winters Rant: âWe Voted For Regime Change In America Not Iranâ; Minnesota & New York Are Real Muslim Extremist Problem
… my contention is that producer and writers also presaged what’s been happening in western society in general for the past few decades, only really coming to a head now, in 2025/6. Life reflects art … art reflects life.
The episode itself was not their greatest, nor their worst … it was the usual fayre of baddies and goodies, entertaining … except that this one had an edge, seen from 2026 … it introduced an orphan into the mix. Until this point, a noir series about nightclubs, singers, gumshoes … usual 40s/50s thing … it did the job well but a point had to come where they jumped the shark.
The trouble with this particular jumping of the shark was the introduction of the child, as mentioned, in the form of the daughter of a character who was secretary to an utter villain and he (the secretary/general factotum) agreed, for money, to rub out the wife of the villain, now surpkus to requirements. Problem was as a widower, he had his innocent child in tow, and a sweet one at that (audience heartstrings).
Bear with me here. Compounding the issue, the sec had maybe weeks to live, wanting to provide for the soon to be orphan and in those days, that meant “fostering out”.
Now … Pete and Edie. Judge ages for yourself, they seemed ideally suited in the context of the plot, they loved one another … but he made his living taking dangerous cases on (insta-orphaning of any child, any issue from them both, within marriage in the 50s) … and she was a good nightclub singer, she had many talents, including loyalty to him, plus the tick tock, tick tock a woman eventually gets to.
Thus we got to the pictured scene above where he has saved the child after the father died, put her that evening with his Edie and the question of fostering arose … or else a state institution (anathema to both of them). Edie knew of a lady etc. etc. or else, Pete? He saw it all there and then, the whole human procreative nest biz. No prizes for what a 50s TV audience wanted … the producers were well aware.
And therein lay the tragedy, no better than today’s feminazism blighted situation for now unpleasant career women (unpleasant for today’s increasingly emasculated men). For me, the tragedy was series three, of three. Judging by the episodes in series three, they had not ended the series with the wedding … there was no wedding … the child, I assume, had been fostered out … they went back to the same old same old … with one exception.
Edie opened her own nightclub, where she still sang (her forte) … unmarried, childless, now grappling with the IRS and tax returns, both personal and business. And him? Still footloose and fancy free, though he still loved her, supposedly. And one added embellishment … a new maitre d at Edie’s … a charismatic youngish male.
The show ended with series three, reviews say public tastes had changed by 1961 … yes they had. The new, aspiring middle class of clipped lawns and certainty had overtaken the West Side story violence of the working class, also the Brit mods v rockers seaside clashes, foitball hooliganism … plus one more evil, inserted by Them …
… the “sexual revolution” for “the young”, in film, song, general parlance, in the media … here’s the song Kids! from Bye Bye Birdie … all designed to create a problem where that had not been one … plus add the drugs racket. I’m sure you’re getting the drift.
Add into the mix … the new, lured woman, promised “empowerment” in her single spinsterhood … welcome to your future, darling. Edie eternally in that nightclub … what a fulfilling existence, eh?
And him, sharp Pete … what for him? One woman after another forever? The viewing public still seemed to want the TV dream.
Obama-Appointed Judge Greenlights Trump Deportation Push â ICE Allowed to Use Medicaid Data to Track and Deport Illegal Aliens After Blue-State Block Fails
Catherine Herridge Reveals How CBS Executives Blocked the Hunter Biden Laptop From Hell Story
More Than 1,000 Cars Burned in France, as New Yearsâ Eve âCelebrationsâ in Europe Turn Into a âFireworks Warâ Between Migrants and Police
Elon Musk Says âThen It Is Warâ After Somali TikToker Appears to Threaten His Life in Viral Video â TikToker Now Claims Her Statement Was Taken Out of Context
Report Alleges Somaliaâs Foreign Minister, Whose Ohio Healthcare Company Receives US Tax Dollars, Also Controls LLC at Same Address as Somali Money Transfer Firm Accused of Terror Financing
Spy Chief Budanov promoted. Odessa semi-blockade. Trump, US locked & loaded. Finland seizes ship
a) Macronâs Grim Wishes for a Year of Misery. The only future the president offers the French people is deathâboth literally and figuratively.
b) World âLeadersâ in lockstep â again. France Plans 2026 Ban on Social Media for Under-15s, Advancing EU-Wide Digital ID Approach.
c) âWhat am I supposed to do?â asks Daniel Vaillant, former Socialist minister and now without a private driver paid for by the taxpayer. Since January 1, 2026, like several former prime ministers and interior ministers, Daniel Vaillant has been deprived of his âlifetime benefits.â….
d) The problems of Marseille {Like London) are a what the whole of France (the UK too) will look like in the near future. Yet the ahthorities deny the âGrand Replacementâ, or are they just impotent?
e) Marseille: A body found in the trunk of a burned-out car, likely the first narcicide of 2026.
