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
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.
“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.”
Donny is nuts. IMO. Teflon Tony’s appointment proved it for me.
“DT names Tony Blair, Jared Kushner, Marc Rowan to advise “Board of Peace”
Two out of those three can get knotted and at this rate take Donny with them:
JH: What the hell is Trump doing? It’s Wiles and Bondi all over again … but worse. He has no idea whatever … is he totally unaware of how the people here see Blair, satan’s little demon? Or else DJT is totally aware and is in league with the bad players?
Or is he desperately trying, like Farage, to be one of the Big Boys’ Club?
IYE notes: Some Arab nations have refused to accept Bleurgh on the board. (Plus storm approaching in France it seems … weather type.)
8. Tale of a tiny door
Reminder: This door predates most countries on Earth, and it's still working.
Before even getting to this, I’m forced to speak of accents. The presenter below is from the Texas panhandle, a native, and yet the accent is nothing like the Texan drawl … it’s sharp, northern, maybe midwest, not sure what that sounds like and it is not a speaking circuit or presentation accent. It is sharp, high, difficult to handle in high doses, plus the slurring of words is distinct.
Another like that was that girl Julia James who was on about elegance, which she described as byu-dee. There are some excellent northern accents … I heard a northern US academic once and the cadence was perfect. Same over here … some accents are easy on the ears, some are wearing.
Here’s one girl from here, living in Canada … well you decide on her manner and accent. Not RP, with “gonna”, but southern, with a bit of estuary glottal stop … I find her pleasant, apart from the horrible nose stud.
The thing with Grady below is he does his HW well, even airline people like what he did … he’s an excellent presenter … thus I’m forced, according to the Unherdables charter, to present him.
A bit more on accents … I myself have a mix of southern, a touch of RP, a definite twang but also the ability to counter insomnia … let’s call it that lullaby delivery … and there’ve been many unfortunates sent into deep slumber when I prattle on. Sometimes deliberately.
Nixon may well have had that as his ideal but he had a monster beside him in Kissinger.
That X posting had CBS, PBS and the WEF as sources. To slightly tweak (we, not I) the words of Nero Wolfe … “Once we knew that (they’d) lied on that point, then anything else they said (had to be taken as) quite unreliable.”
It’s as Andy had presented in good faith … Sky News UK. The UK bit is vital with Sky as it is Uniparty “safe conservatism” of the Farage type in this country, whereas Sky Oz positions itself more like GB News here … they do allow “far right” noises now and then, but still with the sharp edges MSMed off.
Sky News UK positions itself as the working man’s conservative voice, in a Boris Johnson way before he went full WEF. With that Chagos report, they ran with the Chagos people being “removed”, a fair angle, but playing down what Starmer is doing … the very thing the country’s pundits are on about.
And in saying the US should not be there … then who would be there? Britain? Nope, it’s the Chinese, innit, as in London.
This is the challenging task for pundits … we ourselves must note all these snippets and side-anomalies, but there’s no obligation on readers to pick up on the messy fragments as a whole.
Give you an example. There was a local cabby, good chap, on about the bad players as we are, was down on Momentum taking over all preselections in our area, whilst his mate was all for Corbyn whom he thought was “at least for the working man”.
Wot, in Islington?
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Side note:
I can’t really run “short” youtubes here at HQ because as you see, they take massive column space with no chance of reducing size under normal circumstances. Same with “longs” but at least longs are in proportion for shape. I ran the Nixon one now just to illustrate how one youtube short can dominate an entire column due to youtube configuration.
Similar situation in the evening. Running a youtube slap bang in the middle of all the screenshots looks awful, it’s jarring, it dominates It’s not the fault of the sender, bless his or her heart … it’s youtube itself. If I do it, e.g. Agadoo, it had to be as a separate post where full width is appropriate as a “feature”, e.g. with our baroque offerings. There’s one coming up on runway engineering … it needs to be full width.
An example where it really should not be full width is an opinion piece where the presenter himself is dominating the entire window. By way of contrast, look at the 1267:7 … loud, garish thumbnail but to the presenter’s credit, in the actual presentation, he reduces himself to the right lower side.
I tend to put those loud youtubes at NOWP in comments, which constricts the size somewhat, then signpost from here. Again, it’s not to downgrade our boys but to stop youtube’s maximum sensation game.
Techies reading this will say James, that’s bollox … youtube just use a tweaked iframe. Yes they do and yes, I can write my own lil ole iframe from templates kept on stick here … yes I can do that but look at all that extra time required doing it, time I should be spending, as pundit, on the topic we’re on at that time. Game’s not worth the candle … I have to use my time to cover all contingencies.
(0726) Overslept, which these days is a blessed relief … morning all. (0746)
5. Do not let these bstds in
4. The Beckhams
3. Steve at 1269
The Logic Behind Trump’s Push for US Control of Greenland
DOJ Issues Subpoenas to Walz, Frey and Other Far-Left Minnesota Officials Amid Federal Investigation Into Their Role Impeding ICE Operations – Frey Responds
Norway Notifies Citizens Their Homes and Vehicles May Be Seized in Case of War Against Russia
Trump Humiliates Starmer Macron; Again Demands Greenland; Russia Destroys Kiev AD Ahead Of Offensive
Hearing for High Court case to compel New Zealand government to release the Pfizer Covid vaccine contract schedule for Jun
Holy Land patriarchs denounce ‘Christian Zionism’ as a ‘damaging ideology’ (JH: I’m going to read this one first)
Much more.
2. As one usually does
1. DAD at 1269
a) France: A Budget at Last? After months of fierce debate, French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has decided to go back on his promise and push through the 2026 budget using Article 49.3, which allows him to override opposition from MPs.
b) UK. A High Court ruling has cleared the way for Reform to challenge the cancellation of local elections in May. Mr Justice Chamberlain presiding today…
c) Is this the end for Geert Wilders? Is the Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV), led by Geert Wilders, heading for the abyss or merely suffering a temporary dip?
d) The Bulgarian President resigns: he is expected to form New Party. Sofia may align more closely with Orbán, Fico, and Babiš if former president Rumen Radev wins the spring parliamentary elections.
e) French automobile maker Renault is reportedly starting production of long-range drones for military use at two of its plants in France.
(1515) Afternoon all and good morning just in case. Good evening too!
15. Steve corner
Iran:
Did Iran use toxic chemicals against the protesters? https://albawaba.com/news/did-iran-use-toxic-chemicals-against-1620507 Newsweek reported that the Iranian regime may have used toxic chemicals to suppress the protests that have swept the country in recent weeks, according to a former British official. […] Ramil noted that this information has not been independently verified, but stressed that if proven true, it would represent an “extraordinary escalation” in Tehran’s tactics against its citizens, warning of serious legal and political repercussions, especially since Iran is a signatory to the #ChemicalWeaponsConvention.
War Room at 1269:
Noor Bin Ladin On Larry Fink And The World Economic Forum’s Davos Annual Meeting
Raymond Ibrahim On The Dangers Of Islam In The West: It’s Time For People To Actually Be Cognizant Now Than Later Or You’re Gonna End Up Like Europe And That’s Not a Good Place To Be
Joann Fleming On The Islamic Invasion Of Texas: As I’m Interviewing Candidates For The March Republican Primary Ballot They Tell Me As They’re Going Door To Door That This Has Become The Number 1
Raymond Ibrahim: It’s Always Better To Nip It In The Bud Early Before It’s A Problem . Places Like The UK, Germany, And France Have Like 10-15% Muslim Populations. So Even If They End Immigration Right Now This Is Something They Have To Live With
